1) First impressions count
Today I met a bunch of new people – I don’t remember any of their names but nonetheless I’ve met them. I have this issue with remembering names; mainly because I’m either disinterested with normal names or that I can’t remember how to pronounce the unique ones. Have you ever had an entire conversation with someone with a familiar face who remembers your name but no matter how hard you frantically dig into your mental processes, you can’t figure out who the hell they are?
Yeah, I got sick of frantically digging every single time I met someone new.
So now when I meet someone, I either do one of two things:
1. Call them by a name I think would suit them better than their actual name – ironically this strategy often helps me to remember their actual name a lot quicker. And if I don’t remember, it doesn’t really matter. So far there are only a handful of people I know who I call by names which I believe would rather suit them (and they find me weird so they’ve already accepted their fate from the moment they let me get away with it the first time).
2. Although there some people who don’t remind me of any names. For these people, I use the “first-impression remembering technique”. Basically, this entails is for me to do something – err, how would one describe it... – peculiar to help me to remember them. For example, there’s the guy-I-helped-to-zip-up-his-fly-when-we-first-met-and-he-crapped-himself guy or the two-girls-who-have-nice-smelling-hair-and-think-I-have-a-freaky-hair-fetish that I met today! See? It works, who can forget something so unusual and traumatic! But since it’s also fun, we can ignore the trauma of it :)
2) Friends make good demotivational posters – oh and they may or may not also want to kill me.
As you may or may not have noticed, I’m getting more creative with my blogging images. I’ve recently wondered, who is stranger: me or the people who enjoy my company. I’ve decided to point out the weirdness of not only the world and myself, but also all my friends/ acquaintances too – seeing as I observe (stalking is such a harsh word to use) them anyways – in my blog. Finally! I can prove I’m not the ONLY strange one! Also, this gives me leverage for if they ever decide to annoy me – which usually happens when they call the police or lock their bedroom windows at night. :) Sleep tight my blog readers!
So anyways, here are a bunch of proto-type images I’ve decided to start off with (if the reception is good – in my opinion, not theirs – I’ll keep adding these with actual related topics):
3) Online shopping is the addictive drug of the 21st Century
I’ve recently started to online shop – mainly at ThinkGeek (awesome but pricey online geek store) – and I’ve discovered one of the biggest scam of this year is on Facebook. You know all those Facebook stores which basically sell a bunch of stuff to people who can’t shop online and keep popping up everywhere? Yeah? Well they rip you off so badly! Like one of the eye-shadows palettes in this girls’ FB shop was priced at $42 and I’m buying the EXACT same one for less than $10 (including shipping). I feel pity for the people who are rushing to buy it because they have the cash but not the ability to shop online.
Since this revelation, I’ve been scouring the internet for more cheap things (I’m Asian, remember?). :)
And then it dawned on me: Online shopping is an addiction. And before you say “That’s ridiculous Leanne, online shopping isn’t an addiction! Suck my dick”, let me just remind you that nowadays there’s sex addiction, baby addiction, royal wedding/family addiction, gaming addictions – put it this way, if someone in the world likes something a bit too much, it’s classified as an addiction.
Luckily I don’t have a very addictive personality.
I’m serious, I can stop anytime, I swear! '_' *twitch twitch*
i have an addiction to vanillin :(
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