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[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:41 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:01 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 25/08/2010 13:00, Christopher Chan wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 06:15 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Res<res at ausics.net
> >>> <mailto:res at ausics.net>>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        >   On 25/08/2010 00:01, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> >>>
> > [pruned]
> >
> >
> >> Heh, yeah, I actually do prefer Christopher but I've given up on that.
> >>
> >
> > OK, next time I'll know. But what throws people is the above order,
> > "Chan Chung Hang Christopher".
> >
> 
> Welcome to the Chinese/Japanese/Korean way of naming...but I guess I 
> could make it Chan, Chung Hang Christopher or drop my Chinese given name 
> - I rarely get called by that anyway. I'll fix up my thunderbird at home 
> just for you. ;)

A lady friend of mine from Taiwan just informed me that she doesn't know
the correct day of her birth, according to our western calendar. I
thought the Aussies were strange, living down under and walking around
upside down. :) Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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