Chopstick or Bowl?

Am I screwed? I almost got involved in an accident..

Last weekend, I drove to Star Hill, and when I heard my friend said "To the left, to the left", I made myself think he said "To the right, to the right" instead. Yes, I do not listen to Beyonce!

It doesn't take much brain to work out that both directions in Chinese. However, my little typical brain was confused (I don't mean it's tiny anyway) when someone trying their very best to direct me to somewhere using mouth instead of forefinger.

If you tell me in English, my brain can tell the direction at almost instantly. But if you mention it in Mandarin, I'll be like .. oooookay, let's see.. mmm.. alright, you mean right..right! Right? And accidents do happen at any moment by the time you figured that out. It's that serious.. Am I right?

I always have this thought of translate it to chopstick or bowl. Right side for chopstick and left for bowl, or the other way round depending on which side you hold them. That's a food for thought.


No way I can hold that chopstick!

In fact, no matter what language spells out, images certainly load faster in my brain (not sure about yours) compared to tedious texts and numbers. When I imagined a bowl, obviously I will start off by picturing the color, design and texture of a bowl. I will then picture my left hand holding that bowl. And of course, I will then open my mouth while waiting for the food to deliver using chopstick from my right hand.

Left hand, bowl. Right hand, chopstick. That's my version of memorizing left and right.

Talking about the ability to memorize, I'm facing hard time to remember details. There are merely too much things to remember everyday.

No kidding! I have 20 over passwords to remember - 3 ATM pins, a notebook and office workstation logins, 2 development and 6 production servers' passwords, 5 email logins, 7 forum ids and an online bank account. The list can go on, but these are the only ones recovered from my existing memory. Others suffered bad sectors..

Well, it's like each time I need to recall something, my brain will triggered a request for username and password (i mean a clue here) in order to access the celebrum center for information. No memory on that, no problem, no info for me then. Tehe!

As I browse through YouTube, I found this.



I guess it's really possible to map everything in the brain. Let's use our head in a correct way.

Kindly spread the words.

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