Happy Holidays

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Wish all of a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year!

 Normally during the end of the year, we hear the top ten list (pictures, movies, books, etc).  Keeping that trend, here are some good movies I saw this year (what I remember): The Way, Anmal (Hindi), The Way Back,  The magic of Bella Isle, The Last Love, The Little Boy, The road within, Like Sunday Like Rain, Dhanak (Hindi),  Winter in Wartime, The Artist and the Model, The Boy With Stripped Pajamas, Night Train to Lisbon ... 

Let me talk about an interesting micro-trend I saw in our community this year (or I observed it now ... I am slow observer)

This year we had lots of graduation parties, 16th birthday, 25th anniversary and 50th birthday celebration.  In quite a few, there was "color theme"  based dress requirement.  After saying "Yes" to the "evite", I don't pay much attention to the reminders as long as I know the date, time and place to go and so  quite a few times, I end of with wrong color but properly dressed for the occasion. Why is the need for a "color theme" based party?

Being a data person, I said, let me do analysis .. I started taking pictures and doing some image analysis but things got busy and I ended up with the traditional manual classification model. My wardrobe consists of: 80% is black, grey, blue (jeans) and rest 20% of other colors (of 20%, I don't like half of them ...  they are there .. need to get rid of them).
 
If I don't have the right color for the occasion, what should I do? I do not force myself to go and buy one (and never use it again  .. not an idea I support ... )

May be it is time to follow the simple dress code like Steve Jobs or Johnny Cash. When I proposed the idea ... it got voted down. May be I may not get invited ... but these days most of invitations come because of my wife or kids ... I just have to tag along ... with whatever I have :-). 

Enjoy the holidays! The world is already colorful ...  we just have to see it! I am just 1 pixel with the right color already!

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(I am going to take a break from the blog ... need to think for 2017)

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