The Kohinoor row

Suddenly out of the blue we've waged a war for the return of the Kohinoor. What were we doing all this time ? Sleeping? Why didn't it bother us 50 years ago when we got Independence?

This is what i hate about our entire Indian civilization. Living in the past. Identifying heavily with the past. Whats wrong if we don't have that hira? Do we loose anything ? Or Do we gain anything?

Heritage. Crap! When we slowly and gradually lost independence in the 1700's and 1800's where was our pride and heritage? Why the fuck did we fight against each other and let the British take advantage of it ? Why didn't we protect our Heritage and sovereignty that time?

Lets get rid of the cloud of our past and try to do things which don't let us feel ashamed of us again and again. We've had a bad recent past and we've gotten out of it. Screw the Kohinoor. We don't want it. If Pakistan has claims upon it, let them get it. We've got too much to worry about. We got to get rid of poverty and march ahead in our quest of becoming a prosperous superpower. Fuck the Kohinoor. We don't need it.

www.goolti.com - Review Desi Consultancy firms in the US/India

I've embarked on another small venture. http://www.goolti.com. This one is a simple forum where people can share their experiences of working with Desi consultancy firms in the US.

There is a lot of dirtiness which goes on in the Consultancy companies run by Desi's out here in US.
1) Some don't give H1B original papers to their employees.
2) Some in the fear that the employees will leave the firm immediately make them sign a contract.
3) Some hold up some part of their salary so that they don't leave immediately.
4) Some have horrible experiences since they are on bench and their employers don't get them a contract soon.

The list can go on and on. Specifically, students who switch from their F1 visa status to H1B status are special targets to harass since they are new to the game and can be exploited.

www.goolti.com is a site where people who have gone through such good/bad experiences can voice their opinions so that other people benefit from it. Its a simple user forum where you can write a review for others to be viewed and commented on.

Please note that the users can also put up 'good' reviews about their consultants.

I hope this finally becomes a mode to force these consultancy companies to play a fair game.

You may be the last generation who has the possibility to rebel.
And if you don´t rebel, there may be no more chances: humanity can be reduced to a robot-like existence. So rebel while the time is still there!

--Osho Rajneesh

How was the Universe created?

I've reached new levels today in understanding, How the universe was created. The question which is haunting the mankind for centuries in the past and which is going to haunt the mankind for all the time to come has finally been solved by good old me!

So the thing is, the theory that somebody created this universe is absurd as far as my mind can think of. Because, it leaves a circular question open. If X created the universe then who created X? And this question can go on and on and on. So, I refute creationary theories completely and won't bother about them here.

Next, assume that what ever you see as created never really existed. The earth, the stars, the planets, the galaxies and the nebula's, everything. Assume for a while that all that your mind understands as 'creation' just disappears. So what is left now? Total darkness and emptyness, right?

What is left? Nothing. Right? Now what is this Nothing? As far as our minds can perceive 'Nothing' its just absence of 'everything'. If everything disappears, what is left is deep dark space. Fathomless emptyness.

Now, max you can conclude is, out of this emptyness our universe was created. How? Don't bother about that. We will focus our quest to the base. The root, rather than the fruit. Once the root is sorted out, the fruit can be reached.

Next. Can anybody create this emptyness? Absence of everything is presence of this deep dark space. Now 'Nothingness' does not need creation. I mean c'mon its nothingness after all. How can you create nothingness. At least I'm convinced on the fact that 'Nothingness' needs no creation and hence bothering about where it came from and what is it there for is crap and waste of your time.

So, however far the physicists reach in concluding the birth of the universe a final explanation with proofs cannot be ever available.

Hence today, in a final revelation, the final light has dawned and I conclude that this existence never began in the first place and hence will never end. It never was created and hence will never be destroyed.

Hope this explanation made some sense. At least it makes sense to me.

Entrpreneurship

Full marks to this guy ...

