The Names They Say are Mine.

Day 19- Nicknames you have; why do you have them

Since I am too lazy... I am just glad that this came in handy!
I know things are really going to be useful... in time ;)

So here goes a long account of the names people call me now and then... and from DAY 1 ^__^

"Well don't call me by my full name,
And all this is temporary.
-Circa Survive, The Difference Between Medicine and Poison Is In the Dose

11.05.08
12:01:23
--time takes its toll on us--


Hello my dear friends I am Tsin and I love Purple Bingkas!
That is lame.
And I apologize (it's too late... chocolate.)
Ugh. I'm just not sure what to say
or what to put here...
RV tagged me to do this name thing like a month or so ago.
And I think it's time that I post this here cuz I feel that I need to
do something else aside from just lying on the bed and what not...
cuz I am sick again. FLU SEASON they said.
Anyway, I'm not really sure of the mechanics of this
but I will try to put in the names that I have.
This is like looking back to the names that were
(and didn't I just blog something about forgetting the past? haha!)
OK. this is an exemption!

I dug deep into my memory to retrieve the names that people
-friends, family, classmates, office mates-
used to call me... and still call me.

my full name:

KRISTINA ZAFRA JOSON

I hardly tell anyone at all my full name and here I am broadcasting it! (HAHAH! not really!) some months ago I posted some of my photos here in multiply with a little story of how I used to hate my first name (http://cheezenibbles.multiply.com/photos/album/132/Cheshires_-_NOT), KRISTINA, so much. The name for me is just not as sophisticated as what my classmates back in elementary days had. Like Anthea Lirio, Niña Kristie, Helen Grace - all of them have second names and I didn't so it really sucked. Blah. I always took the chance to whine to my mum as to why she has given me that first name and she was always patient in explaining to me how (read:) LOVELY my name was, it made me all the more frustrated. And there's this one incident back in grade school that I would never forget really... Sharmi, a classmate of mine in elementary, and some of our other classmates and I were playing this game (it's not really a game, it's more of an INSULTING-THE-NAME game) to try to change our names into its most vernacular translation, meaning pabisayaon daw among name and they were exchanging funny names for themselves until I was tagged... and dear Sharmi was like, "AYAW NALANG NA SIYA OI CUI BISAYA NAMAN NA IYANG NGAN DAAN!" and it was followed by a roaring laughter and a series of affirmations and never-ending guffaws! UGH! I thought the world was gonna end... I was so mad at her I had to knock off her stroller after classes (Yes. I was a bit bratty back then ). She caught on and learned her lesson and never talked about my name that way. Yay (heheh.) To make this long explanation short, I began to like my name when I started to see actresses on TV with the same name as me. I realized that mum was right after all Kristina is not as bad as Saturnina or Celestina or Catalina (my grandmother's name) or worst - Carmelita (my sister's name! Whew!). That is also why my name had to end with a "NA" because of my granny's name. So there. I have embraced it and loved it and still do (Uh. Not really! Hahah!)!

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Most of my nicknames are derived from my first name - pretty boring, but if you can read on you will see the
transformation. Yay!

TINA

the first and not to mention the most boring nickname that I have ever had! most of my friends who have known me for so long and my family calls me this.

TIN/TIN2x

shortcut to Tina (obviously). most people who calls me Tina also calls me Tin or Tin2x, but I really don't like it.

TINZ

there is this one particular person who calls me this and that is Mary Joy (a.k.a Ejang) my classmate in college. I love the way she calls me this and how her perfect teeth would be exposed everytime she says: "TIIINNZZ!"

TINATOOTS

my friend Jairus is the only person who calls me this. i don't know where he got that but it sounds cute, too! hahah!

TINAJ

thanks to the genius Nik2x for inventing this. this nickname is the combination of my overused nick and the first letter of my family name. Nik2x started this all and eventually, ni-sunod na ang tanan na makadungog asta akong papa and whole family na jud dayon. hahah!

