Obsession : Part 2

If you think my parents have it bad, wait til you check out the kids.

My kid sister who is 7 yrs old is a TV addict.

Everyday she wakes up at 6 a.m. and the first thing she does is turn the Astro on to watch the Disney channel(instead of preparing to go to school). Heck, I remember she was 4 when she first picked up the skill to turn on the TV, switch on the cable tv using another remote and channel surf !

At 5, she mastered the intricacy of turning on the DVD player, opening a DVD case, and picking up the DVD gingerly using her little itty bitty fingers (and corretly too with one finger in the hole in the middle of the disc and another at the side) then depositing it into the player.

Damn, when I was 5, I was still eating my own snot !

Nowadays, her mannerisms are beginning to be influenced by the Disney shows she religously follows daily such as That's So Raven, Even Stevens and Lizzie McGuire. I've seen her do the 'Whatever, talk to the hand' line and quote Lizzie's mannerisms numerous times enought to think that my kid sis has turned into a Disney zombie.

Oh gawd...at this rate I hope she doesn't start using make up in order to look older and talk about boys by the time she's 9 yrs old !

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Next, there's my kid brotehr who's taking SPM this year.

His addiction is to Eastern comics (or better known as Manga) and Animation (alias Anime).

His bedroom is like a throne to the Gods of Eastern Manga from reams upon reams of Hong Kong comics to little tenkoubons (digest size) of Japanese manga scattered around every possible space.

When he's 'high', he imagines he's one of the heroes he reads about religously and starts playacting kung-fu moves or enormous battle scenes in his brain while walking around the house compound in a circle, sounding out the special effects with his mouth. Just like a madman you'd see, talking to himself in the streets of KL.

I swear, I'm living in a houseful of maniacs!

His affliction has gotten so bad that nowadays, he's learnt how to download manga and anime right from the Net using person-to-person filesharing programs like Bit Torrent and E-mule.

Nowadays, when it's not my Korean drama-loving Ma, hogging the Net surfing her oh-so many fanfiction sites (you won't believe the amount of middle-aged housewives equally addicted to Korean drama these days!), it's my download-crazy brother who's capitalizing on Net time, downloading anime after anime (and disturbingly, some of them turn out to be Hentai i.e. Japanese animated porn. Oh well, boys WILL be boys....) ;-p

Bro, stop living in ur fantasy world and start living in reality!

Go pick up girls, play some kinda sports with the guys, have a hobby that involves going out or summat, be a normal teen for fuck's sake!

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