Thanks to birthdays...... we end up getting lots of gifts. This birthday was quite different for me!!! I ended up getting lots of books, advice on books. Probably people found me jobless or bored to the core!! or may be they felt I wanted some more wisdom, Ironically i'm doing fine. Anyways, after shedding about 4kilos and lots of melanin :-P u tend to be fine. Ok enough of all the crap, the point was I'm doing great.
During my birthday party, lots of things were crossing my mind, And Shaz and Bhu came out with this gift called The World is Flat, and during a string of discussions on the same topic, he mentioned a book called "My Friend Sancho", by a first time author called-"Amit Varma". Though I started reading The World but somewhere I was struck by the curiosity and I ordered the book through a website(thanks to Shaz again).
The book is actually a drama about this bengali guy called Abhir Ganguly, he doesn't have any connection with Sourav Ganguly though! This character Abhir has such resounding resemblence to many of us(as in Guys!!) i'm sure we all are able to relate to this character. When I started reading this book initially I was like S*** man there such a F***** resemblence with my own life. That actually gives rise to this question whether all the guys have same type of sentiments!! or is it very normal that people tend to be the same.....
Abhir is a journalist, a person who writes ur page three.... not exactly the one thought. I meant the page three of the main sheet of news paper, Crime in short. Sorry for being synical. Like all of us he has his own f*%$ ups...... a beautifully written book...... beauty is the ending where the climax is left to our imagination.......If in case u have read the book.... pls comment on what can be the possible ending to this story frens...PLS......
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
16days leave, effect and after effect!!!!(birthday)
There is nothing much which i actually did in these days.... expect for struggling to get a good score, find a place for myself in this world, and realise about myself. Though having lost the habit of studying at a stretch, It was very difficult to keep my concentration, focus and dedication on the book. My mind moved from goal post to goal post on the field of life like a football. There were also great moments which I relish, It brought me greatly closer to my frens. One of frenship got rediscovered, that was with myself.
The best day was on 25th November, though in 2days I had exams, was actually in study mode but one of closest fren did not find it happening and came 40kms all the way just to wish me for my birthday till my place, Shaz called up at 1am to wish, my sisters wished me at 00am, made my birthday. Even though had there own priorities to look into each one of them made my birthday most happening.
The gifts I got were really awesome, the best gift is yet to come, and My frens are praying for it with me for it to happen. Thanks a lot for all the wishes I received, thanks to those also who did not.
When I look back at the last 1yr had lot of things: good as well bad, but realised it was very important to become happier, you need to forgive them for whatever they did. Though sometimes it had made me sad, cried in despair but to be happy it was important for me to forgive all those who hurt me, feel pity for what they lost and feel proud of what I gained. At the end as I always say "Life is all about choices and you are responsible for what you choose!!!".
The best day was on 25th November, though in 2days I had exams, was actually in study mode but one of closest fren did not find it happening and came 40kms all the way just to wish me for my birthday till my place, Shaz called up at 1am to wish, my sisters wished me at 00am, made my birthday. Even though had there own priorities to look into each one of them made my birthday most happening.
The gifts I got were really awesome, the best gift is yet to come, and My frens are praying for it with me for it to happen. Thanks a lot for all the wishes I received, thanks to those also who did not.
When I look back at the last 1yr had lot of things: good as well bad, but realised it was very important to become happier, you need to forgive them for whatever they did. Though sometimes it had made me sad, cried in despair but to be happy it was important for me to forgive all those who hurt me, feel pity for what they lost and feel proud of what I gained. At the end as I always say "Life is all about choices and you are responsible for what you choose!!!".
Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Truth IT wasn't..........SATYAM
Nice to be writing this After some time, travelling A BIT so.
Anyways let me not divert from what I had to talk about. IT wasn't a great day I woke to, I realised that the whole world wasn't true(SATYAM=False). 13-may-08 a livid day, one of my best investment SATYAM had reached Rs.545/- I was making a cool 10k in just 30days on a investment of 80k(cool na!!!) and then somebody said how are u??? Slowly the stock started sliding...... actually zooming in a wrong direction. In 3months IT reached Rs.400/- and I bought xctly the number of shares I had, My investor mind said the company is available at a steal buy more!!!! and one more month IT was available at Rs.224/- I said to myself people are mad(calculated the cash at Rs.5400Cr. and said:::---DDDD). by now I have 1000shares of the TRUTH(cost price=Rs.310/share)
The news of the great indian terror came to existence, Our Dearest fren Raju had jumped from the TIGER he was riding(Pls refer to the letter), I had fallen from my seat, feet. No smile nothing could come of my face, Scary period. Forget me, Imagine ABERDEEN Investments which had more than 3Cr shares at Rs.400/- average price( works out to 120cr.) and this money did not orginate from some illicit source, IT's of those brothers and ur sisters who had put in by slogging like u and me.
Coming back to the point of importance, the day it was 10-feb-09, incidentally my sister's birthday!! the stock had fallen to Rs.15/- and I hope u remember my average cost of stock was Rs. 310/- I didn't know what to do?? difficult to keep ur smile in such situation, Honestly. I wanted follow the rule which I believed which said average the cost by buying some more!!! but the fact was I had no money, Damn!!!
