Say how do you keep ice on your gates?
How do you laugh at the sun with your eye closed? Read the rest of this entry »
Though Christmas is more than one month away, today I couldn’t resist entering a store of Christmas decorations. I always feel like Alice in Wonderland in that kind of stores. All of a sudden I could swear that Santa exists and Read the rest of this entry »
Three days ago I attended FOWD.
In about one year and a half since I’ve arrived here, I came to love New York City.
I love it for the life, the energy that it radiates. I love it for the very blue skies on which the clouds seem to be endlessly creating art pieces.I love it cause it made me feel so “at home” from the very first moments. I love it for the possibilities that if offers. For here you can do or find anything, at any time.
But most of all I love it for its diversity.You need to live in such a cultural conglomerate in order to see what reactions it awakens deep inside you, in order to realize that no matter how open minded you think you are, prejudices have still a very well set place inside.And it shocks you. And it makes you want to change, to evolve. And you take a look at the people around you and you try to adapt. And day by day you get closer and closer to the New World’s mentality. One day you change your coffee, next day you change your shopping habits, then the attitude towards one person, and one person leads to the next and so on. But there, there lies the greatest danger of all, of waking up one day and finding a stranger in the mirror, of losing yourself in this enormous bowl of thoughts and ideas.
Yesterday I watched an interview with Johnny Depp who, being asked why he refused a lot of screenplays, stated at some point “I didn’t want to be their product”. Well, I don’t want to be a New York product either. I want to be me living in New York. I want to make a difference here by being myself, by doing things my way. To build my very own version of the American dream. Because that’s where the beauty of this city stands: in its diversity.
People go by while I drink my Caramel Macchiato and try to wake up with a cigarette. People in a hurry, sleepy, singing, worried, tired, bored, happy, needy, laughing or crying. People, each carrying their own pack of wishes for the day. And as I watched them go by I kept thinking: “Is that a happy face there?” So a few minutes go by and then a few hours with meetings, code, words, smiles, venting or just keeping silent.
And then it hit me. Emptiness. I felt it so deep inside that it was almost impossible to bear. The kind of emptiness that hurts. Not missing, not needing, not longing for anything at all. Just lacking. The kind of emptiness that a pair of Calvin Klein (shoes, duh!) can’t possibly wash away. The kind that a good cup of coffee can’t scare. One of those moments when you wish you had somebody’s shoulder to hang on to. And then you realize that there is nobody anymore. And you wish you were in a movie where the asphalt would crack right in front of you with melodramatic music in the background. Those are the scariest moments. The ones that could make you make the same mistakes again and again.
But then again, at the end of the day Sunnyside is always sunny…
I think there are two kinds of people in this world.
The first kind are the ones who dream and fight for their dreams.With the good and bad, with their ups and downs, they fall and they stand tall again, remembering each time what they are looking for.
The second kind are the ones who had a dream, but Read the rest of this entry »
It’s been interesting, to say the least. First of all, it was my first time on a boat. So as expected, I was a bit sea-sick.Fortunately one of my colleagues saved me and after one Dramamine(?) and 20 mins later I was already dancing. Secondly, the feeling of the wind running through your hair is divine. When I watched the waves so close I had this feeling of freedom and somehow power. Well, it sort of changed during the 20 mins of sea-sickness, but still…
Here are a few of the photos taken. Click on them or here for more.
Pouring rain down New York City. For one full day already. Around midday as I was admiring the water running down the empty streets who was also stealing the job of the car washers today, I saw a lady with a hooded rain coat, holding the umbrella for Read the rest of this entry »
It looks like I was “challenged” in Kirupa’s blog to write “Five things that you may not know about me”. Now I’m not sure who would care about my so fiercely kept secrets, but anyway:
1. My love for the web started Read the rest of this entry »
Today I discovered three gadgets on the net that made me say to myself: “one of these days I gotta have these”. Here they are:
OQO 2
Nokia N800
Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard