I'm not Dory, yay!

Recently I have been getting worried. I can't remember if I have closed the auto gate after I drive away from home, and I put down my handphone 1 moment only to forget where I left it the next. I even go upstairs to get something and forget what I was doing once I reach the top. However all these are common occurrences in a normal human's life right?

Well I thought so too, until the day I was hunting for pants in my closet. I found a pair of 3 quarter pants buried under a few other pants. Googles brand somemore. It was my size, and it fit very well. The only problem was I don't have any memory whatsoever of acquiring said pants. Well, I put it on and went off to work(casual Friday). By the end of the day I was dead certain that it was my first time wearing those pants. Why on earth would I buy pants and not wear them if they fit properly?

When I got home, my sister was like, oh... where did you buy those pants? I want to get pants like that too. I was like, that's the problem, I can't remember...do you recall me buying this pair of pants? Sis : No ler.... Hmm... I left it as the most extreme case of poor memory on my part and went on with life.

Today, which is like months after that incident, I wore the pants again. My friend CY saw me and said, oh, you are wearing that pants! I was like huh... you recognise the pants?

CY: Neh... you forgot adi ar, your sister bought it for you one.
Me: Blank stare
CY: We bought it together ma, the same pants, I ask your sis to call you and ask you want or not..
Me: OHHHHHH!

Wow, suddenly I had the feeling of a long lost memory rushing back into my head. I was enlightened and felt like the greatest mystery of my life that had been bugging me for months had been solved at last. I don't recall the pants because I didn't buy them myself, and I probably have not seen them since the day my sister bought them, because we usually put our new clothing to wash right after we get home. My mum must have placed it in my cupboard, and everyone forgot about the existence of that pants.
With that enlightenment came another question.

"Eh, then why can't my sister remember the pants?" We questioned her.

Me: Eh, you bought these pants for me lar.
Sis: blank stare
CY: NEh, you remember or not, that day we went shopping and bla bla yada yada
Sis: Har got meh....
CY: Got laar...
Sis..... you mean I PAID for her pants?
Us:................

This just shows the main thing my sister is concerned about. :p


Me: No lar, you just helped me to buy, I paid you back later.
CY: Elaborates somemore ont he events of that day
Sis: Ohhhhh yaya I remember.
Me: What lar you, somemore you ask me where I bought that pants. Why didnt you get a pair for yourself?
Sis: oh I think that time dont have my size

Well, so the matter has been cleared up. Its my sister that suferring from memory loss! wahahahahaaha.... well actually all of us are probably equally forgetful. Sigh... but at least I'm not suffering from early Alzheimer's.

A vicious cycle

2 days ago, I slept rather late because I was reading a comic online and it was sooooo slow in loading, but I really wanted to finish reading it. The next day I brought to work one of the Ipoh Old town Hazelnut flavour White Coffee sticks that my sis bought from Ipoh. I made a cup of coffee with 80% of the powder in that packet and drank it.

Wow it really works, on the way home I was so alert. However I felt rather tense, the feeling intensified when I was in the jam, tension betul.... I felt like screaming at the crawling cars. Darn, too muhc caffiene....

When I got home, I asked my sis about the coffee, she was like...what time did you drink it? I said... 3 something pm. She said, die la you, tonight no need to sleep adi, that stuff is very potent.

True enough, it was 2.30 am before I could sfinally nod off. The next day I was zombified... I wanted to drink coffee, but I was afraid I wont be able to sleep later on. On the way back home I fell asleep at the wheel a few times. Dang......... too dangerous adi. Apparently the caffiene lingered on to the 2nd day, because although I was sleeping driving home, I didnt feel sleepy that night until quite late.

Today I'm not taking any chances. I shall drink a little bit of coffee before driving home, just a little...... hopefully I dont suffer from insomnia again tonight.

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You sure you want smart kids?

Nowadays education is all hyped up. Tuition, music, art and even yoga classes for tiny little kids. Even babies in the womb are not spared, with beethoven music played to them. DHA enhanced drinks, vitamins and so on are dished out to the kids, all in the hopes that they would grow up brilliant.

When I was young, I had a pretty normal childhood. No Mozart , Mental Maths or Montessary learning system, just sesame street, nursery rhymes and Peter & Jane books. I attended piano class for 1 month before I decided I hated it. Even so, many people remarked that I was smart. As my dad put it, sometimes too smart for the comfort of the adults.

Example:

Mum: Eat your flu medicine.
Me: Mum, I read that flu medicine does not actually cure flu but suppreses the symptoms only.
Mum: Aiya, just eat it la, it will make you feel better.
Me: In the long run it can cause damage to our immune system.
Mum: ......

Grandma: I made the rhino horn drink, drink it, its expensive and very good.
Me: Its useless
Grandma: People have been drinking that for centuries!
Me: They are wrong, National Geographic said rhino horn is made out of the same stuff as our fingernails.
Grandma: uh.....
Me: Rhinos face extiction because of those stupid people. You just killed a rhino by drinking this. I refuse to contribute to the extinction of rhinos!
Grandma: ....

