CCIIIB - Rights to Write - Task8 - 1st Reply

Dear Nicole,

I find your observations interesting, as I have very few female friends, and so lack the chance to observe the behaviors of the opposite sex. So as you can see, most of my findings are "men-talks", or sometimes just "boy-talks" depending on whom I was observing...

The one case I've noticed is my younger brother. He tends to ignore the questions when being confronted. For example, the last time I asked him if he has done his chores yet, he gave me a "hmm" for an answer, while playing computer games at the same time. His lack of decent respect provoked me to raise my voice and overpower his attention over the computer game. So he slowly and reluctantly removed his hands from the keyboard and mouse in response, but his gaze was still fixed on his monitor. And the look on his face smelled dread with disgust. And the typical ending of this episode was the usual "lecture" from the old to the young.

His strategy is what we call "裝傻" in Chinese, where he pretends that he heard you, and then when confronted, claims that he didn't hear you. It appears to be a typical method of getting out of undesirable duties or chores such as cleaning the cat litter, or sweeping the floor. And by "deliberately" provoking me, he was trying to "change the subject" or "focus" by bringing up another issue which would require an amount of time to deal with, and hopefully to exhaust me of my energy to pry on with the original matter, or to wish per chance that I would become too engaged in the second topic, that I would forget about the first subject. But his plans rarely succeed.

When I am presented with a question, I usually try to answer all of them, unless there were far too many for me to remember. And the reason why I would elaborate more on some questions and talk less on others is simple. I answer according to my own interests, and also according to how the question was asked, fulfilling what the question requires and sometimes giving examples or comments as well, though I do tend to be quite "talkative" sometimes.

I'm used to observing and analyzing things, not only is it a career I once had, it is also a very big part of my interest; to discovery and to understand. The good side about this habit, is that I can "see" more details than most people do, and the down side about this, is that I get carried away with my thoughts sometimes.

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