can i have your name please?

you know what's weird? my name.

it's hard to pronounce and... spell?

when i go to any place where they get your name for order call-outs, i say, "KAI" then spell it out and say, "X-A-I" and then they smile at me and scribble letters on stuff. so i wait patiently for my order [i'm not very big on patience, so believe me, it takes a lot of effort], and try to amuse myself by watching people pull off a conio accent while ordering [what is that, diba?] or foreigners picking up girls in high school uniforms [haha. san ba kasi ako nagpupupunta?] and kewl people kewl enough to be where i am [yeah. i'm cool like that]. so i wait... and wait... and suddenly i hear, "rhumba frappe for ms. kay" who is that? i figure it could be mine so i go up and yeah, it is.

i usually get ticked off when people mispronounce my name especially when i tell them how to pronounce and spell it in the first place. but i'm forgiving. [right] if it isn't bad enough that i get my order a little later because i couldn't hear my name right, counter people give me a variety of nicknames. there's kay, sai, say, xi, hai [how that happened, i dunno], key... and i don't know what else they'll come up with. [whee! looking forward!]

so i figured, maybe, i have speech impediment and they can't hear me properly [but, duh, i spell it out for them]or they're so starstruck they couldn't process information because they are awed at my presence. hehe.

this is why i want to be a celebrity. then people would know my name is xai [pronounced /kai/] and they would address me properly. actually, sanggre would do but only a few people catch on.

sanggre xai is better. leran it. live it. love it. ribbit. ribbit. urp.