My sister and I, are complete opposite ends of the same stick. She recognises actual music, I do beats and RnB. She does humanities and history, I do science and engineering. When it was just the two of us - she'd do the cooking and washing, I'd do the cleaning and washing up. She acts with her heart, I ponder with my head. We fought and argued like crazy when we were kids, she'd hit me over the head with a fluorescent yellow tennis racket, I'd bump her head into a brick wall.
Yup, I remember that. Sorry.
If we weren't brother and sister we probably wouldn't even have met each other - our walks of life are that different.
Yet, if it wasn't for my sister, I probably would never have moved out to Tokyo before, and onto Taipei now. When telling my students stories of my family, one of my favourites is the one where my little sister goes off travelling all by herself a year before university. She circled the globe in nine months (I think) with nothing but her backpack and camera (I usually leave out the part that that's coz she'd lost everything else). The best part is after she came back and graduated outta uni, as soon as she was free she went off and did it all over again!
Were it not for her, I probably would never have had the spark to move away myself... though with less hitchhiking, and more flushing toilets. I remember when we were younger I got so annoyed when she used to copy me all the time. Heh. Funny that.
Of all the people in the world, my sister is probably the one who's seen me most at my worst and most heartless. Yet she's still the one who reminds me about family events and birthdays, who'll still offer to get the gifts and cards on my behalf. We'll go a year and not say a word to each other, and yet just carry on like it was just a weekend passed when we meet up.
I'm a pretty terrible older brother, there will still be many, many times I'm sure when I will piss my little sister off.
But there is very little that I wouldn't do for her.
Sis, I just wanted you to know that.
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Know Your Audience...
Dad also came to visit last week, and since Fathers Day is just around the corner (And the fact that this is the first time most of the family has been together in one place in a year and a half) - my sister and I decided to take the man out to a nice meal in a nice restaurant.
We took him to this place which served Kobe Beef - as in the beef where the cows are fed beer and massaged and all that jazz. The past customers of the restaurant we went to; includes a coupla American Presidents, and the Japanese Prime Minister. So it was pretty swish. Actually it was fricken amazing. The food, the setting, the staff, the clientele, the price.
We looked at my Dad at the end of the meal and he was all "It was good, but nothing special, my BBQ steaks are just as nice" Hehe! He wouldn't be Dad any other way.
The next day, we happened to pass a 100yen store (The Japan equivalent of Poundland, except at current exchange its more like 40p-land) and the man popped in and got ridiculously excited at the fact that you can buy pocket-umbrella's for 40p... He started going on about how he's gonna buy loads, one for the car, one for work, one for home(?!) I dunno.
*sigh*
We shoulda known: Take the man to a privileged restaurant where very few people in the world will get to see and experienced and he'll think "Meh".
Show him something perfectly ordinary but at bulk-prices and he'll dance a jig.
Our Dad is Chinese after all. (^_^)
We took him to this place which served Kobe Beef - as in the beef where the cows are fed beer and massaged and all that jazz. The past customers of the restaurant we went to; includes a coupla American Presidents, and the Japanese Prime Minister. So it was pretty swish. Actually it was fricken amazing. The food, the setting, the staff, the clientele, the price.
We looked at my Dad at the end of the meal and he was all "It was good, but nothing special, my BBQ steaks are just as nice" Hehe! He wouldn't be Dad any other way.
The next day, we happened to pass a 100yen store (The Japan equivalent of Poundland, except at current exchange its more like 40p-land) and the man popped in and got ridiculously excited at the fact that you can buy pocket-umbrella's for 40p... He started going on about how he's gonna buy loads, one for the car, one for work, one for home(?!) I dunno.
*sigh*
We shoulda known: Take the man to a privileged restaurant where very few people in the world will get to see and experienced and he'll think "Meh".
Show him something perfectly ordinary but at bulk-prices and he'll dance a jig.
Our Dad is Chinese after all. (^_^)
Monday, 14 May 2007
My sister is Indian.
Shireen is taking a break from her Saintly duties of helping orphans in Vietnam and staying at my place for the month... she's very brown... and hairy.
(¬_¬)
And also... I recently logged back into my xanga account for nostalgia's sake, only to find that I've actually gained 5 subscribers since abandoning it on Christmas Day last year. What the hell!?
(O_o)
(¬_¬)
And also... I recently logged back into my xanga account for nostalgia's sake, only to find that I've actually gained 5 subscribers since abandoning it on Christmas Day last year. What the hell!?
(O_o)
Saturday, 10 March 2007
They Took The Street Names Too?!?
My sister sent me a package from Vietnam back in December and it only just arrived a coupla days ago...
I think it used to be box shaped at some point... (O_o)
I'm especially liking that the return address is
"Nguyen Something Street"... =D
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