A Chinese-Indonesian visits Vihara Dharma Bhakti, Jakarta's oldest Chinese temple, in Petak Sembilan, Glodok, in West Jakarta. - JP/ANN
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): Almost nobody gets it right on the first try. Since Ailen was in elementary school until university, people often misread her name as Alien. It does not help that she only has one name.
"My parents prepared my name before I was born. They had two or three names, and since my family is a traditional one, they conducted jiaobei [the moon blocks ritual]," Ailen told The Jakarta Post.
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