A person with poor memory has to make use of ways to remember names and so on.
One way is to use acronyms eg. are Bernas for Beras National and Petronas for Petroliam Nasional.
Another method is to use initials eg. like MAS for Malaysian Airline System, and if it means something valuable, it is a bonus. But whether it lives up to its name is another matter.
But if memory is poor, even that is no help as I have experienced difficulty in remembering even just three items even though I remembered the 3 letters!
What if the first letters are the same? Like Mirzan, Mokhzani and Mukriz? To help remember the right order, I realized the second letter in each name, goes in order of seniority as IOU! Since then, I had no problem remembering the names. So it was quite a surprise that I read in Jeff Ooi’s blog,commenting that Prof. Khoo Boo Teik mixed up Mirzan with Mukriz.
The location of our infamous proposed sports complex in UK had given me problem in remembering, until I realized that breaking up the word: Brick-endon-bury helped.
For companies, history of some listed companies in Malaysia showed initials like API for Associated Plastic Industries, but “api” means fire in Malay, and names like Taiping and Everpeace seemed doomed to fail, for the lack of activities the latter two signified. This is only a light-hearted comment, with the benefit of hindsight. The word “hindsight” makes me laugh as I always think of it as someone with eyes on their bottoms!
I did not understand the phrase “second to none” until I realized that it is similar to the Cantonese “tai yee, mo yan kum yeng tai yat” which literally means “second, no one dared claimed first”.
“No love lost” also made me guessing. I supposed it means, after a break-up, one person said there was no love between them in the first place!
Government fed by the people
Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.
Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?
When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.
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If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)
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