I called my Fren Deep and said I want some cash, She asked me why?? I said I need to save my Rs.3lacs. The next morning I recieved Rs. 50k in my account and I had bought 3000shares at Rs.15.45/-(Average Price=Rs.85/-) terribly shocked and petrified. The point of contention came when LnT bought close to 5.5cr shares at Rs.21/- and the same ABERDEEN sold 3.23cr Shares at Rs. 21/-. Destiny strck when the only company I gave my Campus interview(TM) came and said IT would buy our truth. slowly the company started to grow and the stock had become a strong perfomer and I sold all the shares for Rs.115/- per share recently and gave my fren a Rs.6k gift.
Though the story has a happy ending but can this make people who invested in Lehmann Brothers happy??? who invested Worldcom??? in Sociate Generale???(some difficult name) in Bear Stearns??? in Enronn??? When we trust an Individual and stand by him,, His duty and responsibilty becomes more and has to act with no bais. An Individual interest screws up the world and makes IT difficult to believe the future. Hope these example gives better brains to our brothers who are behind the GAS!!!
Anyways let me not divert from what I had to talk about. IT wasn't a great day I woke to, I realised that the whole world wasn't true(SATYAM=False). 13-may-08 a livid day, one of my best investment SATYAM had reached Rs.545/- I was making a cool 10k in just 30days on a investment of 80k(cool na!!!) and then somebody said how are u??? Slowly the stock started sliding...... actually zooming in a wrong direction. In 3months IT reached Rs.400/- and I bought xctly the number of shares I had, My investor mind said the company is available at a steal buy more!!!! and one more month IT was available at Rs.224/- I said to myself people are mad(calculated the cash at Rs.5400Cr. and said:::---DDDD). by now I have 1000shares of the TRUTH(cost price=Rs.310/share)
The news of the great indian terror came to existence, Our Dearest fren Raju had jumped from the TIGER he was riding(Pls refer to the letter), I had fallen from my seat, feet. No smile nothing could come of my face, Scary period. Forget me, Imagine ABERDEEN Investments which had more than 3Cr shares at Rs.400/- average price( works out to 120cr.) and this money did not orginate from some illicit source, IT's of those brothers and ur sisters who had put in by slogging like u and me.
Coming back to the point of importance, the day it was 10-feb-09, incidentally my sister's birthday!! the stock had fallen to Rs.15/- and I hope u remember my average cost of stock was Rs. 310/- I didn't know what to do?? difficult to keep ur smile in such situation, Honestly. I wanted follow the rule which I believed which said average the cost by buying some more!!! but the fact was I had no money, Damn!!!
I called my Fren Deep and said I want some cash, She asked me why?? I said I need to save my Rs.3lacs. The next morning I recieved Rs. 50k in my account and I had bought 3000shares at Rs.15.45/-(Average Price=Rs.85/-) terribly shocked and petrified. The point of contention came when LnT bought close to 5.5cr shares at Rs.21/- and the same ABERDEEN sold 3.23cr Shares at Rs. 21/-. Destiny strck when the only company I gave my Campus interview(TM) came and said IT would buy our truth. slowly the company started to grow and the stock had become a strong perfomer and I sold all the shares for Rs.115/- per share recently and gave my fren a Rs.6k gift.
Though the story has a happy ending but can this make people who invested in Lehmann Brothers happy??? who invested Worldcom??? in Sociate Generale???(some difficult name) in Bear Stearns??? in Enronn??? When we trust an Individual and stand by him,, His duty and responsibilty becomes more and has to act with no bais. An Individual interest screws up the world and makes IT difficult to believe the future. Hope these example gives better brains to our brothers who are behind the GAS!!!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
My 1st Training-Part 2_What IF???
In continuation of the previous piece, There were lot of things happening as a precursor to this Training. I was really nervous, recieved a call from my Boss(Abhi), she said that its important to take it easy in the first training, she said to give the audience the time to sink in all the information, and lots of things which i actually could not hear becos my tuner had a different channel running. Suddenly I saw my old boss who had said " A good sales person cannot become a great trainer in analogy to a good player was never a good coach". I was a great sales guy with a 160% over achievement on my target.
Then it was my frens who came infront of me and said its important to get this right as your future might depend on this together. My boss said its importnat to get this right to have that first impression right. Finally saw my family infront talking about the importance of being good as it is an issue of their upbringing. Though all this things were going around, I had my set of questions like_What if i go wrong? will I be accepted as a trainer?? what would be the expectations of the audience? can i be a part of this fraternity?? was actually shit scared of all the questions which were being asked. Beyond all this I was scared of this ruthless society which do not have place for failures and the meanest of all is everything would depend on what u're!
I walked into the loo and actually sat down on the seat, took some deep breaths to sunk in all the questions. Washed my face, tied the tie and walked out with head high. The travel from Jayanagar to Gandhinagar was very very quiet. I usually sing songs, call my frens, or listen to radio. There were too many things happening at the same time for the processor to comprehend.
