Since yesterday I have been having a really really terrible sore throat, so much to the extent that I’m even beginning to lose my voice.
Now being Timothy Tiah and NOT talking is difficult. VERY DIFFICULT. Trust me… why? Because a very important part of my work day is TALKING to people.
Not to mention I’m supposed to be at UKM tomorrow morning for this AIESEC EYLN Conference to give a speech. I wanna see how I pull that off.
So very bothered by this, I bought myself a box of Strepsils. Sore throat = Strepsils right? Good advertising by Strepsils.
Now I started popping them in like TicTacs because hey… Strepsils are sweets right? And you can eat as many sweets as you like especially and more so for Strepsils because well.. it was helping my sore throat.
I was happily popping them in and by the time 2 hours had passed, I had finished a dozen Strepsils when it suddenly dawned on me “Is there such a thing as a Strepsil Overdose”?
Can’t be lah right.. I decided to read the instructions on the back anyway.
It said
“Strepsils is an antiseptic lozenge for relief of sore throat for children and adults”.
So I thought to myself
“Okay.. I’m an adult.. so that’s fine”.
It went on to say
“Dissolve a lozenge slowly in the mouth every 2 to 3 hours”.
So I thought to myself
“Well I suck on the Strepsils real slowly, well a lot more than one every 2 to 3 hours but bah what harm can it be?”
Then to my disbelief it said
“DO NOT EXCEED THE STATED DOSE”.
And I thought to myself
“WTF WTF?!?! WHAT STATED DOSE?!?!? ONE EVERY 2 TO 3 HOURS? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! I JUST HAD 13 IN TWO HOURS!!!!”
ARGGHHHHHHHHH
I’M GONNA DIEEE!!!!!!!!!
AUGGGHHH!!!!!!!!
GOODBYE WORLD!!!!
GOODBYE MY DEAR READERS!!!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space