FAMLY

Family is complicated stuffs. You are stuck with them, born into them without much choices and you stay with them for life. It's like a group of people who are suppose to be of the same breed and yet you either love them nuts or hate them crazy depending on proximity, space, time, and moods.

Personally, I feel that I had more impressions of my family (the non extended version) when I was way younger - I remember snapshots of my siblings (although painful experience for them) trying to feed me with ice-cream topped with panadol when I was sick ( not affectionatly but Choo Choo would scream at them if they don't get those pills inside me) and how my brother would bang my head and scream at me while coaching me Maths ( I seriously thinks he's an asshole then and i totally think i was right about that conclusion too), how my sister lets me hang out with his first bf (hot hunk)cos i was the baby and she needs to babysit me. I remembered my daddy bringing me out in his half state drunkness to the coffeeshop while he drinks himself mad drunk while i just ordered all the food i could eat - the only reason i hanged out with him in his drinking trips. I risked the fact that he could forget to bring me home - my mum told me that once he put me on the telephone booth and for dunno what reason decided to put me there and go home. I was like 3 or 4 then. Imagine that - a toddler stuck in the HDB Tel booth of certain height ! I didn't remember anything horrifying- i probably was playing with the phone i guess and Thank God didn't fell flat. How my mum filled my bottle with the most wicked fizzy drinks- Fanta Grape, Coke, Rootbeer to school. I mean, how could I be like 50kg at primary 6 if not for her?

Who I am today attributes alot to who my family is. I mean, i've seen certain traits and avoided them like plague but at the end of the day, call it genes or what, but we share certain characteristics, the good, the bad and the ones u hoped or think you will never inherit.

As I grow up more, I feel the scales are tipped, from the baby of the family- i became obviously the social support for my family. Mostly, my mom and my sister. I became the HAPPY clown of the family. The idea generator. The one who acts like an orang utan at home ( i can imitate one very well especially if i have an orange to be placed on top of my mouth).I play that role. I assume the role and I grew into that. My mom comes to me for complains, my sister comes to me with woes and my brother errrmmm comes to me when he gets crap from the other two. They all come to me if they need a joke.

Why the sudden of all family talk? My son and her cousins( I love them nuts) were so happily playing and they were so wonderful to watch. Watching the next generation exploring their own relationships as family.

I hope they understand this. Family is who you are and you have to love and give them back alot.

Playing "Wooooooh- Ahhhhhh" noisy game - Funny!

Brotherhood! Stay that way!