Choosing a name

Dear Evan,

Ever wondered how long it took mummy and daddy to choose a name for you? Well.. for us it took us a couple of months to zero in on the perfect name for our baby. Of course, first we need to know the gender of the baby.

Well, on our 16th weeks check-up, Dr Ng asked if we wanted to know your gender. Of course we wanted to know. That doesn't mean that we will be able to select a name for you: you would no longer be referred to as "baby" when mummy talks to you. Best of all... we could start shopping for you. Of course that didn't meant that we hadn't started buying things for you before that!

Anyway, as mummy and daddy are not able to read a single word of Chinese, we got you Ah Kong to help with your Chinese name. That certainly took him a long time, as we needed to screen through the long list and also we needed to ensure that no one can come up with something funny from your name on top of making sure that the name is not similar as any of our relatives. When Ah Kong and daddy finally came up with a name for you, we needed to decide how to spell the name too.

On the other hand, we took only a short while to narrow down the choices of English names for you. Of course we had a lot of helpful (not) inputs from friends and family too. Such as Sardine Ban, Kaya Ban.. and the list goes on you name all types of buns, they've been suggested! Thus, the name of this blog: myrotiban.

Anyway, finally mummy and daddy agreed on Evan Ban Khai Siong. Um.. it took me a long time to remember how to spell your Chinese name. Sadly, I still don't know how to write it in Chinese. But I promise you, I will learn how to write it.. after I have learnt how to write mine and daddy's properly... hopefully soon...