Monday, July 13, 2009

Greeting cards

Lately, I have been trying to find some nice greeting cards for my Fiance... and I figured that there are hardly any nice cards that you get in US.
I am a big cards person and used to give cards for no reason (ask my best friend Priyanka). I realized that you get such nice cards in India of any occasion or just like that cards that I always got more than one card whenever I went to the card shop. Archies, Hallmark, and etc. say the right feelings whats on your mind. But here, I have been so many times and hardly get a good card. I end up buying a card just because I like it but dont end up giving it.
And when I was trying to find a reason why dont I like the cards here, I found that its culture difference. The way we think is a little different than the way people think here. The expression style is different. Plus, since arrange marriage is part of our culture we get cards for every phase of this period... here its not like that...
And, the cards are way more expensive.. starts from $2. I dont know what are the rates in India now, but I could have bought 5 cards in $2. And the nicer, little decorated cards are around $5. Now thats a lot!
Anyways, if you know of some better card shops in US, let me know! I need cards to express myself... :D :)

Friday, July 3, 2009

A quote worth remebering all the time...

A friend once wrote to me this - “Say you write a really bad code and I say to you that, wow, this is amazing work. Is that going to make you happy? I bet not. Similarly when you create an amazing thing, and I say that I don’t like what you did, how would that affect you? Apart from the fact that I did not show my approval. Say, I am a person who you hardly care about…then what? Would it matter to you? Things bother you today in office because, these are people who you attach importance to – your peers, managers, etc. But, when you do that, you are getting trapped into an illusionary circle right? If we decide that we cannot live without caring about what people think or say, why don’t we apply the same concept to the top most level and care about what our heart feels. Because, once we answer to the calls of our hearts, the rest does not matter. They will settle down by themselves.”

I agree to this completely... Gotta train the brain... :). Thanks :).

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I sometimes wonder... why dont I learn from my past experiences and try to improve. Is it because I dont care? No, but I do care, I think I dont give it due importance.

Learning from past experiences is important. I need to learn to keep them in RAM rather than in the hard drive, so that whenever a situation comes, I dont forget about it. It would have been really cool if I could register a signal, and the signal would have called me whenever a situation like that occurs. God, give me a computer brain with some awesome Operating system.

Sorry, too much of geeky post... could not help, too much of geeky work caused this. So, blame the work I am doing, not me. Anyways, back to some doc... till then, CTRL+ALT+DEL->Lock this computer.