Nicknames

I think I have almost 100 nicknames. I can't really remember what nicknames I had before 12, but in secondary school, people call me by a lot of nicknames. My name is pretty difficult to pronounce so to avoid all the unnecessary questions, I would prefer people to refer me as Teh, my surname. And that is when all the nicknames started. My classmates would call me Teh Tarik, Teh Ais, Teh-O, Teh-Peng, and all the whatever-Teh you can think of.

In Form 2, I started attending one home tuition, and that tuition teacher refuse to call my surname, he said its weird. One day, I wore a pink T-shirt and a pink watch to tuition. As my tuition class was scheduled after my co-curriculum activity, I looked pinkish too because I stood under the hot sun for hours. Ta-da, my tuition teacher started calling me Pinky. For TWO years.


And huh!!! I just got a new nickname from my bosses in NZ. The male boss calls me leng-mui (Cantonese) or xiao-mei (Mandarin). And the female boss just wrote THIS on my payslip I was like....... so speechless.

I dont need anymore nicknames :(