The Cough

Quote Karen Smith in Mean Girls, "Ehe Ehe, I'm sick."

Mucus dried up, cough springs up a few days right before Chinese New Year. This means I am going to get a big scolding from mummy for not boiling much herbal drinks and not allowed to drink cold Shandies, cold tangerines, cold ba gua and huge prawn crackers.

This cough not only restricts my freedom in consuming my favourite food, it also contributes to my major embarrassment I suffered yesterday.

It was a phone conversation so my face was saved.

Me: "Ms. XX, is the press release for the XX ok?"

Female editor: "Yea, I got it and I don't think I'm using this for the time being due to a million reasons, bla-bla-bla."

At this very moment when she was giving me the million reasons, my cough sprung right up to the tip of my throat.

Me: "Oh ok. When can I *coughed non-stop*?"

Female Editor: "Oh my god, Selina, are you okay?"

Me: "I am.."*coughed harder and never ending*

Me: "I call you" *cough sprung up again* [slammed the phone,dashed into the ladies' to cough my lungs out]

She conveyed her greatest concern by dropping me an email, suggesting I take cough syrup.