Magician

Hello
This blog area was empty from a long time period. So i m posting some facts and figures abt sutta and daroo.But let me first ask u a question…..
When we came to NIMC only two persons were indulged in these activities(Me and Waldia,, Mishra was also there but he was not a chain smoker ).And now there is a long list (WHY ????).

Total expenditure on hard drinks till now (observed by Sid and Me)
Avg money goes on drinks in one week in our block = 250 Rs (beer,rum,whiskey,vodka)So Total expenditure in these 2 1/2 years on hard drinks=250 * 128 (weeks) = 32,000 Rs ONLY

Now its turn of sutta
Avg persons in our batch who smokes for whole month=4
Avg money goes on sutta per person in a month=400 Rs ( New boys spends less )
So Avg money expenditure on sutta per month in our block= 1600 Rs
hence total money expenditure in 2 1/2 years = 1600 * 30 months = 48,000 Rs ONLY

Total expenditure on hard drinks and sutta in 2 1/2 years =32000+48000 = 80,000 Rs ONLY

And if this continues by the same rate ,then by the end of our MCA,Sum will be = 96,100 Rs ONLY

Now can u believe this 96,100 Rs on hard drinks and sutta.

CAUTION
Smoking and Drinking are injurious to your Dad’s wallet.

I wont start my post by a hi or a hey coz i dont feel like

There are bigger issues going on in my mind
The urge to shape up my life
The urge to redefine myself
The urge to make people understand me
The urge to get what I want.
The urge to go beyond the normal and less taken path.

And in this mind there comes the thought to become independent.
I dunno why but the feeling comes as if I want to stay in a different city or take a flat somewhere near my office.
The mind wants to explore new dimensions of freedom.
Its not like that I want to stay like that forever,but the fact is that I feel being independent would help me gain a new dimension of life which I have lacked.
Staying away from home would obviously make one more strong,more independent,more flexible to situations pertaining to my life.
I do feel that staying away for some one year or so will make a good grounding for my future life .

To conclude I would say that staying away brings out certain unknown changes in everyone and I want to know what those are.

Put about 100 bricks in some
Particular order in a closed
Room with an
Open window.

Then send 2 or 3 candidates in
The room and close the door.

Leave them alone and come back
After 6 hours and then analyze
The situation.

If they are counting the
Bricks.
Put them in the accounts
Department.

If they are recounting them..
Put them in auditing .

If they have messed up the
Whole place with the bricks.
Put them in engineering.

If they are arranging the
Bricks in some strange order.
Put them in planning.

If they are throwing the
Bricks at each other.
Put them in operations.

If they are sleeping.
Put them in security.

If they have broken the bricks
Into pieces.
Put them in information
Technology.

If they are sitting idle.
Put them in human resources.

If they say they have tried
Different combinations, yet
Not a brick has
Been moved. Put them in sales.

If they have already left for
The day.
Put them in marketing.

If they are staring out of the
Window.
Put them on strategic
Planning.

And then last but not least.
If they are talking to each
Other and not a single brick
Has been
Moved.

Congratulate them and put them
In top management.

OSLO, Norway - Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.

Through Yunus’s efforts and those of the bank he founded, poor people around the world, especially women, have been able to buy cows, a few chickens or the cell phone they desperately needed to get ahead.

The 65-year-old economist said he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million award money to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor. The rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh, he said.

( this is derived from a guest blog I wrote for Shaunak)

Here is something that worries me, yesterday I spotted this store next to Ozone in Aundh…its called Bonsaii or something…apprently its a lifestyle/luxury store for… hold your breath…KIDS!!!….aged between 6 n 13!!!!

I doubt if I could spell luxury correctly till I was 12 . The point I am trying to make is that I have started feeling a generation gap with kids barely six years younger than me. I think for many many reasons their lives are getting totally devoid of any imagination what so ever. I remember us as kids, when seven stones, a rubber ball and some open ground could keep us entertained for hours. When we barely had to bother with books after school hours ( I barely bothered with school books even during school hours), lessons of life were learnt over numerous rounds of hopskotch,dodgeball, tree climbing, gola eating and jumping into puddles of rain. Basically anything that made you go home with a bleeding knee/elbow, a new pet , an interesting rock or even Diarrhoea was an evening well spent…ok I pushed it with the Diarrhoea but i guess you get my point.

From another point of view, I think this is the coolest marketing gimmick ever…I am sure most of the young 12 yr old guys shopping at Bonsaii right now will grow up to be…ahem ahem …metrosexual men!!! I am quite certain all of this comes out from the same factory and is a part of a larger conspiracy thats aimed at enlarging the consumer base for cosmetics ( eg. ‘Fair and Handsome’, the hoardings for which read ” Hey Man, do you wear bangles?” ,”Then why do use a girls Fairness Cream?”. I can now visualise Sunny paji in his next flick scream out ” Maine bhi koi choodiyan nahi peheni hai, mai toh fair and handsome lagaanewalon mein hu!!”)