TJ/TEEJ

Nik2x also calls me this and I can't remember who else from our elementary barkada.

NAJ

a shortened version of Tinaj. hahah! Jingle calls me this most of the time.

TINAJEZIE

this is really funny and only Mijol calls me this.

JANIT

edward used to call me this and he really thought that my real name was Janit and Tinaj is just
a variation spelled backwards. Hahah! I remember him saying: "KA BISAYA POD ANA IMONG PANGAN OI!
JANIT!" Lolz!

NOJ/NOJ2x

Tim calls me this. i think cuz the first time we ever met he couldn't seem to get my nickname
Tinaj right, he was thinking it was Inoj. so there! he ended up calling me Noj or Noj2x (kung mamarayg DAW. hihi.)
up to now and i'm cool with that.

TSINA

I used to find Tinaj as a unique name until I went to college.. I had this one classmate whose name sounded like "NAJ" so I thought it was time to change Tinaj into some other name and comes in Tsin. I just had to move the "S" from kriStina next to "T" (ang ba sad. heheh.)

TSIN

this is like my most favoritest (hahah!) name that I have ever had! most of my friends from college and
more of my newer friends call me this and I just LOOOVVVVE the sound of it!

TSIN2x

my friends would call me this instead of saying "Hi" whenever we run into each other somewhere. but Rangi
calls me this with a matching "kumot2x" sa akong arms. heheh.. murag mangigil jugh sya!

TSINOT

bugal2x sa Tsin. heheh...

TSINAY FUSION

Party calls me this every now and then. Hahah! there's this one restaurant in our building which name
is Tsinoy Fusion - she got it from there. She would be like "HOI TSINAY FUSION, UNSAY AU?!"

TSINAY

some friends would also call me this... but the only persons i can remember calling me this
would be Party and Teenee, I think.

TSINNY

this is what Teenee calls me and I think she might be the only person who calls me that, too.


And here are some of my other interesting names:

KATRINA

i don't really know why everytime I am introduced as Kristina the next time I see that person
to whom I was introduced to they would call me Katrina. Kristina - Katrina? Hmmm..

INSIK

i might look like one, but my grandparents were from a Spanish decent (well at least my
grandmother - pop's side and my lolo - mum's side). i wish i looked a bit more like my
lolo. he was the loveliest person i've ever seen! he really looked like Mr Eddie Garcia.

INDAY/DAY

my mum calls me this whenever she needs something. heheh...

BABY

my pop calls me this and i know it's really mushy, but it's sweet, too. and though we're not
really that close anymore i know that i will always be his baby. i might be the eldest, but
everyone in the family treats me as though i am the youngest. hoorah!

ALIMANGO/CRAB

this is another name my pop calls me. he said my pinches are very crab-like. he couldn't
stand it sometimes. hahah! but i love pinching his palm! hmmm.. i miss that!

ATE

my siblings call me this with due respect. hahah!

KRISTENAUX

my sister, Lovely, is the only person who calls me this and she calls me this
everytime she needs something, too! haha!

JASON

my english teacher in high school - Miss Lopez calls me this because of my last name Joson.
isn't that weird? Jason? ok.

DUDE

this is like an endearment for my dear friend Candie and me. we started calling each other this right after we
got off training.


TINANG

Hanna calls me this and i remembered that there was a time when i told her to stop calling me
the name Tinang. it doesn't really sound that good, but then i also started to call
her Haning - we're square!


some other names that people call me (nya gikapoie na kog explain so kamo nalng bahala! hihi)

tsinaxe, tinapay, tinabal, tsinita, kris, kristine, baboy, GWAPA, t, tsinisyou, cheeze, cheezenibbles,
joson, anak mam joson. "

Can you invent your own name for me? :) Let me know and we'll find out if you beat all of those other names ;)

yeah, don't call me by my full name,

~tSin