Will you remember?* - The Cranberries

I just can't remember where i heard it from!!! It's prolly something i read online, or perhaps heard over Light n Easy on radio, or caught it from a TV programme (most prolly House MD). But i remember coming across this idea that sleeping helps you remember things.

Apparently - if i remember correctly (hhmm... must sleep more) - when one sleeps, the brain sorts of like do some "housekeeping" and clears up the thoughts therein. When awake, one may have so many things on one's mind and so many other things around to distract, but when one is sleeping, the brain gets to collect all the thoughts - some lost in the recesses of the mind - and sorts of file them up properly.

I believe that to be true. Many times in the past, i would awaken wif a start in the middle of the nite, recalling some important thing that needs to be done. It's as if the brain was filing away the thoughts when it came across something urgent and woke me up to it.

Just this week, it happened again. Somehow, i knew that there was something very significant about the 1st of July - but yet, i couldn't put me finger on it!!!

It's W's birthday, it's Ipoh Marathon Day, it's the Concert for Diana day, it's the day Bernard & Chrys goes over to Reading, it's the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong becoming the SAR of China, it's when the British 10k London Run takes place where Markus will be running in...

But those are not it. What? What? What is it about 1st of July - especially the 1st of July 2007???

Then i i woke wif a start on Thursday morning and the first thought to greet me was "Your driving license expires on the 1st of July 2007!!!" I had forgotten all about it. After all, the last time i renewed it was 5 years ago. And i had a truly bad experienced once when i was pulled over by a traffic cop and i produced an expired driving license!!!! Since then, i had always try to keep in mind the expiry date of me driving license.

So now, it's right up til 1st July 2012 - when hopefully, i'll be in London enjoying the Olympics!!! :-)

Therefore, if you need another excuse to sleep, just say that you need to remember some stuffs!!! Not that i need another excuse to slumber! ;-)

p/s - before i forget, Blessed b'day, W!

*Track 12 from their 3rd album, not as popular as their 1st two but i still like it. Wiki observed that this was a darker album - prolly that's why it appeals to me! Unfortunately, it was their last good album - in my view, anyways.