When you delete something on your computer, traces of it remain--digital fingerprints or electronic blood-spatter, which when found can be a powerful tool in determining what was there in the first place. Sometimes, your brain works the same way. When things are no longer used with frequency, we have a tendency to file them in remote parts of our brain where, over time, they are apt to degradation. Eventually, we just forget the skill set attached to that file, which is finally deleted for all intents and purposes to make room for newer, more current, more useful applications. However, if we painstakingly comb the recesses of our brains, we can find those traces left behind, and use the information from those to help us reconstruct what once was lost a lot more quickly than having to start over from scratch.

Undoubtedly, this ability of ours comes in quite handy when we hear the familiar opening bass line of an ex-pop song which had long since faded into the annals of obscurity. It allows us to remember the words we had once commited to memory which now escape us unless we hear the song playing on the radio in the car. And most of the time, we use our miraculous skills to these ends--the more mundane, the more--dare we call them--useless applications that really get us nowhere in life, save a little trip down bad-hair-and-what-was-I-thinking?-those-pants-were-ridiculous memory lane.

But every once in a while, we accomplish something truly amazing with our mad CSI: the Brain skills. Today, for example, I relearned u substitution in calculus. (Definitely more useful than rapping "O.P.P." by Naughty by Nature in your car during rush hour.) It definitely took a while before I was able to reconstruct from the traces of u-subbing in my brain how to actually do it, but it definitely would have taken a lot longer if I were learning it for the first time. It also makes me feel a whole lot more confident that maybe I won't fail this class after all. I just have to search through the leftovers of what I once was able to do and reconstruct the data.

Maybe along the way, I can lightheartedly sing a little bit, too.

Well, that's something to look forward to right? Not failing calculus. Though I never learn that subject in school, calculus is like this subject called Additional Maths over in Malaysia, where everyone's bound to fail.
» Nuttz on 2007-01-18 09:49:17

My friends always wonder why it is I know the weirdest songs... :/
» ikimashokie on 2007-01-18 06:17:12

Job
Were you working an internship? Liking your job is the key. I think I use to like it but now, I just dont know.
» kKaMa67 on 2007-01-18 06:53:10

.. Want to help me with my math HW?
» Dilated on 2007-01-19 04:00:29

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