Originally Posted by rebel.ranter
The Chinese lads always have a western name as well as their Chinese name when dealing with westerners. I dealt with a load of them that worked for a well known Chinese Telecomms company. Larry Lan, Bruce Lee, Dream, Sherry, are some of the ones I remember. There were others that just used a word that they thought that sounded nice like "Dream" or "Sky". One Chinese guy said to one of the lads when he was heading back to China said, "you are a nice guy Dermot, maybe next time I come back as Dermot!".