My genes failed me...

Some of my friends know that I have a pair of twin brothers, but not many have seen them I guess. (except Ah Ding, her bros know my bros... from the same school)

So, I decided to post a photo of us taken during ChineseNew year. Here you go... (the twins are beside me)


Well, as you can see from the photo, my genes have seriously failed me :P All of my siblings are of the same height (almost), 170 and above... and I only managed to grow up to a humble elevation of 158cm.

Actually I shouldn't compare with the boys, since they should be taller. But yet, the difference between my sis and I... hehe, she's tall, fair and lovely, with a model-like figure; and I, ah-hem, looked a bit like a stout potato! Haha!

Talking about heights, let me regurgitate my genomics lecture... height is a Quantitative Trait, meaning that it is defined based on many genes. Therefore, various combinations of alleles are possible, and that is why height has a continuous distribution. Also, Quantitative Traits are normally influenced by environmental factors. This means that height is not only dependent on the combination of genes that you have, but also the environment that you grew up in.

Based on these factors, I hereby conclude that either I have an unfortunate combination of genes that define my height, or I simply didn't drink enough milk when I was young! Probably it's both...

Today is my twin brothers' birthday

I sent them this sms (a poem found online):

"So many good things come in pairs,
Like ears and socks and panda bears,
But best of all are sets of twins,
With extra laughter, double grins!

There's so much fun in having two,
With twice as many points of view,
So much alike, forever linked,
But yet they're also quite distinct.

We're all quite novel and precise,
But special folks, god made them twice!

Happy birthday to Shion and Boo. Love, er jie. "

And I got this in 5 minutes...

"Your face is decorated by your beautiful eyes, chubby cheeks, special nose, sweet lips and most of all -- your beautiful long hair... and so, are you sure you wanna go BALD? heheh... jk la.. thanks anyway"

Hehehe, made me laugh so much! Yesterday I told Mama that I'm going to sign up for "Hair for Hope", a charity event whereby people shave their heads to pledge for donation for the Children Cancer Foundation. Mama is quite cool with it, but she said she'll ask the "Tok bomoh" (witch doctor)  of our family to see if there's any superstitions against it, hehe. Hope the Tok bomoh will come back with favourable reply!

Anyway, Happy birthday to my bros. Glad to have you guys in this world =)