God and Belief

The believer is not a seeker. The believer does not want to seek, that´s why he believes. The believer wants to avoid seeking, that´s why he believes. The believer wants to be delivered, saved, he needs a savior. He is always in search of a messiah — somebody who can eat for him, chew for him, digest for him. But if I eat, your hunger is not going to be satisfied. Nobody can save you except yourself.

-- Osho Rajneesh

Statistically Insightful

Pope and the Muslims

Recently Pope made a comment while reading a text at some place which said that Mohammed had brought the biggest evil on the world.

This is disgusting. I think all Christians should give up Christianity on moral grounds. If the highest authority of your religion makes such ignorant comments it shows the narrow-mindedness of your religion and its core values. Orthodox Christians suck bigtime.

On the other hand, once again the Muslims showed to the world that they are still living in the 11th Century. Their angry reaction to the whole incident was overrated. They could have demanded an apology without burning down Churches and Chapels in the middle east.

If pope turns out to be an asshole why should Muslims respond to it in an assholish manner ?

I'm again reminded and convinced that Religion & God has nothing to do with Human life. Both the concepts are biggest conspiracy theories of all times.

Drop Religion and concept of God from your mind. Both do not exist.

Netvibes

I discovered this cool site www.netvibes.com.

Its a RSS feed aggregator and offers other functionalities such as reading mails through RSS and certain other features like Meebo widgets etc.

It's one of the coolest sites I've seen lately. Its time to say good bye to visiting various sites to read content posted out there. NetVibes is a one stop shop to read all your content, blogs, pics and what not.

Several other sites have started RSS feed reader facilities. Off lately Yahoo is one I've noticed who've jumped into this game.

This site is on my high recommendation list.

Bad experience with DoubleTree suites

I am explicitly taking out some time out of my busy schedule today to write this post.

I came to New Jersey for the first time as a consquence of a new job. Until I found an apartment I chose to live in DoubleTree suites & Hotels (Newport branch) which is a part of the Hilton Hotels umbrella.

My experience with DoubleTree was really really bad and I was absolutely appalled by the kind of customer service they offer.

Basic things like clean rooms, with all the needed utilities and amneties were all perfect. There was no problem with that.

The ugly part is here.

Avis car rentals has an office right in the lobby of the same hotel. I didn't really know this and called the front desk about renting cars. The front desk dosen't really want to talk straight. It dosent understand what the hell customer service means.
The lady who picked up my call answers in an irritated tone saying that 'Sir, why don't you call the Avis rentals rather than asking me?'. It seemed like by telling me this she was doing me a huge favour for which I'd owe her one.

Finally gives me the phone number for Avis rentals which dosent work! I had to go on the Avis website and get thier number.

This is bad service. Real bad service.

Here is another one.

Internet access in DoubleTree suites is not Wireless. Its Wireless only in Public areas.

Crap!

In which age are they living? 1760's?

Tell me which hotel today dosent have a wireless connectivity in rooms?

To add to that, the wireless connectivity is available for 9.95$ per day. This is a too expensive. No value for money ! Total crap!

I had lived in Extended Stay hotels in the past and they offer wireless connectivity in every room for 4.95$ for the entire stay. Thats what I call value for money. These guys (Extended Stay) make profit too but they don't rip the customer off for making the profit. They do ethical business.

When you check-in to DoubleTree they offer you Choclate Chip cookies as a warm welcome. This is a total gimmick! They have no Idea of good customer service at all. The warmness in the customer service dissappears as soon as you get into your room.

With all these problems I'd advise anybody NOT to choose DoubleTree suites for your stay if you want that stay to be comfortable. There are a million other hotels and you shud rather choose those.

Finally, out of rat hole of Cognizant

Its had been on my mind for around 2 years. I tried my best to get out of it in London. But out there, to get a job on work permit was just too difficult. I had only one choice. Get to US and get rid of CTS. And thats what I did.

