Summary – Six strategies not to forget things

A friend of mine had just left her purse in a taxi, Remarkably she not only take it very well, she manage to look into the half-full side of the glass 🙂

I believe everyone must have their own method to remember things. Not how to memorize things like my previous post. More on to remember things we brought (to avoid left behind), or task to do.

These are my strategies so far –

1) Always minimize the amount of bags
Most people are already doing this. If for example, you have 5 bags of groceries, put it all into each other making it into two bags. This way, you know exactly that both hands should be carrying something each

2) Create a ritual before going somewhere
What I did to remember things in my pockets, which consist of keys, handphone and wallet is to make it a practice to slap gently on all pockets before making a move somewhere, to the mill or anywhere. This way… I feel something is not right if I didn’t do the ritual. 🙂

3) Learning from OCD people
OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsion Disorder. If you ever watched the tv series – “Monk” or “As Good As It Get”, you will understand it. Simply, these people are very particular about everythings. Everything must be organized and be done their way. Lesson to learn from them is to organize. For me, I put up all my bills and things to do on one desk. Some things are left as a symbol of things I must do, like in order to remember to bring cash tomorrow, I will simply leave the money there. The desk will soon be crowded and with the intention of clearing up the table, I will do every task each items represents. 🙂 It works by the way hehe.

4) Car Alarm Dilemma
I always had this problem. (the word “had” is stressed eheh), I already locked my car with the alarm, but just after 5 minutes, I will start guessing, “did I lock my car?”, “Did I hear the alarm clicking?”. It’s very troublesome when you are already far from your car. So what I do is, whenever I lock my car, I conciously force myself to see that the car is locked. So far, problem solved.

5) Record
One and a half years ago, I used a cellphone so ancient, it can only be used as a phone and SMS. Spoilt already I bought the one I’m using right now, There is a voice recording function embedded. So another way I remember things is simply by voice recording it. At the end of the day, I will upload everything into my computer and take action. If you must know things that I recorded, they are stuff like, blogging ideas, direction to certain places, the self-repeating song in my head, and hey.. I even compose song huhu (which I’m sure will be taken to grave with me).

6) Look for something else
I write this out of experience, when you forget where you misplaced something, it is almost certain you will not be able to find it. Try pretend to look for something else or stop looking entirely, Usually then you will find them 🙂

So there, 6 private strategies I used to remember things in my daily life. I’m sure there’s more. What’s your strategies? Please share 🙂

————— Personal Note ————————–
During my working days, I have accidentally locked myself our of my house quite a couple of times. I often had to resort to break the lock by force. Then I tried hiding spare keys. But I kept thinking that my gardener may eventually found it. My brother gave me one suggestion, to buy those Solex lock. You know, the one with the keys will always be with the lock unless you lock it. Solved my problems. I guess sometime the simple solution is out there.. we just keep looking the harder way 🙂

Summary – Time with a sense of humor

I was checking the calendar to check out this week’s charity at Darul Izzah Bangi (Deliberately written to persuade you going hehe), when I suddenly realize that today is already the 23rd of Rejab. It seems like just yesterday, I notice of the coming of Rejab. Counting… there is only 36 days left to Ramadhan.

(Rejab and Ramadhan are Islamic months. Muslims all over the world will be performing the fasting during Ramadhan.)

If you notice, time sure fly faster when you are not paying attention.

• When we are just so busy with works, We will not even notice that we’ve just missed lunch.
• When we start fasting when we were children, we are holding a clock and see every second goes by. The longest time is the last 30 minutes 🙂
• When we got stuck in a meeting with the boss talking so slow, you can hear your stomach.. time feel like stopping. and yes you are hungry..
• and many more examples of this

I guess when it comes to time, it really depends on your mind whether to pay more attention to it or let it pass you ignored.

Funny right? If we dreadfully hated what it is we are doing, we are doomed to “enjoy” every seconds of it and time move so slowly, you would check whether there’s something wrong with the watch every 5 minutes.

And if you love what you are doing, before you even begin to enjoy it, it’s already sunset.

heheh time really has a good sense of humor. Don’t you think?

————— Personal Note ————————–
I remember very clearly the day I started fasting. Our “Abah” (Father) could see that we were going to lose the battle when we started going to the kitchen observing what new food magically appear on the table. He then took us out to the “Bazar Ramadhan” (A place to buy food to break the fast). There we were rewarded with RM5 of our choice of food and drinks. We really feel energetic then. With so much money, we bought a lot of food. I can still remember it covered almost the whole table. When we came back from the bazar.. it turned out only 30 minutes gone by. We still need to wait another 1 hour or so. All the energy previously had, had now vanished. And there we were looking “terhele” (very tired) with an alarm clock by our side. hehe

So what’s your first day of fasting looks like? There’s got to be funny stories in each of us 🙂

Summary – Leave the pointless question alone

There is one question as old as the time itself. It had been discussed again and again in each generation of mankind. But still nobody can come up with a satisfying answer. The question is – Which comes first, chicken or egg?

You may think it is funny but yes, it was really asked again and again when the person asking know exactly that there is no answer to it. So my question to you now, why do we need to ask the question in the first place?

To be funny? Acceptable, but to what end?

For the sake of science? Unless you have better option or supporting prove, it is better to leave the question alone.

So if I think that the question is not supposed to be raised, why do I raise it in this blog? Aha!!!

My point exactly. There are a lot of pointless question out there. Those without any satisfying answers. One that I want to highlight is the favorite question of which is better, man or woman?

Let’s assume we are not taking any side in this. For once, we are not defending either man or woman. What is the question supposed to achieve? to prove that one is better than another? Then what? Yes, there is a lot of male chauvinist and feminist out there. Are we going to be one of them?

In my opinion, these people are no different in term of stupidity than a racist. Why I call them stupid? Because when they were born, were they the one who choose to be a boy or a girl? If the choice is not theirs to make, who give them the right to to say one gender is better than another.

It is very true, that even now, one gender is treated as if it is inferior to the other. If this happens, by all means fight for your right. But please don’t go to the same level as the stupid people who consider themselves superior.

It is very true, that there will be bad apple in a gender group. Have a look at ourselves. Do you think it’s fair if you were called a thief, simply because there is a person next to you who is caught stealing? In the end…. it all boils down to the individual.

A man killed another man. Is it fair to say all man from the beginning of time have the tendency to commit murder?

A woman killed another woman, Is it fair to say all woman from the beginning of time have the tendency to commit murder?

Conclusion – Sexist are far worse than a racist, sexist consider themselves superior than the other half of the world. You hate racist? Then hate sexist even more. Don’t be one.

Hey it’s Sunday. These are some pictures I found on the net. Generally they show the extra length people would do for their job. Enjoy! 🙂

“Remember!! you drop one box and you’re dead!!”.. this guy take the warning very seriously 🙂

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Transporter’s transporter

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