hey, www.kabalarians.com also had my real name. yes, that's right folks - cherry is not my real name. there's a whole story behind how i got the name cherry (no, my parents didn't give it to me either) but...wait...did i already blog about it? i have this feeling that i did...hm. anyway, who cares. i'll just tell it anyway, even though like, pretty much everyone in my life has heard this story before. screw linguistics midterm. so, once upon a time, when i was just a teeny tiny baby, my parents sent me to this american babysitter lady. she was unable to pronounce my real name so she decided to give me a nickname. apparently, she thought i had a very strong resemblance to a piece of fruit. gee, can you guess which one? (wow...it's a really good thing i didn't look like a watermelon or apple or something. could you imagine?? "hi, my name is watermelon. watermelon vu.") my parents said it was because all the other babies were american babies and just really fat which naturally made me look very little and apparently cherry-like. so from then on, i was called cherry and it just stuck. the end.

anyway, back to my real name. here's what www.kabalarians.com had to say about it...

THUY-DUONG
Your name of Thuy-duong has given you a generous nature. You will do your utmost to help others in need, despite inconvenience or even hardship to yourself. You are affectionate, and respond quickly to appreciation. As a child you were expressive. An imaginative, impressionable person, you could excel in the theatre as a dramatist or comedienne, and the enjoyment and appreciation of your audience would be your greatest inspiration. Fine as your nature is at times the power of your feelings is difficult to control as it unleashes itself through outbursts of temper. The name does not engender emotional stability; nor have you the system and order in your thinking always to finish what you start. Scattering of efforts interferes with success in your undertakings. Sensitivity in your nervous system could cause you to suffer either through goitre, or nervous conditions, or to experience hysteria or mental repression.

hysteria?? HYSTERIA?!? i'm never hysterical. "...you could excel in the theatre as a dramatist or comedienne..." hahahahaha. right. yeah, this description's a bit more inaccurate than the "cherry" one, but then i guess that's because no one ever calls me Thuy Duong. my vietnamese teacher calls me that sometimes, but she stopped after a couple of weeks. even my parent's don't call me Thuy Duong; they call me Cherry. or sometimes, "Girl." i'm serious. they call me "Girl" quite a bit; i guess they use it as a term of endearment or something as in, "study hard, okay girl?" or "eat healthy, okay girl?"

aaaaanyway...back to the books i go...