It may look like just a string of letters or words to an ordinary eye, but to the 80-something people who attended our recent Career Event workshop on the 20th October 2007, a handwritten note speaks volumes on the character of a person. In the three-hour workshop, facilitator William Pang taught participants the science of reading a person like a book, simply by analysing the way they write or sign their names.

Known as "graphology," its level of accuracy is amazingly high. As Mr. Pang writes in his book entitled Your Handwriting Tells On You, "Handwriting Analysis is that which affords us an empowering tool to reasonably determine the manifestation of personality attributes such as strength, weakness, happiness, depression, stress, frustration, tension, mental anguish, and event physical ailments."

So take out those old letters from your penpal, greeting cards from your childhood friends or even that proposal recently signed by your boss - and practise your new skill set: Handwriting Analysis.