I did ask the owner of Freddy’s about having a B’stoner gathering, he was down. I would like a few more opinions about the place though; however a small Pete’s Candy Store-ish gatheirng would be fine there.
ok Thanks chicken
but what I think is interesting is if the parents were so concerned with their kids “fitting” in with “anglicized names” they would have been better off naming their kids names’ like Jennifer/Michael/Laura rather than Alice/Harold/June
bxgrl, Snaps, thank you both! I’m supposed to go to Connecticut for the day, but staying close to home – especially the way the CDog is feeling these days – may be a better option.
Cobble, would they expect everyone to order food, do you know? If so, they should realize we’ll likely spend much more on booze than we would have on food plus they’ll have a chance to get lots of word of mouth and word of blog praise from us.
Chicken/M4l – read my post about asian names pleaseeeeee
and get back to me
thanks 🙂
Posted by: gemini10 at October 28, 2009 1:11 PM
most of the asian kids I grew up with either kept their chinese names (like me) or went with the more generic / common ones such as John, Mike, Bobby, David,….
Biff, we were thinking we could commandeer the back room, and possibly arrange for food to go with our drink. Don’t know if they’ll only want to rent the room, or let us use it “exclusively” (as a practical matter), but figure it’s worth asking.
In the UK, the second generation chinese all have pretty normal non-controversial names. Maybe the parents wanted the kids to fit in as best they could.
This is in stark contrast to Hong Kong where people seem to compete to choose the most outlandish names for themselves (I think DIBS has discussed this before).
My parents did give me an english name but it’s not on my birth certificate and it never stuck – I go by an anglicised version of my chinese name. Same for my brother but my sisters do use their english names so I’m scratching my head about that.
CGar, it’s worth asking and I happen to like the place but if they aren’t totally flexible, there are a ton of other options.
I did ask the owner of Freddy’s about having a B’stoner gathering, he was down. I would like a few more opinions about the place though; however a small Pete’s Candy Store-ish gatheirng would be fine there.
ok Thanks chicken
but what I think is interesting is if the parents were so concerned with their kids “fitting” in with “anglicized names” they would have been better off naming their kids names’ like Jennifer/Michael/Laura rather than Alice/Harold/June
bxgrl, Snaps, thank you both! I’m supposed to go to Connecticut for the day, but staying close to home – especially the way the CDog is feeling these days – may be a better option.
Cobble, would they expect everyone to order food, do you know? If so, they should realize we’ll likely spend much more on booze than we would have on food plus they’ll have a chance to get lots of word of mouth and word of blog praise from us.
Chicken/M4l – read my post about asian names pleaseeeeee
and get back to me
thanks 🙂
Posted by: gemini10 at October 28, 2009 1:11 PM
most of the asian kids I grew up with either kept their chinese names (like me) or went with the more generic / common ones such as John, Mike, Bobby, David,….
Biff, we were thinking we could commandeer the back room, and possibly arrange for food to go with our drink. Don’t know if they’ll only want to rent the room, or let us use it “exclusively” (as a practical matter), but figure it’s worth asking.
anyone else notice how insanely the price of SOAP went up lately? wtf? isnt soap just animal fat, dye, and perfume?
*rob*
G10, I think it’s an american thing.
In the UK, the second generation chinese all have pretty normal non-controversial names. Maybe the parents wanted the kids to fit in as best they could.
This is in stark contrast to Hong Kong where people seem to compete to choose the most outlandish names for themselves (I think DIBS has discussed this before).
My parents did give me an english name but it’s not on my birth certificate and it never stuck – I go by an anglicised version of my chinese name. Same for my brother but my sisters do use their english names so I’m scratching my head about that.