Opt-out for donations

There is a concept called 'Opt in/ Opt out' in customer management teams where, as the name suggests, customers can opt in or out of certain features in their accounts. Paper statements is a good example, where customers can choose to opt out for paper statements (or opt out in for 'paperless') Sometimes to promote one aspect of the business or to push certain initiatives customers can be 'opted in' by default with the option to opt out. Without going into the details of the benefits of this approach, let me come to my idea.

Looking at the massive shortages in India on organs like eye to life savers like blood, could the govt moot a plan to let all 'usable' organs from a dead person be used for transplats, research, etc unless stated otherwise by the deceased or his/her kin? I know death can be an unimaginably painful experience for people close to the one who has passed away but if we could bring life to others- wouldn't that be great?

Reminiscence

Its funny. I hadnt longed to blog, or visit blogger.com, for a while and an invite to read a friend's blog got me here. Curious to check out my profile, I started reading what my last posts had been and cast an eye over what I had felt important enough to write or things that felt significant to be 'posted' much like a flag along a road one is travelling. For it to be that one captured moment to be looked at later in one's life.

I read my post on 21st Jan earlier this year when Mansi and I were in Nottingham and were about to move to our new apartment. Coincidentally, about 11 months later I am back to the blogging site, we are in a different continent and have bought our first apartment (the indication that more are to come is intentional:)) and moved in a couple of weeks back!

What a milestone thats been!

After coming back from Notts, some savings from the trip and a slight depression in the prices of properties in Bangalore, we thought we'd take the plunge and bought the apartment. We hoped that it would be reasonably painful with the documentation for the bank, hassle of getting the place painted, moving in, et al. But it has been SO much more painstaking! We seem to have almost reached there. Four spent weekends later we have got 90-95% there with what we'd like to start with... Below are some pics of the complex and the apartment as well..

Till something else comes up- ta!