Handswriting
June 23, 2005And because most of the people are typing and everything is being typed on the computer, my handswriting became ugly and it looks more uglier now. I am going to write anything I can write and hope to get a nice handswriting back. I remember the time when i was still at school, i was required to have a nice handswriting and it also counted the marks of my examinations so when i actually had to get A + I got A - instead just because of my bad handswriting heheh … and if I was still going on having a bad handswriting, the teacher would give me a punishment to write about 500 lines of “I promise I will change my bad handswriting to a better one.” I was trying my best to write nicely and i finally could have a nice handswriting, at least the teacher found it better than before. I first tried to see how my other friends were writing and I silently followed how they wrote till i could have a good handswriting. The good thing I got from it was that i could have a similar handswriting as my friend who sat beside me. She’s a clever student in the class and I learnt to write nicely also by looking at how she wrote. One day, my teacher saw my handswriting, she was shocked and didn’t believe its my handswriting because it looked similar to my friend’s handswriting. She believed me after my friend told her she didn’t write it for me, eheheheh…
Once after I moved to this country I met my uncle who was born and raised in this country. I saw his handswriting and i was shocked because it really looked like a child’s handswriting. I was thinking how he was at school because according to me his handswriting couldn’t be read unless if he wrote using capital letters. I was thinking about what his teacher had thought and done to him before. Nowadays teachers probably don’t care how bad your handswriting is so long they still can read your handswriting, that’s what I think because if i have to admit, most people here have a bad handswriting and if the handswriting is nice then they have a similar handswriting; oval, big and the alphabets are way too close to each other. For those who live here probably know what i meant and know how the handswriting is. My dad still has an old style of handswriting which he has learnt from the elementary school. He never has a thought of changing his handswriting, nor does he know how to change. An old style, nice one but I unfortunately can’t read what he writes heheheheheh …
same here, my handwriting always was ugly tho, before i typed alot and now its even worse :P
Comment by Papigiulio — June 23, 2005 @ 8:48 pm
interesting - funny how the most basic of things such as hand writing can suffer at the hand of technology. Old saying: “If you dont use it, you will loose it”… heh, thats for most things too!
Comment by Brad — June 24, 2005 @ 12:28 am
I started of with Takhti — a wodden tablet — where I used to practice Urdu caligraphy in junior classes. That has stayed all along. I started English in class 6, and teacher would ask us to write with G nib — a special kind of a pen. That also helped. I some time feel that I my handwriting is changing now.
Comment by Shi — June 24, 2005 @ 3:40 am
:)..
I had the best handwriting once. I used to be a calligrapher and did both English and Urdu then when I went to college, i never touched the pen again except for exams and quizzes. Its sad but still when I look at my old notes I feel happy.
Writing changes overtime so what your uncle has got now is something he wouldn’t have had when he was a child. :)
Comment by TDH — June 24, 2005 @ 4:15 am
My haandwriting had been horrible since ever and since I’m out of school nobody really cares anymore about this. At least as long I can read it evertything is okay :-)
Comment by Kat — June 24, 2005 @ 4:37 am
bad handwriting is okay for rough notes or something like that.
i love my handwriting.
Comment by Raheel — June 24, 2005 @ 10:40 am
I started english in class 1 although my english is still very bad hahahah …
And nice to have a nice caligraphy handwriting TDH, I wish I understand urdu and know how to write :D
Comment by Nahum — June 24, 2005 @ 12:45 pm
If you think your uncle’s handwriting is bad, you should take a good look at mine! It’s abso-frigging-lutely hideous.
Most people who saw my handwriting commented that I really ought to be a doctor. Hahah!
Err, are the handwritings of all doctors in this world damm fugly or it is only in Singapore? Heh.
Comment by jordangoh — June 24, 2005 @ 5:31 pm
exactly… i was thinking the same thing a few days ago… I have forgotten how to write now!!! my handwriting sucks ass!
Comment by frisky? — June 25, 2005 @ 1:58 am
Jordan Goh: I have no idea why doctors always have a bad handwriting but I have ever heard that doctors do that because the handwriting is only for the people who work at Pharmacy to know :D But the doctors in the country I am currently living don’t write the recipt, they only type on the computer, send the recipt to the Pharmacy so we only need to go to its Pharmacy, tell them our names and the medicines will be ready within few minutes ;-)
Frisky: I think that guys have a more unreadable handwriting than girls, huh? :D
Comment by Nahum — June 26, 2005 @ 11:12 pm
I remember back in primary school I used to write using both hands, by that I mean a pencil in my right hand, and my left hand finger to help myself space out the words… although that stopped by the time I got to year 4.
Comment by Kevin — June 27, 2005 @ 5:27 am
hey!!
masalah kita sama aja eui,..
apa kali karena kita kidal??
Comment by bayu — June 28, 2005 @ 5:20 pm
gak tau nih, nulis lurus susah miring susah jg jarang nulis. Ngegunting juga, semua gunting make tangan kanan, jadi kalo make tangan kiri jadi malah jelek guntingannya :))
Comment by Nahum — June 28, 2005 @ 5:36 pm
I’ve seen some “European” handwriting and I was amused that most have big handwriting. I mean, when you compare it with the “asian” hadwriting, it’s a lot fatter and bigger. 0.o Hehe
Comment by Tam — July 26, 2005 @ 12:37 pm
hahaha …. I have to admit that I have a fat, big handwriting as how the European people write here :D
Comment by Nahum — July 26, 2005 @ 2:08 pm