I have managed to muster just enuf time to put this on.. what a Sunday this is promises to be...
Back from a very boring day at office at 3 PM.. got a F1 British GP at 5, World T 20 final at 7:30 followed by a mouth watering confederations cup clash of Italia vs Brazil at 11:30 .
What a fantastic Sunday.. will get around 8 hours of sleep b4 office time tomorrow which is more than enuf for an insom. like me..
By the way Kimi Raikonnen had the two strategically worst pit stops in F1 history thanks to the ever faultering Ferrarri after he made a fantastic start to the race...
Got to run.. I've got exactly 9 mins to run an make a very big Arsenal mug of nice strong bitter but nice Italian coffee and add little sugar to rhyme up a bitter sweet symphony before 15 guys come over to watch the final with 50 beer bottles in their hand.... which I will not have cos I got a very sore throat.
Bhavin
About Me
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Not a habit I should've lost.
Just thought I would document this.. what I used to do in college.. even between exams, classes.. unfortunately out of the habit now.. but here is what I hv read so far.,.and enjoyed very much... the best way to pass time I would say...
Ayn Rand :
The Fountainhead - The Best one ever.
Atlas Shrugged
We The Living
Jeffrey Archer :
Not a Penny more Not a Penny less
First Among Equals
A Matter of Honour
Honour Among Thieves
Kane and Abel
The Prodigal daughter
Shall We Tell the President
Sidney Sheldon :
The Other Side of Midnight
If Tommorow Comes
Morning , Noon and Night
Nothing Lasts Forever.
Leon Uris :
Armageddon
QB VII
Mila 18
Trinity
Exodus
The Haj
Topaz
Mitla Pass
Harold Robbins : A Stone for Danny Fisher ... beautiful first 3 pages
Dan Brown : The Da Vinci Code
Robert Ludlum :
The Altman Code
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
Pualo Coehlo's Alchemist yes... one of the worst novels.. actually th worst novel I have read so far
Cant belive people liked that..
Got two more....
Irving Wallace :
The Miracle .... Pathetic by the way.
The Second Lady .... This was even more pathetic and the last Irving Wallace novel I read.
John Grisham - The Summons.. never felt like reading another Grisham novel after this.
Hotel, Airport , Wheels by Arthur Hailey.
The Bourne Ultimatum by Ludlum.
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair Mclean.
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown ... gr8 movie... normally novels are better.
I will edit this post, probably , if I remember I have read any others.. or recall any novel which I want to read...
Want to stay addicted to this hobby.
yeah I read Five point someone 50 pages and burned it cos it was too boring...
obviously returned one night at call center since I didnt want more pollution in the world.
Bhavin
The Joyride. We've got a ticket to ride
What is the most common answer to the question.. why are the Europeans and Americans pissed off with India........
Well its IT jobs, outsourcing, cheap labour... software company contracts.
Now, I just came across another very interesting industry which is eating away European jobs , Italia and Germany to be specific. and thats Amusement parks !!!
How are the Indians eating away jobs in this field... for all I know.. the only decent amusement park we've got is Essel World and that is also only average.
One might argue that Delhi's Appu Ghar is also in the race... well Appu Ghar is only fascinating when you read about it in a book in class 3rd. That place is actually shit.. even the statue of the Appu that they have got at the entrance is totally discouraging and makes you want to turn back...best indication will get is when you ask then rick driver to take you to it.. and he will give you the most amused looks to take you to the amusement park... like.. is this moron seriously going in there!!!
Neways... so you could be in an amusement park in Greece, Denmark or even Tanzania... yes the African one.. and might ejoy a ride made in India.
Yes, we manufacture those machines, those seats, the safety mechanism , motors and rotors and the swings.. all made here in India, manufactured here.
Indian comapnies are able to provide these products at 50-70% cheaper rates than their Euro counterparts.
Ofcourse quality is the first thing which will come to your mind..that is actually better and among the best in the world.
Arihant, Hindustan Amusement Machines , BombayAmusement Rides, Prakash Amusements.. ever heard of them.. I bet not. These are the companies that make them. Countries like South Africa, Oman, Saudi Arabia order rides from these companies who make a healthy turnover of more than Rs. 5 Cr ranging upto 40 Cr.
Even Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania is gonna have one big ausement park very soon , imagine Tanzania having one bigger than us... and the project has gone to HAM .
Price is a sensitive quantity these days, thats the reason factiores are strugllling in It and Ger.
They hopefully are planning to open their own in India........
Come on join the Joyride.
Bhavin
Well its IT jobs, outsourcing, cheap labour... software company contracts.
Now, I just came across another very interesting industry which is eating away European jobs , Italia and Germany to be specific. and thats Amusement parks !!!
How are the Indians eating away jobs in this field... for all I know.. the only decent amusement park we've got is Essel World and that is also only average.
One might argue that Delhi's Appu Ghar is also in the race... well Appu Ghar is only fascinating when you read about it in a book in class 3rd. That place is actually shit.. even the statue of the Appu that they have got at the entrance is totally discouraging and makes you want to turn back...best indication will get is when you ask then rick driver to take you to it.. and he will give you the most amused looks to take you to the amusement park... like.. is this moron seriously going in there!!!
Neways... so you could be in an amusement park in Greece, Denmark or even Tanzania... yes the African one.. and might ejoy a ride made in India.
