Thursday, March 12, 2009

Left-Handedness






Hmm....I would like to tell you that i am a left-handedness, the only 1 left-handedness in my family. Left-handedness means i prefer to use my left hand to do everyday activities such as writing. I use to do everything with my left hand when i was small. However, there was a customer, who saw i wrote with my left hand when i was doing my homework, and he said "OMG, your left-handedness. It is not good to be a left-handedness!" Since then, i never did my homework in front of customer and i even train myself using right hand to hold spoon and chopsticks when i was eating.


Actually it is quite unfair for left-handed people living in a right-handed world. Because most of the thing is created by right-handedness and it is only benefit to those right-handed people but not left-handed. Example, words. For normal people, they will start to write from left to right with their right hand, unfortunately, left-handedness also need to write from the same way, and it is not convenience for left-handed people. When those people who wrote with right hand, they can see n read the word while they are writing...however, left handed people they can't, because their hand is blocking the way when they are writing. This even cause the bottom of their palm become dirty because their hand is rubbing the words when they are writing.


Come to computer mouse, i did switch the mouse to left side when i owned a very 1st pc. However, it was so inconvenience for those who was trying teach me to operate the pc. Therefore, i swicthed the mouse to right side and learn to use the mouse with my right hand :S


Still remember when i was about 8yrs old, i attended my parent's muslim friend's wedding. Muslim people do not really use spoon and fork to eat, they prefer to use hand to eat their food because they feel that the food will be more tasty by using hand. So, to follow their culture and respect them, i tried to use my hand to eat their yummy spicy curry rice~Suddenly one of an muslim uncle came to me ask me use my right hand to eat instead of left hand. I was so confused and curious why he said so....i just finised my dishes faster and got away from there. Then, one day my primary school teacher tought us about culture of malaysia. She said " It is better to use our right hand to give thing to muslim people. Even when they eat, they use their right hand too." Then i asked " why not using left hand instead of right hand? What so wrong with their left hand?" Then she explained to me that muslim use their left hand to clean their very "private part", thats why it is very rude to use your left hand to shake hand with them. Then i was like OH MY GOSH! LOL! No wonder ~.~"


Since that so many people shown me that it was not good to use left hand to do things, so i tried hard to switch it to right hand (i even brush my tooth using left hand)!!!Until one day, someone told me that actually left handed people are very special and most of them are GENIUS!!! Unfortunately, I don't really feel that i am special and my IQ is quite low >.>" Hmmm....I am lazy to type such a long essay and i know some people wont get interest to read it xD


So, to get to know more about left handed info, there are some webbie available! Such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handedness & http://www.lefthandersday.com/. Now only i know there is an International Left Handers Day on 13th of August ! Woohoo!! but too bad it is not a public holiday :p

And, there is a city in UK selling just left-handed tools like knives & scissors but too bad i already forget which country and what is the name of that city >.< !
Hope i can find it out someday ^^