Bro-ther bother.

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I'm far from being a tech geek but this laptop my brother has just acquired in his hands for his list of things he should splurge on before he takes a ride on a big wave of responsibility called Marriage is the fucking shit, your shit can't possible be any sweeter.

The keyboard, by your preferences, emits colours of the rainbow, an illuminating alien's head on the front, and speakers that resembles the front of a car. That got me sold. Yea, yea it's a powerful gaming laptop, boasts blazing-fast graphics, and Hi-def capabilities.. but what did I say about me not being a tech geek? My only half-question pertaining to its real greatness was, "Mesti best kan mun main Sims dalam tok?" My brother grinned and kept his wide glittery eyed filled with a boy's buzzin' excitement with his new toy, in check and simply muttered, "Of course."

Seriously, my brother can do no wrong in my eyes. He's nearing his 30th birthday, still single, and works overtime ALL the time. Among my other siblings, we are the ones who are the most alike. We like to read, whereas the other two sisters prefers pretty illustrations inside a book. We enjoy the same shows on the telly, celik video game (my elder sister struggles with a joystick), we are both interested in playing the guitar, we don't look to be in the limelight (compared to the other two - one is a has-been It girl in town, the other is catching up), and many more. I think I take more of my father than he does, though. Where he is more open to our family, I clam up at their approach.

So, that could explain my biasness in the aforementioned statement. He's still single, I can only guess, not by his choice. He doesn't push away opportunities of being involve with ladies, nor does he scours this land desperately looking for one.

And if I were to pick a probable candidate, it would be quite a job. I can't give much a toss about how she must look like. She has to be able to understand his jokes, 'cos my brother's funnybone takes about a quarter of his body. She has to be understanding of my brother's obsession with Star Wars and Star Trek and Avatar and just anything Sci-Fi. If there were to marry, she cannot defy my brother's request to name their daughter Leia and their son Luke. Or Vader. Or instead of Muhamad or Abdul, it's Darth. Okay, so that is negotiable! She also needs to be able to communicate well in English. Not excellent, but definitely not dumb too. For example, when he asks, "What do you do for a living?" And you respond with, "Apa tu?" EKKK! You're disqualified. You can't be a malevolent bitch, too. You see, my brother is in no way a cut throat person. He makes the funniest sarcastic remarks but he doesn't go around putting everybody down. He never got into a fight at school, even though he was active in Karate Do during those days. He did tell me once how he went to some pub to see girls dancing on the bar swinging on poles for the fun of it and even reenacted the slutty dance, but it raised way more bars in being hilarious than it did being inappropriate. And he doesn't drink, nor does he smoke.

So, yes. That would prove to be quite a job. Not impossible, definitely.

Ever since he has started working, he has been splurging for some new toys every month. He bought an old second hand Mustang back at home for him to have some fun with. He bought all the other compulsory gadgets for young (subjective) working men, PS3 and the likes. Last Saturday, my elder sister expressed how he has been giving away so much money for things like these and his answer was the truest true. "I'm single and young and I have money, so I enjoy it before I get married." And further insisted it was all in his means.

I've had the same idea for a long time. What did I say about me and my brother being similar? I guess I'm just embracing the little sister in me when I say, when I grow a little older at his age, my ambition is to be as carefree as he is now and be able to enjoy the fruits of my labour, also to make as much money as much as he's raking in. In that order.

Godspeed!

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