Journal

You have no idea what I had to go through just to create a name for this blog.

Obviously it would be quite strange (not to mention confusing) if I were to name this blog jelly.chia or jellychia or chiajelly or cheahjanli (sorry, couldn't resist) because it sounds too much like the other one I have, so I decided to go with something more professional: my own name.

So I tried one that has worked for me all this while: zhenyee; and to my surprise, it was already taken! I opened a new window to check out who is that person who has taken my oh-so-original name, and it turned out to be some person who only had ONE post, and that was back in 2006. Waste of space; geez.

Then I tried going conventional and using my Chinese name: zhenye; and the results came out: "sorry, this username is unavailable."

Outrageous! Preposterous! Absolutely unthinkable! Which dim-witted vermin has taken even my Chinese name as a username?! I typed in the url, and it led me to a blog that was totally in Japanese. Grumbling, I went back to the "Create a blog" page and tried one final resort, to my utmost embarrassment, the name Jozy (Jo-zhenye; geddit?).

Well guess what? This time, the person who so casually took that username did not even have a single post on the blog! Cursing the stars, cows, and just about anything, I typed in my next suggestion without thinking: "Zyng (sounds a lot like Zing; well...)". And even THAT one was taken!

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Finally I settled with something easy to remember and to understand; at the same time saying all that it needs to say. I tell you this, I WILL hurt the next person who takes my identity away.