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Being forgetful and careless are traits that I have been carrying for as long as I can remember. I can leave my keys in the toilet and instantly forgetting where I left them the moment I step out of the toilet. I can pull the pin from a grenade and throw the pin at the enemy and leave the grenade in my hands. It’s just a little far fetched for the last example but you do get what I mean right?

KuKuNehNeh on the other hand, should have super memory and be extremely meticulous based on the rule that opposites attract but it ain’t so. And yesterday was a testament to her forgetfulness.

We conversed over email during work and I asked her to go straight home after work instead of waiting for me at City Hall but she told me that she would rather wait for me and head home together. So I reached City Hall and turned around the corner where I would usually find her sitting on the bench but found an Auntie sitting there instead. Odds are low that she is late to the meeting spot and odds are lower that she has aged this much in 24 hours so I called her up on her mobile.

“Hello?” She answered the phone.

“Hello Dear! Where are you?”

“Er…. I am on the way….” She replied with hesitation in her voice.

“On your way? To where???”

“Errrr…. Home lor. ALAMAK! I FORGOT I WAS SUPPOSED TO MEET YOU!”

It turns out that she reached the platform with her colleagues and saw a train arriving and boarded it like every train hungry Singaporean and promptly forgot all about me until I called her.

And later during the night after my 7.2km run, I went to the toilet to shower to only find that my towel wasn’t there.

She was washing the dishes and I turned to her, “Eh Dear ah. I got no towel here leh.”

“There should be ah.”

“No leh. I will go get one.”

“No need Dear. You bathe first. Let me get the towel for you later.”

“Ok! Thanks Dear!”

And so I showered peacefully and wondered why my towel has not arrived after scrubbing my body from head to toe. I could not risk exposing myself in my birthday suit to her family and I slowly popped my head out from the sliding door and called for her for about 10 mins before she came running by with a towel. It was hilarious seeing how forgetful she is like me.

If you ever need someone to remind you of something, do not; DO NOT ask either of us to help you.

I once said that carelessness is one of the biggest drawbacks of me as a person as I am one who can sometimes be so deep in thought that without realizing it, I have already crossed the road. Countless number of times when this happens and I will suddenly be aware of my body and go,

“Eh?!?!?! I DON’T REMEMBER CROSSING THE ROAD!!!”

It’s sometimes pretty scary to think that I am on ‘auto-mode’ when doing things like crossing the road but it’s a good skill to have provided that it is fail safe. I don’t want to be roadkill.

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One of the biggest problems I have as a blogger would be my memory. I have such bad memory. Some who know me personally might say otherwise but I think I have ‘selective memory’. My brain registers infomation ‘permanently’ on certain subjects and the rest goes into my ‘RAM’ which gets cleared every 3 seconds or so. For example, if it’s the first time I meet you and you tell me your name, I will forget almost instantanously. I will only remember the conversation and especially if you tell me interesting things like how you like to dig your nose… with your thumb.

I am not implying that anybody I’ve met at the HP TouchSmart PC Event that I went to yesterday likes to dig their nose with their thumb. But if it JUST SO HAPPENS that I met you yesterday and you REALLY like to use your thumb. Well… erm… do reconsider your other options.

While I am on that anyway, I will like to extend my gratitude to Waggener Edstrom for organizing and Daryl a.k.a UniqueFrequency for inviting me to the event.

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The TouchSmart PC looks great and I shall have another entry of it when I find more time. It’s great to also meet up with more bloggers at the event like…

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…like…

YOU SEE LAR!

I DON’T REMEMBER THE NAMES OF EVERYONE I MET!!!

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I do remember the conversations that I had with each of you guys though. I think I got to either improve my memory or make it a habit to jot down everything I want to remember. If I jotted down stuffs yesterday, some of the things I would have written down were…

1. I took a picture with Jacelyn a.k.a daintyflair and apparently, I look humsup (lecherous). I never looked at the picture properly but maybe I was drooling or something.
2. Claudia has a humsup for the HP TouchSmart PC.
3. Juzzywuzzy has his humsup goatee back.
4. Hillary couldn’t recognize who I was and probably thought I was a humsup trying to pick her up.
5. I helped Daphne take a picture with two other ladies and the camera auto-focused on her left boob. The camera was humsup. If the picture turned out shaky, I am sorry. I was trying to contain my laughter.

WAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAAHA!!!