problem with having common name

I do have a common name, a pretty common english name also.

I don't know why in the past, from young till secondary school, even the first 3 months at a JC, I never encounter someone with the same name as me. Which is a good thing.

In poly, I started to encounter people with same name. A course mate having same name as me. Another course mate having same english name as me. Another evening classmate having same name as me. Always don't know who the teacher/lecturers are calling and sometime got a shock. So I did not make my english name known to prevent further confusion.

At work, I was known by my name till another colleague with the same name came. So I had to change to be known as my english name.

Since they noe me as my english name, and most people who view this blog r my colleague. so in my tag, i'll use my english name (short cut). but jus nw when i saw my sec friend who leave me a tag message, I just my name (short cut) to reply her. The exact same name my colleague s my colleague. Oops... I didn't mean to. But I'm just used to it.