In the last blog, I spoke about resolutions taken on New Year and how instead, I accomplished mine on the New year's day rather than taking a resolution on New Year's itself. Well to pour water on whatever any1 thought it was, by calling it a resolution, I was probably, using a misnomer. I seriously cant/shouldn't call it a resolution when all I wanted to do was to own a MP3 player and without paying for it. Yes this was it, this was the so called 'resolution' that was accomplished. So basically, I did not have any resolution at all.
I basically wanted a Mp3 player for a long time, but just that I wasn't prepared to spend money on it. So I had to wait, and wait painstaking for a long time. Not that i was in any hurry though. Just because the majority of the world was moving forward to the Mp3 player zone, I didn't have to follow the bandwagon. Also I do have to state that I am always slow and wait for a long time to catch up with a fad by which time its a fad no longer. So basically at that point my wish to own something is not to be a part of the fad but for my satisfaction. Again, I would probably go to lengths as to acquire it by least expensive means as possible. That's not a fact of me being a miser, its just that, quite a few of those things, I view as not being a necessity at all. Really its a luxury rather than a necessity and there is no reason to blow money on it right?? So if its possible that you can get one by simply waiting for much longer time and paying lesser money or no money at all why hurry??
So there is this credit card that gives me points for all the purchases, and with points I can redeem for whatever I wish for. So all I had to do was wait till I accrued enough to get an Mp3 player. Simple isn't it. And we make the points through daily regular purchases, that are necessities!!
MORAL of the Story:- Patience yields better rewards (ya like you needed some1 else to tell you this right!! I know I know, I am beating my chest and proclaiming that I am intelligent- talk about narcissism!!)
There is though a resolution within this resolution itself (sheeshh sounds like a lot of looping-like in a computer program). The resolution was, whatever the Mp3 player is its not going to be an iPod!!
So for all those who assumed when I spoke of MP3 player that its an iPod-- that's a testament to how much Apple has captured the market in that segment!! I thought of Zune, but as crappy as that player is, I dropped the idea in a hurry (no I am not going to talk about Zune's Pros n Cons- read a review for the same, and this isn't one!!). So since my wont was a larger capacity MP3 player (i certainly didn't need a nano, the larger bulkier ones are really no issue to me, again the cost of nano for lesser capacity for just the reason it being smaller makes no sense to me. I need a higher return for my dollar spent- a higher ROI if you will, and a 30gig-at least makes good sense), I hunted for alternatives and the result?????????????????
A CREATIVE ZEN VISION M 30GB!!
Yes slightly thicker than iPod, but more features, brighter more vibrant screen, and a better player (not cos I own it, cos almost all reviews say so!! and not by much, still it is at least as good as iPod if you want to be different). Just to give you a hint look at all user reviews in circuit city website for reference as a starter. Oh yeah, it doesn't hurt to get the best MP3 player of 2006 award from cnet too! So there a alternative for all those who seek to be different!!
I seek to be different, because as Thalaivar would say..............................................
"Yen Vazhi Thanee Vazhi" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, January 15, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
OK A NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!............and resolutions!
Yikess, its been more than a month since I blogged so here goes.................
What better topic than when a New Year presents itself (come to think of it, I am wondering how many blogs has been written about the same topic, but not that, that is going to stop me, will it??).. so here goes.. (did I say this before????)
So there we have, another year blown past, another year, that simply was in too much hurry to go somewhere (or catch a train)!! Well that the general consensus anyway! While for most people that is the case, I somehow beg to differ. They say (who are 'They'??) that when everything is going fine, things tends to speed up and when nothing is going right, the time just grinds to a halt! Its like the second needle never moves?? Is this even possible?? You know as well as I do its all perspective isnt it?? But that said, I do have to say I felt that the year for me moved slowly (ya ya I know after all that talk about perspective, I dont have the right to say it, but heck I am human too :P). I have had friends who atrribute this to me getting old (smug look on the face- people who said this would know). Well thats their perspective (Here now I begin my customary habit of digressing- I have used the word perspective soo much already here, that maybe I need to change title to "New Year and Perspective", but I won't). Why exactly did I feel this way?? well for one, I was waiting for the last quarter of the year to go to India and ppl who are abroad can understand how much the yearning to go to home country one always feels, dont they?? Its like the mother ship is calling us home (wondering, since our home land is often referred to as motherland, is that why the parent ship got the female gender?? Oh, well the inanimate objects and their genders).
Now why exactly did I have to wait till last quarter?? Duh!! Well for all those who know me, they know my reasons, and for all those who dont, I dont think they would be interested in my reasons, so I will leave it at that.
