January 04, 2011

04/365

GERALDINE!

Last Saturday on the way to Dunedin, we passed by the town named Geraldine. Well, obviously it’s quite similar with my name but different in spelling and pronunciation. Ever since I was young, there’s a question in back of my head. “WTF my parents created such name which was very random i guess.” “Where did they possibly got that?” Not sure though. My mom’s name started with Letter G so they decided to make a name starting with Letter G too. So that’s the story, period.

That name, Geraldine, always reminds me of how people got trouble pronouncing my name especially the people here in NZ. They’re having difficulty memorizing my name. So what I usually do is to tell them to remember the place GERALDINE in which they are familiar of, in that way they can recall what my name is. It was funny because I have one patient whom I really like to look after. I used to asked him if he knows my name. He will answer back and say that he can’t remember. Then suddenly he will mention if it’s Geraldine with a question. It brought smile through my face considering that he still remember me though he got hard time remembering things, people, etc.