mensa has recently launched a series of tests to stimulate better memory. my dear readers, those who find themselves always forgetting where they have left their keys or if they have turned off the electricity, hurry over to their website and register. don't say i didn't tell you.
ok, maybe in this case mensa stands for me's non-sensical association. i thought i better clarify that first before i get a letter from their lawyers. however, my methods are fool-proof and it works for even a hare-brain like myself. honestly, i'll lose my head if it wasn't screwed onto my neck; thank goodness for the small miracle of nature.
i have a problem with remembering faces. always have, always will. unless someone's face is so distinct that i have no problem identifying that ugly mug in a multitude of faces, or i have grown very familiar with the said person, i usually forget someone's features within a few minutes of meeting his acquaintance. it's not that i don't try hard enough, it's just how my brain was created (yes, always blame the creator).
anyway, over the chinese new year, i have been given a series of very challenging tests, geared for the sole purpose of stimulating my memory. i was assigned the task of distributing angpows....and remembering whom i have given so that there is no repeat.....hopefully. not that the recipient will mind a repeat performance, i'm sure, but my wallet will not be too happy with such a blunder. so, either i remember whom i have given, or i'm throwing money away. that's a big incentive, i will say.
it's easy when you know who you are giving to, like close friends and relatives. when the circle extends a little bigger to include acquaintances, people who have been providing services to you the whole year round and people you have never thought about at all in the entire 365 days, it gets a little more difficult to tell them apart.
i'm doing pretty well so far...........i think.
before i go, i bring you an important message, sponsored from that revered primadonna of the blogosphere. he wants the whole world to know that he has a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog, i tell you. A NEW BLOGGGGGG!!!!! shout it out, rant it, stick it into your blogroll, whore it, pimp it, print it on a tight t-shirt across your chest, write it in every other word of your post. ah pek has a new blog. for those who's still not getting the picture, go to http://www.louyeh.com. i think this should keep the old man happy.
now i must go talk to him about some commission.
ok, maybe in this case mensa stands for me's non-sensical association. i thought i better clarify that first before i get a letter from their lawyers. however, my methods are fool-proof and it works for even a hare-brain like myself. honestly, i'll lose my head if it wasn't screwed onto my neck; thank goodness for the small miracle of nature.
i have a problem with remembering faces. always have, always will. unless someone's face is so distinct that i have no problem identifying that ugly mug in a multitude of faces, or i have grown very familiar with the said person, i usually forget someone's features within a few minutes of meeting his acquaintance. it's not that i don't try hard enough, it's just how my brain was created (yes, always blame the creator).
anyway, over the chinese new year, i have been given a series of very challenging tests, geared for the sole purpose of stimulating my memory. i was assigned the task of distributing angpows....and remembering whom i have given so that there is no repeat.....hopefully. not that the recipient will mind a repeat performance, i'm sure, but my wallet will not be too happy with such a blunder. so, either i remember whom i have given, or i'm throwing money away. that's a big incentive, i will say.
it's easy when you know who you are giving to, like close friends and relatives. when the circle extends a little bigger to include acquaintances, people who have been providing services to you the whole year round and people you have never thought about at all in the entire 365 days, it gets a little more difficult to tell them apart.
i'm doing pretty well so far...........i think.
before i go, i bring you an important message, sponsored from that revered primadonna of the blogosphere. he wants the whole world to know that he has a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog. a new blog, i tell you. A NEW BLOGGGGGG!!!!! shout it out, rant it, stick it into your blogroll, whore it, pimp it, print it on a tight t-shirt across your chest, write it in every other word of your post. ah pek has a new blog. for those who's still not getting the picture, go to http://www.louyeh.com. i think this should keep the old man happy.
now i must go talk to him about some commission.
7 comments:
I need a way to help me remember faces, too. I still can't recognise some of my colleagues if I'd passed them on the streets. they all just look... so... similar...
what brain? what is it?
ok ok, so i owe you a few wet kisses, you don't have to shout it out to the whole world you know.
see you at the party? i will repay what I owe you.
dear may: u r so much like me, it's so hard not to like u. next time we meet people, we discreetly position our handphone camera to catch a photo of their face, ok? then comes the problem of naming the photos before we forget their names.
dear ff: huh? i also dunno leh. let me check the dictionary first har......
dear ah pek: eugghhhh! just yr eternal gratitude will do. what party? u ask yr readers to advertise 4 u mah, don't shout how to bring attention to it ah?
Wah, Ah Pek is opening another new blog? I can't keep up!
i can remember faces VERY well.but sometimes it's just so hard to remember names associated with them. i do hope you dun encounter twins very often!! hehe
dear ian: that's becos u r so out of date mahhhhhhh. come here more often and i'll gossip the latest news to u. :-p did u know that x was last seen holding hands with y?!?!?
dear gsh: *envious* hey, u and i can pair up. i'm better with names, but only marginally so. then again, how can i supply u with the name when i don't know who is it i am looking at?!?! hehe. the only pair of twins i know doesn't look anything alike :-)
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