Changing your name tag to show your English name?

• dragg

  20 Nov 05, 13:23

  i didnt wear a name tag.
  
  
• LazerLordz

  20 Nov 05, 13:29

  Originally posted by Hellraiza:

  regarding the nametag thing....i recall when i was in school of provost on course...my instructor said that the actual STANDARD nametag (following SAF guidelines) if u have a christian name is the FIRST letter of ur english name, followed by initials, followed by surname...so if ur name is Andy Lee Ah Boon, ur nametag should state A A B LEE. interesting eh?

  Interesting to note that the fellows screwed up my name, for all time.Every list left out my Christian name even though it was on my NRIC.
• why not??

  21 Nov 05, 08:33

  edited.
• Gordonator

  21 Nov 05, 22:08

  Originally posted by Hellraiza:

  regarding the nametag thing....i recall when i was in school of provost on course...my instructor said that the actual STANDARD nametag (following SAF guidelines) if u have a christian name is the FIRST letter of ur english name, followed by initials, followed by surname...so if ur name is Andy Lee Ah Boon, ur nametag should state A A B LEE. interesting eh?

  ya. during my time there, most of the chinese sergeants there have their nametag in that pattern. but it sure looks very werid.
• coffeekia

  22 Nov 05, 11:34

  Originally posted by Hellraiza:

  regarding the nametag thing....i recall when i was in school of provost on course...my instructor said that the actual STANDARD nametag (following SAF guidelines) if u have a christian name is the FIRST letter of ur english name, followed by initials, followed by surname...so if ur name is Andy Lee Ah Boon, ur nametag should state A A B LEE. interesting eh?

  haha. what if the guy's name is..
  Francis Ku Ann Rui? FAR Ku
• redstone

  6 Dec 05, 00:07

  What about people surnamed 'Tan' or 'Lee'?
  
  Sure got more then one.
  So you shout "TAN!!!" all the Tans respond?
• nismoS132

  6 Dec 05, 00:58

  surname.
  
  got no real preference, but i like my surname more than my english name. in oeti i was called by my surname, not many knew my english name, but when i was posted to my unit, i had a friend there who addressed me by my english name, so everyone followed suit.
  
  as time went by, i sort of felt that having an english name dilutes my chinese heritage. when i go overseas next year, i don't intend to use my english name anymore, unless with angmohs. now i'm pondering whether to use my mandarin name or dialect name.
  
  but weird how some of you considering being addressed by surnames as rude. i kind of thought that over here in singapore, close friends address each other by surnames. that seems to be the way for my circles of friends.
• LazerLordz

  6 Dec 05, 01:01

  Originally posted by nismoS132:

  surname.
  
  got no real preference, but i like my surname more than my english name. as time went by, i sort of felt that having an english name dilutes my chinese heritage. when i go overseas next year, i don't intend to use my english name anymore, unless with angmohs.

  hmm ok.
• Gordonator

  6 Dec 05, 21:30

  only army chinese friends, we tend to address them by surnames. it has become like a habit. but when u ORD and go out to work or go back to school, it'll be weird calling your new friends by their surnames, especially in school.
• LazerLordz

  6 Dec 05, 21:31

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  only army chinese friends, we tend to address them by surnames. it has become like a habit. but when u ORD and go out to work or go back to school, it'll be weird calling your new friends by their surnames, especially in school.

  So true