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Kitreena heard the terms “Apa Cher?” on TV and from her friends at Pak Ngah Production.

Kitreena: Mommy, what is ‘apa cher’?

Mommy: Aperture?

Kitreena: Yeah.

Mommy: You mean aperture on a camera?

Kitreena: I don’t know, it’s in bahasa.

Mommy: No, it’s not. It’s in English. It’s a term in photoghraphy. Aperture.

Kitreena: No! The kids at my dance class always ask me ‘apa cher’.

Mommy: Ohhhh! Apa cher for ‘apa cerita’!

Kitreena: What’s ‘apa cerita’?

Mommy: It means like ‘what’s up’ or ‘what’s the story’.

Kitreena: Why can’t they say ‘apa cerita’?

Mommy: Because they are lazy and they are cacat.

Kitreena: What’s cacat?

Mommy: They are disabled in the brain. They can’t say words that have more than one syllable.

Kitreena: Ha ha ha! But really, in English you can’t say ‘what’s the store‘ for ‘what’s the story’. A story is a story, not a store.

Mommy: Ah well, sweetheart. That’s why I am writing a book about my people.

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Apa Ce Ca, Bo? = Apa Cerita Cacat, Boleh?

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