Tommorow is a state holiday in India (Gandhi’s birthday). We (my sister, her husband and I) took a day off on Friday and we are leaving to parent’s house today. This is major difference in lifestyle between a Belgian and an ordinary Indian. For a long weekend, a Belgian would pack bags and go someplace, on the contrary an Indian would just stay home watching TV or in cases like us where we stay far away from parents, we will just go to parent’s house. One might wonder (especially those Belgians), wouldn’t it boring after sometime; the answer is, if not that what else? The infrastructure and other facilities are not conducive. Also the economic mind set of people is different. The western mindset (the Americans on the extreme of the spectrum) is that when money is spent, there is enough money in the market which aids the economy, whereas in this part of the globe it is, money is put in savings (banks especially) which in turn invested to aid the economy. Anyway the matter is, we will be home for next few days eating, resting, watching TV and if I could convince enough then a trip.

Time to time, I recieve appreciation for FOW. This helps me facing my days in these tough days. Just a simple thought that I have helped someone even if in a small way gives a pretty good feeling. A professor in a US university is using it for his classes, a Lacrosse organizer creates his camp pictures, a consumer organization in Netherlands is using it for their intranet and so on. Whenever I read such a mail, it is a great good feeling. The lacrosse organizer even donated for FOW. When I get a PC, I would incorporate more features into FOW; I already got few requests from users.