It’s been too long

I’ve always been bad with faces. And names sometimes. Nowadays I make excuses and say it’s agnosia, a condition I found online. But maybe it isn’t and I end up beating myself over it, over not remembering the one guy I met once who remembers my name and I have no idea whether I’ve met him before or not. Ah well. Here’s a story from when I was younger.

My mother is the most wonderful woman in the world. I know everyone thinks their mother’s the best but well, mine’s better than yours. Heh. Anywho, in my S.3 I went to visit her in the US where she was working and I was so bored cuz all we did was go to my little sister’s 10th birthday party, ice skating with my 12-year-old sister and her friends, . . . Ok, maybe I wasn’t that bored. I just wasn’t doing grown up things like I wanted to. So my mother took a day and took me on a tour of Washington D.C. Bless her heart she thought of something grown up for us to do together. On this tour that I was enjoying very much, the tour guide kept asking questions and giving out gold coins or some such memorabilia for the correct answer. We got to a big picture in the middle of the tour and the tour guide said this question wasn’t for a coin but we could all answer. It was of a beautiful blonde woman with bright red lips and a mole. I yelled at the top of my lungs, “Madonna!” Thank goodness the other tourists were louder than me when they yelled, “Marilyn Monroe” I was so embarassed even when no one heard me. I was 15 for crying out loud and I didn’t know the difference between Marilyn Monroe and Madonna! Who cares anyway? It was the time when Madonna had that Marilyn Monroe look.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that up to now I can’t tell which actor is which no matter how many times I see Tom Cruise. But at least when Christina Aguillera had a Marilyn Monroe look, I could still tell it wasn’t really her cuz Marilyn did not wear nothing on stage. Heh.