Life Hacks on Hi from Dwipal

Plan your travel?

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:04:00 +0000

There are 2 kinds of people when it comes to travelling:

Those who plan the whole trip out in detail
Those who don’t

I recently had a discussion with someone going to Europe through a travelling company (so was a package tour, everything included) on how in-depth they had planned the trip. They had talked with other people who had taken the same trip, and had a detailed plan on what to do each day, what to eat at which place, where to shop, where not to shop, what shows to see, what clothes to take, what care to take at each hotel, etc. They had notes that the Pizza you get at the Leaning Tower was not good, and they will need paper napkins on their first day in Paris because they will be served food out of a box.

Now, it is definitely going to make their trip a more comfortable, but then it sort of killed the whole excitement about going to a new place. There were no surprises left in the trip, everything they were doing was excepted. Also, their trip now got biased from the experiences of people they talked to. They also knew the jokes that the tour guide will make, which won’t be funny any more.

Some planning is always good to do, so you don’t end up in a mess, but planning like this is spoiling the trip. Next time you plan a trip, leave some place for exploration in that :). You might end up doing something totally unexpected, and will totally love it. As it is said, plan but don’t overplan.

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None (August 10, 2006):

Wow!! Cool Blog:D

A way to prevent spending..

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:54:00 +0000

Starting March 5th, I had decided to put a 1 month moratorium on all the spending except basic necesseties like food and drinks. There were multiple instances during these 10 days where the moratorium saved me from spending, which I would have done otherwise. This is specially to stop spending money on ‘impulsive purchases’, which are the things that you don’t need.

If you feel strongly for buying something, make sure you don’t buy it for a few days. It will kill the desire of unwanted spending, and will actually make you happy that the money didn’t go wasted. Now, even after a few days, if you feel the need of that item, then you can go ahead and buy it. Most of the time, you won’t :).

Following are the list of items I would have bought otherwise:

Sony Erricson P910 PDA Phone
Building a custom DVR (Tivo)
Playstation 2 with Katamari Damacy

So, during this time, I have learned to delay purchasing anything by atleast 10 days. If you can live without it for that time, you probably don’t need it.

Enjoy! D.

p.s. I am not sure how long this kind of control will last, and the bubble will burst ;)

Static.. Static... Static!

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:02:00 +0000

Its winter time, the time to wear warm clothes, time to turn on the heaters, time to wear shoes all day long, and time to get shocked every time you touch something metal. I digged some sites on the net to find out how to avoid getting shocked, and tried the various methods.

Here are some practical things you can do:

Touch the metal surface with other metal surface. For example, touch the car door with your key first (make sure you are touching the metal part of the key). This way, the spark will be between the key and door, and u will not feel it.
Discharge yourself first before touching anything metal. You can do this by touching a wall or any other (non-plastic) surface before touching the metal sufrace.

Enjoy!