I came to Houston in Feb. Wasted a month since my passport was confiscated and Visa extension was waited. After that next 4 months I was only sticking to CTS to get valid paychecks which are needed for H1B transfers. I got them and resigned.

The market out here in US so HOT that as soon as I placed my resume on Monster, I started getting more than at least 5 calls a day. I caught a consultant and he started marketing my resume. I interviewed pretty heavily. I cleared practically all the interviews I gave except one. I got selected in UBS for NY and switched.

The sorry feeling of a underpaid and an overworked individual trapped in a jail is gone for good.

Another lesson in life, Having definitive focus helps move things quickly.

I know people from CTS here in US who have stuck to the company from last 2 and more years being on an H1. I switched almost immediately after arriving in US.

Another lesson learnt for me in life, Do things when time is ripe otherwise one rots.

I am in NYC now. Life is better.

Clarification about the Aryan migration, once again

These set of links again are a research into the fact that Aryans never migrated into India. It was the other way round. This research was done by an independant researcher David Frawley.

Myth About Aryan Invasion

Update on Aryan Invasion Theory

This is an excellent collection of articles I came across which eradicates the myth that Aryans migrated from Europe.

They were natively from the Indian heartland itself.

Click here for the articles

Islamist fundamentalism

These days I've suddenly gained interest in Islam. A religion which has desperately gone wrong.

I seriously want to know what makes these fools think that the world should be exactly same as it was in 300BC when Mohd was around.

Some of the more critical blogs I've recently read are :

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com

I like them. They talk reality.

Cool Poem

THE SUPREME REALITY–A Dialogue between He and They
He asked – Who is God ?
They said – God is the Supreme Reality.
A precisely vague reply !

He asked – Where is God ?
They said – He is everywhere.
Where ? Everywhere ! but where ?

He asked – Have you seen Him ?
They said – Well, no ! but we’ll meet him in heaven .
Oh Heavens ! Didn’t they just say God was everywhere !

He asked – You have proof of God ?
They said – God is an experience .
Experience the experience !
Surely, there must be better proof that God exists !

He scorned with a smile and said –
You know not who God is .
You know not where God is .
You have not the proof of his existence.
Why then should I believe in God ?

Vexed, they turned red-hot as iron,
they turned to leave.
They mumbled , “ Let him go to dogs !”

He cried out –
You clogged brains !
you do not realize,
that you have created God .
Mankind has created God !
Created him of necessity !
A necessity for your psyche ,
For, you weak-minded souls ,
need a pillar to give you solace,
to allay your fears ,disturbances, worries…
Admit it or not – Originally man created God,
then God created man !
Now, that’s the Supreme Reality !

They mocked at him, they left .
They stigmatized him as an agnostic.
Was he not only a free thinker !

SUSHMA NAGARAJ

Where the Hell is Matt?

This is a cool video I found at YouTube.com. Check it out.

Beware of the Telugu guys

Its surprising that Telugu people have practically no noise back home in India.

I mean living in Pune and Mumbai which are pretty cosmopolitan places you meet a lot of South Indian guys and learn about thier culture.

Surprisingly the guys you meet generally happen to be from Karnataka, Tamil nadu or Kerala. There are very few Telugu guys setteled there, I guess. You don't get to meet them very often nor hear any big news coming out of Andhra regularly.

However, come to U.S. and all you hear about is Telugu guys. They are here. They are there. They are Everywhere. I can take you to apartment complexes where you'll feel you've arrived to Hyderabad! Man, they have a mini-Andhra established in this country.

Houston, the place where I am living currently, has so many Telugu guys settled that its hard to believe that therez anybody left in Andhra anymore!

Now, the major business these guys run is body shopping consultancy firms where they sponsor H1B visas for aspiring guys in India and get them onboard to U.S. Believe me, if you ask some of the professionals that have worked with them, you'll know what hatred is. The spite they have for these people is just amazing!

