HORN OK PLEASE!!!

An ILP friend (Niharika) of mine from Hyderabad came to visit us. After a lot of days I had some good time. Good time because I had met a different set of people from my regular office janta. There only I got to know that every body is in the same ship, doing the same pakau type of work. Anyways we all met at E-Square on 4:45 PM. After initial round of introduction and hi-hello, we kept teasing Niharika…. (Good thing to do). E-Square is a boring place to hang out, nothing exciting to eat, switched off AC, bakwaas crowd, hence we unanimoulsy moved to Mocha. At mocha, two of us got attention of something called Java in the coffee-section of menu-card and we ordered it. To our astonishment, waiter brought coffee in the soup-bowl. It was so big that holding that bowl in one hand was impossible. I am eagerly waiting for Niharika to send me those pics with that heavy bowls. Next good and new thing we did was we ordered a Casablanca flavored Hooka. Since, I don’t smoke; I was not aware how to handle this equipment. But due to Sandeep, the so called professional in the job, we all got to learn how to have Hooka. Hooka was great fun for me, because I was suffering from cold and flavor was mint + apple juice. So it served two-fold purpose. ;) . Then we first moved to Vaishali for dinner, but with the menu item filled of South-Indian items we moved to HORN OK PLEASE. Now this place is totally a Punjabi Dhaba…. With a horn (like the bell a pizza hut) on the door. Niharika, the only girl with childhood still in her, happily horned it many times. Dinner was good and our discussions on all of things went on further. It really felt good to meet your type people. In all it was good spent evening.

Synergy 2009

Synergy 2009 is non-tech festival at our organization. By non-tech, I mean to say that it is cultural festival, with lot of singing and dancing in it. Every time there are some cultural fests conducted at our office, I feel inferior. I start cribbing in my mind that why my parents did not encouraged me to sing, dance or play some musical instruments. However, in reality my parents encouraged me a lot for these activities. Whatever it may be, it is gone. Henceforth I do not want to give a chance to me to crib. I am able to see that it will be very important to be jack of all and master of some in coming future for existence. I want to be master in business administration from some premiere place, so that life never ever encounter with two things. 1) Poverty and 2) Empty mind. Please GOD, provide me enough skills and determination to be somewhere worthwhile.

Subprime Crisis may be Indian story soon...

If you have been, following news and updates from last year... you should be aware of Subprime crisis and Why US and other economies got push into Recession. Post World Trade Center attack, US economy was into trouble and there was a nation wide movement to motivate buying, due to which spending will increase and the economy will be out of recession. It worked. All went good. People started understanding economic terms and started spending in national interests. Every one was buying and spending, loan interests were low, and getting loan was much easy. Slowly it improved the situation and people kept spending. However, in this due course, the eligibility checks for getting loans disappeared. Those with sub-standard documents and with no guarantee of repayment were also getting loans. People thought that this upturn will remain forever and the housing market turned into an attractive option for investments and earning. However when housing market came down after its normal tenure, people lost those attractive prices and were unable to pay those hefty EMI. As the standards and rules were not followed while granting loans, the repayment became impossible. Many of the banks suffered heavy losses and filed bankruptcy. The vicious circle started here.

If we compare Indian situation to the above situation, we are exactly at the same point. To boost the market, we will have to increase the spending. However, eligibility criteria’s should be strictly followed or after ten years we will be in a bitterer situation than US is currently.

Yesterday and Today

Today being off at NY, I had good time surfing net and checking things that interest me. Whole of my family was upset over the yesterday's incident. We desperately needed that girl to say yes for my bro. My bro being a simple man, does not have those skills needed to impress a modern so called Indian women. My uncle and aunt are really traditional and want a traditional homely girl. Anyways I am not accusing girls of not being traditional anymore but matching expectation of my bro, uncle and aunt is not that difficult. I tried to analyze what may have happened yesterday, but could not come to a point as there were totally different points coming from both sides. My bro claims that he did not uttered a word about mobile usage after marriage whereas that girl criticized my bro for refraining access to mobile phone. I tried to understand what may have happened. But, without anybody telling lie, this can not happen. Whatsoever may have happened, but one thing is for sure, we have lost one more chance and we are in more desperate need now...

Satyam : Time to introspect

Everyone of us get bored while reading the "Ethics and code of conduct" page in our offer-letter or on our organization's internal portal. Seriously speaking it is never taken that seriously, but while introspecting on what happened at Satyam, we come to understand that "Ethics" start at us. If a simple ethic of transperency would have been followed, they would have not ended up where they are. Why success has become so important that it was achieved in a wrong way. We need to change the definition of success, success is not about achieving results only, but it is about achieving success in an authenticate way... If success was only about results, where is the job satisfaction. Why there is a guilty feeling always at your mind. Lets start charity or truth at ourself first. Instead of short-term profit, lets sacrifice some amount for betterment for all.