Hello namesake! Clicking over a name in common
The writer thinks it is lovely to meet people who share her name, but not everyone feels the same.
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Lianhe Zaobao business correspondent Lai Oi Lai (left) and the author, ST assistant foreign editor Ho Ai Li, attended a course together recently and clicked over a name in common.
ST PHOTO: LINETTE LAI
On the first day of a recent course, a participant introduces herself by telling us she is into yoga, writes about business, and oh, that she has the same name as me.
At long last we meet: I have known, for at least a few years, of the existence of this colleague, whose e-mails would sometimes find their way to me like errant homing pigeons.