Practically everybody I meet till now gives me the first advise that, come what may, don't work with a consultancy which is run by Telugu guys. It's a hell out there.

Why?

Desigiri.

Working with a Telugu consultant means a lot of hassle and haggling :

(1) You are pretty much sure that they'll fleece you with the salary they promise and the salary you actually get when your paycheck arrives.

(2) My roomie, Ranjith works with one such consultancy and says that his firm holds his 15 days worth of salary to ensure that he dosen't abruptly leave the consultancy and run away. They're just sure that every candidate who works with them is sure looking for jobs at other places and hence will run away soon.

(3) You never know whether you'll get a salary on time. You'll definitely get it. But not timely. Sometimes 15 days late and otherwise 2 months late.

(4) Some promise you that they'll immediately process your green card but later (once you've already joined) they'll tell you that you'll have to pay the green card processing fees from your pocket! You were never told that when you were about to join!


This is just some of the facts I've heard. Imagine what this blog post would read like if I'd been working for one of such firms. Just talking with people makes me doubt these guys. Imagine, what'll I write if I work for such a firm!

Moral of the story?

BEWARE of the Telugu firm in America! He might just fleece you off your money and peace of mind!!

Hey, but not everybody is bad?

Therez gotta be someone firms who're good. I mean c'mon this world has more good people than bad. Right?

So, I can't really go for what I hear from other people. That's just gossip.

Wait till I find out the reality about these allegations for real and I'll change my view.

If there are any Telugu guys reading this, please don't get offended. I mean c'mon this is just a sorry ass blogpost by a sorry ass guy who lives in Houston. Who the hell is he to comment on Telugu firms !! Huh???

Quota - My thoughts

India is burning right now with great outrage over the OBC quota issue.

Firstly, lets face it. We, the upper castes (Note:I don't care a fuckin' shit of my Brahminism) have tortured the lower castes for more than 5000 years of history.

Now we expect that the lower castes should forget about it and live in harmony with everyone. Frankly, Does 5000 years of torture compare to 56 years of reservation?

These guys will always have resentment towards upper castes who tortured their ancestors on the name of 'god' and 'religion'.

Won't they be hating us for making them poor, giving them apathy, not providing them education. The upper castes had convinced the lower castes that their lives were useless and even God hates them and hence they were born in the caste they were.

All these wrong doings? And you want to end it in 56 years with granting of equal rights?

How can we expect that they won't get back at us? Why do we expect this anyway. Its just natures cycle of 'what goes around come around'. This has to happen. Let it happen. I am not opposing it. Even being a Brahmin I'm not opposing it.

However, I have a concern and a request.

India has just started gaining ground on the world frontier as a knowledge capitol and a economic powerhouse. The world's next wave of growth is only going to be fueled by India and China. No other country has any potential to do that.

With increasing wealth and prosperity India is definitely poised to become a world superpower. It took us 56 years to realise that free market economy and higher education can take us on the world map of rich and powerful nations.

Lets not break this positive run with dragging issues like casteism.

We need to come up with a Game Plan which can save the interests of the lower castes and still let us March forward with economic expansion. All I want the policitcians to do is come up with a win-win game plan which dosent harm the country and its people.

If you think its not possible to come up with such a plan. Here's one off the top of my head.

Convert everybody into Brahmins

Don't leave no lower castes in the population at all. Once everybody becomes a brahmin, this caste issue will dissappear.

Reservations should be everywhere. Not just in Govt and Education. Even in private companies

If Idea No 1 dosen't work then this is No 2.

There is nothing wrong in having reservations in private companies. We just need to make sure that only certain types of companies can be gives rights to do so.
For e.g. Only co's having huge revenue in a certain range can offer reservations in thier positions. Also, reservation hiring should be only on the lower rankings of the organizations and not on Managerial or critical positions.

Everybody comes into the organization on a lower level and has to figure out his own way to rise the ladder. This should apply to reservation hiries as well.

