Tangy Travis

I juz thought of an interesting topic to share here with my fellow gila gila friends, NICKNAMES!! The idea came when I was thinking about my famous nick, HOEPET. I bet everyone reading dis post know dis stupid nick. Sometimes I think people know me by HOEPET instead of my real name. Duno if I shud b happy or sad bout it. Plus, dis name sounds farking weird. Pet? Wat pet? LOL!! My real name is so nice, KAH HOE!!

Let’s start wit my earliest memory of my nicknames. I dun remember much except my parents calling me “AH BOY” back when I was juz a kid, roughly kindergarden time. The very usual nickname parents used to call their kid. “AH BOY” for male and “AH GIRL” for female. Same goes for me. This nick continues until secondary school.

I duno bout other schools, but my secondary school, St John’s Institution has a really stupid tradition, referring to people by their fathers name. WTF!! Therefore, your report book muz remain TOP SECRET, because it contains ur parents name!! Once discovered, u basically lost ur name and become ur father instead. LOL!! People start calling me “Ah Huat”. Wat a weird name! I don’t think people in my school like dis fathers name thingy, but tradition is a tradition, it is meant to be followed. I’m glad this nick went off when I enter college.

Next up, college life. College life, o college life, here begins my real nightmare. Life was perfectly nice at the beginning when people call me Kah Hoe all the time, but things got worse when I was in my second year. I knew dis person called Wai Jin during ICCG and we got close after the event. This is when he showed his true colors! He tease people like mad and always like to bully me! Plus, he is a nickname creator!! I forgot all the details but he somehow created my nick, HOEPET. My frens think HOEPET is nicer to call than my original name. Ends up people now no longer refer to me as Kah Hoe anymore.

Wai Jin, hope u read dis!! Dun always create nicknames for people la aiyo!! Thanks for reading!

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