Life Incidences-I

Friends
I wish to share with you some emotional incidents happned to me:
1. In 1992, once I lost the job and could not get the new job immediately. In those days, I was almost hand to mouth and was burdened with heavy debts too. The job loss was a serious blow on the survival of me and family. Finally a gentleman helped me and offered a job and was asked to join next day. I reached to the office on time with tiffin in my bag, fully excited and confident about my capabilities. But unfortuntaely I was asked to wait at the reception. Initially I thought being new in the company probably they want me to be introduce with all the senior guys. But the excitement faded soon and after half an hour I started worrying. After one hour I inquired from the receptionist to ask some one inside. She came back without any expression on the face. After 2 hours, i was in deep tension, still nothing happened. By the time every one coming in and out of the office was steering at me. Then I called the person who put me on job to do some thing. It was already 12 pm . He asked me to wait in office only. After 3 hours of waiting, I was asked to give interview to a middle level officer in the company. Though a very humiliating, I went to his cabin and he in 5 mins threw me out. Again I was at the reception looking to the receptionist. It was 1 pm now and lunch time had started. My tiffin was in bag but by this time I got the idea about what has happened to me. I called again to the same person who put me here and this time he said you get out from this office as you are rejected and hence asked me to go to a very very small factory if I want job. There I reached by 2.30 pm . The owner of this company was having lunch and I could see him talking over phone and eating. But finally this guy was very courteous and agreed to take me in job. He first asked me about the lunch and I immediately started taking lunch. I was so obliged by this man that would never forget his obligation.
2.Recently I had a chance to visit one of my professional client at Ahmedabad. His office is in a building which is amongst first 2-3 Buildings I visited initially during my struggle period in the city. Infact in 1994 I had to leave Mumbai for some health reason and hence was searching job in ahmedabad. So I first went to a renowned company and asked for the job opportunity if available but could not get. Then went to another company located in this building. There I was asked to wait for about an hour and later told of no such opportunity. In between one very junior assistant of the company came to me , felt pity at my condtition and told that to get the job you should meet one consultant who may find some suitable opportunity. Fotunately I got the job and time passed. In just 14 years I again went to that same building to meet a very reputed industrialist. By this time neither that junior fellow was available nor the company where he was working existed. I was thinking about the person who guided me. I dont know him nor his face . But this is the life. It was very emotional thought. A thought of looking back in past 14 years' life. We come accross lot many people who help us directly or indirectly but we forget their support soon. Even dont remeber their face.
I would share some more incidences soon.
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Share Markets

Friends
Just came accross to a story. A businessman was passing thru a village alongwith his assistant. He noticed that this village has large number of monkeys and clicked a great idea in his entrepreneurial mind. He announced that he would pay Rs. 10/- per monkey. The villagers were excited about the idea and picked as many monkeys as they could. The businessman got 1000 monkeys and paid Rs. 10000/- in all. The villagers stopped bringing in more monkeys as it was not cost effective due to scarcity of monkeys. The businessman announced to pay Rs. 20/- per monkey now and thus got another 500 monkeys. Now most of the monkeys were caught by the villagers. The Businessman further jacked up the price to Rs. 50/- per monkey. Villagers went to the jungles and tried everything but could not caught more than 100 monkeys. They almost left the idea of hunting more monkeys. The businessman had gone to the town for some days and the assistant was posted in village. He called up some villagers and showed them all the 1600 monkeys kept in cages. He said my owner would pay Rs. 50/- per monkey and you people dont have any to catch now. He offered to sell the monkeys @ Rs. 35/- so the villagers can sale to the owner for Rs. 50/-. Villagers thought it as a very good idea to further mint money and therefore bought all the monkeys. They waited for owner to come next day. To their surprise, next day even the assistant was not in the village and there were no sign of owner turning up back.
Friends this story is exactly like share market. You have something but forced to sale at cheaper and then again the momentom is created to so high level that we buy back at very high price in the hope of earning huge profits. But by the time we get the shares the prices touch the lower circuit and poor investors loose heavily. Those who trap us already out by this time.
The moral is: Dont go for any short cut route to earn money. There is no such route in this world.
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Friends

Today is a very special day of my life. Exactly 46 years before at 10 am , I came on this earth. The time and dates are always told by the parents and we take as final. Lots of wishes for long, healthy, wealthy and happy life pouring on me and that makes the day very special. It also encourages to look to the world in different perception, more positive and better world.

If I look to the past 46 years, these were very eventful years but not very satisfactory but still I am thankful to the god for helping and caring me and my family. The celebration would go the whole day but many closest persons who are part of my life would not be with me physically due to various reasons.

I am very much thankful to all the friends and relatives who care and wish for me and family.

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Friends

Friends, colorful festival Holi is approaching. This festival reminds us about forget and forgiveness. The color makes every one equal irrespecive of caste, creed or color. It teaches us the power of forget and forgiveness. Let us clean ourselves from any grudge or enmity and move further. On this pious occassion, I request every one who got hurt due to me to forgive. I believe very few people in this world are truly yours and the cost of loosing such a person is immense. Very few are lucky amongst us to have true well wishers and think for our benefit. I know how difficult it is to make some one your true well wisher and the pain of helplessness in not reciprocating the same. So better ask for forgiveness and not to loose such persons.

Kingfisher supremo has done a gret service to the country by taking some of the personal belongigs of father of nation Mahatma Gandhi. At least some one is there to understand the sentiments of the indians. Earlier he had brought in the sword of Great Tipu Sultan. I salute this guy who has shown his love and respect for our country. ONe cant be a true rich just by having lot of money, he should also know how to use it for the better cause of society and nation.

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Friends
I am writing after 15 days . Infact I could not conentrate these days on writing the blog. The events day by day, travelling, positive negative sentiments, ups and down in the professional life, business scenerio, economy, share market, so on and so forth. It seems every thing is going mechanical without any constructive effort on my part. I am every day moving to the direction not set by me but by others. Wherever a small light appears, I move there. Probably searching some big thing but dont know what. Probably every one is doing the same. Some one would call here some one there. I convince my self not to loose any opportunity and rush there. But ultimately the result ? A big mystery. I believe efforts never go waste may be the result take some time . So following this principle, I am leaving no opportunity of meeting people wherever they are and exploring the opportunity. It is time consuming process and may take years to get success but the feeling itself of being successful is quite enought to continue the efforts. Believe me I dont know what success is but I know what failure is and how it feels when you fail. And I dont want to feel the failure any more.
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Friends

What led Mr. B. Ramalingam Raju of Satyam to resort to such malpractices ?

And then what ultimately led him to disclose all this?

These two questions are in my mind right now. If he did all this to run in the race and reach to top slot then was it required or with the vision and entrepreneurship he could have achieved same level may be in few more years? Was there any other way available to him to win the race? And also was there any other alternative of getting the things move as it is for some more time?

Why a person should use something illegal, illogical and criminal practices to win the race. I am of the view that business is a game and one should play with fun. It is not necessary to win the game or be on the top amongst players but one should continue to play. If the game is played with ethics and full efforts, winning is amlmost certain. Then why all this?

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I WISH TO ALL FRIENDS AND DEAR ONES A VERY WARM, HAPPY, PROSPEROUS AND PEACEFUL YEAR 2009.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.