Why Aiyu?

Chrissaro asked my why I named my blog Aiyu. It’s for a simple reason actually. Because Ayu is too short

I originally wanted to name it Ayu. For no reason other than because I think it’s a very nice word. Ayu is a Malay name. It means pretty or beautiful. Not that I’m saying that I am ‘Ayu’. But I just think it’s a beautiful name. It can also be a Japanese name. The famous Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki is also known as Ayu. I don’t know if Ayu has any meaning in Japanese though.

I was contemplating to start a new blog in wordpress for quite some time after abandoning my old blog. I thought of a lot of names for my new blog and Ayu was one of them. 

When I planned on creating a new blog, I would sit down in front of the computer and start all the registratioon stuff but I would always get stuck at the blog name. Because most of the names are already taken. Then I would abandon my efforts, just because I didn’t get the blog name that I set out to register. This happened for a few times and my plan to create a blog got postponed and postponed again.

In the end, at hubs urging, I just sat down, opened the wordpress website and started registering again. I used Ayu, but it failed because wordpress required at least 4 characters. So, I just added an ‘i’ in Ayu and it became Aiyu. Ta-da…that’s how Aiyu came about.

Simple story, really. So, Chrissaro, how did your name come about?