Why you would be a looser in the "Share Market" Part 2

 Walking through my street, i saw a group of kids playing cricket. The kid doing the batting was playing really well. He playing the right shots and the ball was going the right directions. But, this was not to last .. There was a change in the bowling, the new bowler seems to know the batsmen style. He made the batsmen, make mistakes. Eventually the batting kid is out off the game. The story is same for you and me too. We all know the game of cricket, we know how to play, bowl, spin and field.. The only problem is the mindset, there is always a situation or someone, who will bowl you out.. The game is simple, its the pitch thats unpredictable.

              Similarly, the day is unpredictable in the market. I have seen market gurus fumble, while trying to explain the markets. The trends are always against them, its never do this and it will work game. Its do this and make others to loose game. There are people who are watching our every move, they know how we trade.. Also there are traders, who come together by shear luck or news. The news may be insider.. There are three kind of people..

1. market movers
2. Insider traders
3. Followers

Market Movers tend to read the market and can either move it against you or they can move it in favor of you. 

Insider Traders trade based on the news that is leaked from an organization or government.

Followers are traders who follow the trade direction, giving strength to the market movers and inside traders.. 

  Among the three traders, only one is dangerous market movers. They can change the directions of the market at the most favorable situation for them. These traders are smart and have all the data in hand even before you and me. Its because of these traders that i would rather wait and watch than go with the flow. Its better to pounce like a tiger, than follow like a Sheep. We will get slaughtered, by the Jackel. 

  But, even a tiger can miss!!

There certain indicators, which as helped me to find the market directions... Which i am still trying to understand and become better at. 

Democracy Unfulfilled ( A dictatorship in disguise)

In 1947 a nation achieved its independence, from a foreign ruler. A nation ruled by many foreigners, this is not something new. But, what this person bad among them all is that, he didn't make this land one of his own. Thus, we needed a freedom from the white ruler. A nation with diversity can only exist in one form, Democracy!!!

           The democracy is incomplete without representation by the people. We did have good people, good leaders, who fought for our freedom. The people who led our people to freedom, they are either born leaders or created as one. But, we had our representatives. They served the nation as they fought for it. They could be trusted and voted for. They have done their part in the nation building and people building. But, as years passed and many elections with it. We are facing the drought like never before. Not only that of the water. But, also that of Leaders. We are in the making of Democratic dictatorship, with one leader to Rule them all.. Ex: Congress is begging for a leader not willing. In Tamilnadu, the AIADMK is asking for a leader to unite them all. The same way a dictatorship creates a vacuum, when the dictator dies.
                 
                                      We have built a Dam on a dying river. The dam is only as good as its ability to collect and hold water. Likewise the democracy is only as good as its ability to elect and hold good leaders. When the water dries out, so does the use of dam, likewise when the leaders dry out. so does the death of democracy. We have failed to create leadership grooming system.
                       
                                  Romans used to select the best generals as their leaders. Where do we select our leaders from? Sons of leaders are starting become leaders. The failure to groom a leader or to find a leader would make us into A Dictatorship in Disguise. 

Why you would be a looser in share market..

The market of dreams.. Makes u poorer more than richer .
 Part 1
Do u want to know if you will be good in share market??
Are you a starter??
Then ur in the right place..
Why you would make loss in the market is  more related to our reaction to the dangers.. Risk and success are more related. But, if ur decision is based on gut feeling and few success and charts. Please stay away.. Market is like a jungle, where ur every movement is watched by a predator, Who wants to eat you.. If your scared of the jungle, going alone then this might be not ur place.. Over coming fear is the first step to it ... But, it's just the first step.. The predator don't care if ur brave, it will test you .. Then come probability, how many times can u overcome this fear.. It will give the consistency.. Then comes how much damage u can take..
The more damage u take the stronger u will become.. But, the important factor is not to be outsmarted by the trader.  

The End Of The Civilization( Extinction of a dodo bird)

The rise of the civilization happens with the most creative and most respected person at the helm. When such civilization rises, so does the people who want to exploit it. When alexander came to control the most refined army that his dad created. he set out to take control of the world. When he fell, people jumped into the chance of taking control of his land and his name. They split his empire and enjoyed its exploits, rather than taking further. They settled with the fact that they are the best, then they settled and settled. Till a newer enemy got developed. The same is for us!!

