Do You Like Your Name …

… with all of your heart? I find it bull to equate love for your name with love for yourself. I like me. I just wish i could be called something else.

I believe in inherently stupid words, just as there are inherently funny ones. I find “elderly eggplant’ hilarious while there is something pretentiously stupid about the word “camaraderie”. Perhaps I should relabel them as inherently pretentious words.

Me, I have an inherently unfriendly name. Rare a Starbucks person could get my name right despite its simplicity and my good diction: Rich. Why, just two hours ago the Earle’s sandwich gay guy thought I we had the same name: Regg. (My god, what kind of name is that? Sounds like Egg.)

I mean, I have a name that really does not sound friendly and comes across as being “there” for somebody, you know. Even by Philippine standards. We all have that akin familiarity with guys like “Tonyo”, “Dingdong” and “Paolo”, right? How about nicknames like “Sam”, “Gene” amd “Max” (Samsoon, Deneroso, and Maximo)? All workable. Inherently friendly.

And notice that even inherently unfriendly named people can gate away with it. Can’t call your gay kumare by his true name “Baldo”? Well, just call him “bakla” affectionately and youre all set. And Piolo, everybody non-straight can call Piolo “Papa Piolo”. He unofficially owns the tag I think.

Well, I’m still thankful I wasn’t named Jograd.