He’s the youngest in my family and is just a tender age of 17 but my brother Jason is growing up to be a fine young man.
A walking Physics & Economics dictionary, with both the ideals and practicalities for business. Over the past couple of years, I treasure the conversations we share, especially the advice he gives out candidly for many issues… Just over dinner with mum tonight, he spent the majority of time doling out advice, in a pointed manner, regarding property prices and future financial plans. He knows exactly what he wants in life and wouldn’t let the naysayers get him down. What was I doing when I was 17?! Right now, his hunger for success and drive inspires me. I have the faith that he would make a good consultant in future, or whatever he has set his heart to do.
We used to have frequent quarrels and would bicker over minor issues, with each person refusing to back down and give in. But I believe we know better now and I only have utmost respect and love for my siblings.
Not to mention that I quite enjoy his idiosyncrasies. One day, I came back home to find my entire bottle of tequila gone because that underaged brother of mine had a ball of a time with the alkie and friends. He sleeps with so many huge soft toy pandas and polar bears; his furry friends serve as a substitute for an actual blanket at night. He’s the one I turn to when MacDonald’s cravings hit me at midnight, and we would ‘conspire’ to dial Macs delivery to ‘share the fats’. And I don’t know how he does his networking, but he personally knows all the big honchos (e.g. CEO of Daikin air-con, MD of Audi, Regional Manager of CAT construction…) living in our estate and even went to Shanghai on holiday with one of the neighbor’s kid and his dad! He tells me all these contacts are very valuable and that he is greatly inspired by their rags-to-riches stories.
When he was younger, like around 2 years-old, I would enjoy seeing his chubby face light up when I bought some snacks home from my Primary school canteen. Of course this habit of feeding him so much junk was borne out of love for my siblings but it didn’t really help him with healthy weight maintainance. Although I do have this theory that all little boys were once chubby and almost overnight they shoot up to become tall, gangly adolescents in a blink of an eye.
Ahh, the joys and pains of having siblings. We may fight, throw insults and chairs at one another (we were that violent in the past), conspire against our parents, build ‘forts’ with chairs, bamboo sticks and blankets to play make-believe but it all boils down to the simple fact that we can’t choose our family. And knowing that we have spent time to build satisfying and rewarding relationships with one another makes it all worth while.