But the word ‘metrosexual’ was the greatest tragedy of our times, initially I never understood why such hype was created around men who were having sex in(or maybe with) trains, the ‘mile high club’ I think might just deserve some of the hype…but trains!?!??!….Hell no. I am quite sure that this trend hardly spread beyond a square kilometer area in cuffe parade and square meter areas in Andheri and Bandra, but you see, these metrosexual men were changing their haircuts/haircolors, clothes n noses so fast, and being photographed so frequently, we thought there were a lot more of them than the actual number.

Though I do believe in grooming, I have studied in an engineering college, where the concept of a deodarant ( or even a bath) hadnt quite caught on, but there needs to be a line drawn between deo and lip balm! And we need to draw this line asap before life becomes more difficult for a lot of pretty young things who will now have to compete with men when it comes to (previously women dominated domains such as) fairness, glossy lips and cleavage display.

But the word metrosexual is a little outmoded now, we now even have ubersexual men, retrosexual men and I am hoping a few heterosexual men have survived as well. Although, one very interesting question does remain unanswered, why do advertisers need such fancy new terms for only men, why dont we have any terms like “metrosexual women” so to speak?

I guess its because they dont need to be very imaginitive to convince a woman to pay an amount equal to her rent to buy a new lipstick, she might just pay double for the new L’oreal Glam Shine Holographic Lipstick ( kindly do not ask what a holographic lipstick is).

Yantra means a “talisman”, or “instrument” or ” Amulet” or “Kavach” which, if prepared and created by a qualified person as well as utilised under his specific instructions for fruitful results, will help to gain the objector objects of desire or ambition. Although it would not be a difficult task for most of us to copy the form of a yantra, it would not have the desired effect. Furthermore, to be perfectly honest, it would be all but useless if not created by a qualified person and then “infused” with the specific energy via the medium of mantra. Otherwise, it becomes just an interesting form or picture to look at, but has no real effect on time or circumstances within life.

Yantras should always be used on the level. If drawn on paper the colours preferable are red, orange, yellow or a combination of these. A Yantra without bija mantras is dead. They can be drawn to whatever size is required. In worship they should be placed level on a pedestal or pitha. Before any Yantra is a suitable object for puja, it must be given life (pranapratishta).

IS BLOG PADHNE WALON KO DURGA PUJA KI HARDIK SUBHKAMNAYE.

DEVI AAPKO DHAN-DHYNA OR SAKTI SE BHARPOOR RAKHE.

Hindi-Cheeni — bhai-bhai,

Angrezi cheeni — sugar.

Could this be the next Sabeer Bhatia moment? Rakesh Mathur and Beerud Sheth, two US-based Bombay IIT graduates have developed what could possibly be the next big thing on the Internet.

On Monday, they released Webaroo, a software service that will let one surf thousands of websites without connecting to the Internet.

Webaroo, which downloads and stores bits of the Internet data relevant to a particular subject on your laptop or mobile handheld device for surfing offline, is already the buzzword across tech circles around the globe.

The implications of this technology are huge. It will enable a person to surf reviews of hotels and restaurants in Mumbai on-board a train or flight without requiring a live Internet connection, or read about the latest in sports while travelling on the potholed highway to your native village in the hinterland.

Webaroo servers, meanwhile, comb the Internet for most relevant content using intelligent search to create downloadable ‘packs’. Whenever you connect to the Internet or hit upon a Wi-Fi hotspot next, the software updates the content on your device in a few minutes.

Webaroo’s revenues come in through relevant advertising based on search results, similar to the methodology Google and Yahoo.

It is, however, restricted to static content, which means one cannot buy stuff on eBay using the software since online transactions are a real-time activity. The possible proliferation of broadband and Wi-Fi Internet in public places also threatens Webaroo’s business aspect.

The idea of browsing thousands of webpages without being connected to the Internet came to Mathur two years ago as he was photographing auroras with his friend Brad Husick in the United States.

“As mobile use grows, consumers want to be able to do more with their mobile devices,” Mathur says, who had earlier founded Junglee, a comparison-shopping website which was later bought by Amazon.com.

Communicating with this newspaper over email from the US, Rakesh Mathur admitted that new start-ups on the Web could not be pulled off without using India’s low-cost BPO industry.

Webaroo itself employs over 100 people in Delhi and Mumbai to build the content database that forms the software’s content packs. “The advantages of India clearly are based on costs, talent, and attitude,” he said.

When asked how long would it take for Web-entrepreneurs to conceive and implement breakthrough ideas while operating completely from India, Mathur said: “The first wave of companies has been IT- or BPO-services companies. The next wave has to be product companies. At present there are a few successful product companies completely out of India. As the numbers of these companies grow, the size of the wave grows.”