CHE KAI

I have yet to recover from this irritating incessant cough since Saturday. It all started with a terrible sore throat, followed by cough, then slight flu.

Yesterday morning, I received an e-mail on the types of durians which drove my entire gastronomical system up the wall. As much as I wanted to indulge in many, many durian feasts - I had to really refrain from it; as well as other hazardous activities (clubbing, boozing, bad mouthing, piggin' out, reading till my eye balls pop out from their sockets and watching marathon HBO till wee hours in the morning) in view of my upcoming trips.

Being heavily sedated with cough syrup since Monday, I didn’t notice that the name they put on my medicine package till today – Che Kai. Those idiots decided to cut short writing my Chinese name. Instead of using my last name (which also consists of 6 alphabets), they decided to shorten my surname, and used my middle name. WTF? This is so ridiculous. When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys working for you.

Now, don’t you dare to add this to my already long list of nicknames!

* Che Kai means lousy/ cheap/ fake in Malaysian slang – which I couldn’t even identify its origin.