That was 8 years ago. Now, Earth was already 25 years old, about to reach 26 this Christmas. Somehow all 3 Phrajaothaad brothers ended up working for VIROTE Corp., a medium-sized dessert company with 500 employees. All of them even worked in R&D, finding new flavour combinations for our pastries and cakes.

These bastards have been arguing about who is the best since then. So, I managed to categorize it into 3 salient parts; Smarts, Sports, and Social.

Earth explained it to me over drinks one night that Smarts used to be tallied from their university grade, but Ice said that it wasn’t a standardized unit of measurement since they sat for different exams. I guess that’s why they chose to work here at VIROTE.

The CEO, our CEO, was a total nerd, so he wanted to make sure all of his employees were well educated to represent our brand. Apart from giving back scholarships as our Corporate Social Responsibility Programme, he also made everyone takes a standard written exam every year, as a means to weed out the dumb workforce. And every year we get ranked by our results. Publicly.

The three brothers were ranked top 30, which allowed them to work in R&D, the most elite department with 15 members. As of this year, Earth ranked at #6, Nam ranked at #10, and Ice ranked at #1. For 3 years in a row.

That’s right, Ice was the smartest in our company hence, the smartest out of all the brothers, so 1 point for him.

In terms of sports, VIROTE held and competed in the Private Companies Inter Sports Competitions, with 5 main events: Basketball, Football, Archery, Bowling, and Swimming. The brothers decided the best in sports by tallying medals. Each of them is particularly good at 1 sport, Ice at basketball, Nam in football and Earth in archery. So since Earth is the national archery champion once, naturally, he is way out of their league. He managed to get 3 gold medals in archery as opposed to 2 gold 1 silver for Ice and 3 bronze for Nam.

So 1 point for Earth.

For social, they decided to use the Follower unit of measurement. Based on their social media account, Instagram, the one with the most followers was deemed the most social. Hitherto, Ice had 0 followers because he doesn’t have an account, Earth had 300 because he was dared to open an account (by me), and Nam had 1,000.

So 1 point for Nam.

It seems they were at a stalemate. They were getting complacent too, happy to know that none of them was beating the other.

Hi, I am Ritthrong Manoot (Rit). Earth’s best friend. I'm the narrator of this tragic comedy.

“You are not my best friend,” Earth denied while munching on his burger.

“Shut up you introvert. I’m your only friend. And I saw you naked more than 5 times, so that automatically makes me your best friend,” I rebutted.