Elfin Bee's night night thoughts

‘Clones’ on the Internet – the art of differentiation January 15, 2009

If anyone were to try looking up themselves on google, if they are lucky, they’d probably find just themselves online. Personally, for some queer reasons under the magic spell of ‘Karen Fu’, I’ve got plenty of ‘myself’ listed on google: Karen Fu MD, Karen Fu at MIT, Karen Fu as AM at China somewhere else, Karen Fu aged 24 at facebook….

So much on the thought that my name was unique..I am vitrually plaqued by at least a dozen of other Karen Fu-s  wannabe who may well possibly think the same thing.

Differentiations of names in English can be quite tricky.

There are tonnes of Ben-s and Jerry-s; Amy-s and Jone-s; Chris-s and Ken-s; Papas and Mamas and I’d wish I got a way to get something really striking to differentiate myself out. And I came up with adding ‘Karen Fu Singapore’ and I finally got it spot on. I jumped up with great joy and tried some search engines. No one but me.

Finally at last, I am the sole owner of the name Karen Fu Singapore (!!)… but wait, there’s a tiny line somewhere at the middle of the page:  

 it says : Karen Fu Singapore, at NTU…mobile phone number 9XXXXXXX

Cows !

PS : Solemnly Declaration may be the other option. But I suppose this may be some form of blessing in disguise..