I am sure before I pen this down she knows what I am going to write about her. That’s my sister. Once you start describing something, she can foresee what you want to do. Ooh no!
She is the workhorse of my family. Since young, my mother, being the old tradition lady, had the inking that only male heir will carry the family name and must be treated with extra special care like endanger species. With this situation and given that I am the only son during my first twelve years in my life, before my younger brother was born, she indulges in me religiously.
I was the one who was always given the chicken drumstick since young. When I started to realize it, my conscious made me reject her offer of the drumsticks and began to pretend to get sick of it so that my other sisters had their chance of tasting them.
Needless to say, she and my elder sister had to help my mother in handling all the household chores while I was always excused with lame reasons of guys must study harder in order to be able to run and make a name for the family. Being put in this type of pressure since young, my sister’s culinary skills have been super since young and her methods of handling household chores were consistently executed with lightning speed even till today.
In my humble opinion, she is the brightest child in the family. Given all the circumstances that she was in since young, she had developed good organizing and coping skills and it can be reflected well even till today when she faces difficulties or challenges. Her attitude and character are also solidly molded from these situations.
She is helpful in nature. Having known that my elder son was just mediocre in his studies, she volunteered to guide him along his studies during his “Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE)” period in 2003. She took great pain, commitment and troubles to relearn all the current new techniques and syllabus of the primary school system before she had the competency to guide. Having this experience, she forward her help again towards the guiding of her niece at the point of this writing.
On the hind side, with her strong attitude, determination and tough character, she could always assumed the role of a leader in any household but somehow may have hindered her process in term of relationship and marriage opportunities. Her future partner or spouse should be able to bear her dominance or she must tone down to compromise if any future relationship is to happen and develop.
Presently, she is staying with my mother and helping her intensively in all aspect. Being her brother, I am very grateful to her in undertaking this role as she has somewhat also extended in fulfilling my part of responsibilities towards my mother.
I wish her well in all future endeavors and I recommend that she probably have to tone down a bit for the sake of her health and social life.
