Originally I wanted to flame my younger brother in this posting as he irritates me by having the television all by himself.
You see, we only have 1 television set at home. We aren’t that rich to own more. And because we only have one television set, and the fact that my brother is such a couch potato, I had to.. not watch the television.
One day came the VCR (video cassette recorder) that I ask my mother to get, since I always can’t watch the television. So all is peace? No, all WAS peace, that is before those people invented the television. Having gotten a new VCR, my brother has all these new programmes he can record. Not only can he watch Channel 5’s programmes, he can also record Channel 8’s Holland Village. It’s a 125-episode drama serial featuring a fat lady with some stupid 1980s Afro hair style. Today’s the last episodes, I believe at least a quarter of Singaporeans watches this drama. Even the boss at the mint. He is not staying to oversee employees working over time today just because it’s the last episode of Holland V. Now he can even record those late shows too. Great, I was just gotten another entertainment device just for my brother.
Things doesn’t just end here. Most of the time, he is either watching his videos or the television programmes. Sometimes, I would like to watch television programmes at say, 10 in the evening. He is watching recorded items, we always get into a sibling quarrel.
My logic is simple – yours is a recorded item, you can watch it in future. With your type in the recorder, I can’t record, with you using the television, I can’t watch. What the.. er.. brother is this and he suppose to be my younger brother. Hey, read this carefully – Younger brother. Okay, I’ll bold this one – Younger brother. Maybe I’ll increase the font, oh well.. never mind.
His logic is simple too – I need to clear my tapes, or I’ll no time to watch others. He records so many items! He does it everyday. If he’s not in his room, look for him on the couch. If he isn’t there too, trace the potato crumbs on the ground, you’ll find him.
But this quarrel is one that he is set to lose. My mother will march angrily out of the room and announce the winner. That’s me of course. His logic is not logical anyway.
Never mind, I’ll just watch television programmes on my compu.. opps. I said nothing. It’s really nothing. 
Okay, back to the first line of the post. Why am I not flaming my brother now? Oh, you see, I was thinking of buying this digital camera and he sort of came into my room and announce that I stand a chance of winner one by participating in Survivor online quiz or something like that. I stand a chance of winning one of those Canon Ixus-es, I do not know which model though.
Thanks to him watching the show that very much bore me – Survivor – that I get to know the presence of a contest as such. He kindly given me the answer for the quiz too.
Okay, now I’ll just wait for my prize, if I get any. I’ll flame him next time, he just wait.
By the way, my results are half out. I passed all my modules and got one distinction. Distinction for Web Publishing. Somehow it doesn’t seem to surprise anyone. I’ll know more details on my individual module grades tomorrow, I hope it’ll be good news. Oh, my brother’s off the couch! It’s my turn.
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