We had our product release today, it was great! We had to ,if we wanted to, bring a item of clothing that represents one of our regional locations. Paris, Chicargo, Australia and England. So What I did was I raced down to Harrods with the thought that they'd might have American baseball gear - to my dismay, they didn't. I rushed to Oxford street and found a clothing outlet that featured the Chicago White Sox gear - which was perfect as my 2nd and 3rd choices( the Adidas store and Selfridges both closed). So picked this jacket up which actually i found pretty cool looking so wasn't to worried about buying it especially for the launch. Before i headed off to Harrods, I went passed a store that had a new York yankees cap(at this point I had no idea I'd find a chicago jacket) soI bought it with the provisio that I'd not get anything else that evening for the release tomorrow - and I'd have at least a america base ball team cap.

Anyway, so there you go and actually it turned out so good. They whole look was pretty authentic. At the office we had the big screen streaming a live office picture to anyone in the company to see what we were doing in London - later on we'd planned to have a global sign-on but until then we kept a live stream open.

But then things got cool - our CTO bought us a London Xbox and basically jumped around a second screen(see below) using the Kinect addon while the rest of the world just watched :-)

As the rest of the world came online, we got pictures of them showing various ways they were celebrating the release, the one above shows how the French organised croissants and a cup of coffee to represent the version of our release, 5.0 - i found this particularly cool.

Anyway It was a day to remember and I'm glad we all enjoyed it in a truly global way and had so much fun doing so.

Whatever happened to running away, forgetting everything and just going and see where you end up?

Sometimes I think our whole lives are built in blocks that we plan just before we do them and then at the end, we look and realise that we were just making space and those blocks were just place holders, not waiting for the boxes to invent themselves around us, or better letting them invent themselves around us.

Sometimes I think that at times we're running out of life. Its so easy to become content with waiting. It becomes normal and i fear that waiting leads the unenviable from happening - realising that you've done nothing really with your life and you've just spent it - thinking that, like a salary, it can be just spent - but we forget that there is so much more we can do with our lives.

I often feel that our flaws are the truest reflection of who we are, because they are so evident and so explicit and we are mostly left afterwards thinking about them because they happen, and we are left trying to understand why but that just goes to show how they explain who we are and that is humbling. So sometimes I look at my character flaws and sometimes think that I should not, as I seem to want to, try to mask my flaws or train them based on something else, by someone else - but rather uderstand them and facilitate them in a constructive way that makes me feel right. Because, essentially when you feel you are at your most normal, you are comfortable and calm and at peace - i;d like that. For instance, this year I have tried to change my reaction, suppress my default emotional stimulations to scenarios and events because I read that they only muddy rational and clear thinking and that in order to think in a logical way, one must rid oneself of such emotion. I've realised that this goes against who i am essentially and recently, its troubled me. Another instance is not defending, socially. Most often i don't feel the need to defend myself when people aren't the most truthful about me or about things that concern me, because essentially - I don't need to defend myself as I'm not threatened by things like this because i know that mostly its rubbish and I don't need to defend myself to prove specifically to myself that this is the case. now, I've thought about this long and hard and you must know that with everything that there is, their is that which counter acts it - moderation is that which manages this balance of everything and this too applies to my two previously mentioned character flaws.

I think essentially it comes to not absorb the opinions of others and to trust who you are - because essentially thats all you are.

So in ending this rather pathetic blog post, I leave you with this thought that you should try to do the things that make you happy, and don't be too afraid to fail and dont try to change if you liked it they way it was before.