Chinese Name

In the spirit of being a five year old, Richie in work wrote my name for me in Chinese.

Richie, real name Zhuo (pronouced jhu-ah) is a student working for us, who is setting me straight on a couple of things about China:

Western Chinese food is definitely not Chinese.

You can get authentic Chinese food in Dublin, we are going to eat there next week.

Only Koreans eat dog. They breed a special type solely for this purpose.

Mandarin Chinese is the mostly commonly spoken dialect because it what you are thought through in school.

Gambling, except for the national lottery and football pools is illegal in China.

Not everybody plays MahJongg. Many people don't know the rules.

Jackie Chan and Jet Li are from inland China, but made their names in Hong Kong.

The symbol 中 means middle and not Red Dragon.

China is commenly written 國, or 中國 meaning "The Middle Kingdom"

If you are in China for a while, you do not 'get given' a Chinese name, even in rural villages. You can choose one for yourself if you like.

Surnames come before forenames in China, but you probably knew this.

Phonetically spelt Conor means "Health That" it looks something like this:

Ugh.

I wrote this in a document today:

"Integrating into a scalable design solution is key to project implementation"

I deserve the electric chair.