Too much ado about names :)

When I gave birth to my first child... hubby and I wanted to give her a very simple name. Senang!! Tak yah penat tangan tulis nama panjang2 masa isi borang :) We chose Izzaty cause hubby wanted to have 'izz' at the front... sempena my nickname :)

Then 3 years later, when I got a son... I wanted to give him the name "Irsyad" but hubby insisted to have 'iz' again! He wanted to use the name 'Izmir'... tapi tak jumpa la pulak meaning nama tu in Arabic. So he chose 'Izhar'. Errr.... I have nothing against the meaning of Izhar (terang lagi nyata) but... I have a very personal reason for not liking the combination of 'iz' and 'har'. Those who know my history would understand I guess... cause I used to 'date' someone by the name '**har'! :P Anyway, yang pergi register nama tu nanti would be darling hubby right? So punya la takut dia register nama 'Izhar' tu... I relented and decided to chose the name 'Izzat'... easy eh? The male version of his sister's name.... and still have 'izz' in the front... so hubby had no reason to reject the name! Everyone's happy... hehe :)

Izzaty Razak and Izzat Razak... sounds easy kan? And yet... the similarities of their names made some people confused! When I was still on my 60 days maternity leaves, I went to Maybank Rawang to open a Yippie account for Izzat. When I submited the application, the teller at the counter said "Eh Kak.... akak dah bukak account utk anak akak ni!". And I was like "Eh?? Mana ada?? Tu kakak dia lah.. Izzaty!". And the lady laughed... "Ya Allah.. sorry kak!! Confuse saya!". Okay... that was the first!!

Throughout the years... ada lah some minor confusions lagi between Izzaty and Izzat nih.... tapi not so bad lah. But last night.... hmm..... MAJOR confusion I'd say! Hubby went outstation to Kuantan, so that left me to go hantar and jemput the kids to Kumon class. When I was waiting for the kids to finish class... I saw this bunting at Ms Jaya Kumon center... I saw my kids pics. Tapi tak perasan apa2 lagi mula2 tu. Then when Izzat finished his class... he came over to me and asked.. "Mama perasan tak nama dia dah bertukar??" Eh?? I quickly looked closely....
OMG!!! How come they make the mistake???? Izzaty jadi Izzat... and Izzat jadi Izzaty???? Male and female pun boleh confuse ke??? Aduhai... sabor je lah!! Ms Jaya came over when she saw me taking this picture... and I asked her 'How come they mistakenly labeled their names wrongly??" and she explained "Puan Runiza, I have faxed them earlier to notify their error... but still they printed it wrongly! I was so upset with the Kumon HQ". Oh well.... I have no comment. I do not want to make noise about this small thing.. :)

But Izzaty was so upset.... hehehe. Poor girl... :)