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File this one under stranger than fiction.

So I grabbed a copy of Microsoft Encarta 99, which is a multimedia encyclopedia. Now, this isn't even close to the latest version, as I know there's Encarta 2001. Anyway, how and why I was looking at it wasn't important, but the fact I was looking at it is.

Encarta has a section various cities of the world. I chose Hong Kong. With this software, there is a feature which displays a 360 panoramic view of different landmarks in HK. I was goofing around when I saw "Ladder Street." Intrigued, I clicked there. When I panned the view in a circle, I was taken aback.... "I used to live here."

But it's been 20 years since I've been in Canada, and 10 years since last I visited HK. Then again, my incidental memory is extremely sharp, which means I can remember certain minute details that others may overlook, but my overall power of memory is pretty poor. Even when I went back to HK 10 years ago, I was able to get off the bus and walk back to where I lived as a child, and that was more than 10 yrs after the fact. Besides, HK changes so quickly, that buildings were all different. Still, I was able to recognize little things about where I lived, and I got off the bus, and walked back to my old apartment. Amazing.

Anyhow, it's so weird that my neighbourhood is featured in Encarta. No, I cannot see my apartment in the picture, I'm not even sure if it still exists. But how odd that I had a sense of deja vu when I was viewing the picture, because I just knew that I used to live so close to there.

....I have to make time to visit HK soon, before everything becomes too unrecognizable. posted by losir at 10:50 AM