In My Not-So-Humble Opinion

Sometimes it is nice to sit in the dark, don't you think so? You get to relax a bit. No judgmental looks, no bright lights coming from freshly polished cars bought by the tears of crying kids waiting for their fathers to come home. No fancy dolls covered with make up, with their fancy phones, and with their air-kissing clearly displaying the disgust of mutual contact. No plastic, no fakes that cause that vomiting response in your belly for which at that moment you just can't pinpoint the reason why do you actually feel that. You don't need to look at the 100 year old creep in the suit, trying to blackmail a 25 year old secretary to go with him to a business trip. You don't witness those packs of animals devouring the socially awkward kid in the group, you don't get to see the asshole shit all over the people around him. No sharp smiles, fueled by sarcasm, smirking at you as if their hearts pump blood only for you, while actually al...

I have to admit that what I am writing right now is greatly influenced by a song from the soundtrack of BBC's series Sherlock: It is a theme of a story where Sherlock, gets introduced to Irene Adler,or as he called her "the woman". As the story goes,she was the only woman that ever tricked Sherlock, and the only one he ever really loved. However, as a series of events happen, he says farewell to Irene, lets her go, and never looks back. Now, in my opinion this is more then just a cliche love story, and as the song's chords go, I can sense a determination, a strong, conscious determination, a result of a common sense, a mind taught to rationalize and deduce conclusions, where one sees that something ended, and that looking back would just make the things worse. For you, for others, for everyone.   The worse thing that you could do after seeing that something blew up in your face is doing the same thing again.People could wonder why would anyone wan...

As it usually happens, we learn from our own mistakes, or as they say where I come from: "If you get bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the tiniest of lizards".However, it is waaay better if we learn from other people's mistakes, knowing upfront that snakes have a sharp set of teeth will save you some trouble, will it not? Use that wisdom that other people gathered, trust those few good friends you have when they start telling you about snakes and how badly the snake bite hurts. That said, here are several good points from Debbie Millman, an american writer/designer, followed with some of my comments and opinions. I read these opinions of hers and I find them being a subtle example of eternal wisdom. All of the points are well worth the effort of achieving them: If you are not making mistakes, you are not taking enough risks .  True as it gets. There is no such thing as success without leaving your comfort zone.The ship is very safe when it sits in the harbo...

The forever battle, good and bad, yin and yang, light and darkness. Some of these epic face-offs are figurative, philosophical even, others are as real as your appointment with the dentist, or your attitude toward some real-life thingy. I mean imagine your inner war when it comes to adopting new things, new people, adopting change for example? Is this change good for me? Should I go with the flow or just go straight against it? While the philosophical face-offs are a great way to start a discussion and kill (read: lose) time, the real ones affect your lives, my dear friends, they mingle their fingers into the very essence of your character, they mess around with your destiny as if it's their own, and if their meddling means success for you, they get all the trumpets and a parade, and if they fail......meh, it's not their ass on the line isn't it? Imagine yourself, waking up one day and having this fantastic idea that could change the world. You are not completely ...

The beauty of the internet.This wonderful spaghetti network of cables, routers, devices enabling billions of billions of electrons to interact and form those beautiful 1's and 0's rushing through them like cocaine through addict's veins, right up to our laptop/tablet/smartphone screens. This wonderful place where unicorns feed on rainbow stripes and shit colorful M n' M candies. The place REEKS from cries for attention, lost souls searching for their last stand before they vanish, and those others that are in the process of losing their soul. With all those social networking sites anyone of us can make a simple reality check: read the posts from your friends, followers or whichever social drug you're on, and try to think about why did they post just that photo or that status on their profile. You will then see how much pain, how much cries for help are there wrapped up in a song lyric or a vintage-effect photo labeled with a "Keep Calm" clic...

It is really fucked up how real life is so similar to politics.And I am not talking about the life we see on TV in all of those dumb ass reality shows, I'm not talking about a hip hop video, I'm not talking about a crying teenager who is angry that she got a Lexus for her 16th birthday while all she wanted was a Benz (this actually happened, it's somewhere on youtube).I'm talking about a real, ordinary, every day life of someone trying to make it in this world and maybe live through a couple of nice moments here and there.So, in this every day life you meet so many politicians, most of them very close to you, and you don't even know this until they show themselves in their true light. I mean what is politics really?? It is a fight for obtaining and holding power,a fight sometimes verbal, sometimes physical, sometimes without casualties, sometimes through genocide. Sometimes subtle like a silent chess move. But if it is a fight for obtaining power, how is it any d...