The Death Of the DODO Bird

What killed this bird? The Movie "ICE AGE" portrayed this bird as dumb and unprepared for the climate change. But, did any one care to this bird lost is flight and its ability to defend itself. The very point that it stayed in a island away from any predators is a good place to start. How does this apply to us the human dodo.With the rise of the globalization, we humans are sitting on the biggest island in the world " earth". By eliminating all the natural predators in the world we have no more reason to become evolutionary strong. Our body is designed to discard wassteful evolutionary advances. hence making us more and more weaker as time passes by. Thus making us the Human DODO.

End Of Civilizations.

Trained to end our self. With corporates finding ways to speed that process. As we go to the top of food chain, the need for any improvement reduces. Thus ending up loosing all the best traits.. what happens then is simply nature's process.

WINDS OF CHANGE MIND IS STRANGE

Its been one year since I have stopped reading books, I have suddenly lost all interest in reading, I buy books to read. but I seem not interested in reading, there is change in mind and heart not of the right direction. but of the wrong one. the minds interest have changed, but I am yet to understand the changed indicators. I am yet to get accustomed to not being able to create interest in reading. the thought of it seems to strain my head. I guess the winds have changed and I need to feel it and get accustomed to this new change.

A trainer’s day out assisted by a dead man’s words

My own words resonating through me while I spoke the words of motivation to the audience of twenty I am not sure if it meant any thing to them heads shook, few eyebrows bent. But I didn’t know what the result was, calmness lasted more than an hour went by. And no one spoke I didn’t let anyone to speak, I spoke from my heart no amount of preparation can help a weak mind. The speech only confirmed me one thing that I knew well about the things that happens in an human mind… the thought arouse and inspiring words of a dead man used to inspire the living men… I only laughed to myself a dead man helped me to talk. I saw the audience eyes, for i realized that the silence lasted far too long.  None where a sleep there eyes glued to me. No more appreciation is needed for the trainer but an vigil audience. I put my brains in full drive to keep it going. Finally the video ended the man’s last words in the video was stay hungry stay foolish. What a word told me stories of how we have ended up becoming just being foolish and the hunger vanished long back ………… 

Are we forgetting something...............

 We are humans born into form like every other animal in this world, created and formed in the process of reproduction followed by every other animal in this world?

Yet we call us men and we separate our self from every life in the world. Fundamental failure started as we didn’t understand who we are and how we came to this....  if u turn around

into the distance past of men who have become evolutionary success, managed to separate themselves from animals by living in controlled culture protected by laws to save us from animal instincts of

Greed, desire to spread genes, aggression against ur own species. But, many times such laws failed to keep control of the men who were filled with animal instincts.

Religion came to the rescue fear of divine saved the humans; curse of ending up in hell prevented many to turn themselves to animals.

so, talkin about animals now, why we say women have become vulnerable. Say if we are born as a black widow, men would be fighting for their lives while women chew on them. But we are not those insects, but humans...

born to be social, survived and thrived by being social and finally spreading out of control by breaking every law of nature. So, why in India so much of violence is present?, why religion hasn’t helped ?, why people kill the future women leaders and assault the young. suddenly, why animals inside us have come out in few?.

Is it the ads that portray women coming and falling on men like animals just for the musk of artificial agents. Or may be women do dress too revealing for their own good. This leads me to wonder if this is true let’s go back to the past ….

now, in the past in Arab culture women covered their faces and body, European women wore full length skirts and well covered dresses, and Indian women covered their faces with sarees and protected by child marriage or by keeping them in home all their life’s. why did they do all this?

They might have done this to protect the women from men who killed themselves for power.  So why are women vulnerable now.... women are out more than ever, women are exposed more than ever.. Now the danger for them is more than ever....

what can save these people is the question now,, how can we shield the women only from the past or other cultures we can learn not blaming the women for being more revealing for they love it, but the problem is men love it too, after all animals we are... lesser the culture worse we change to animals so, religion that was built for years, are now thrown away and as we change to modernity we forget by leaving what we are we are more likely to repeat the past mistakes study the problems not complain about them, understand each other not blame each other...

I for now realized by abandoning ones religion and culture one forget and looses lot of corrected mistakes. by not teaching children of the glory of shiv and how being part of sakthi with love only makes him stronger..  Leaving religion in the hands of sense less minds will destroy the values and goods that Vedas tries to install within humans. It’s there in all religion and we need to teach it to children from young. So that we too understand that it may not be the dress or ads. But, we fail to teach the children, proper values other than to run behind money. So, they can get married to a good looking gal. 

