Vader is in town.
Move over, David Guerrero. Keep your darth cap, Ompong. The real Vader is in Weiden and Kennedy.
Seriously, I met this guy named Vader. The music was loud and the conversation sorta went like this, “Hi my name is Vedah” What? “Veiduh” Ha? “Vei-”Okay-okay. The next night Chiewling told me the guy spelled his name as V-a-d-e-r as in Darth Vader’s Vader.
This is taking the whole Chinese-naming-kids-with-funny-English-names to a whole new level. GI (Genuine Instik) love names that end with -son. Benson. Johnson. Anson. Jackson. Jetson. Jerryson. Chinese also love names with a nice ring to it like Kenny Val Ong (my classmate) and Gina Tan (makeup artist). Another trend is naming kids after famous people so you get George Washington Go, George Michael Sy, Jackie Chan… I has a client named Monique Curie and her brother I think is Irving Penn. No stir. And it’s not really because their parents paid homage to the discoverer of pollonium & radium, nor are they fans of photography. When they were born her father would open an encyclopedia and whatever name he saw he named the baby after. (Good thing he never got volume H or somebody could’ve been named Hilter.) Christopher Columbus Tan… Kenneth Cole Po… sometimes they get creative like Michael Jacks Ong.
It’s one thing to be given bad names by your parents. Another thing if you chose it yourself. “I want something strong, dark and mysterious. Hmmm… Vader.” He had a black earpiece attached to his head all the time while we were dancing, drinking so Chiewy and I had a theory that when he presses a button it will expand into a full-blown helmet. tan tan tan tantatan tantatan…
I hope he never sees this blog. He’s quite nice actually (hehe biglang bawi). The WK people we met are nice. They also have weird names. Another was named Wythe. And our CEO who came from WK Tokyo is named Arto Hampartsoumian. But he is Armenian. Vader is not from the Death Star.
