some things never fade..
In primary school, we weren't so high-tech yet..
Some of us had little address books and we wrote down our friends' birthdays and addresses, not so we could send letters or anything.. i guess it was just kinda fun to do that... and i guess it was also because when you get their phone number might as well just get the other details as well..
we sorta always knew each other's birthdays.. (or at least i did my best to remember my friends' birthdays..) not that i'm bitter or anything but my birthday was pretty often-forgotten ._. .. a few years it was on the first day of school..hehe.. not that it's a big deal and i'd want a bunch of people to remember but you know how you hope just THOSE few people would remember?
anyways.. the 9th of may is the birthday of 2 of my friends.. and we're not really close anymore unfortunately.. but the thing is, without the help of facebook i somehow manage to remember their birthdays every year.. i guess it helps to remember that mum's birthday is on the 10th.. but there are quite a few dates that are somehow stuck in my mind.. sometimes on that day i'd be wondering about something i'd forgotten to do.. then it strikes me that it's somebody's birthday...
moving onto secondary school, we were a biiiiit more high tech ;D .. so i guess relying on technology so much does have its consequences.. friends who are quite close to me, i didn't remember their birthdays so easily at first.. but i'm glad that i do now.. hehe..
i guess what i was thinking about was the way our minds retain information.. yea i know it's no new discovery but i still find it pretty interesting what a child's mind can soak up and keep... if i ever have a kid in future, i'm gonna bombard him/her with cool/interesting/useful facts/languages/skills XD ..
-llen-
Some of us had little address books and we wrote down our friends' birthdays and addresses, not so we could send letters or anything.. i guess it was just kinda fun to do that... and i guess it was also because when you get their phone number might as well just get the other details as well..
we sorta always knew each other's birthdays.. (or at least i did my best to remember my friends' birthdays..) not that i'm bitter or anything but my birthday was pretty often-forgotten ._. .. a few years it was on the first day of school..hehe.. not that it's a big deal and i'd want a bunch of people to remember but you know how you hope just THOSE few people would remember?
anyways.. the 9th of may is the birthday of 2 of my friends.. and we're not really close anymore unfortunately.. but the thing is, without the help of facebook i somehow manage to remember their birthdays every year.. i guess it helps to remember that mum's birthday is on the 10th.. but there are quite a few dates that are somehow stuck in my mind.. sometimes on that day i'd be wondering about something i'd forgotten to do.. then it strikes me that it's somebody's birthday...
moving onto secondary school, we were a biiiiit more high tech ;D .. so i guess relying on technology so much does have its consequences.. friends who are quite close to me, i didn't remember their birthdays so easily at first.. but i'm glad that i do now.. hehe..
i guess what i was thinking about was the way our minds retain information.. yea i know it's no new discovery but i still find it pretty interesting what a child's mind can soak up and keep... if i ever have a kid in future, i'm gonna bombard him/her with cool/interesting/useful facts/languages/skills XD ..
-llen-
posted by llen at 3:45 AM
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