おとと (O-toto)

Dedicating this post to my younger brother, "affectionately" called ah-pui (as in ah-fat). Truth be my brother is really skinny; we called him ah-pui in hope that he'll put on more weight. Haha!

When life just started out for him, I found him a real nuisance; he's either messing with my toys or destroying them. Got me so irritated that I decided to take his stuff frog (a birthday present) and make it mine; he still managed somehow to destroy one of the frog's eyes while it was in my possession... Think there's still a picture of the maimed frog somewhere in the house. :D Luckily he's now not a real nuisance but a once-in-a-long-while nuisance; no grouse here as I am sure I am his once-in-a-long-while nuisance too.

Anyway, my main aim is to thank him for making my day a couple of hours back. Thanks to his stupid joke when he asked why NUS does not have a link for the 'overgraduates' versus to the 'undergraduates'. I know it is a stupid joke, but I can't help but laugh (partly laughing at him, partly laughing along with him). To all those who have graduated from uni for a long time, my brother considers us overgraduates.

After that we had a "fight" trying to control each other's fan. My fan is usually set at speed 2, sometimes speed 3, and my brother's at speed 1. He would always complain that I am creating a hurricane in my room while I would complain his room is too warm. So what did two 20+ adults do? I went into my room and picked up the remote control and switched his fan to speed 2 from my bedroom door. When he realised what I did he used his remote control and switched it back to speed 1, which I quickly switch back to 2/3 again. While I was doing that he switched my fan to speed 1 and started oscillating the fan (which I do not like doing as I like my fan has to be blowing in a particular direction before I can fall asleep). This went on for quite while. I know this is not exactly very mature of us, but we were having fun while it lasted. We eventually came to a truce that we both had more important things to do then messing around with fans. :D

Times like this make me glad that I am not the only child.