(sorry for all the wrong statements i ran with my words and mind. Also, forgive my grammar, bad sentence framing and many  more. last minute entry)

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My Chat with heaven and hell…………

Times have changed and we have changed. Wondering if the gods were upto date with our times and technology I logged into “WECHAT” the latest advancement in the chat world.  While trying to find the “god”, i ended up counting hundreds of similar names of “god”. But, guess who was on the top of the chart, the names of holy men (not a surprise there). But, nevertheless I finally found a name that stood out in the crowd, "God out of this world". Seemed genuine to me.(for even pyramids and temple goburams seems alike in different regions but not the image of god in men’s heart). Not knowing what to expect of the great creator, I said "hi". You would have expected the creator to understand my thoughts and reward me for finding him in this haystack. But!!!!!!

“What do you want?”   Came, the reply. But, still feeling proud of connecting with god, did not come in the way of my thought of doing something for the people.
I asked “Can you make this global warming go away”.

  After a strong laughter, came the reply to my question. “U the human is the cause for all your miseries and now the misery of the world is in your hands”. He continued, “A disease can be only be cured permanently only if the cause is cured”.

   Stupefied on being compared to a disease, i pressed on “if the men are cured of their petroleum addiction, can this not be ended”.

“The US president-the one who thought he can"

 God wondered and considering my words, said “you should talk to the one who is the worst addict to this fossil fuel”. Not having to think on that, I searched for the most powerful man of the world -"The U.S president”. Starting a group chat,  I went on to search. While searching for the president, I zeroed in on one name “The US president-the one who thought he can". That was lot in relation to the man of chair. Adding him to the group chat to get in depth of this matter.

 "Sir" I said, not waiting for reply I carried on, “I just asked god through chat about the global warming problem. For which he blamed, men and their greed of oil is the root of all evils. So i am asking you, is there is any end to this”.
The man of power replied," My son being the leader of the most powerful nation, is not easy. My nation is powerful because of energy. When we stop using them, the power is lost. So, men and fuel will never be apart”.

 "So what about the climate change" said i. He shot back “If men want it, if they need it, we give it. If they need the change then they will change it”.

 But is there no other way to change the smart addicts of this century? I asked. “You need to talk to the one who controlled men, changed them in a period of few years and transformed the nation”.

Curious, I asked “who??”

“Hitler” said he. Getting one more lead towards a sudden goal, from the president. One more in the bag of group i carried on.....

"Hitler- assisting the devil"

 So wondering if I can reach the heavens or in this case through the hells gate. searching through the "wechat" the new sensation in town, ended up with a proper credible fit "Hitler- assisting the devil". Since, Devil needs an assistant in these hard times, a lot of corrupt soles in their ending days in Indian politics, too many to be handle on his own. Someone needs to assist him and that assistant needed to be connected... so, connected with the man who mesmerized the millions and transformed an oppressed nation to a world power. Only a man with the understanding of men can do this. So, hail the devil, or hate “J….s” with these lines i thought of starting a good conversation. But, did not want the wrath of gods or a drone strike or an assured place near Hitler.  Not wanting to waste time i asked" Sir you have achieved great feats in the history, you have transformed people, you have changed their hearts and made them to follow ur every word. So, How is it that men can be influenced so strongly?”

“For men are weak”, he said. “Men need strong leaders, they need a religion and to show something for them to hate. During the worst of my men’s times, I showed them the enemy to hate and the religion to follow, for such was created fascism. But neither can I change the men of now, who are already satisfied and happy.

” Then who else can answer this god?”, I asked.” If there is a man who can enlighten you ask Buddha”, said God.  

Buddha

Finding Buddha was easy for some reason no one had his name. Not willing to waste any time of the people who are waiting to know where this leads.

I asked “if men can find a way out of their entangled situation”.

“yes” he said and continued “it lies within all men and he who is mad in everything that is around him now, will get sick of his addiction soon. The sickness will start to choke his life and will lead to the realization of goodness around him. Only then will all the goodness shall be embraced and will be brought together to create a way of life. It will become a religion. Till man attains that sickness he can’t make it.”

I asked “when this would happen? He ended his words by saying “it lies in the hands of men themselves”.

