~ Siblings ~

There are five children in my family. Four girls and a boy. I am the second among them. To me, they are "Da Jie", older sister, "Da Mei", first younger sister, "Ah Di", younger brother, and "Xiao Mei", little sister. 

Since young, the children in my family don't really socialize with outsiders, including relatives. We can be considered as very reclusive people comparing with other people of our generation. This is due to the fact that my family's rules are quite strict. Until now, my siblings and I do not go out for the sake of fun with friends after dinner time. We do not visit our relatives until it is necessary, like for the festivals. Even then, we are supposed to sit in the corner, don't play around with the cousins, and wait for the time to leave, because my dad don't like to socialize with them. However, this is only for my mom's side of family, because dad's side is more or less non-existing for the past few years. As for non-existing, it does not mean that they had died or anything, it meant that we don't contact them and they don't contact us. 

Now, moving on to my siblings. My older sister is a great student, in my opinion. She is currently working in Singapore, after her recent graduation from her four-year double degree course of Business and Accountancy in NTU. Before that, she was a STPM student which had passed with flying colors of 5 straight As in account stream. In her secondary and primary schools, she was one of those students that would have full As in her report as well as being one of the prefect in schools. My sister is a dedicated person. She is talented, well-mannered, ambitious and independent girl. She is also a obedient daughter to my parents, and to us, the younger ones, a strict sister. As pretty as it sounds, the relationship among us, the children, are not as strong as it seems. In my family, we don't really communicate with each other. For example, I could tell more things about my emotional problems to my friends, but not to my family members. This is all due to my family do not have that habit of talking with each other. Thus, until now, I don't know what is the name of the company that she is working at. (But that could be found out with a click on her Facebook page...)

Next, my "Da Mei". She is younger than me by two years. She have graduated from Form Six with a STPM results of 3.5 something. Originally, my mom was hoping for her to study in Singapore. Nevertheless, even with that high marks, she was not accepted. So, currently, she is waiting for the interview for her degree course, which is Law, by the way. By appearance, this sister of mine is very tomboyish. Her personality comparing with mine, are almost the total opposite. Just by the food we preferred, she prefers to have hot and spicy while I only could take them on the minimal scale. I could be considered as a seafood lover, while she hates everything that are living in the water. I am mild-tempered and more considerate in a conflict, but she would be judge harshly when is crossed by others. However, it seems that even with her hot temper, she is a I-don't-care-what-you-are-thinking-and-doing-as-long-as-you-are-not-bothering-me person, and have a few life long friends.

In Chinese culture, most people would think boys are better than girls, because they are the ones that will be earning money and passing down family tradition, while girls are equal to losing money due to dowry and things. For my family, this concept is almost to non-existence, but still, there is the word "almost". My brother is the only son. When he was born, there was quite an age gap between us. I was already 8 years old by that time, and my sisters are 11 years old and 6 years old respectively. As my brother was growing up, it was the era of technology. People were having computers at home, internet was starting to be the "It" thing, and gameboy got popular. My brother is not a person that appreciate things since young. He is a child that always threw his temper very easily. One of the most memorable of his bad temper was, when he was around the age of 6 or 7, he throws the gameboy, which wasn't really belongs to him, to the ground, just because we doesn't want him to continue playing. That kind of behavior still exist now, just the way of expressing is different. Instead of throwing things, he would sulk and started to dig for secret or the wrong things we done. For example, if we stops him from continuing using the computer, he would start to backstab us or tries to question why he wasn't allow to use while other people could. Then, later on, he would tries to use the computer sneakily, like during everyone are sleeping. Ugh, brothers.

My little sister is very cute, but annoying. She is very aggressive when is being bothered by others. She would hit you if you are teasing her. In school, she is a blur case. The amount for her to lost her stationary, especially eraser, in Standard One, is similar to the amount of I would used from primary to secondary school. More than often, she would misplace her belongings in her school. Eventhough, she is quite rough with her playing around, she provided my family with a lot of laughter. Just days ago, my family went out for dinner, mom was asking who wants to eat what, and little sis said she wanted spaghetti. So, when we arrived at the place, there was a few times that we repeated what we wanted to eat. This is where the funny part came in. After we are being seated, the waitress asked for our drinks, my little sister wasn't paying attention at all. Thus, when mom asks her what did she want to drink, she shouted spaghetti. All of us laughed. This is my little sister. 

My family is not the best in the world, and it is not the worst. It is just right for me. Even with the goods and bad, ups and downs, I really hope that we would still stick together for a long long time.