My name is Cely
It has been a while since I posted the poll - “How do you read my name - Cely ?”, I wanna find out how many of you read it correctly as my way. [thank god there are still have people read it my way]
Cely might not be readable or it might not even be an english word, but I like it as a word and as my name.
My friends who’ve knew me more than 10 years, like Syen, she will call me by my chinese name - Ching Ling 庆龄. Some of my cousins make fun of my chinese name, they call me ching ting 蜻蜓… :sad:
I’ve been using Cely as a name for people to call me for about 8-9 years for easy remembrance. They might not spell it my way for the first few times but that does not really matter, coz I’ll tell them to spell it Cely. I would be thankful if they called me by Cely (Read as Sally) and not those funny funny names like those I listed in my poll.
It’s totally not funny. If you already heard me introduce myself as Cely (and read as Sally), PLEASE don’t be so smart and called me the way you want. Please respect me and my name. You don’t want people make fun of your name isn’t it. :)
If you don’t mind what people calling you, that does not mean I should not mind also. Am I right? I don’t mind you make fun of other things, but certainly not my name. If you haven’t heard me saying my name before, and you pronounced it wrongly, it’s okay. I will not blame you.
So, now you know. Read it my way and spell it my way. Thank you. I’d really appreciated it a lot because you show respect.

hazyman
on November 21st, 2006
cely? than perhaps you should just spell your name as Sally.
Is Cely even registered with JPN?
i’ll call you silai.
cely
on November 21st, 2006
hazyman: why must be sally? i wanted it to be cely.. i never know sally is a ‘registered’ name at JPN.. to whom? why need to be registered? ok.. i m going to ignore u… for calling me si lai.. bye
Boss Stewie
on November 21st, 2006
what?! u mean it’s not SI LAI!?
Wuching
on November 21st, 2006
i’ve always knew how to pronounce ur name Cely rhyms like Sally. dun worry about ppl making fun of ur name..i get that all the time, just ignore & they’ll go away!
Joash
on November 21st, 2006
Yes, ma’am…
cely
on November 21st, 2006
boss: -.-!!
wuching: haha, great that u pronounce it my way. thanks. appreciate that.
joash: blek :p
amanda leng leng
on November 21st, 2006
last time i heard some 1 call u si-ly ;p :)
b4 we come out.. which we only knoe each other frm kakilang dat time .. i tot ur name is chehly..
hehe~
earl-ku
on November 21st, 2006
who moved ur cheese la?
so … hur … its not jel-li ar? ci-li can ar?
but that “ching-thing” - thats the best la … ching-thing
ian
on November 21st, 2006
cely.. if they can pronounce celina correctly, then they can pronounce yours too.
cely
on November 21st, 2006
amanda: Yealo.. i forgotten who call me silly liao… the girl damn fren with janice one.. me so shocked that she called me silly… :sad:
i came across few ppl that read as chehly also…
earl: no la.. just that all the while, ppl might not know how to read.. so it’s my responsible to educate them ma… btw, u better not to repeat the same thing again.. i really dun like it.. :)
ian: hahaha…. hope so hope so
xiao
on November 21st, 2006
oh shit! i always thought it is pronounce as “silly” :P
Neo
on November 21st, 2006
Good name!
Reon
on November 21st, 2006
Cely mah, correct? You used that name during our mailingship mah… Well, never thought of pronounce it as something else. Always is “seh-lee”. :D
Caker
on November 21st, 2006
Call you honey, boleh?
cely
on November 21st, 2006
xiao: haha, nm, now follow me, read ’sally’
Neo: Thanks.. I always knew that :p
reon: yes, using it since penpal time… :)
caker: erm… 勉为其难å§
Neo
on November 22nd, 2006
Hi there, time to update again :)
earl-ku
on November 22nd, 2006
oi perempuan!!!
i got call u by any other names meh? …. i call u sar-lei ma …
Gian
on November 22nd, 2006
i do recall trying to confirm with u how to pronounce ur name.. chehly or sally or kelly or silly or cili… it was N yrs ago…
but.. of coz i knoe how ur name pronounces la now… cely ma..
cely
on November 22nd, 2006
Neo: yea yea.. sei lo, i need ppl to remind me to update my blog.. kakaka .. oh wait… what update? :s
earl: dun call my chinese name WRONGLY~ :)
Gian: hehe.. good that u actually confirm with me. Thank you wo ..keke
ear-ku
on November 23rd, 2006
***ching ting
cely
on November 23rd, 2006
earl: ish.. never learned !?
andylkw
on November 23rd, 2006
hahaa, earl is picking on you three times. should not reveal to him your other nick names. hahaha.
Joash
on November 23rd, 2006
Cely, too bad you can’t make fun of Earl’s name… Considering that he already has “kukujiao” as his nickname. I can’t think of anything more funnier for a nickname liao…. so basically, you can’t do anything about it lah…
cely
on November 23rd, 2006
andy: henh… guess i did another mistake liao..
joash: yea lo yea lo… kukujiao also damn sui liao… but i wont think of other nickname for him.. that will makes me no different from him :p
mz
on November 25th, 2006
chop chop chop!!!
so now it’s read as “Sally” or the Celine Dion kind of “Se-Lee”???
Cely cannot be read as Sally lar… Se-Lee!!
i’ve always thought how i pronounce it sounds nice. :P
cely
on November 25th, 2006
mz: eh.. why so notti.. :( read it my way… sally… ishhhh
Reon
on November 29th, 2006
Come to think of it, I long time no call your chinese name already… Kinda wasted eh? Because I’d think you have a rather nice chinese name there. :D
cely
on November 29th, 2006
reon: yes i do have a nice chinese name, but a lot of those ABC, canot remember my name one… :)
annant
on September 7th, 2008
hey stumble upon your bloggie
i do have da same problem of people mispronouncing my name which make me go =.=||| and :mad:
lurve your bloggie :)
cely
on September 8th, 2008
annant: hahaha, i totally understand you. Thanks for liking my blog :)