Adam and Eve

 Still no clarity and almost coming to end of the group chat, I decided to connect with the people who are part of this world. So, I connected with Adam and Eve. I asked them, “Can you both change in time to save this planet from climate change”. 

They replied” if we are to let go of fossil fuel, destruction shall come to us in the form of lack of resources and if we carry on using it the same will be the result”

“For we are merely humans and we tend to love and get attached to things that we use. The only way to get rid of our need of the black gold is to teach the young to live with the world. By being stingy with resources, being generous with help and being tough on the greedy and love others like being needy”.

The words said a lot and they are true. We are too much in love with the fuels to be the ones who throw it away, for teaching the young is easier than making the change. After this I said thanks to all for being part of this revealing WECHAT conversation.  God laughed in thunder for he was right, but this time it was milder than before, for something was learnt during this time.  Others left in silence for much to be done by them after what they have heard. Maybe the world will change for the better. 

(This article was written for the competition conducted by indiblogger and Wechat combined)

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Marketing mentalities.

This is some thing that i observed in two of the best performers in my company, both talented in generating leads. Both were creative and capable people. One adopted a very broad based approach of reaching out to a larger base of clients to accomplish his targets. The other followed a limited approach were he focused on few clients at a time. Both were talented but only one was successful, only the one who went the extra mile to sell the products to his customer was effective in selling the products and produce fruitful ending. The product they sold was meetings and the end result was managers signing up deals with the companies.

The focused approach and the blind approach is effective in their own way. When both are combined to have a balanced approach then may be a balanced effective way might be formed.

Falling in love with

Love is on the air these days. Not the one for the humans, but for the electronics we use. The extraordinary evolution is taking place by being connected to all and around far far away the love for people is completely focused on one object. So for all the loneliest of hearts i guess you can find love now for a price. I for one am feeling the love for them already, the ones with the best always seems the best. I grew up in a time when i was not used to the lot. But when i grew up a lot changed and evolved around\d me with which  i didn't want to associate with but, men love for things around is beyond the possibility. i went around trying to figure out how much the love as spread, we are doing all the things that are favored by us through the devices that we forgot that our human touch is disappearing a lot. but we are too busy to notice the change and the change is becoming the norm not so good.

We are not computers

 Disappearing are those days where we are being taught by intelligent humans in class rooms. Computers are fast becoming our teachers and students are becoming believers of machines than humans. We home works and assignments being done through laptops and palmtops. We can almost say we falling in love with our phones. We are starting feel pain when these devices are broken or lost. We are starting to develop emotions for these smart devices created by the smartest of men. Its more like men giving away part of their brains to the computers and computer is compilation different brains. But, yet they can never be us. We are now sitting in front of devices more and more we are starting to get hooked to them better and better addiction is bad but becoming part of your life is worse. We spend more time with this brain data base than with human beings these days the end result will be that we shall me smarter than the older generation but stronger may not be case. Coming to that in the end we are not computers to romanticize this time spent with computers. We are men and if we manage to reduce the human contact effectively we shall evolve to become just a database, where we learn everything from movies and pictures rather than the humans around us.  

So called humans......

            WE are but animals, we have got civilized through culture, but we have decided to be animals by ignoring it.  We have forgotten that it’s these boring things that have kept our animals in cage and us civilized.

            We write about how women are attacked and killed, we talk about how there is so much hate existing between religions, The papers talk about how our society is degrading, they are talking about the best worst incidents happening around us, committed by other human as though a miracle as occurred. Only showing that they have forgotten that Hitler was also a human being, did we not read about him in history? Then again how many of us know that history is lesson from the past to teach humans what we are capable of. We Indian’s love Ramayana more, since the god king can take care of all evil. (But, wait a minute did he not go to rescue his wife, if not would Ram have vanquished Ravan?). So, in India even a god needs a selfish reason to remove evil from earth. Why blame a man then, why blame one person then. We always analyze the effect rather than the cause when was the last time we celebrated our festivals in the same way as we did I past, when was the last time we brought people together and done something nice to unite them, Celebrated together and cherished the goodness that is around. We are but animals when there is no beautiful culture around us, we cave into the animal self and engage in violence; go assault women to satisfy the animal need. Women don’t make it easy these days either, there freedom in dressing doesn’t help the men who have already caved into the animal self.