Our lives are all just a bunch of beginnings and endings.We are born,we live, we evolve, we grow, we eat, sleep, shit, we do everything and then we die.And that very same day thousands of others are born and they live,eat,sleep and they die as well, and for each one of them thousands of others are born and so on and so forth.... Everything that exists must come to an end, each atom, each corner of our galaxy, each piece of physical matter or abstract thought ends at some point after it begins. Some endings are happy, most of them are sad. Some are as easy as "see you tomorrow" others are as hard and smelly as the heavy silence of guilt.There are endings that people do not notice as they have no value, like the ending of a low budget movie, or the bottom of an empty beer as, fuck it, you will get another one.And then there are endings that people do not understand how destructive they are until they actually happen.It is mostly because people do not want to ...

It's the usual thing, you know? You are about to do something and you kill yourself by thinking it over before you do it, but when you need to quit you're out of that door as soon as you see trouble. Yep,you guessed it right, we have more thinkers then doers, and most of all we have quitters. Never quit just to solve the issue.Quitting is the last resort, so think hard before you run from your problems. Think hard are you really that person that is about to leave his life just to solve an issue, or are you born to resist and fight back.Very often the people will get the best of you, and you will feel as if you are surrounded by enemies. Well you know what they say, once it's happenstance, twice coincidence, three times it's enemy action, so you might even be right.And so what if you are? That does not change the facts that by running away from problems you will not solve a thing. All of you have probably heard of Maria Kiri, which in one occasion said: Life is no...

During an event I attended recently, I spoke to a student with great ambitions, and a company of his own.Really liked the kid,just thought he lacks experience to lead a proper business.When I told him what I think the holes are in his products,well, he kinda became pale and left me to go look for a chair to sit in.Soon after, he left the event. I'm not sure if I did him a favor or killed his dreams, but one way or the other it sure was an experience for him :).Hopefully he learned something from our conversation cause if he did not,he will have to learn from his own mistakes. My point in this text is that I think that there are things kids should be taught in high school (or not later than college) as a lot of stuff around us today promise us a future world where talk is not cheap and money is easy to get. A fast buck for nothing. That will NOT happen. To all high school kids, college students, and everyone that finds any single one from the following 11 ...

All things in this life are relative.All things are limited in time and space, and all that we own or we hope to own is either going to vanish, or we're going to lose it, displace it, forget that we ever had it or wanted it so,so badly.This somehow diminishes the very value of things doesn't it? Somehow, all those shiny little trinkets in life, all those glamorous lives we are constantly poisoned with on TV, all of our carnal desires and political horn-bumpings, it is all going to pass, and if you would strip a man of all of those layers of material and information and dirt, what would you have? What would that tiny little man be left with at the end? His dignity and his humanity.Yes,dignity and humanity. Always remember one thing, we are all human after all, and if someone would take everything from you, they can never take away your dignity. And how true is this? Very true. You see, funny thing how something as feminine and as simple as a red lipstick comes into this...

I said it many times before, talent is like Iron ore or raw steel. By its natural definition, Iron is a pile of minerals and rocks, and it may be tough, it may be rare, it may even be beautiful, but still, it is just a simple rock. Iron needs shaping, good steel is made by heating the Iron up to the point of melting, and then cooling it with cold water. And even then, as that is not enough, physical pressure is added to reinforce its characteristics.Final touch is given by masters that work their magic, by giving the final shape to the steel and turning the initial Iron rock into e.g. a beautiful, yet deadly Japanese katana. So, you see, it takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, and master's hands to start with the Iron rock and finish with the sharpest sword there ever was. Talent is no different. Raw talent is nothing (and never was anything) without firm discipline, hard work, and if not by master's guidance, than, by all means, it has to be led by either rich imagin...

Sadly enough, we live in a world where true friendship is hard to find. Whoever understands this, will keep their true friends (whoever has them), given that he/she has character enough to keep and respect that friendship more then his/hers own interests and satisfactions. Since I mentioned it, respect itself, is another animal we do not see often these days. And if we do see it, we act as if we saw Bigfoot..... and true friends that respect each other should not be Bigfoots they should be alley cats, everyday creatures that you see on the street, in the park, and that you expect to be there as they should. Really what the fuck is going on around us? I mean, since when is being honest a handicap? Since when is being good to someone (friend or anyone for that matter) rewarded with bullshit? Where did humanity make a wrong turn? Rather often I hear things like "being a good person today is similar to being dumb". True story. I even said it once or twice myself, when I ...

