Sunday, January 07, 2007.
I still remembered that I promised a group of my friends to post an entry on the above mention title "Addressing". What do I mean Addressing?
Should start off with family members, you address your father or mother as Daddy, dad, pa pa or Mummy, mum, mama....etc and same goes to your siblings. Over here we can see that this addressing nothing more than just respect your elderly or someone who is senior than you are.
Even for those who have younger siblings. Do not tell me you are not calling his/her name or didi/mei mei and choice to call them "OEI". Won't it be rude?
Next will be the addressing given in a relationship, some will call dear, darling, dummy, bie....etc. In this case, it will be a slight different from the family members. Why I said so? Cause these addresses that I had just mention is to represent how close you want your partner to be.
In front of your friends, the moment you call your partner they know how close you are with your partner. Not only that they will not think that both of you are purely friends but more of BGR.
Addressing given to your partner can be creative. Like some may call lao gong, lao po(though they are not offically married), dear, FiFi, BiBi and of coz many many more........
Think again, we know you are in love but you do not have to make it in a way that you want the whole world to know that you two are BF and GF. Afterall, you two are still in love only. Unless you are married then I shall zip my mouth over here.
As for me, I do not deny that I call my girlfriend as Dear. Yup! You can say I am not creative but who cares? So long as she acknowledge it, means she accepted what addressing I had given her.
So you do not really have to be super creative nor have to listen to others how they call and follow blindly and deafly. Just be yourself and feel at ease that is the best.
.:Know your limits:.