Thursday, March 06, 2003

Have you ever wanted to send someone a greeting card and never could really find the words you wanted in any of the greeting cards that infest the internet?

It has happened with me quite many times. But that is not what confounds me. What vexes me more is that there are some people who are able to find the most precise message on a card from one of the more obscure greeting card sites, as if these greeting cards were waiting to be found by them.

Now, Sukanya and I, the other day, were talking about something. About friendship and and about different adages about friendship were really true and all. Quite an interesting conversation. The very next day, there is a card in my inbox, talking about the same values that we had talked about the day before!

Now, either I am a Hallmark person, in which case I seriously need to head for the mountains, although there are no mountains in Singapore; or Sukanya has a secret tie-up with some online greeting card makers [quite possible, given that many of her articles are online] in which case, a select few people are going to get cards as they want them to be as well; and lastly, and quite incredulously, it just might be that people don't look for cards, cards look for people, and they don't want to be sent by just anyone to just about anyone.

Hmmm...seems like a good story for an animated movie about greeting cards. Disney, Pixar, are you listening?

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