My bro being my bro, the youngest in the family, being pampered most of the time, and got bullied by the 3 evil sisters sometimes.

I called home last night, only get to know that the SPM result already released, as expected, he just got an average result. I remember when he was in primary school, my mum urged me and my sisters to keep an eye on his academy, we tried hard to push him to learn, to get better result in school.

After I started to work, and looking at friends around me, people who used to be top in the class is just another ordinary employee working in the office. My other friends who was playful in the class, always ended up the last few in the class, became bosses of themselves, driving luxury car and owned some landed properties.

Then I started to think.

I tried to let go, let my bro to enjoy his high school life, play hard with friends, what he needed was just to make sure himself don’t get into any kind of trouble that the school penalize. Now, he graduated, with good memory of high school days and a bunch of good friends.

He is now looking for college to advance his study. He initially wanted to follow my foot step to take Computer Science, which I didn’t give any objection, but I advise him to choose a subject that he interested.

Today, he went to the college to check out the course information all by himself, he can drive there but he insisted to take ferry then transfer to bus as he is not familiar with the route, I thought, “Oh, my bro really grown up!”.

I received his call during lunch hour he is so panicked.

Bro: Can you hear me?

Me: Yes, yes.

Bro: How to go back to the jetty from the college?

Me: Where the bus stop you? There should be another bus stand opposite the road.

Bro: No, there is no bus stand.

Me: Then where you get down from the bus this morning?

Bro: No, I took a cab.

Me: …

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