This is my Chinese name as written by Melody. I don't know how to write my own Chinese name except for the middle character (coz it has less strokes and thus, is easier to remember). The translation is "Fu Huai Bin" - pronounced "foo why bin" but it's written as Poh Huai Bin officially coz that's how the Heng Hua translate the Chinese character for "Fu".

Poh (the first character) is my family name a.k.a last name. It's inherited and does not have any significance to it. Someone told me a very interesting anecdote about family names though - he said that we don't actually have family names. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, just Ancient China) we only have one name e.g.

Bin

Those are feudal times, so the lesser ones amongst us went to work for the richer (land owning) ones. Let's say that I was born in a very poor family and went to work for a landowner named Poh. Back then, it wouldn't be a 9 - 5 job but some backbreaking Biblical toil and labor stuff.

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