Nah. I would never never never ever put my full name here. As tempting as it is, I just couldn't bring myself to do that. The burden to not be able to blog my thoughts the way I like is too much. When people I know can easily google my name and find that I have been blogging (or had blogged) about them it could be awkward when I meet them again. It's okay if I'm close friends with this person but if he/she's someone I'm not too close to... Ha!

... erm... Actually.. I didn't think of it this far so I don't know what will happen. (But surely it would start with embarrassment!).. I guess I'm not ready for that yet.

The name I put on Twitter is close enough though...

I have a very unique name. So I'm happy to have it all by myself. It's long but I'm proud of it. It surprised me when I got some search results on the last part of my name. Apparently, there's also someone named V-- in Indonesia! So much for a unique name, huh...

Anyway... This post is about the origin of my name, so let's get back to business.

Before I was born, my parents thought I'm going to be a boy so they wanted to name me "Mats Wilander" (Haha.. To my friends that know my full name : It [kind of] has the same rhyme, isn't?) after the famous Tennis player in the 80s. But I arrived as a girl.. Haha. It's amazing how my parents get to think of my 'girl' name in short time notice. When I was in primary school, I always separated my name Ruth V-- when I wrote my name. I realised that I had it all wrong when I started Secondary school (in Form 1). Lol.

Oh yeah. Sometimes people made fun of my name because it rhymes with Belanda (malay for Dutch). It used to bug me in Primary school... hehe. But that was over 10 years ago.

Now I'm just proud of my name.

There's a 'right' way to pronounce it (by my standards of course, duh) so I always take notice of people who pronounces my name accurately. At times, I think my long and unusual name made people easily remember my name. *smiles sheepishly* My French language lecturer is one of those who pronounce it accurately, with a bit French flavour to it! She even said it sounded like a Roman or Dutch(or was it Italian?) name. Made me smile.

:)