RAMOS is NOT may father's name

This is kinda funny title. But it's a fact! Actually, I've been facing this problem since my 1st day at school and I thought this problem only happened on me but when I red my sister's blog this morning regarding this phenomena, I was so surprise and think to re-blog this for everyone's information.

Me and my dad - yeah, he is handsome.

My name is Affinie A. Ramos. Most people (whom newly met me) will think that Ramos is my father's name or even worst; ARamos, Abdul Ramos or in a full line as Affinie Binti ARamos. THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG. My full name is Affinie Ariffin Ramos (or maybe I should say Affinie Alex Ramos since my dad's name on my birth certificate are not written as Ariffin but Alex T. Ramos).


My dad's name is Ariffin Ramos Abdullah (muslim name) and/or Alex T. Ramos. So, A stands for Ariffin and/or Alex.

I do think that people especially our cousins and relatives with surnames faced the same problem if they are in Malaysia but might not be a confusion for those who live in Philippines or countries which accept this 'surname' method.

This 'family name' or 'surname' matter doesn't cause any misunderstanding in countries such as Philippines, United State, Europe, China or I think almost everywhere (except Malaysia) because in Malaysia and/maybe Indonesia as well did not use 'family name' or 'surname' after their name but put their father's full name after their's.

My personal idea of this matter; having a father's name after our name will caused difficulties in tracing family tree. Imagine if we're (me and my siblings) use Ariffin after our names, we will never know our relatives outside there (since my dad's family are not locally from Malaysia). Thus, having Ramos as our surname really helps us to trace our family tree and now currently in a search of tracing our surname with this man. (I will try to blog the whole story of our research about this matter as soon I got the complete information).

Here I created a group for Ramos and Tipay (my dad's middle name) family to make us easier to trace each other. Try to create your own family group. For those who didn't use any surname, you might totally face the problem in tracing their names! Trust me.

Copied from my sister's statement; Ramos is actually our family's name since our dad is Illocano locally from Philippine. Our grandpa had migrate few decades ago to Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia since the colonial era of British (that time Sabah was known as North Borneo and Sandakan was the main city). Our dad and all his siblings born here and soon after the independence day of Borneo, our grandparents and all their children (including my dad) become a Malaysian citizen.

More info about Illocano here.

My dad convert to Islam before he met our mom and few years later, so born me with the name of Affinie A. Ramos.

So, any misunderstanding and questions regarding this confusion?

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