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Right, I'm on a crappy connection again tonight. Must be fluctuation in my block again. I hope this goes up. (What the heck are all these people doing on a holiday eve night?! Go out for Pete's sake! LTA never extend MRT operating hours for nothing. Go out get drunk and rowdy and bonk like rabbits for Matthew's sake! Some of us got blogs to update! Cos now got fans liao mah.)

Okaaayy...now on to business.

Wait. What was I suppose to write?

Crap.

Okay. I know. Let's talk about this ever on-going trend of pet names. Especially those with Kor-kors and Jie-jies and Di-dis (no naughty pun intended) and Mei-meis. For years, I still can't totally fathom why would anyone wanna address someone who is relatively not even distantly related to you, lest to be called affectionately by the above salutations. I admit it. I've adopted a couple of meimeis in the past. I can barely recall my first "mei-mei" to swanker out of a popular chat medium in the late 90s, with whom I got attached with emotionally. (Cliche isn't it? But hey, who doesn't make mistakes? We grow up eventually. And I'm not talking about me here.)

Apparently, it doesn't end there. This fab of calling someone you presume close to you with brotherly/sisterly affection does seem quite harmless, in fact it sort of acertains your status with the said someone. Especially when she's a babe.

Observe.

"Woah that XXX sibei jude ah!"

"Ya, buay pai hor? She my mei-mei leh."

"Wah! Really ah?"

"Ya, steady."

"Intro leh!"

"Cannot lah. Must protect her cos she very vulnerable to amorous mei-mei ravaging perverts like you."

"Chey, mei-mei only what, oso not girl friend! Grow up la! How old liao still keep MEIMEI?!"

Okay. That didn't quite come out as expected. With that note, it does happens that some of them meimeis do so just so as to draw that line that, well, that's the furthest you can go. But then again, who honestly cares? She chio. Up lor.

You'd probably be thinking, what I have against people having make-shift siblings?

Nothing. Just that a few moments ago, a friend's girlfriend told me that I got that Kor-kor kinda impression on her. Wazzup with that?!

And yes, I still have a make-shift meimei. And she just called me from Down Under. Not very jude oso la.