Small Little Things: "Did You Mean to Attach Files?" - sais my Gmail to me

.. and just when I was sure I knew all the Gmail secrets, I run into this: (click on the picture bellow)

If you're the type of person that likes well done stuff from the first try, it can definitely save you from the embarrassment of  sending the classic "and this time with the attachment.." - email.

Else, it's just interesting to know that google is parsing what is supposed to be your personal messages.

Not such big news though, they do it in order to display the famous adds, anyway, and most people can live with it :)

Some particular reasons why I loved this Easter

Easter was almost a week ago, but I still feel like I'm on holidays.

Of course that there are the usual reasons - mostly religious - or related to the fact that most people have a few days away from work.

Here are my personal reasons why this Easter was special:

• I was home - Such a small detail, I never gave it too much importance. Not until last year when I was coming back to Denmark, after 2 vacation weeks spent in Romania, right before the Easter Sunday.. that was sad, being alone in the airport, waving to my mom, so close but yet so far way, going to Denmark, where they already had Easter a week before (the Protestant one).. but this time I got to spend the day with my family at home. 
• The Greek Orthodox Easter was on the same day as the Catholic and Protestant Easter. Not to many non-orthodox people in the area I'm living in, but still, it gave me the feeling of a more global-christian reason of joy :) This is a rare event, it only happens once in a few years.
• It was on the same day as my birthday - what a coincidence, huh? Couldn't hope for a better present!
• Weather in Romania was wonderful - we went to visit our grandparents and had our first family lunch out in the yard (first one, this year, I mean). Plus a long walk through the woods nearby. Pictures here.
• One thing I DO HATE about Easter, didn't happen this time.

I'm speaking about those pathetic messages people usually send at midnight(when Jesus resurrected) to all the persons in their address book. At least this is how the 'tradition' goes like in Romania. I used to get them from people that I only met once, and somehow got to exchange numbers, from ex-classmates that usually don't call me at all during year, or from people that from some objective reason I periodically meet, but somehow they don't inspire very positive and Christian feelings (you see, I tried to put it in a nice way).

Of course, totally unpersonalized messages, speaking about the Easter bunny (it's the real spirit of Easter, according to some people), presents such as Ferrari cars (the best way to show our love to our friends and family, according to the same people from before), chocolate bunnies (eating them is the best way to feel loved, in case you're alone on Easter - this is what I heard). Of course, the best ones are those combining the upper themes with things such as crucification, light, faith, Jesus Christ, God, sacrifice, etc.. and the list of blasphemies could continue.. :D

And if someone's feeling uninspired (just as me today), here in Romania we even have specialized websites where you can find them ready-made. Just take care that your friends don't use the same ones, then you're in trouble!! Or not, if you're not like me and you don't care that much about what you say, to whom you say, bla-bla-bla...

Well, this year I got none of these. I only got in return (and sent) normal messages, emails and phone calls, personalized, warm, and decent.. Thank you all!

Just curious, is it because customs changed in Romania while I was away, or maybe because meanwhile I have been deleted from a few address books? And if the customs changed, what's the new fashion like nowadays?

Bergen Trip - So Long Ago

This was in November, last year, when we decided we want to explore Norway's fjords.

So we did one of the 'Norway in a nutshell' trips. Me and FA (aka Fabulous Ana) decided that was the right time to do it, since we were both in Denmark at that time. And since DK is reasonably close to Norway..

I remember we carefully organized the trip in every detail, and afterwards we sent an invitation to all the people/foreigner groups/students we could think of - more than 100. Moreover, we also specified that friends of friends are most welcome to join. Of course, by the end, people came up with various excuses (like too expensive/too cold/too boring/too Scandinavian). But we still found Faye that joined us :D So it turned out to be a girls' trip out in the wild Norway (ha-ha), with lots of eating, drinking, chatting, picture-taking, and laughing. 

And now, here comes the big mystery: the was one more guy who said we would join us and had already bought the plane ticket. At least this is what he replied to me by email. Indian, studying robotics at DTU. I remember nothing more about him, we never met. I kept sending him messages, about when and where to meet, until the last day. He never showed up at the airport. We spent like 20% of our chatting time making assumptions about what really happened to him. Until this day, I didn't find out whether it was just a bad joke (if yes, then why?) or something bad happened to him (I still hope it's my first guess).

The tour itself was made out of small parts, where we were supposed to travel either by bus, train or boat. The landscape there is beautiful. Still, my best memories consist in three other things:

• 1- the fish soup we had in one of the villages - something creamy with pieces of salmon - it was yummy... oh yeah, sine we're talking about fishy food (yum yum), the fish market in Bergen really got my interest..
• 2- all the troll stories I heard from a guide, quite intriguing. Now, I'm sure she only told us the same story that she keeps telling to tourists each day, but somehow the combination between her short stories, the wet and rocky landscape, the roofs with grass on top and the small ugly troll figurines I saw in shops managed to raise my interest. I became fascinated by Scandinavian mythology, traditions, old beliefs etc after this trip.
• 3- listening to Edvard Grieg's 'Morgenstimmung' -  Morning Mood - on one of the tour buses. Quite-spring inspiring..

Didn't take too many good pictures of the nature there, the light was not strong enough to make the green-‘autumnish’ colors look right.

That's why I think most of them look faded and boring. Anyway, played a long time ago with the pictures, - (see them HERE) now it's time to upload them, no matter how bad they look like..

And no, the are NOT PhotoShoped, they're GIMPed :)

Also I got FA's permission to upload some of her pictures, much better than mine - only because of the camera :p

PS: Indian robotics engineer (who in November 2009 studied at DTU in Denmark), if you ever read this, please contact me to tell me you're alive!!! - but not before you check out the trip PICS, to see what you missed :p