At this point you are probably wondering that this guy was to talk about resolutions and there is nothing about it till now (well I will get to it, also this way I can drag the blog to sizeable proportions :D-- there a long word starting with 'p' and not the word perspective... Oh Darn it!!)
So yes, coming to resolutions?? Whats with all this New Year resolutions anyway?? Who started this trend or custom or whatever you wish to call it (I certainly would like to pound that person). Why is the need to identify to do or to resolve to do something from a New year day only?? What ever happened to the sound byte of 'Right Here Right Now'?? Sant (translated-saint) Kabir famous for his Dohaes (two line verses) once said 'Kal Kare so Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So Ab! (Do today what you put off to do tomorrow, and do it now what you are going to do today) Simply put, the same Right Here Right now!! (Now maybe some1 who understood this Great Man's Dohaes and translated in a catchy manner for the English audience, I am pretty sure no one knows who came up with this 'right here right now' catchphrase do they??)
So why the resolution to wait for New Year anyway?? Is it like an added incentive to goof off till then?? If so are resolutions generally met when taken on New Year's?? Statistically (now dont ask me which statistics and from where) more than 70% of New Year resolution are never made good, so if at all you are going to break it, why wait?? Additionally if you are going to be successful, then why wait too??
Never really makes sense to me and I am beginning to feel that I am beating around the bush. Anyway, I did not have a New Year resolution, but did have a resolution, and it was met on New Year (now isnt that nice to have a resolution and meet it on New Year's, that way we can remember when we acheived it). It was more fun that way!! and the New Year was off to a great start and good feeling!
Signing off all smiles and grins!!
What better topic than when a New Year presents itself (come to think of it, I am wondering how many blogs has been written about the same topic, but not that, that is going to stop me, will it??).. so here goes.. (did I say this before????)
So there we have, another year blown past, another year, that simply was in too much hurry to go somewhere (or catch a train)!! Well that the general consensus anyway! While for most people that is the case, I somehow beg to differ. They say (who are 'They'??) that when everything is going fine, things tends to speed up and when nothing is going right, the time just grinds to a halt! Its like the second needle never moves?? Is this even possible?? You know as well as I do its all perspective isnt it?? But that said, I do have to say I felt that the year for me moved slowly (ya ya I know after all that talk about perspective, I dont have the right to say it, but heck I am human too :P). I have had friends who atrribute this to me getting old (smug look on the face- people who said this would know). Well thats their perspective (Here now I begin my customary habit of digressing- I have used the word perspective soo much already here, that maybe I need to change title to "New Year and Perspective", but I won't). Why exactly did I feel this way?? well for one, I was waiting for the last quarter of the year to go to India and ppl who are abroad can understand how much the yearning to go to home country one always feels, dont they?? Its like the mother ship is calling us home (wondering, since our home land is often referred to as motherland, is that why the parent ship got the female gender?? Oh, well the inanimate objects and their genders).
Now why exactly did I have to wait till last quarter?? Duh!! Well for all those who know me, they know my reasons, and for all those who dont, I dont think they would be interested in my reasons, so I will leave it at that.
At this point you are probably wondering that this guy was to talk about resolutions and there is nothing about it till now (well I will get to it, also this way I can drag the blog to sizeable proportions :D-- there a long word starting with 'p' and not the word perspective... Oh Darn it!!)
So yes, coming to resolutions?? Whats with all this New Year resolutions anyway?? Who started this trend or custom or whatever you wish to call it (I certainly would like to pound that person). Why is the need to identify to do or to resolve to do something from a New year day only?? What ever happened to the sound byte of 'Right Here Right Now'?? Sant (translated-saint) Kabir famous for his Dohaes (two line verses) once said 'Kal Kare so Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So Ab! (Do today what you put off to do tomorrow, and do it now what you are going to do today) Simply put, the same Right Here Right now!! (Now maybe some1 who understood this Great Man's Dohaes and translated in a catchy manner for the English audience, I am pretty sure no one knows who came up with this 'right here right now' catchphrase do they??)
So why the resolution to wait for New Year anyway?? Is it like an added incentive to goof off till then?? If so are resolutions generally met when taken on New Year's?? Statistically (now dont ask me which statistics and from where) more than 70% of New Year resolution are never made good, so if at all you are going to break it, why wait?? Additionally if you are going to be successful, then why wait too??
Never really makes sense to me and I am beginning to feel that I am beating around the bush. Anyway, I did not have a New Year resolution, but did have a resolution, and it was met on New Year (now isnt that nice to have a resolution and meet it on New Year's, that way we can remember when we acheived it). It was more fun that way!! and the New Year was off to a great start and good feeling!
Signing off all smiles and grins!!
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