World of Eric Khoo

I received a message from my friend Rasmus few weeks ago, "Eric, do you make movie???"as he received an email regarding movies production, and he saw my name "Eric Khoo" in it....

I thought he was just asking whether I am the director of my school production or something.

So I explained to him, that both Eric and Khoo are popular name, combination of Eric Khoo is also popular.

Anyway, some words about Chinese naming system. My name is Khoo Chee Khong, though i'm better known as Eric, which was my name since i was in my mom's womb. It's just more like a nickname, easier for people to remember.

Meanwhile, Khoo is my family name, or last name (some of my friends though last name refer to the last word of their name, such as for my name, Khong is the last name...Well, NO NO NO, last name refers to family name!) ;

Chee, I would say it as an 'generation' name, though in modern Chinese society, it's very uncommon to name a kid based on the generation, nor did my parents, and it seems to me it's very common nowadays to name a kid with two character, i.e. family name+name, without 'generation name'. In fact, my generation name should be 'Nee' , i.e. Khoo Nee Khong, Nee corresponds to the 37th generation of the Khoo family) ;

And finally, Khong is my actual 'name', which means health in Chinese.

Today, out of curiosity, i wanted to find out how many 'Eric Khoo' could i get from Google.com.....

I was surprised to find Eric Khoo- wikipedia was on the first of the list....So i clicked :



Wow, it's true that there's another Eric Khoo from Singapore, and he's famous film director!!! His name is Eric Khoo Kim Hai (i translated his Chinese name into English because it's not mention in wikipedia.)

One day, I'm going to make myself as famous as he is :D