The scent that brings back pleasant memory is this snake brand cooling powder. At first, I did not like it because of the after effect of the powder, which is the heat.

When did I start liking it? 

It was during my camp,  when we are told that we won’t be showering and we started to panic and get anxious. By the way, we are a group of girls going camp at Pulau Ubin. So my instructor told us to get this powder to replace our shower.

This powder brings back the memories I had during camp. One of it was I was the leader in charge of my team (we were groups in 4), and I was a bit ‘naughty’ that I broke a quite a few camp rules such as secretly wasting camp food then allowing my teammates to eat outside food. And we got punished for that.

Pencil box/pencil leads bring back to my unpleasant memories. Pencil box have been with me since I start schooling, and I constantly changed my pencil as I grow up.

But pencil is one of the important things in my pencil box. Since young, I like to use pencil and scribble on papers. However what annoys me is when the pencil lead smudges on my hand. Especially during art lesson, where I drew half way using pencil, and I realise that my drawing paper has pencil smudges on it. And I really hate it when this happens because I am the clean and neat type of student.

Mnemonics device

At first when I heard about Mnemonics device I was like, “Huh? What is that?”. But after researching about it, I realise that I have been using a lot of Mnemonics devices, especially during school days.

Here are the types of Mnemonics devices that I used in Secondary school:

Model Mnemonics – Food pyramid & animal chain. With model mnemonic, it makes it easier for someone like me (who needs to study visually) to understand a certain topic.

Note Organization Mnemonics – which are notes from the teacher or I will create a mind map for myself so that I can better understand the topic.

Image Mnemonics – when I’m tried of writing words on my mind map, I will then use images or draw some icons/symbol to represent its meaning.

Other examples that my teachers thought me are:

I used to not know which direction vertical and horizontal goes, so my teacher told me that vertical has the letter V, so it goes down. 

Another thing that confuse me was the word: decrease and increase. So my teacher told me that DBS banking represent decrease because Decreasing:  Big (to) Small. So this is the use of acronyms.

Another theory is to make a new habit, you have to do it continuously do it for 21 days. When I heard this for the first time, I tried it out and it really work. So when I want to create a new habit, I will stick to this theory. But I’m not sure whether this links to Mnemonic device. 

Another tips for memorizing, from my teacher, was he told us to revise or recall whatever we have learnt within 24hours. This was something that I have been sticking with ever since secondary school.

Mindmap

For good memories, the keywords are flower, girls & sharing.

For bad memories, the keywords is smudge.

Experimentation

 

So I did a few different variations of the same concept. One of it looks like a Super Tree in Garden By the Bay, so I make the leaves thicker. Then the others I try to make the difference in tone, like going from transparent to dark.