Many friends kept asking me why I like to use Flatfish as my screen name. In fact,
this name has been with me for over fifteen years, and the only reason I did not
reveal the origin of the name was that there is something almost unspeakable about
where the idea came from.
One of my favoriate films is 向左爱 向右爱, a Korean film staring Cha Tae Hyun
and Son Ye-jin, telling a melancholy love trangle between two girls and a boy.
The alias Flatfish does comes from this film, but, unfortunately, with a rather
wicked source.
The film began in a small restaurant where two men were discussing how fishermen
deal with their physical desires when they are out in the sea fishing for weeks
,
, a typical example of how far Korean films are willing to go to challenge audiences'
mental strength. Then one man starts to tell an anecdote he heard somewhere--According
to him, when fishermen are out in the sea for a long time and they cannot hold their
urges any longer, they would find a flatfish to ....instead of using their hands.
(I have to skip the description for obvious reasons....). After watching the film,
as much as I was touched by the love story, I couldn't get the opening story out of
my mind. It was so bizarre, mind-blowing, yet wicked at the same time. So, when I
started using the Internet and was asked to choose a screen name, on a whim, I decided
to go with Flatfish, and have never bothered to change it since.
There you have it, the reason why I kept the orgin of my online alias a secret.
I am afraid my friends would go involuntarily deaf after hearing the story. The only
comfort for me is that this name has an unusal source
. That's all.
. That's all. Speaking of aliases, my whole body is tingling with excitment and ideas, simply
because they are so unbiquitous and permeasive in our life that our world is
incomplete without them.
Have you heard of the Deadful Melody, the Invincible Eastern, or the Golden Lion King?
If not, you must be familiar with their origional Chinese counterparts: 六指琴魔，
东方不败，金毛狮王. I had never realized how overly dramatic and weird these terms
sound in English until I wrote them down a few seconds ago. This must be how we feel
againt the Little Fingers, the Usurpers, or the Undead, or the Kingslayers when we
read Game of Thrones. These, are aliases. They are so unbelievably interesting and
dramatic that they can only exist in the world of literature. And there are not many
things like literature that can shape our world.
As a loyal fun of the Kong Fu and fantasy novels, I have grown up familiar with all
the powerful aliases, to a point that I wanted my name to be equally, if not more,
cool as those. I remember being teased during primary school for my name 弛, because
it bears the same pronounciation as other characters like 迟 or 池, hence the nicknames
"Perpetually Late" or "the Little Pond". Now that I think about it, it was harmless
word games played among children. But I was not taking it lightly at that time.
No children could. So, after careful consideration, I went to my mom and seriously
demand they change my name to 剑, only because it was so cool for the Kong Fu masters.
Fortunately my mom laughed it off, otherwise, I would have to live the rest of my life
with more atrocious nicknames related to the word 贱
. Alas, the childhood!
. Alas, the childhood!What used to exist only in fantasy novels and daily pranks had gradually turned into
mainstream due to the advent of the digital age. When using QQ, WeChat, Blued, Feizan,
or Aloha, most people have to choose alias. And that's when people start to get
creative. If our names have been picked by our parents to express their wishes for our
life, then the alias are hand-down the first name we have picked for ourselves, which
is probably why many people take it very seriously. The good thing is that screen
names usually come with both a name and a photo. So, combining the two, it is quite
easy to get a glimpse of what that person is like.
For example, on Blued, there are a few groups of people with distinctively different
choices for their aliases, but very clear revealation of themselves as a person.
Some people like to use puppies or kitties, showcasing their fondness for cute
animals; some people use muscle shots with sexually explicit alias like 强攻持久or
曲径通幽, then you kown they are either proud of of their bodies or are looking for
someone with ripped bodies,but one thing for certain is that they are more likely
to look for one-night-stands than long-term relationships. I guess the most blatant
and unfurnished aliases are those with profile photos of suits or socks. These are
fetishes that correspond directly to sexual preferences, so that you know they
are looking for nothing else.
With names, we see the wishes of the previous generations; with alias, however,
we can see directly into the person, or at least a part of him, just like one's
handwriting or clothing choices. They are all part of who we are.That's why I can never
really appreciate those with random online names or bad handwritings. Some people
wonder why they get no response when initiating a converstation on dating APPs.
Perhaps you should check your alias and other profiling information first.
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