People (that includes my friends and associates) always ask me about  the meaning of the  name I used in my personal email address i.e. JauneSK and trying very hard to pronounce it. Frankly, I also have difficulty to pronounce it. You see, when I first registered for my first dial up internet access, all my preferred names were taken and I do not like to put numbers behind my initial and sur name. Kind of taboo on the feeling of like “Prison Break” inmate identity. During that time, I was studying French language, I fail in love with this language when I attended The First International Conference for Young Leaders In Montreal, Canada and have the chance to visit Quebue city, what a lovely city with all the old buildings preserve so beautifully and nicely. The only regret was I did not know a word of French, otherwise, I might just stay there for good. Just Kidding

Oh yes, back to my email name, I remember the Name of the late Honorable Governor of Canada who is the main sponsor for this conference as the events was organised by The Foundation bearing her name was Jaune Sauve. I did not know what is means any french friend like to enlightened me. When I studied French  acouple of years later, determine to visit this beautiful province one day and speak their language, the word Jaune was popping up from the worksheet given by the language teacher, it was color  Yellow in French. What a co-incident as my sur name in Mandarin also means Yellow. So I decided to use that as my nick Sur Name plus my initial SK as my user name for the dial up internet access. Years passed, the internet has change so much and  I guess no one is using any Dial Up Internet access now, but the my nick name remains. So that’s is the story and how it come about for my Nick name, just for the record.

Interestingly, two days ago, my wife wanted to forward some email to me and when she saw my email address, she never bother about all this as she left all the geek stuff to me; she asked the same old question, why are yiu using this name? Not again! :(  With a look of disbelievingly even after I had explained to her, I have to dig out my old french language note and show her. The case closed, not so fast!

Yesterday, my 9 years old eldest son Sean wanted to registered an internet game site and trying to registered with his preferred names but to no avail. I was trying to help him to come out with all the Nice and easy to remember User name, then he “hit” me with a suggestion, why not he use Jaune since I said it was equivalent to our Mandarin Sur Name and then his initial. That’s itI have more than enough of all these questions so I decided to registered a domain using JauneSK.com to settle it once and for all. Next time any one ask me about my nick name, I will direct them to this blog. What a good way of promoting a blog. hehe!

Funny thing was when I register this domain, the domain registration site suggested that I registered a domain using my REAL name and it say it may one day cost a fortune, well I am still thinking about it. But for the moment I will stick with JauneSK.com because if you google the word JauneSK, at least there are over 2500 sites listed. Imagine it went uo to 2,500,000 sites. Haha!