Title-ship

Sometime back somebody questioned me why I address certain people deardear.

Well, the whole story started when I was in KL. Back then, a classmate called Grace loved to call us dears. Somehow I kind of got hooked up with this mode of address and started calling my close friends dears too. And it continued throughout the few years when I was staying in KL. A few of us address each other as dears thereafter.

Since then, I sort of adopted this mode of address as a kind of title-ship for my friends. I shall put this title-ship classification in this post for you guys to have a look.

1. Double names
- Certain friends whom I like, I would address their names in double.
- For e.g.: Jonathan can be JonJon, XiaoTong can be TongTong

2. Dear
- Equivalent to Datuk
- E.g. Leong-dear

3. DearDear
- Equivalent to Datuk Seri
- E.g. 阿昌 deardear

4. Darling
- Equivalent to Tan Sri
- E.g. XiaoJun Darling

5. DarDar
- Equivalent to Tun

So, that's the rough guide of how I address people who are friends...