A few ramblings

Almost a week into my first blogging attempt, I think I've learned a couple of things from it. For one thing, I’ve come to realize how gullible I am, ----gullible in the sense that I don’t hesitate at all to buy just about any information that comes to my mind, although in many cases my bad memory has distorted it to the point that on second thought, it is just absurd. For example, in the last post I said something nonsensical that no one in their right mind would possibly believe concerning the delivery of laundry from Japan to Vietnam.

I read an article on the process of memory distortion the other day, that says it is relatively rare that information remains intact and undistorted in one's brain a few years after it was input.

In my case, I had read on a website about the place I paid a visit to that the cleaning service they offered in the US base, that I mentioned in the last post, was extended as far as Guam at times, but it didn’t mention at all that it stretched as far away as Vietnam or anywhere else in war situations. They would fly laundry from Vietnam to Japan after hell freezes over. That’s how the information was distorted by faulty wiring in my brain.

On the other hand, if one has the habit of seeing things from a different, more rational perspective before he/she dares to speak them out loud, it would be pretty easy to avoid making errors of that sort. The thing is, I'm not that kind. To put it differently, it’s called an “idiot,” “bonehead,” “moron,” or whatever.

Maybe it was just that I cringed at the thought of how much longer it would take to write all the stuff over again from scratch, so while knowing that it sounded too stupid, I didn’t do anything to make it right. Or I might have made up a story unwittingly to make it look more plausible. Having said that, I don't know which of the explanations is more true either, because I don't have a good short-term memory.

Another thing I’ve found is that it takes too much time for me to post anything. The easy part is coming up with a rough idea of what to write. Much of the time is spent making revisions by resorting to search engines out there, without which it is impossible for non-native English speakers like me to write in English.
In any event, one thing I’m pretty convinced of after a week of blogging experience is that it sure is good to have a blog of your own from the standpoint of practicing writing English. For those of you who happen to read this, I definitely recommend giving blogging a shot as a means of practicing writing.