Self always has trouble naming her Filipino characters. So far this year, she’s used the following names for her women characters:
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Maya
Mara
Marra
Marya
Oh, self, why are you so lame?
And here are the names she’s chosen for her men. As dear blog reader will quickly note, these show slightly more variety:
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Raul
Butch
Tony
This evening, feeling quite impatient with her lack of imagination, self turns to one of the magazines she brought back with her after her last trip to Manila. Here’s a list of names self finds in it:
Women: Teofista/ Primitiva/ Aurelia/ Tasing/ Trina/ Milia/ Diding/ Angela/ Virgie/ Minay/ Cording/ Hermenegilda/ Iyay/ Feliza/ Linda/ Lisa/ Cristita
Men: Pedro/ Bonifacio/ Ramon/ Tiyong/ Berto/ Ned/ Soy/ Leon/ Oyo/ Filemon/ Daniel/ Fidel/ Andres/ Leoncio/ Jesus/ Victoriano/ Saturio/ Tropio/ Dadoy/ Victor/ Zosing/ Loloy
So, substituting one of the names above for what self originally had, here’s a passage from a story self has just begun writing:
The first color motion pictures in America were exhibited by George Eastman at Rochester, New York, a development that was to have a significant effect on Tropio’s emotional life.
Though he was born on an island far to the edge of things, all these events in the great nation to the West were to make itself felt in his little world.
Wow! Self likes it, she really likes it!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers, stay tuned.
