Oliver is going to have a little 'mei mei' in September, and her name is going to be Heidi. Boon Heng and I had thought about the name 'Heidi' but it never occur to us initially to use the name. Yet, we now love the name 'Heidi'.I think people from my generation will recall the cartoon Heidi. It was screened in the 80's and based on the novel "Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning". And quite coincidently and unintentional, there is another novel 'Oliver Twist'. Both little kids are orphaned, and went through hardship at young age, but the endings are happy ones.
[Extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi]
Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre), usually abbreviated Heidi, is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a children's book in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. Two sequels, Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children, were not written by Spyri but by her English translator, Charles Tritten. The Heidi books are among the best known works of Swiss literature.[ Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Mayenfeld, Switzerland.
[Extract from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist]
Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in an unnamed town[5] within 75 miles of London. Orphaned almost from his first breath by his mother’s death in childbirth and his father’s unexplained absence, Oliver is meagerly provided for under the terms of the Poor Law, and spends the first nine years of his life at a "baby farm" in the 'care' of a woman named Mrs. Mann. Along with other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, Oliver is brought up with little food and few comforts.
