Finally we had decided on their names. It was through sessions of brain-storming & decisions-making before the names were chosen. Keep my fingers crossed that no one in the family will raise any further disagreement.
The naming process was a difficult one cos:
- both our family's dialect group - Hokkien. Chinese words like '明' becomes 'Beng', '成' becomes 'Seng', '良' becomes 'Leong' & etc. Most of the words sounded real awkward in Hokkien.
- My grandma had stated that juniors in the family are not allowed to use characters that had been used by the seniors in family. So, many words are out. Even if same pronunciation but different character is also disallowed.
- I want something similar for both of them cos they are twins mah. But cos of the different genders therefore it was a headache too.
- Kent wants something easy to write for the chinese characters so they won't have much difficulties learning to write their names in future ...
- My sis keeps insisting some of the names we came up with are ‘土’.
- We need to find something that's easy for us to think of related names if we were to have a 3rd or 4th child. :)
With all these main factors plus some minor concerns in, the whole process was like ...
Nevertheless, we finally settled on 2 tentative names. subject to changes cos of a fickle-minded mummy. hahaha!
Gal - Reyes Ng Ruishi 黄瑞诗
Boy - Reyden Ng Ruitian 黄瑞添
The whole family's quite happy with these names so far. So if no further objections till birth, these should be their names. :)
p.s.: Oh ya, my sis & I even managed to think of similar chinese names for Kiki & Giogio too. Ruiqi & Ruizu, hahaha!!!!
