why me?

every now and then, people ask me,
why asterix? (online pseudonym)
why tristan? (english name)
why myth12? (email address)

why did i choose those names? how do those names define me as a person?
i don't have an easy name to explain, like faith, or patrick.

those are simple, their parents are either:

huge fans of faith hill.

or Patrick Star

but my parents knew better than to name me after someone they liked.
which left me with the freedom to name myself after whoever i liked!


so today, i will answer all those questions once and for all.

1. asterix

big and fat vs. small and agile. not a hard choice

i came up with this nickname in secondary school, when we were using IRC and everyone had to think of a nickname for themselves.

Internet Relay Chat(no idea what the m stands for)

and the comic happened to be lying in front of me.
i would rather be small and agile and witty, rather and big and fat and clumsy. 
so i became asterix.

2. tristan

to sound smart and sophisticated, i often tell people i came across the name while i was reading.
while that is true, i often don't say that i was reading off the credits of a movie "Legends of the Fall"

guess who played tristan in the show?

i watched it after junior college, when it was being shown on TV late at night.
throughout the show, i couldn't figure out what his name was, but it sounded very cool.

how yoou doing~

and he looked oh-so-dreamy =)~
so i waited till the ending credits and copied down his name.

not something i mention as often, but if i remember correctly, he got eaten by a bear at the end of the show.

the name didn't stick in army, cos most of the time people read off the name list.
but when i got into university and went to church, i decided to introduce myself as Tristan, and Tristan I became.

subsequently i got baptised as Tristan as well,
so once i hit 30, i shall add that into my IC.
and it will be a name i chose for myself =)

sometimes people ask me why i call myself that, or what the name means. and i honestly have no idea. it probably means smart and humble and good looking and kind and generous and friendly,
cos that's what i am.

personally, i don't think we become what our names mean.
i think our names become who we are.


3. myth12


also in secondary school, when internet started getting more common place, and i had to choose a username for my geocities account.

not my actual geocities site

(geocities was the equivalent of blogspot 20 years ago. 
and the coolest thing anyone can do is to make snowflakes fall from the screen and have shooting stars follow your mouse cursor.)

i wanted something mysterious, but magic@hotmail.com sounds stupid, and i couldn't spell mysterious.
so myth it was. short and sweet.

why 12?
because 7 is my favourite number.

when i fell in love with David Beckham and soccer at age 14. he had just scored that goal from the half way line. =)

7 was his jersey number.
and i proudly associated myself with him cos i was born on the... *wait for it*.. 7th day of the month!

oh ya, so why 12? -.-"'
at that time i joined a soccer team, except someone else higher up the pecking order had already taken the number 7,
so i took 12 instead.


back then, it was romantic to write stuff like 512 = 我爱你(tho i never figured out why). or even longer ones like 51213143344 for i-am-an-idiot-and-i-think-stuff-like-that-makes-me-look-so-freaking-cool

anyway 12 = 爱你, and i thought it will make me a SNAG or something then girls will all flock to me.
tho that never happened.



yup.
so now u know =)