We are animals, who have no control on things, ruthlessly destroying everything around us. Only in our traditions I saw men, praying to the rain god, thanking the god for hard grown food, our ancestors were men. But, we go wild, party hard, waste food, go in cars and pollute this planet, don’t care of other who suffer, beware no one will care for us then. We are animals after all, many of which have gone extinct and many are disappearing in this planet. Why are we worrying for a single person in this billion, but are we really worrying. What are we doing to help the worrying go away, other than to just talk of it till we forget it. We care more of our self than we care for others. We have become selfish, which is again a part of an animal instinct.  We are animals after all.

No matter how hard we try we cannot ignore the animal inside us.  If we start giving into it, we will enjoy it, but you will only be an animal.  

The positives of this IPL for CSk and Dhoni.

For even the best focused men can fall down in the wrong places and go in the wrong directions to lose their cool and the focus that they had. I saw a great come back in this IPL and the greatest comeback of all is the one of the CSK, they were going down crashing at one stage and kept alive only with each player doing their part and playing their heroics at different stages of the game.  It was never a one man’s game; I for one got inspired by their unity and strength in dependence on each other. For in all this a single revival stands apart the rest of it all. An individual was coming back out of all the evils that were haunting him from the past, MS Dhoni is the man. I saw the face dull and down, with the past clearly haunting his game, decision and choice. The man truly needed a comeback, and he did regain his charm not by his own will but the spirit of the team that brought him back slowly but effectively. I for once focused more on this man than any part of the game, to be true the man whose face grew brighter with each miraculous win and his words more relaxed after every match a clear sign of the effect of team on the man (If people said it was fixed and if I were true I would rather think it to be false after seeing this alteration in a man in a season). If this can do to a man with the right team, the team I support will always be the Csk and the people in them. I am hopeful that this team can support itself to come back any number of times as long as it has its members. They just showed that a lost match, will not lead them to lose their spirit.

Drama’s in my life.

I was wondering how some stories of co incidence where utter nonsense not today in my life it wasn’t.

 Closing time for my MBA as arrived with a job in an hand I am few of the blessed with this gift. But, I was not to relish this joy easily. I was having an attendance lack in a subject and that might prevent me to graduate and going to the company to join is not possible then. Hmm, I was desperate I kept in control and finally one day I decided to go and clear this problem by talking to the people who can help. ( I was wrong) I went to the college at 1:30 pm; I went to the staff room to start the pleading process. The newly joined staff was reluctant to meddle with the system and so told me to go meet the HOD to resolve this. So I decided to enter the “ROOM”, to meet HOD “Help Of Day”. I went inside had to be all extra nice, politely asked “how are you sir” “how is running the college going”. He answered in one word “it’s all good”. ” Shoot I used up all the buttering and smoothening ammo in one go”. It was time I had to tell him the reason for my coming and the roar was never louder to me. “Karma” surely is not very kind all the mischief and bunking of classes was brought to my eyes by the HOD (Hell of day), His words bringing images back to my head better than the 3D movies I saw bunking the classes. It was one of the times when a staff in his all his rage shall bring upon all the mistakes your entire batch as made upon one person. This is was that time; I can no longer bare the suffering of this decided to create sympathy with HOD (Heart of Day). By mentioning how I cannot join job if I am not allowed to write exam because of attendance lack. Hmm, He paused for a second it was not for the best of reasons.

FLASH BACK: Going back to the past, not thinking it’s important to tell the Hod that I got placed I ignored telling him. 
A second Roar followed “you got placed and you didn’t even inform me and now you want me to help you to join the job, why should I care?”. I had to act fast and put down the fire. Worked the imaginative mind to save me, one good thing came up and I told two lies to save my day

1 “Sir I did not tell anyone about this” Why a lie? (As soon as I got the offer letter the only one who might not have known about it in the college about my placement is the HOD and may be the gate watch man who is far away from all the scene I created.)

2 “I waited to tell the news with sweets” Why a lie? (As soon as every soul started giving away sweets and ice cream to staff for getting placed after me, the only thing I did was grab their sweets and ice creams to eat)

Yes, roar subsided but the problem didn’t. I had nothing more against him anymore,  I had to take a break went to senior staff for further consultations and went back to the ROOM to meet HOD (Hope of Day) he finally took pity and relented. So, agreeing to edit my data and make absence as OD. When all is going fine and while he was about to enter it, I promise this was true “came running the mam on whose subject I have attendance lack saying” do not put attendance for that guy” the time struck 4.00 pm in the clock and all the time I spent doing a attendee job for HOD all the 3 hours staying in his ROOM just got wasted. My Jaw dropped, I was shocked and my brain went to coma stage unable to think. She started explaining and I heard nothing till she told me that I had more than required attendance and it was a system error. I literally shouted “God this is too much”. 