Dad: Why are you so lazy, faster do your homework lah, its almost bedtime adi.
Me: You know , that's not the proper way to speak to kids, I read that positive reinforcement is the correct way. You should have said, it would make Daddy happy if you did your homework now. Saying that I am lazy might give a negative impact to me. The more you say a child is lazy, the more they will make that statement true.
Dad: I'm getting the cane now.
Me: OKOK I'm going to do it now.... but you should know that using force is not the right way to....
Dad:*Glares
Me: *Shuts up

These are real examples of how I used to converse with my parents. I guess it comes with reading and watching tv, back then I think i was like 9 - 12. Now with all the brain stimulating activities kids get these days, they might reason with you that way as early as age 5. You sure you want that?


Anyway, perhaps due to the lack of brain stimulation or DHA or whatever, I think more or less my brain is deteriorating as I get older. Just look.

The questions I used to ask

Back then
5 year old me: dad, what happens when we sleep?

Dad: well, when you sleep the subconcious mind takes over the consious mind....

Yes, when I was 5, I learned the meaning of stuff like subconcious mind, thanks to my dad.


Now
Me: Dad, what day is today already ar?
Dad: ........

ok, so my questions are getting more retarded.


Then
dad : ok so how much money worth of stuff did we buy today?
me: i know, i know! add all the groceries together its rm 106.25 !


Now
my sis: ok the amount we have to pay back is 15.30 + 10.50.
me: uh..thats thats.... you count la >.<

My brain is getting more retarded too....

Then again, there are things about me that dont change.

Then
Me to soft toy: Hi good morning miss kitty, how are you today?

Now
Me to the computer screen: Stupid report, WORK LA!

Looks like i still talk to inanimate objects.

Then
Wait ant, dont go that way, go this way! Come on, just enter that bottle

Now
bunny bunny, good bunny, go back to your cage, come on good girl....Smurfy, ENTER THE CAGE NOWWWWWW before i make you into stew!

I still talk to animals and expect them to do what I say

Then

Me: and the little mermaid said, "Oh Flounder, dont be such a guppy!" Then Flounder says, "Ariel wait!" Then he gets stuck in something, then he says, "Ariel Help!" Then she goes to free him, and then she says Oh Flounder, haha..." Then he says, "Shh, I think I hear something.... "then the shark comes out! and they swim and swim and ....
Mum: You forgot to do keep your toys, what did i just remind you about 5 minute ago?
Me: Uh... i forgot

Now
On msn to friend : and then naruto does the rasengan, and smashes it into itachi, but it turns out to be a clone! Apparently he got caught in the illusion. After that he recalled his sensei jiraiya saying that, in order to break a genjutsu, you must......
Mum: I just reminded you to take up the laundry 1 minute ago.
Me: Uh... i forgot

I remember everything except the things that are important.

Then
Me: generally the anotomy of a hummingbird is such that it constantly needs to eat otherwise it would die of starvation. thats why we always see them busy looking for food.

Dad: So, who is the president of the united states?
Me: Uh......

Now
Me: And if you cross a gerbil with the genes Aa Pp to a gerbil with the genes aa pp, you will get at least 4 colors of gerbil offspring ! Of course you also much take in account the Cch gene, you know the gene that dove gerbils have.....

Dad: uh ok, thats er interesting......
Dad: so u remember all our ministers?
Me: uh, i remember the prime minister n the deputy, and then got sammy vellu also, the rest i cant remember

Well, I'm good at general knowledge if it involves animals.


What can I say? Maybe DHA enchanced formula and Choppin for babies is important after all. I guess I needed it.

Time, a matter of perception

That day my mum and aunt were discussing an incident reported in the newspaper.

Aunt: Neh, an old lady was involved, 51 or 52 years old.
Mum: Oi, what old lady, I'm also 52 ok.
Aunt: Aiya... that lady in the newspaper looks old ma. You look young so you are not an old lady.
Mum: -_-

Which reminds me, sometimes age is all about perspective. For example when we were young, a popular thing we liked to speculate about is what age we would get married. I think for girls in primary school during my time, the so called "ideal age"to get married was 22 - 24. Perhaps that time we based our fancies on novels, tv shows or our parents. We even tried to be realistic. ( Aiya, get married at 16 like the girl in that story too young la, we have not finished secondary school yet. at least age 22 la...)

Of course as we grew older,the ideal age had increased a little. (Hmm, 24 - 26 years old better la) Well with tertiary education and all, suddenly we find ourselves 22 years old and still in college. In no time at all , we are already 24 and in our 1st job. Suddenly the idea of marriage at this is rather laughable. I mean like, perhaps we dont even have enough money left over at the end of the month. We are not ready. We have not travelled half as many places as we wanted to, nor done the things we had always wanted to do. Where is the ideal guy/ girl that is to be our life partner? Suddenly time seems to be running short. Days fly by, every Monday seems to loom ahead in a split second, every year seems to end in moments.




I read somewhere that as we get older, time passes faster and faster. Actually its only logical that its perceived that way. When you are 5, even wating the 2 hours for your tv show to start is an eternity. When you are 50, whats another 2 days? Well think about it this way. For a 5 year old, 1 year is equivalent to 1/5 or 10% of his life. For a 50 year old, 1 year is 1/50 or 0.02% of his life. So I guess the older we get, the faster time leaves us behind.

Anither sighable fact is how we watched cartoons featuring heroes and heroines our age or older, say 14 or 15 years old. Now its like, mi gosh, I am almost 10 years older than Sailormoon already. Maybe one day I'll suddenly realise that I'm older than Spiderman, Superman or every other superhero there is.

Wait I'm starting to ramble adi... hahaha... Another sign of getting old! GAH !