Mistake in name

choongyong.koh November 26th, 2007

A fellow party member came up to me during yesterday’s Hammer Sales: “Hey, you went to give the big greeting card petition?” I was totally confused at this question. I was aware of some activists walking during last week’s ASEAN Summit and giving a petition in the form of a large greeting card to the ASEAN Secretariat, but what has that got to do with me?

The same party member told me that he saw my name in an article online, a certain “Koh Choon Yong” who was at the walk with Chia Ti Lik and Ng E Jay. I took some time to find out, and discovered that an article on SG Human Rights website had the name, and the same article was copied verbatim on SDP’s website. It would be an interesting thing for me to find another person with almost the same name (my name is Koh Choong Yong, but many people misspell my “Choong” as “Choon”), but on the other hand, it would be quite a bad mistake if there was no such person, and me reported to be doing something I did not do.

A quick look at SG Human Rights’ website’s About Us page shows that one of their members is “Ho Choon Hiong”. Could there really be a mistake in name? I wrote to SG Human Rights last night to clarify, currently waiting to see which is the case.

5 Responses to “Mistake in name”

  1. # ho choon hiongon 26 Nov 2007 at 8:59 pm

    hey choong yong, sorry for the inconvenience, it is really purely coincidental that my name was somehow mis-spell as your name

    I just happen to chance upon your web and I have just called up one of my group member to change the name asap…

    I am also very eager to quickly resolve this case of mistaken identity and I hope to clear this mistake asap

    once again sorry for the trouble and inconvenience

  2. # ho choon hiongon 26 Nov 2007 at 11:22 pm

    Hi Choong Yong

    one of my group member have ratify the mistake http://sghumanrights.org/

    currently I am also trying to get a reply from SDP website to correct the name

    sorry for the inconvenience caused

  3. # choongyong.kohon 27 Nov 2007 at 1:33 am

    Hi Choon Hiong,

    Thanks for the quick response. Now at least I get the puzzle solved. :) Guess our names really sound too similar.

  4. # ho choon hiongon 27 Nov 2007 at 9:29 am

    hey choong yong… my pleasure… i am still trying to get SDP to change the name as well :)

  5. # ho choon hiongon 27 Nov 2007 at 11:57 pm

    Oh cool, SDP website has also changed the name liao :)

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