Sony Ericsson Txt or ck13i review

Sony Ericsson Txt Cost me 6050 Rs Or equal to 121 US $ with a discount in a Sony Ericsson show room in Chennai, this is one of the last of the Sony’s non touch phones. Being, not a huge fan of touch phones and looking for a budget phone, I needed no excuse to by this phone. The various complaints of phone getting stuck up, did stop me to think. But, due to lack of key pad based budget phones, I came back to this option.

Things that I have read on the net before buying Sony Ericsson Txt…

1)    Absence of 3g connectivity.

2)    Phone battery charge hold is not that good.

3)    Key pad keys are very small.

4)    There is no option to mute the shutter sound of camera.

5)    Phone gets stuck frequently.

6)    Picture quality is not that great.

7)    Provision of unnecessary options. ( like “friends”, Apps like “You tube”, picasa” )

What I observed in Sony Ericsson Txt

1)    Camera sound can be muted by switching the phone to silent mode.

2)    Wi-Fi option though present drains the battery very fast, other than that the battery last’s better than expected.

3)    Key pad typing takes a while adjusting to but after some time it’s not that bigger deal.

4)    Phone gets stuck when movie is watched in it and games  are pushed little too much. 

5)    Camera picture quality is good for this price. But, the picture is still better when seen in computer.

6)    Speaker sound is really good and since the mobile display is very bright the battery life increases if darker picture is used as wall paper.

Problems I Felt, other than what i read

1)    The display is very bright even after the brightness is reduced to the least.

2)    Opening the phones back cover is sometimes a challenge.

3)    No short cut options to access the running application from the outside 

On the whole a good buy, if you can get over all the challenges it posses. If you are a person who wants to buy a product and enjoy it stay clear of Sony Ericsson Txt, last of its kind from the Sony Ericsson collection.  

Complaint to sony ericsson service center provided a good result after they updated the mobile software the phone speed is reasonably well and some options that were not working well started responding. After updating i can play some games by adjusting the game screen size. The software can also be updated through the Sony web page, the only problem is you need a data cable and its not provided with this Model   

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/mobilephones/downloads/subject/updateservice/txt?cc=gb&lc=en 

A week to remember 1

A week to remember 1

Summary: Life just took me through a roller coaster ride, 7 days back got my results, 4 days back attended my first interview, 3 days back lost my phone and almost missed a train to kerala, 2 days back had a superb party at my friends house and got to know that my lost phone was found and finally today i got the results of interview. Oh my god who said living cannot be exciting.

The story

There are days that are superb and worth remembering and yet people sometimes end up forgetting them. But what about an entire week to remember that which are so mixed up with so many things that forgetting is the only that is cruel to say about the week. It all started with me performing my semester very badly, bad enough to flunk one or two papers. From then the long wait for the results began. I have to think back from exactly today 27^th jan 2012.

7 days before I got a message “ results came check it” my heart stopped for a sec and a minute worth of possibilities went through my head, none ver comforting. Nervousness set in and though this must be my 100 th result from my lower class the feeling never changed. Beginning to pray I finally typed the registration number and resumed the prayers. The suspense of getting the result is never made easy by the trraffic slowing down the connection  created by the huge number of similar enthusiastic students trying to know their fate. Finally the results where out and I need not start looking for partners who can accompany me in the next exam. A narrow escape an yes that day ended well for most of us.

4 days ago immediately after getting my results I had a chance to attend my placements my first in the Mba. Without any expectation or desires I went forward to attend the interview the coldest morning ever. a shivering ride to a very far destination around 25 kms from my house. (that was lot of shivering ) we reached at our destination in the morning 8.45 am. Hoping to leave after a aptitude test attende by 3 different colleges. Yes, it made sense for me but, hopping to know my future nemesis wen on to attend my first ever difficult aptitude exam for a job (in Mba). After a quick 30 mins of boom me along with 10 of my friend were selected for the next, not liking to see the left out friends alone, me being sure of a tough competition promised to follow them shortly. I might have done it little too soon, I got selected for the next. The clock ticked 10 Pm when we got the second result. Being the last few and still not hoping for any thing we waited to leave when our turn came we were not that keen to attend and get selected. Asking us to sell something in the middle of the night was not that very easy for us. When it was all over we left proudly saying that we came one day and left the other. But, not knowing the result a second result to wait so soon in a week.

