Posted in General, Inspiration, Learning on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 2008 railway budget of India was presented by Union Minister Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav recently. The points which stood out to me:
The railways had a cash surplus of Rs 25000 crore in FY08 with an operating ratio of 76%.
Fare cuts across the board. upto 7% compared to previous years’.
Introduction of more Software based controls, [...]
Posted in General, tagged Food, Gourmet, Kerala Cuisine on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Picture courtesy: Shubhaytra)
Decided to try make some authentic Kerala dishes for dinner yesterday. Ready to eats from M&S and my once-in-a-week crash-cooking has taken its toll. If there is anything worse than a forced bachelorhood, its deprivation of good food. And hence I went in search for some nice recipes on the net.
In case I haven’t said [...]
Posted in Excercise, General, Inspiration, Learning on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Had a nice game of badminton yesterday.
Sam booked a court in Kodak Sports Centre in Harrow, drove all the way from Ealing and showed up with a spare set of gears. When he pre-empted my last resort of defence by showing another pair of badminton shoes in his car, I knew I ran out of excuses.
So in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A day to say ‘I Love you’ one more time
A day to remember how loved I am
A day to Thank God once again
For the gift called Archana.
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Chanced Upon this poem from Alastair McIntosh.
Boating In Maine.
Some things you never lose
like when David took us sailing
sharing thoughts of poetry and form
and rowing back the tender to the [...]
Posted in General, Inspiration, Learning on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
-Aristotle
Took some time this weekend to read about the roots of Syrian Christians in Kerala. A largely inconsequential exercise, yet I found myself deeply engrossed in history. In case you are intrigued too, please [...]
Posted in General, Love, tagged life after death, Love on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Love will transcend the boundaries of life. I also believe the ‘other side’ is eternal.
Ask not for logic for the matters of heart.
The feelings and thoughts. Never expressed fully, never understood clearly yet so constant and ever present. Feelings and thoughts form a parallel world. Its already beyond the limits of body, place or time.
Some acts of kindness you [...]
Posted in General, Investments, Learning, money, tagged India's growth story, Investments on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moneycontrol gives a very good quarterly analysis of India’s industrial growth story .
The full story can be downloaded from here. Dec ‘07 Earnings Analysis by Haresh Soneji, Shravan Srinivasula and Anichya Shah.
Profit after Tax (PAT) figures still look very pretty at around 30%, albeit lower than last years dizzying heights of near 45%.
This report proves that it is still well worth wading through the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Broadband, Ethical Hacking, Network Security on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Extract from the theregister.co.uk article:
“A security researcher says he has observed criminals using a new form of attack that causes victims to visit spoofed banking pages by secretly making changes to their high-speed home routers.
According to Symantec researcher Zulfikar Ramzan, the attack changes a router’s settings controlling the domain name system server that translates domain [...]
Posted in Guitar on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
a simple piece Sreejesh taught me when we were in College, drinking our way through engineering. Years later, I would buy a guitar to re-learn and play those old times back…
Please excuse the horrible playing.. now you know I wasn’t joking when I warned you that I am buying a guitar.
Posted in General, Investments, Learning, money, tagged Investments on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weekends allow me to catch up on the endless market jabber that went on in CNBC and moneycontrol throughout the week. Good to see this correction coming along before it was too late. It must have made a lot of newbie investors a little poorer but some lessons are learned the hard way.
I am quite convinced in the [...]
