Blur as ever...

I can be really blur at times. Especially when it comes to knowing relatives from my extended family. For example, I didn't know I had a cousin who studied in the same school as I do until I was in Form 3.

The same thing happened again yesterday when my driving instructor was sending me to the centre.

Instructor: You know ah, the three girls that your dad recommended to learn driving with me last week are your relatives.

Me: Huh? I don't know. All I know is that my dad knows them.

Instructor: But they have same surname as you wor..only different spelling la..uh..something like png or phang....

Me:Ah, I don't know le...

Instructor: True. There's one that live at bla bla then another at bla bla...(the other one's missing)

Me: Huh? I only know one I think. But she live at bla bla wor...I don't know le..

Instuctor: Surely they are your relatives. There's one that looks like you. Like sisters.

Me: =_='''I don't know.

The instructor was probably thinking what kind of person am I for not knowing who her relatives are...

Back at home, the truth was revealed.

It turned out that the three girls ARE my COUSINS. But not 'direct' cousins. My dad and their dads are cousins so we are like cousins also?(I don't know what's the term).

I know who they are, I have seen them before, yet I have no recall of them when my instructor asked me about them. And the one that I thought who lived at bla bla actually lived at bla bla..
Then there's another who turned out to be the cousin who attended the same school as me.*smacks forehead*

My mum was like ''How can you not know about them?'' No comment.

And I knew about the deal with the different spellings of our surnames...O__o So why couldn't I remember?!

I will NEVER really know much about my extended family. Simply because, there's too many!! I bet some of you have the same problem as I do, don't you?