3 days ago leaving the interview site tired and shivering again in the cold night I returned home. Sleepin like a rock waking up again in the morning was my last option. Time came for me to leave the city to visit a friends brother’s wedding in a distant place. 

Doctor + MBA = Business man

This is a story about my visit to a one of the chain of dental clinics under a single brand. Service with a smile is their way to serve. As soon as I entered all I felt was the feeling of goodness and safety. Beautiful men and women handling patients with a smile and care of a friend, I was starting to believe it was real. After minutes of getting used to that good feeling they called me into the dental room, from where i saw small group of young dentist running around to attend patience and collecting reports. From the group one fine gentle man came in to attend to me. he just looked around and started to examine me and after a few seconds ordered an X-ray. Well, he gave a good enough reason that he needed to be sure; I thought he is looking after me cool. Next showed the portrait of my imperfect teeth in his new flashy comp and asked me with a smile to take a seat near him. Wow, that was my longest 5 mins for me on that day. He made me convinced that my mouth had to be taken apart and fixed all over again, well if it was over with that I would have been happy, I could simply say yes or no and go back to the table. But, he used all possible medical knowledge that which he had learnt to scare me to the core. All the feeling of goodness disappeared I almost felt I was about to lose all my teeth and be done. Finally, after doing all the talking about everything else, other than the problem for I have come, The one that was really bothering me after that time was how to get out without undergoing all the costly treatments he said he wants to do. When he finally started the drilling process to fill the gap, the sense of security was no longer there. I saw a business man trying to drill my teeth to find some money.

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After the filling was done and after making me to bite on cotton, He simply went to his comp and told me to get up as it is over and go home (only after going home i found the filling is not done properly and was coming out). The huge bill on the way out was not very comforting and all the happy feeling i thought i had was no more with me. After reaching home the first thing I told was “wow, I made it”. Then I was left wondering why I was so scared and left me thinking back.  It only reminded me of the old days when doctors used to ask about you to gain trust and make you feel comfortable and when they came close to us it made us feel better. They never showed the worst side of us to the core, as we are all imperfect and when told of all our imperfection on a single visit which was uncalled for even though I was going to visit him again as my treatment required. I realized that a doctor who is propelled by a business behind him is a business man more than a doctor, I saw a sales man rather than a doctor and the only thing my heart was telling me is to run from there alive.  On the mad rush to be a doctor I just pray that they think for a second about the things that they are handling is alive and even if they want to make money at least with little sensitivity.

Best way to buy a Phone.

Till recently buying a phone was no different than any other devices, it’s simply to talk and message. But, it’s fast becoming a battle of desire and wits. (Damn the guy’s who created those awesome smart phones and its apps). I usually always debated in favor of using a phone for the purpose of talking and then stay clear of it after, for me it made sense to have separate devices for all purpose if one is lost you at least have the rest to cheer about. But, with a smart phone it’s like losing your computer, your phone, a camera and worse than all this is the contacts. It’s almost like losing a body part; I can't imagine a day without it. But still all that scare of loosing brains cells is too scary. I don’t want to be dumber than I am, so decided to keep it less with me, by buying a less complicated phone and search began.  

My recent search for a phone led me to discovering a buying strategy that helped me to get one at a good rate. The following points helped me to buy a phone in Chennai, hope the situation is helpful for you too.

But, I did do a search to get a phone and the things I got to know is

1)    Decide the model before going to the dealer.

2)    Always go to the nearest exclusive stores Sony show room or Nokia original dealers.

3)    get the price of the phone through online purchase sites so that you do know that you’re not cheated.

Decide the phone model.

Before going for my first phone purchase I made sure that I know which to purchase first I used the help of online stores to know the rates of the devices, before going to the original shop. Online stores like flipkart are really helpful, I was able to argue with the on store dealer and he immediately reduced 200 Rs. But, even being informed will ot help if we are not sure of the model.

Always go to the nearest exclusive mobile brand retailers

Till recently I never knew how cheap its to buy with the dealers of a brand rather than from intermediary shops. The difference was huge almost 700 Rs, for just one model other I didn’t enquire and during new years and other festivals, they reduce their prices for real. But, still this is my own experience it may change from region to region and its better to check.

