I hate snails. Not because I hate gooey, slimey things (I do) or because I’m a closet horticulturalist (I’m not). It’s really because I like my footwear too much. (No) thanks to the recent rainy onslaught, the shadowy areas of my neighbourhood has seen a great influx of them crunchy types, and it is without any exaggeration that I say they hide in the shadow-iest of shadows, just waiting to be squanched (squished/squashed/crunched). It’s been 2 in the past 24 hours already, and no doubt a similar sad fate will befall many others. It’s as if they have no awareness of danger. Then again, I guess even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to escape without a 2 day headstart anyway.
So anyway yes. I hate snails.
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I’m thinking I need an easier name to pronounce if I’m to survive in Barcelona. I’ve tried to resist the urge to get a non-chinese name, but a couple of weeks back I was in a meeting with a guy from Germany and another from the UK. Obviously, me being the insignificant intern had no form of business card on me, and so I had to make do with a brief handshake and “Hi, my name’s Wei Ming, pleased to meet you.” So halfway through the meeting I did my usual peek around at others’ notebooks and realised that on UK guy’s notepad I was W~~~~~, and on German dude’s notepad I was ~~~ (yeah it was that short). Way to go in making an impression, W~~~~.
So anyway, I’ve already got a name, actually - my baptism name, Timothy - just that I don’t use it and haven’t taken much of a liking to it (fickle, I know). And just like many others I was also thinking along the lines of something that sounds like Wei Ming … but the only answer I got was Wayne. Might as well just introduce myself as Weims then.
So… halp.
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