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If this is what I get all the time for having 600+ readership a month – it’s worth it. At least people do tell you what they feel.
Besides I never got it so directed at about me being a Christian.
Wait a minute. You guys do know I’m a Christian, and I still attend City Harvest Church right?
Alright, I’m mean, that was partly to spite those anti-CHC people. Bleargh.
Here, listen to a bit of Pachelbel by local Christian a cappella group, AGAPELLA.
Or maybe the person thought I was Christian Derrick Kam, you know what I mean here right?
Then for the record, unlike how muddled it was for my colleagues during NS, it is:
DERRICK MATTHEW KAM
And yes, there were stages in MY life where I hoped for a different name. On paper it is still Derrick Luke Kam, because I love my grandmother and choose to respect her wish, but the name “Luke” has no significance besides it being chosen by my grandmother. (Of course the name has a meaning, douchebag!)
And I do not wish to elaborate my “Matthew”, or why was it “Titus” for a short while. I will if I want to, but that is one not for the blog.
But yes, I do lash out at people, be vulgar and all, and yes, it looks bad on me as a Christian, but you guys complained before (when I was still on the old platform) that I was being too happy-go-lucky and bible-ly, quoting scripture like I’m some bubbly youth pastor wannabe.
I AM NOT A FREAKING YOUTH-PASTOR-WANNABE. I just want to be one doesn’t meant I am a wannabe, bitches.
See, I’m human. But at least i’m not as vulgar as you guys say I am.
I have a temper, yes, but at least once I vent, it goes. if it lasts a few days, let it be.
And being human, we all take time to change.
I never said that when certain people joined me for steak, it makes them any less a Buddhist because they’re corrupted by meaty fibres in their bodies! Or anything to that effect to any one religion!
And most of the time, it’e because Derrick here is a City-Harvester, so he’s trying to prove himself right.
HELLLLLLO! I got a brain, okay!! I do not need the teachings of one man whom I respect to form my personality.
But all in all, stop it with the random, baseless criticism.
Thank you.
Pseudonym
I believe it’s time to set the records straight, with my middle name.
As much as a rose, by any name, is still a rose – the fact that I had a middle name will not be fulfilled without settling on that one single term.
It started off during baptism in 2004, where I chose the name “Luke” – which meant “the bearer of doctors and artists”. Kinda like a thing I’d choose to do – science and arts, I felt.
But on the other hand, family friends noticed the utterance of “Matthew” in reference to me by my father. “Matthew” meant “Gift of the Lord”.
And if you guys noticed the discomfort of using a monosyllabic middle name in me – it made things worst when I was talking to an events organiser who was arranging for an interview and a gala dinner where I was representing my own writings (check out “Of Spurts and Blocks”).
He being a Christian suddenly quoted something, to which I might have passed on a verse off Titus while giving him my name in full, and he took off without the right Gospeller (Luke – one of the Gospels in the New Testament, get it?)
And it got stuck. It ain’t monosyllabic and it isn’t as tacky as it seemed – until one thing after another and it became a chore to introduce myself as something which didn’t really meant anything to me.
So like a sore thumb, I have finally decided to make it official that I will keep it to one.
Derrick Titus will still be my pen name. Though most of the time, I no longer introduce myself with the middle name.
So just for the record now, the name Derrick Matthew Kam would go for all; and that Derrick Titus would just be a ficticious pen-name to be used.
Cleared at last. Now I can breathe.
