Holidays may be boring and annoying, BUT...

I LOVE IT.

Ahaha. I discover that having a retiree for a Dad can be really annoying. Dad has this habit of waking up almost every hour after 1am to give me a stern warning: "Please organise your time well, ah." or "What time are you going to bed?" or he would just sit at the stairs and stare at me for a loooooog time, just to make me sleep early. Heck, I really want to be defiant once in a while and just let him stare at me and my lappie as long as he wants, for all I care. But my softie heart insists that I shouldn't treat Dad that way and so I promptly go into my room, and..... can you guess it? Continue watching anime/Jap drama! Genius, ain't I? But Dad figures out my trick soon enough and sometimes he turns a blind eye to the whole situation.

Mimmy has a slightly different tactic. She usually doesn't care if we sleep late but there is always an occasional day when she is slightly more concerned (I wonder why is that?). She would prick my conscience, by sitting around near me, possibly yawning, while I am doing my thing (watching anime). Then, I would just give up and say: "Okay, let's just go up, shall we?"

And concerning breakfast.... with pulling late nights every single day, it is only normal for me to sleep in. Hence, I cannot join my family for breakfasts at kopitiam every morning at 9am, because I would be in deep REM sleep at the moment. Dad, knowing that, never fails to ask me: "Will you join me for breakfast tomorrow?" Sometimes, I would hesitate for a few seconds, "Errr...." or just be silent. By then, Dad would say, "Oh well! I guess it is a negative answer again."

"Why must you ask me the same question every single day, knowing what my answer will be?" I once asked.

"I will continue asking until there comes a day when you shall join me for breakfast," Dad replied, with a mischievous grin. Okay, maybe I am exaggerating a little about the 'mischievous grin'.

Me and my parents - battling each other in a psychological war every single day.
It is Boring. Routine. Annoying (with a capital A). But at the same time, Amusing.

My parents never cease to amaze me!