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January 30, 2005
muslim names
robert and i needed to do a small ceremony before the exchange of our wedding vows since the vows will be in the muslim tradition. i'm not going into the details of the ceremony, as we can get into a long discussion over spirituality and religion; both of which i think are very personal relationships between you and whatever you believe in.
i'm just happy because saturday's ceremony was conducted by my father's good friend, oom jusuf. oom jusuf is very similar to my father, in personal presence and in mannerism, so that put robert at ease. seeing oom jusuf reminded me of my father and suddenly i was overwhelmed by a great longing for my father.
one of the questions that we were asked was muslim names. it's just for formality, it's not meant to replace robert's given name. however, we hadn't thought of this before and were stumped. i guess we took it more seriously than we thought we would.
once you get into it, you want to pick a good, solid name, one that just rolls off your tongue, a name with meaning that reflects the person's character or a meaning which you wish the person would aspire to. we searched online for names, which was fun! we also enlisted the help of my sister in portugal.
we picked names based on the sound and on meaning and some were just favorites of mine; i did not realise how much indonesian names were influenced by the arabic language. even my name, yasmina, is taken from the muslim name meaning "a beautiful flower that shines". *hihi, whether i actually live up to that name remains to be seen*
here are the names we shortlisted and their meanings:
- lightsaber: "patient"
- shaker: "thankful"
- jamaal: "beauty"
- kareem: "generous"
- isa: "a prophet's name"
- fuad: "heart"
- zafeer: "bright", derived to the european xavier.
- farhan: "glad, happy, joyful"
- daniel: "intelligent"
in the end we didn't use anything, since it was completely optional.
even so, we had a laugh doing this, even getting silly over it, combining the names into things like jamaal kareem al-shaker, which sounds really bling-bling somehow, like some hip-hop star or an NBA star. can you guess which names were my selections and which ones were robert's selections?
Posted by Yasmina at January 30, 2005 02:16 AM
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ah a wedding, didoain biar lancar semuanya ya :)
yasmina says: thanks, bang enda...
Posted by: enda at January 30, 2005 06:49 AM
Aduhh.. kangen sama bokap yah... btw, gw malah tempo hari ngga kepikiran soal ganti nama tu pas Jur di convert. Nama Indonesia dr gw selama ini utk si Jur cukup simple: Duren hihihi... kesian yaaa
yasmina says: hahahaha, jurrien = duren... :-)
Posted by: Lely at January 30, 2005 04:41 PM
he's going to be a Mosliman? well...
no comment :)
yasmina says: well, i don't know if robert will practice islam as a religion, that's his choice... ;)
Posted by: echa at January 30, 2005 06:28 PM
yasmin, masih ingat gak ama gua?
btw udah lama gak main ke website loe, ehh pass masuk ke blog loe, there is a post about wedding, wahh congratulation nihh, didoain juga yahh biar lancar,
udah buat announcement blm di godote's forum?^_^..
yasmina says: ryan, thanks so much yah, udah mampir dan ngasih ucapan dan doanya... :-)
Posted by: ryan at January 30, 2005 06:31 PM
kalo dari list itu sih gue mili Zafeer :)
Posted by: echa at January 30, 2005 07:40 PM
eitz. atau farhan sama Daniel *eheheheh apa sih si echa :)) *
Posted by: echa at January 30, 2005 07:41 PM
Omigod! So you're already married?! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
yasmina says: no, no, not yet... that was just a small ceremony preceeding the actual wedding itself... robert kan harus di-islamkan dulu... :)
Posted by: Nana at January 31, 2005 04:12 AM
i like daniel. the name of my favorite nephew as well. meanwhile, actually jasmine is my favorite girl's name. :)
yasmina says: iya, gue suka bgt dgn nama daniel, all the daniel guys i know are really good guys
Posted by: ve at January 31, 2005 06:55 AM
farhan aja biar makin kocak kayak farhan yg presenter itu. btw when's exactly the wedding anyway ?
yasmina says: farhan yg presenter?!?! gue ga tau dia siapa... tgl mainnya 12 maret...
Posted by: irene at January 31, 2005 07:40 AM
