Happy Pi Day, y'all! :D

1) It's Pi Day So Let's Get Ready to Humble by Mudge
2) beLIEve by TrulyEpic

The fact that when people tell you they want to give you a lift or help you out in some way, they actually seem to mean it. I come from a culture when you offer to do something for someone (say, pick up a package at the post office) not only out of the goodness of your heart, but for a whole host of other reasons - they're older than you, they outrank you, etc. So when I would say, "Oh, it's no problem" to offers, because I'm expected to, in case they want to opt out, I was genuinely shocked when people said, "If I didn't want to, I wouldn't have offered." Wow. I liked the sincerity!

*life not left, hahaha

I'm Thai and I have a number of friends who changed their names because they felt their old ones weren't particularly auspicious. One friend swore his left got better after he did so, citing several concrete examples.

A friend of my brother's has a really great naming story. He and his 3 brothers were all named by a hermit monk who lived deep in the forest (yes, he's old school!). His parents hiked through the forest with each of their kids as babies so they could be specially named by this monk. Each of them is healthy and quite successful, and they attribute it partly to their name.

I'm thinking its a psychological thing, but to each their own. :)