After all Money isn't Everything!

All that could have been done has been done; for now. I have done brainstorming about the choices i have made and their subsequent consequences. 

A right choice!, A worng choice!, A right choice!, A wrong choice! I don't have a readymade answer to offer but i am confident about the orginality of my decision when i look back in time.  

I look back and all i see  is a tiny, 5 year old boy in navy blue knickers and super white poly-cot shirt standing under a coconut tree singing "jayati jay jay maa saraswati" ( a prayer towards the hindu goddess of wisdom). Getting up early, a cold shower at 5.30 in the morning and boiled rice for dinner were the meaning of life back then. The hunger, so devastating, that you could eat all the snacks brought from home in a single sitting. The days, so long, that you could cross the date on the last page of the diary a trillion times and yet two more periods would have to be attended. The hostel warden, such a witch hunter, that he would know exactly when you sneaked out to buy the biscuits. The locker keys, so cunning, that they will disappear everytime you go to the playground. And the worst, the holidays, so scarce, that they end before you have shown all the cuts and bruises to the mother. 

True, i have moved on, so have the circumstances. Life isn't that tough now. A thing called salary comes in the end of every month and thats why i wake up in the morning. A thing called target remains in my mind all the time and thats why they pay me salary.

But when i get a minute for myself, i brainstorm. I brainsotrm for all that my parents have gone through. All  that i have gone through to get this thing called education. And a herculean question blocks my way. Am i doing justice to myself ? Am i doing justice to the enormous sacrifices my parents have made? Am i doing justice to the strong desire cropping up in me to give it back to the world? And top of everything, Shouldn't i listen to my heart and do what i believe i would love more?

Well! I don't know. There are plenty of things that i dont know. But there is a truth! I am willing to live for others. I am willing to explore, use my potential to shape up the future of some more people, who wouldn't get it otherwise. 

After all "Money isn't Everything"

Anna's fight against corruption - Sacrificing saint or an emotional outburst

Well , it seems the people of india have won something. I don't know what it actually means to win for masses. Anna, has set an example of how things can be improved. As he has said, by defeating the black whites. I think the brown whites rather.
For the people including me, its more like an emotional outburst. The only people I know as government is police. I don't go to the sansad bhawan, I am not a lawyer, my salary comes from a private firm; I am trying to care, as to, why should I care? Whether india is rich or poor? Whether india is india at all or not. I am not benifitting from anything that perhaps a corruption free state will bring as I have never benefited in the corrupt state.
Every time think about such things, my desire to do something good dies down. I am sad about this fact. And I don't know what motivates anna to go on a hunger strike for four days.

Reading Salman Rvshdee in the yr 2010

I have started "enchanters of flowrence " last week. Salman rvshdee has done good job as he always does.

Pragmatically it hovers all over your mind when its dark. you want to leave office early, you wanto to cut your dinner short to a snack or a glass of energizer liquid so that you can quick start reading.

Also, this year has brought me a thing called "clarity from bewilderment". A lot more than what it generally has been around me.

Dont ask why, but it doesnt surprize me anymore on why, how, when things might go wrong.

The thing i still have to learn is "How to start a Venture, How to look for Finance, How to cater market on time."

............... SHORT, SWEET, SIMPLE......................

Wasn't it?

FEDERER 15 .. & counting.

Roger Federer defeated Andy Roddick in a marathon match played in central Wimbledon lawn tennis court last weekend.

Non other than Pete Sampras himself was present to witness the history being made by the greatest tennis player Mankind has ever produced. For 4 hours and 45 minutes; i put my head on the couch and didn't move- for the longest time period in my living memory ( What a coincidence, Ha!)

Andy's assessment ' Sorry Pete, I couldn't hold on.'

Guess what, Roger had already got a blazer with 15 embroidered over it- There aren't many things in this world which can not be predicted. Except the fact that the last game point took both of them 45 minutes to decide over a win or loose.

I recommend you should also see the match. ( The greatest Match of Tennis ever played; thisis what some experts said at that moment.)

GREATER FOOLS THEORY

It a bit complicated to explain as everybody falls in the trap time and again.

It is, as the name suggest a ' Greater fools theory'. You buy something without investigating the realistic cost of an article with a hope that you will be able to sell it to a bigger fool later on. It depends on the ability of a party to find a buyer; as blind and fool- unrealistically optimistic.

A certain section of stock market raises the values to make more money and in the glistening mirage of high returns every body invests in.

This is not good for the health of economy if we always look for high flying returns and don't care for the actual worth. A very good example is the real estate boom, Mortgages in USA. Be better informed- Warren buffet is a realistic / value investor and he is the world's most successful investor.

100 FIRST DAYS

It can't get better than this
When Manmohan Singh; the Best turbaned man i have ever known sets a target for his men and they look forward to achieve the targets.

100 first days look good in the start phase.
I am sure the ministers have sit down with the paper and pen and are bringing up things.

Check out a few of the damn interesting ones:

No Separate board exams any more.

No failing in O Level and A level board exams any more.

Article 377 to be removed / thought to be real soon - You can become a lawful gay.

Coastlines to be saved

Petroleum minister says " Community Kitchen for the women in villages with 5000+ population." ( recall you memory of Hollywood, actors shrugging of shoulders in the community washing centers. Or say Mr. Bean missing his pant with a wrap around.)

I only hope something good comes from the long pockets of Dear Pranab Babu, After all we deserve a better taxing system, a better housing and education loan structure, a better disinvestment plan, better roads, better electrification for my village ( There is no power at all in my village till today), etc, etc,....

THIS IS IT

Yes, this is it. the king of American pop music, the father of moon walk and the biggest superstar of the century; in his own right is gone.

When Michael jackson has deceased, he walked all night in my mind over the moon. His mysterious fly and his glistening jackets- Everyone's dream.

I was waiting for his concerts in London; God didn't like my wait though.

I pray for the peace of his soul. He deserves lots and lots of rest.