But after all this i realised its important to take that risk, go with that over confidence and most importantly trust yourself, and people around. I had this strong feeling in my stomach, And thats when I remembered: "If u want something strongly, the whole world will do a conspiracy to get us that". from Paul Coelho's Alchemist, But as a hindi Movie lover, " Itni Shiddat se tumhe paane ki koshish ki hai, ki har zarre ne tumse milaneke sazish ki hai", From Om Shanthi Om.
So guys honestly believe the risk u take, dont be too confused about things, Take that plunge and then dont go with a feeling things can go wrong. It can but it wont be if u trust it. Honestly, We all dont do things with the fear of loosing, but with out giving it a try u have lost it even before the attempt. Always remember. The happiness of people around us is directly proportional to our happiness.
Godspeed!!!!
Then it was my frens who came infront of me and said its important to get this right as your future might depend on this together. My boss said its importnat to get this right to have that first impression right. Finally saw my family infront talking about the importance of being good as it is an issue of their upbringing. Though all this things were going around, I had my set of questions like_What if i go wrong? will I be accepted as a trainer?? what would be the expectations of the audience? can i be a part of this fraternity?? was actually shit scared of all the questions which were being asked. Beyond all this I was scared of this ruthless society which do not have place for failures and the meanest of all is everything would depend on what u're!
I walked into the loo and actually sat down on the seat, took some deep breaths to sunk in all the questions. Washed my face, tied the tie and walked out with head high. The travel from Jayanagar to Gandhinagar was very very quiet. I usually sing songs, call my frens, or listen to radio. There were too many things happening at the same time for the processor to comprehend.
But after all this i realised its important to take that risk, go with that over confidence and most importantly trust yourself, and people around. I had this strong feeling in my stomach, And thats when I remembered: "If u want something strongly, the whole world will do a conspiracy to get us that". from Paul Coelho's Alchemist, But as a hindi Movie lover, " Itni Shiddat se tumhe paane ki koshish ki hai, ki har zarre ne tumse milaneke sazish ki hai", From Om Shanthi Om.
So guys honestly believe the risk u take, dont be too confused about things, Take that plunge and then dont go with a feeling things can go wrong. It can but it wont be if u trust it. Honestly, We all dont do things with the fear of loosing, but with out giving it a try u have lost it even before the attempt. Always remember. The happiness of people around us is directly proportional to our happiness.
Godspeed!!!!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Adi the sales man!!!!
It was a friday in the hot month of april 2007. Just out of college, done with exam. Most of them campus placed.... I was jobless, literally. Madness of doing something different. something unique, known for it always. Had no money at all. And I got a call from consultant and said there is a job opening in a financial services company, interview scheduled between 10am to 1.30pm... I was at home, it was 11.30am in morning, but no petrol in bike...!!! I went to my mom, and said if i dont come back with a job..... will stop asking for money for sure!!!
I borrowed Rs.30 from my mom and reached A Consultancy called Turning Point(Literally!!!). It was 1.45pm and interviews were over... people were having lunch. I walked into the place and said I got a call from this place for interview! A lady called Mridula walked out with a plate and said its over. All were walking out, i decided enough is enough and walked out,... suddenly heard a voice which said; "Come I will take ur interview". I said,"I wanna be inerviewed by the company people and not anyone". This person replied and said"Hey, I'm from the company and I have a position available".
I stood with him, he offered me a ciggarate and I said no thanks..... got a big smile... Actually over burdened by the expectations of the people around, there was no I could goof this up..... He asked tell me something abt urself and I replied exactly the person u're looking for the job!! A burst of laughter i could see and the person interviewing me said u're in!!! I asked wats the job?? then he said u need to sell Life insurance, I said Life insurance agent??? He said Life insurance agent's manager!!! The next thing was I landed up a job of selling Life insurance for one of the most reputed company in the industry.I said to Mr. Joshi u'll never regret this!!!
watch out the space for the sales man and his endeavour.......
I borrowed Rs.30 from my mom and reached A Consultancy called Turning Point(Literally!!!). It was 1.45pm and interviews were over... people were having lunch. I walked into the place and said I got a call from this place for interview! A lady called Mridula walked out with a plate and said its over. All were walking out, i decided enough is enough and walked out,... suddenly heard a voice which said; "Come I will take ur interview". I said,"I wanna be inerviewed by the company people and not anyone". This person replied and said"Hey, I'm from the company and I have a position available".
I stood with him, he offered me a ciggarate and I said no thanks..... got a big smile... Actually over burdened by the expectations of the people around, there was no I could goof this up..... He asked tell me something abt urself and I replied exactly the person u're looking for the job!! A burst of laughter i could see and the person interviewing me said u're in!!! I asked wats the job?? then he said u need to sell Life insurance, I said Life insurance agent??? He said Life insurance agent's manager!!! The next thing was I landed up a job of selling Life insurance for one of the most reputed company in the industry.I said to Mr. Joshi u'll never regret this!!!
watch out the space for the sales man and his endeavour.......
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