A busy summer ahead

Well its going to be a busy busy summer ahead. Had been to the HCI conference the week before last, followed by all the running for the planning for the Europe trip. Yes for those whom I haven't gloated over yet, I am going to Europe but fear not I will be going only to Bulgaria. Well, why not elsewhere? coz they wouldn't give me a visa in the short time that I have left :(
So maybe the rest of Europe will have to wait for some other time.
2 weeks in Bulgaria is going to be followed by my folks joining me in 2nd week of June. So it is going to be pretty happening the next 2 months or so after that. And add to that A & K moving for good to the bay area in June, and it is all a recipe of a pretty eclectic summer :) I do like that.
That gets me thinking on how it seems like yesterday when 2007 started, just like yesterday when I got my new car, just like yesterday when I had that awesome time at graduation.... Some of these memories are so vivid, I wonder why. Like just the other day we were talking about how some of us remember things when we were like 3-4 years of age. A time when you still did not even have a concept of memories, a time when you just lived for the day and forgot that your friend had taken your favorite toy the day before. But why is it that, even from that age some memories stick with you till maybe the end of your life?
The brain has lot of mysteries and this is very well one of them, you remember really random things from eons ago and forget important errands assigned to you just a day back. Like for instance I remember my memories from nursery school where I used to be so scared of Santa Claus, especially when I could see below the false mustache and beard that it was actually someone else. And there is that other picture of my mom forcing me to drink my milk when I really didn't want to, well I think I was traumatized enough by that one to remember it :)
Maybe there is something in each of those memories which triggered something in my head and seared them there for good.