The origin of my nick is actually a long story that some of you might not even understand. Anyway here it goes:

I'm a Chinese from Hong Kong, and while my parents were in Taiwan, I was born. They use Chinese there too, but their transcription of my name into English to put on my uh... ID? that card that signifies my identity... I don't think that it's used in the US. Well, they called me Szu Chen Lo, but actually sounds like See Ching Law in my language. 9 years later, on a Friday after a testing week which lets us out of school early, as I discovered the Little Fighter 2 game (this settings info has no meaning towards the subject, they're just facts.), I signed up for a new Yahoo! Mail account, and tried to come up with a unique name. At this point, I should tell you that my classmates call me Law-See-Pie (Last name is called first in my culture, as your family is more important) as a nick name, because it means "Screwdriver" in Cantonese, and very similar, just a change of the last word of my first name, to my real name. So, I used the "szu" part of my name and added "pie" after it, making it szupie, pronounced sue pie. I have kept the name for a long time.

How did you come up with YOUR nick/user names?

This post has been edited by microscopic^earthling: Apr 25 2005, 01:17 PM

*sits down around the campfire* (yeah, it may get long LOL)

It all started 21 years ago..... LOL ok no it didn't...

As long as I can remember, I've had a strong affection for the moon and stars, never much cared for sun unless the sun wasn't there to warm me . I am a nocturnal being..And then around the age of 15-16 I got internet (yay!!) and I still have no idea HOW I ended up there, but I stumbled across a website about wicca (this does lead to something)... Some of it sounded interested, some didn't (such is life). ANd I researched some more, until I finally came across a decent, non "the Craft - Sabrina - Charmed" witchcraft site. Read the entire thing, and I felt it described how I saw life and it's aspects to a pretty close image. Several years later, much of that has stayed the same, I found out mom shares my views and feelings about the witchiness...

When the time came for me to make a username for several things, I opted for MoonWitch (so yes, that is how I normally write it, however most forums only allow lowercase so that's how this name ended lowercase here)

Once apon a time, I added an o and a too dog

Once upon a time my best mate added a y to the end of my second name.
Forming Wrighty.

Its stuck with me ever since, but I now preffer -=Wrighty=-

Well, this should be good.

I've been a Beatles (John, Paul, George, and Ringo) fan for a long time; additionally, I love beetles (Volkswagens not insects). My very first website was a list of VW links and a story about my VW. It just seemed natual that I use beetleman as my username. I've been using that name for 10 years. Sometimes I have to use something else in case someone else already took beetleman or maybe it was me and I forgot the password so I need a new account. So usually I use beetleman or beetlman6272, but here in 8 character land, I'm beetlema.

So what's that have to do with vujsa? well when I went to college many years ago, my first roomate was Japanese. I attended a small junior college with a large Japanese student population. As a result I made friends with several, if not all, of them. Over the years, I have lost touch with my friends so I decided to setup a forum for all of us to use to get reaquainted. I went to V.U. and they are Japanese Students Alumni so V.U.J.S.A.
Other free webhosting sites I looked into turned your username into your subdomain or account name /~username. Not fully understanding how this site worked, I chose to use my desired subdomain name instead of my normal username. As a result I'm vujsa here. No big deal I guess but I always type: beetle<-<-<-<-<-<-vujsa

<- = backspace.

I've considered having my username changed but we'll see.

vujsa

My name isn't really that interesting.

After getting my Bachelor of Computer Systems (BCS), I later went on and got my Masters in Computing (MComp), in which I came up with the name MasterComputers, just to reflect my level of qualification I guess, although after 5 years of study, I stopped, didn't want to continue and get my Docter in Computing (DComp), nor would DocterComputers sound that good in my opinion, although it would be nice to have I guess, I just got sick of studying.

So that's how I came up with my name. Don't think it's that original or that interesting, but it works for me.

My nick given to me by my band is Scar, I guess linked to the Scar I have on my right arm, which is always visible when I'm playing a guitar, so I guess it suited me. Wasn't use to being called Scar, but it eventually sunk in that now I respond to that name too.

Cheers,

MC

Yeah, DoctorComputers would sound... strange...
Scar sounds like an evil villain in a video game.

Oh, and Dooga? You spelled "to" wrong...

Scar is also the evil Lion in Lion King... my nephew has his videos, that's the only reason why I know

It was a suitable name for me, for our genre of music (heavy metal) and the dark look we went for. So many rumours came about how I got this Scar/Name, surprisingly, a lot went with my guitar string broke and thus slicing open my arm (although a breaking string can cut, I have never encountered a deep wound from one), which I definitely did not say, or would have thought of saying, others were like it helped me play better on the guitar, so I self-inflicted it, if only this was the secret to being a good player, then more would follow my ways.


MC

Haha... So how DID it get wounded? Do you cut?

When I was around 7 or 8, I was playing in a warehouse, climbing boxes that were probably stacked 2 stories high, in which I happened to grab a box that was unstable and ended up pulling the box on me and I fell and somehow on my way down, I sliced my arm on something, don't know what it was but the ripping pain and blood everywhere is what I remember most from this.

Then it was the usual doctor stitching me up and commenting to get strength back in my arms I should take up an instrument, and that's when I started to learn how to play the guitar.

So that's the real story behind the scar and given that name by the band.


MC