Names. Dictionary.com states that names are a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known. In another word, names are what differentiates you from the others.

They can come in different forms of language and hence there would be a totally different meaning to them altogether.

Poll

1) What is your real full name? (Kindly indicate your surname as well and explain on its meaning if it has.)

To those, who are already added in my Facebook's contact. You would have know of my full name, it is Goh Wee Meng. My surname would be Goh. Wee Meng is my name. When combined together, they probably would not meant anything since they are a direct translation from my Mandarin name.

My Mandarin name would looked like this; '吴伟铭', or read as 'Wu Wei Ming'. The characters are represented like these if they are written in simplified Chinese. Goh would literally be translated as '吴'; 'Wu'. '伟'; 'Wei', itself would mean great as someone of a prominent figure.

'铭'; 'Ming' would be a little harder to explain. In traditional Chinese, it would be written with two characters if split up. The first half of the character would signify '金‘; 'Jin' or gold. The second half of the character would mean '名'; 'Ming' or fame. Together '铭'; 'Ming' was given to me as a name to ensure that I would be embedded with riches and fame for the latter part of my life.

Yeah, I do believe that the explanation might sound pretty dumb but this is how we got our names from our parents.

What is your current and past nick and where do it originated from?

I do not remember having serious nicknames given to me in reality. The one that came in closest would be Joker to regards of the numerous lame and cold jokes that I made it out of my own.

Internet- wise, I also had several nicks. Darkyouth and Dark-san prompty tops the entire list of nicks that I called myself during my eight or seven years in TPM. Darkyouth is probably the easiest nick that comes to mind since I took it off from some Counterstrike bot and made it my own.

It was later on in the latter part of 2006, when I changed it into Dark-san. Firstly, it was then an attempt to convert my name in order to make it sound more Japanese. Secondly, I was already too deep into anime then and got this nick from one of the anime, Dark Angel.

3) What nick or name would you want people to greet you as?

Majority of my close friends called me 'Meng'. Most of the online contacts that I had in TPM and other forums called me 'Dark'.

However nowadays, there is a mixture of people from both sides that called me by both. I am fine with either 'Meng' or 'Dark' It is pretty much up to the individual. If the person feels that calling me by my real name is inappropriate, they can refer me as 'Dark'. I do not mind that.

Interestingly, I have a group of working colleagues that call me Michael. It all started during my two years stint in Army. My superior and the chief clerk wanted me to take up an English name, since they find it bothersome to refer me in my Mandarin name.

At first, I wanted them to call me as 'Meng'. But then after several email exchanges in the office, they initially called me as Mike for no reason. And by the time, I left the military. I had already make my mark there as 3SG Michael Goh. >.<;

Believe it. There are still people calling me by that name. In fact now, the majority of that group of people comes from my university.

Random Question: How do you dudes find this poll?

I kept my side of the bargain to come up with a poll. You dudes could be looking forward of seeing me posting weekly polls to generate some activity here.

As for the poll, I do not generally find it boring. As for any other comments, I leave it for you dudes to find out.