My name is Marecel
My full name is MARIA REMEDIOS CECILIA BALDEO PENAVERDE. When i was in gradeschool i was called by my name REMEDIOS, no one ever called me MARIA…i guess it sounded too virginal or something. In fact, MARIA is probably the most unused name name. Unless siguro if you live in Spain or Argentina where half of the women are named MARIA. In highschool, i have a science teacher who liked calling me CECILIA. Thank goodness nobody thought of calling me BALDE to shorten my middle name, hehehe
Then there came my "bully baptised name" REMEDYAS….i was called that for 3 years by my personal bully (ang sos noh?!) Then there was REMY, RE-ME-DAI-OH….i have this busmate who wanted to make all our names sound classy coz his name couldn’t be anymore classier ( His name is Don Don) Then my sister for some weird reason started calling me "MEDING" she probably thought it was cute like KUTING!? Pero ngayong our labandera’s name is Meding, she stopped calling me by that. About time!
Then Essel came….actually at home, I am Ecel….the E as read in eat and CEL as in cellar. Then i have this caviteno teacher who couldn’t pronounce it right and kept calling me, eksel….more of like XL (as in the size!) Tapos i have this ka-choir who wanted to make all the girl names sound cute and sosy like Ana became NANA and Ecel became….well, what else? Easel.
But my nickname really is, Marecel….pronounced as Maricel with the i.
People asked me why is it spelled that way, why is it so arte?
well….
because it’s mine. it’s my name. so deal with it! hehehe =0P