Get the price of the phone through online purchase sites so that you do know that you’re not cheated.

There is a small problem to this the prices are not always cheap in online stores some time the dealers of the devices are cheaper, which I found out only recently while buying a camera. The web pages only help knowing the idea of the price of the product and its not always the exact rate. But, the difference is never significant. 

Love is truly over rated

I was in love, it was my first and I never before thought of writing about it before, because I thought it was the worst thing that happened. But, it took me many years to see that i simply over rated love. It took me much time to realize that the girl who was simple, humble, shy, who loved to help and who loved me without expectation or any request would abandon me. Tears rolled when I thought about it before, But not anymore, just because it took many more experience to heal and years to move on not only that I understood that It failed because I expected a lot from the love which asked nothing from me but to love back. I was a jerk, it hit me hard, a terrible pain and a silence was all that left. No amount of soul searching or physical trauma can solve. She taught me how to love and she did it by leaving me for that i shall never forget her. It made me realize my world was different just because of her presence. It hurt but not anymore, because I know the reason and that is that love is over rated. We imagine a lot, expect too much and change once we think that we have got her and we have them for life, thinking once in love, she or he is in an enforced bond that either should or would not break. That could have been true if I was living in a dream. The best love, the lasting love, is the simplest one. For that reason I would never stop loving in my life. 

“Rocky” the side kick and me to the rescue

After completing my engineering in the year of 2008 the year of the recession, I found myself jobless longer than I should have been, leaving me with plenty of free time to hang around with friends longer than I used to and to do the things that I loved to. On one such visit to my friend’s house I came across two new puppies in the neighbor’s house, the neighbor’s are very friendly and became my friend’s in no time. So I got the opportunity to go and play with these puppies, they are two new cute little “great Danes”(little in comparison with its parents) tied up near to the gates of the house such that they stay inside when closed. They were friendly and play full and their names were “Ram” and “Laxman”. Ram was the friendlier one and I spent more time with him. On that while leaving my friends house I spent some time with the dogs, before moving on to my friend’s house gate to talk to him little more to say the final farewell for the day. 

The side kick

But, wait before I could go on about me I have to introduce the side kick of this story. It’s another loyal street   dog that was adopted by the same neighbors. He is a street dog who is tamed and protected from the furry of street life. Brave enough to bark against the running dog and clever enough to run against the chasing dog. He is named “rocky” and is the guardian of the street near tank road, never leaving the footsteps of the house.  

The fight 

It was like any other day, I was talking to my friend outside his house the same story of how funny the new TV serials where, which movie to go next week and about what not. The gate to the neighbors door was open and the dogs tied to the gate where also exposed to the street.  The street is usually dull and the neighborhood is mostly calm. The usual day was coming to a close with me ready to leave and my friend ready to go back in his house. A sudden shriek followed by the fiery barking of the “Rocky” shattered the silence. Everyone in the street turned to a horrific seen of one of the puppy being grabed by a rabies affected dog with only the chains saving the puppy becoming prey. The dog looked ferocious and lean and long, seemed like it was straight from a horror movie and it was not even minding the fierce barking of “Rocky”. I had to do something told my inner voice, the suddenness of the situation made me clueless, immediately I started searching for a rock and found one and I threw it at the dog, but it was in vain the dog’s clutch over the neck of the puppy “Ram” was too strong and its will too hard to be distracted by a small stone. I had to do something the puppy was being chocked and without any more thought or logic I went and kicked the dog hard enough for it to let free the puppy in pain and land in middle of the road, “Rocky” the side kick took over then and came in between the puppy and the villainous dog and continued its barking, it did not run it stayed and showed its brave side. Annoyed by the situation and the continuous barking of “Rocky”, the aggressive dog tried to attack “Rocky” and I for sudden discovering my football skills stepped in with a loud shout. Two against one even the disease stricken dog knew its chances and it coolly moved on like nothing happened. With the adrenaline still pumping in me and still surprised to know I kick that dog off, I almost jumped with joy celebrating my victory and I never loved “Rocky” more than that day we were a team and we both stood for the same cause, for a minute. More I saw completely unknown animal and human joining together for a single cause. But, all the efforts still failed the puppy “Ram” died later of rabies the villain of this story still succeeded and the days where no longer the same for sometime after then when I stood at my friends place. 

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