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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tora Ziyal: [QB] *vent* I hate my house. As some of you know, I've long complained about my moronic brother, who's an egotistical bastard, but now I've got two of these people to deal with in the family. A few facts about my brother for those who don't know: he's seventeen years old, cares for nothing but himself and his own convenience, breaks promises at his leisure, lies constantly, never admits mistakes (even when he's obviously wrong, he'd deny it to the end), makes double standards for himself, has no motivation whatsoever (aka lazy), never lifts a finger for a family member (for example, I'd ask him to change the channel since the remote's right next to him, and he'd refuse and tell me to get the remote myself. For one of his friends, on the other hand�), and calls me stupid and puts me down every chance he got (he snickered loudly when I told my mom that I didn�t get into Princeton). Now, I haven't lived with my dad for seven years because he worked in Taiwan and my mom and my brother had moved here (he visited about three or four times a year, two weeks at a time). Last June, he retired and came to live with us. That was when I realized where my brother inherited his unique qualities. My dad is not near as egotistical, but he�s got that problem of never admitting mistakes�and he doesn�t even know it! One time I overheard him trying to lecture my brother into admitting his mistakes! He makes corny Chinese puns out of English words and compares every person, place, object, or event to something from Taiwan (which I can slightly understand since he�s only been here for a year). He criticizes every little thing he sees: people on TV, people from my mom�s church, my mom, my brother (as much as I hate the child, I hate my dad for criticizing him instead of helping him), and just today, he was criticizing how a neighbor waters the lawn while we drove by. On numerous occasions, he called my mom stupid for something she did and said how she [i]should�ve[/i] done and what she [i]should�ve[/i] thought instead of comforting her. He takes ESL classes at a community college around here, and he used to take classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, the same days that my mom works (she a nurse and works every other day). This semester he changed classes to Tuesdays and Thursdays, and one time when he had another argument with my mom, he not only told her she was stupid, he said that he changed his classes to days she didn�t work so he didn�t have to deal with her stupidity. All I could think was: �Why in HELL did you marry this guy?� The truth is, my mom was 25 at the time and my dad was 35, and one time she said she thought he�d change after they got married. (Good God�in my religion class last year, that�s one of the things we�re taught that does NOT happen�if they do change, they change for the worse.) Recently when we were watching Voyager, my dad snickered when he saw Seven of Nine. After one or two scenes, he said, �those must�ve been stuffed.� I was so enraged I just turned to him and yelled �SHUT UP!!� His criticisms are almost never directed toward me, but I feel every word. On top of that, his interests are the exact opposite of mine. I like fantasy and science-fiction. His favorite show is �Real TV.� Occasionally he�d be sitting in the living room while I watch Voyager, and his favorite phrase would be �that�s such a lie!� (in Mandarin, of course). As for my writing, he had read one of my stories once (one I wrote in 9th grade), and he told me, �I can�t find some of these words in the dictionary� (duh, that�s because I invented them) and �you shouldn�t use so many hard words so that other people can�t read.� He�s still dreaming of going back to Taiwan or to China to earn more money, and when he found out I�m gonna major in English, he said to me �oh, you can go to Taiwan or China and teach English� (yeah, right) and �writers in Taiwan don�t earn any money.� (Where do we live again?) Oh, and while both my dad and brother barely scratch the surface of some things, they think they know everything about the subject. Favorite motto when someone asks �how do [i]you[/i] know?�: �That�s the way it is!� Thank god I�m moving out in three months. I�m sorry to leave my high school though. It has been more of a home to me than my family is. *end vent* [/QB][/QUOTE]
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