Its Chinese Valentine's Day. Anyone throwing oranges into the sea with their phone number on it?
Its been almost 5 years since I started to call my sister "Kakak". "Kakak" means elder sister in Malay (totally overrated language in school but very useful when you want to bitch about someone in a foreign country) and in Malaysia, "kakak" is also what you call your maid. Which is why I've been calling her "kakak" since then, not like she does any maid duties for me anyway.
Then one day, "kakak" suddenly seemed boring so I switched it to "Burung Kakak Tua" which means parrot. And ever since that day, I've been so keen on getting her a parrot on whatever occasion.
Of course, she isn't fond of the idea of owning a parrot at all. One short conversation and suddenly we're being compared to hedgehogs.
But they are pretty damn awesome creatures.
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