Report on the Battle between Peyo and the fierce Flu-o-Squad

Greetings internet world.

I have resurrected from my deep long blog hibernation to report on the battle between Peyo and the fierce Flu-o-Squad.

Fear not, since I am happy to report that at this moment, our beloved Peyo has finally gained some important inches at the battle ground and close to finally win this exhausting battle. This mentally and physically consuming battle has been ongoing for more than a week, and both sides have gone back and forth on attacks using their most powerful and advanced weapons. At one point in time, Peyo was badly injured when the Flu-o-Squad has released all of their most powerful weapons, and caused our dear Peyo to suffer from fever, headache, endless cough, runny nose, and extreme tiredness. Thankfully, Peyo has managed to find the potent weapon to make the Flu-o-Squad retreat back to their homeland.

After utilizing various available weapons, Peyo would like to use this blog as a medium to share to the good people of internet on the effectiveness of weapons to attack the Flu-o-Squad:

1) Those traditional tiny Chinese black pills
Comment: Consuming this medication brings the memory of childhood where mother would shove upon us all variation of Chinese herbs and medications. Such sweet memories. That is all I can say about these pills though since they do not provide any effective attacks on the Flu-o-Squad.
Grade: D

2) Cough Suppressant Drops
Comment: I like the taste of the drops, but it will only give you a temporary relief (5 minutes max) before the Flu-o-Squad realizes that it's just a fake attack and come with an even more powerful force to avenge you.
Grade: D

3) Adem Sari - A delicious fruity drink to release the heat from your body (description copied from indonesianfoodmart.com)
Comment: I love Adem Sari. But honey, you're out of your league on this game. Still, I have a sweet spot for the product, so I'm going to be an easy grader this time.
Grade: B

4) A concoction of drugs that contained some form of morphine provided by my family doctor
Comment: I was in cloud 9 accompanied by dancing bears, and would have been a happy camper if that damn cough would stop bothering me.
Grade: C

5) OBHerbal - Some cheap cough syrup drugs that was highly praised by my auntie and cousin
Comment: It tasted and looked like some factory waste. Gave me a pseudo relief for a day, and that's it.
Grade: FAILED - Because taste is also important people.

6) Kaempferia galanga + Honey (a.k.a kencur + madu)
Comment: Giving pity on my mother who seemed exasperated by the sound of my horrible coughs, one of the customers recommended this traditional medicine to combat the Flu-o-Squad. Result: mother is still exasperated.
Grade: D

7) A concoction of drugs that contained some form of morphine provided by my employee's doctor
Comment: Hoping that I have some luck with a different doctor, I visited my employee's doctor. Oddly enough, he has the same first name as my family doctor. Unlucky enough, his prescription is at the same effectiveness level as my family doctor's.
Grade: C

Editorial Note: Seriously, how long is this list going to be????
Peyo: Hang in there, it's almost done!

8) Lemon Juice + Salt + Sweet Soy Sauce + Hot Water
Comment: Undeterred by the failure of kencur + honey mixture, I finally agreed to swallow this traditional medication. It tasted funky, but in a Peyo approved way, and it did resulted in some productive coughs (I could get rid some of those yucky phlegm, ewww ..) but not as much as I would risk a heartburn by consuming this very acid mixture again.
Grade: B

9) Rhinos - some colorful capsules that are pleasing for the eyes
Comment: I had runny nose, I popped one capsule of Rhinos, runny nose problem disappears. It's the modern day version of miracle.
Grade: A

10) Decolsin - some ordinary unassuming cough medicine
Comment: Play the soundtrack of victory, here's the winning medicine. It's a cheap medicine and it does the job.
Grade: A + (it causes drowsiness, so I have an excuse to doze off while at work, hoorah!)

Note: In order to reduce the length of the list, I have not included the variation of antibiotics that I've taken.

Some alternative medications that I have not tried:
- Going to Ponari
- Eating a gallon of ice cream

I hope this list is useful for all of you, the good people of internet.

Now excuse me while I take a nap during my work hour using the excuse that Decolsin has conveniently provided for me.