.... everybody's fine. Everybody's fine. Not so long ago I was a part of a bigger group of people, a group with who I shared many things.Some of them liked me, some of them hated me.Some of them couldn't stand the sight of me, some of them couldn't stand the idea that they would not see me on daily basis.Things happened, things were happening, things that I do not really want to remember, but I can't do much about it (having this elephant memory of mine). Lines were crossed, that should not be crossed, and I tend to keep those lines as they are. Those lines were and still are one of my life's principles, things that feel and have always felt right to me. Things that make me who I am. Crossing those lines one too many times was an action to witch I reacted, and I left that group of people. The departure was not pretty. It was messy just as all relationship endings are.If it's not messy than probably there was no real relationship there.It left a bad tast...

Trust is not something you get for free.Trust is something you earn. It is a highly complex concept that depends on many, many things but mostly experience, bad or good.There is a big role played by personal attitude, assessment of the situation, so at the end you decide if you should trust someone or not, but, the way I see it our personal experiences have the biggest say in it. Good thing about trust is that once you get it, you get close to the person who trusts you.Once you trust someone, you get close to the person you trust. Being close to other people is a good thing. Bad thing is, once you give it, you get opened (would not want to use the word vulnerable, but, YES vulnerable too) to other people that got your trust.Once you earn someone's trust you get access to their personal stuff that other people do not have.Sooo......being close to other people, sucks???  From this we can deduce a simple dumb truth: trust no one, you'll be alone, trust everyone y...

If it's broken, it's broken. That's what I think at least. I mean you can fix it (if you can't, Chris Martin will surely try, he did say so), but even if it starts working/functioning/showing signs of life, it will never be the same.And what's "it"? Well.....anything :).E.g. a vase.You brake it, you buy some glue, you glue it up/fix it, fill it with water, and it now looks almost the same (lets say we accept "almost" as satisfactory) as you can obviously see the cracks, it has almost the same shape, and it almost gets the job done. Except that it does not, since here and there you get a small water leakage, and those poor plants kept in the vase need that water.But hey, "almost the same as before breaking" is good, right? Yes, it is, however it is not enough.It happens that, in time, the breaking event comes back to haunt you, the glue loosens up, you come back home, you find the vase either back to numerous scattered peaces or without...

So,here is what Wikipedia says about happiness: Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Of course there are other gazillion resources on the subject, but by reading this, happiness sounds like a bottle of beer with one of those popup-sound-novelty-opening mechanisms.You know, you open the beer,it makes the *POP* sound....aaaaand you're happy :). But something that crossed my mind several times in the past couple of days is that happiness is such a relative thing that it is really hard to put it in a sentence and capture the meaning of the real deal.Don't get me wrong, Wikipedia has it right there, it's all true, it is just that one would have to think about concrete examples of happiness to understand it, and that is the moment when it all gets twisted. And when I write about happiness I can't help but to think of a business trip I took to Kinshasa, DR Congo...

Left brain: I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am. Right brain: I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feat. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be. If I would describe myself I think I could be described fully with the left brain's characteristics with a pinch of the right brain.But mostly left....I mean, totally left :) Surprisingly enough,this was a part of a Mercedes Benz Ad.Kudos to the Israeli guys fromY&R Interactive advertising (http://www.yr.com/)...

Now,let's see.....I have an opinion about almost anything.Ok, let's face it I have an opinion about everything.My opinions are not always correct.Sometimes they are as far from being correct as they can be, but still, I have all these thoughts in my head, I have so many things I would like to say,so I will just try and put them here.I am not sure how often I will post.It might be daily,it might be once in a year.However,in a case I feel like saying something, I might come back here.And what will I write about? Well, technically and in essence, I am a software developer (masked as a office manager), and occasionally there will be a post or two about IT,however I will try to keep the hard core geek talk for some other blog.This will be a blog about whatever comes through my head, and trust me, IT is not everything on my mind. What will happen here is that you will get a certain freaky insight in my inner psyche, so if I ever go to a shrink, I hope that he will not use these post...