Yes, we manufacture those machines, those seats, the safety mechanism , motors and rotors and the swings.. all made here in India, manufactured here.
Indian comapnies are able to provide these products at 50-70% cheaper rates than their Euro counterparts.
Ofcourse quality is the first thing which will come to your mind..that is actually better and among the best in the world.
Arihant, Hindustan Amusement Machines , BombayAmusement Rides, Prakash Amusements.. ever heard of them.. I bet not. These are the companies that make them. Countries like South Africa, Oman, Saudi Arabia order rides from these companies who make a healthy turnover of more than Rs. 5 Cr ranging upto 40 Cr.
Even Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania is gonna have one big ausement park very soon , imagine Tanzania having one bigger than us... and the project has gone to HAM .
Price is a sensitive quantity these days, thats the reason factiores are strugllling in It and Ger.
They hopefully are planning to open their own in India........
Come on join the Joyride.
Bhavin
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Circuit Breaker...
This is not the electronic crap we used to try in our engineering labs and it never worked,,,, because we were too busy popping our heads outside the window while some nerd tried to create a circuit........
In the news after the election when the stock market went berserk , too happy that a Sardar is gonna lead the nation and went ahead buying shares like Sardars.
Circuit breaker as I learnt that day.. is used to avoid abnormal fluctuations in the stock market... used when the prices of stocks go higher than expected or fall to a critical level.
Within some time of opening trading after election results.. the market crossed the 10% rise threshold , people buyed like crazy and the regualtors had to stop trading then and there...... and remained suspended for the rest of the day.
A Sardar had that impact on the nation..... and we crack jokes about them...
The regulator , by the way was SEBI. This I knew.
One thing to note is tat there are bands... upper price band lower price band.... when trading is suspended... share trading goes on but its price does not move beyond the higher or lower price band .
Economics was my favourite subject in my MBA course.. but still there is so much to it... its a huge.. massive subject.. nd is hard to remember stuff if you are really not working in that field...
Bhavin.
In the news after the election when the stock market went berserk , too happy that a Sardar is gonna lead the nation and went ahead buying shares like Sardars.
Circuit breaker as I learnt that day.. is used to avoid abnormal fluctuations in the stock market... used when the prices of stocks go higher than expected or fall to a critical level.
Within some time of opening trading after election results.. the market crossed the 10% rise threshold , people buyed like crazy and the regualtors had to stop trading then and there...... and remained suspended for the rest of the day.
A Sardar had that impact on the nation..... and we crack jokes about them...
The regulator , by the way was SEBI. This I knew.
One thing to note is tat there are bands... upper price band lower price band.... when trading is suspended... share trading goes on but its price does not move beyond the higher or lower price band .
Economics was my favourite subject in my MBA course.. but still there is so much to it... its a huge.. massive subject.. nd is hard to remember stuff if you are really not working in that field...
Bhavin.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Czar of the Auto industry falls - The tough road ahead.
Opel goes to Magna
Chrysler to Italy's Fiat SpA.
Pontiac is written off.
Saab may go away.
Volvo, Hummer, Saturn are for Sale.
GM.. the General Motors.. the icon of the motor industry. One time No.1 company on Fortune 500 files for bankruptcy, and no one is shocked.
They call it an accelarated bankrupty process, where they think its all planned. an amount is decided, a date is decided... and then the bankrupty is filed.
GM and Chrysler are going to emerge in an environment which is more hostile than ever before.Too many companies, chasing too few buyers.
GM is wounded, its reputation is in tatters, their cars are outdated and inferior, plus the worst ... people feel Obama admin is wasting taxpayer money on a company that made numeorous mistakes over these years.
Something as simple and dangerous as greed is the cause of something as little as a pickpocket being put in jail to being the cause of GM's fall.
People are angry at GM and Chrysler because they are a burden on the system.
When I read something like this, I couldnt help agreeing compltely to Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy who pitted themselves again the world govts saying regulation is the need of the hour.
Global firms needs to be regulated... AIG, Lehmann, GM.. they became so big that when they fell they took the economy with them.
They should have never allowed them to become so big.
Whose turf is it anyway.
Bhavin
Chrysler to Italy's Fiat SpA.
Pontiac is written off.
Saab may go away.
Volvo, Hummer, Saturn are for Sale.
GM.. the General Motors.. the icon of the motor industry. One time No.1 company on Fortune 500 files for bankruptcy, and no one is shocked.
They call it an accelarated bankrupty process, where they think its all planned. an amount is decided, a date is decided... and then the bankrupty is filed.
GM and Chrysler are going to emerge in an environment which is more hostile than ever before.Too many companies, chasing too few buyers.
GM is wounded, its reputation is in tatters, their cars are outdated and inferior, plus the worst ... people feel Obama admin is wasting taxpayer money on a company that made numeorous mistakes over these years.
Something as simple and dangerous as greed is the cause of something as little as a pickpocket being put in jail to being the cause of GM's fall.
People are angry at GM and Chrysler because they are a burden on the system.
When I read something like this, I couldnt help agreeing compltely to Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy who pitted themselves again the world govts saying regulation is the need of the hour.
Global firms needs to be regulated... AIG, Lehmann, GM.. they became so big that when they fell they took the economy with them.
They should have never allowed them to become so big.
Whose turf is it anyway.
Bhavin
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