May be more thinking on such topics could bring in more agreeable ideas which will better suit both the lower and upper castes.

I'll be writing more on this topic in coming times as I think I might come out with some more good ideas to end this issue on a more agreeable front.

This is why I love this guy !

People have judged you;
you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny.
And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,
and you are throwing those judgments on other people.
And this game has become out of proportion.
The whole humanity is suffering from it.
If you want to get out of it, the first thing is:
Don't judge yourself.

--Osho Rajneesh.

final conclusion about God

Ok, I'm finally convinced that there is no god. It just can't be. Most of my convincing comes from the Osho books + recordings + a lot of thinking of my own.

Well, you need someone to nudge you to think outside the frame of what you generally think. Till today my view towards the world was God, even if it exists dooesn't play a fair game. Right from problems of poverty to wars to petty thefts can be solved by God within minutes. Since they remain unsolved, I always had a doubtful view towards the concept of god. I could never believe in god just because a billion people around believe in it.

Imagine it logically, No one has seen god, God itself hasn't ever shown itself.
Whats there to be afraid of showing yourself if you know you are God.

what will happen if you do?

If God shows itself, people will be convinced that he is there and will probably stop all the wars, politics, poverty etc etc coz' they know they've someone to account all that to. So, if God shows himself there's more Good to happen than Bad.

Since God didn't show himself from last 10000 years of man's conscious history whats the guareentee that he will show himself in the rest of the time to come?

So there is no point in accepting the fact that God exists.

Life is open ended. We don't know certain things as to how they work. Our consciousness is constantly developing and dsiscovering new boundaries which we never discovered before. So this process, as time goes by, will definitely let us to the ultimate reality someday. Even if it dosen't , it won't matter. Things will remain as they are.

So as Osho says, Don't bother, meditate, rejoice , drink and enjoy. Life needs abundance of everything..poverty of anything was never life's way to see things.

Hope the reader understands what I'm trying to get at.

Pramthya & Bhavna

My long time pal Pramthya and long time gal Bhavna have been engaged.

Pramthya sends me a email with a pic with title surprise at 1-15 am in the night and says on yahoo messenger that I'm engaged!

This really was a surprise to me. I for one always considered that Pramthya was the least interested in marrying among all of us so he would climb the gallows pole the last.

He proved me wrong.

However, I am extremeley happy & excited for both of them and wish them the best in future. I hope I make it to his marriage.

I'm sad that I couldn't make it to Dada's marriage. So I hope that I make it to Pramthya & Bhavna's at least.

Is it going to be Pramthya Malve or Bhavna Pattan ?

If Pramthya's reading this. I'm sure the male ego is on fire right now! :-D

hahahahah..........

Learnings from a venture

When you launch a venture you need to first have a sure plan of marketing the venture. Developing and hosting lakhpatipage.com wasn't a big deal at all. But the biggest deal I'm having at the moment is reaching the people. I've managed 3000 hits withing a month. But now I'm at a loss as to how will I continue this upturn.

There seems to be no other alternative than creating banners and advertising them on other high traffic websites. If I get into this I know that I'm going to get into that dirty game of attracting traffic on to my site. And trust me, its a full time job. and its dirty coz' only websites with practically NO business models get into this game.

Well, ok lakhpatipage.com dosent really have a great biz model. But hey it's just my first venture. Gimme some room to breathe!

No, I'm not going to play the game of attracting traffic game. I'd rather concentrate on other bigger ideas brewing in my head right now.

My first venture

As you already know. My only focused thought in life is to start a profitable venture in technology. About everything else in life I'm confused.

Taking the first toddler step towards fulfilling this goal I launched lakhpatipage.com.

This is a pixel advertising site ment for Indian advertisers. I am selling pixel space for cheap here. Thats the only USP of my site. Rest all is a simple copied concpt from milliondollarhomepage.

I dont need to describe the milliondollarhomepage venture since you will find millions of article on it if you google.

Do spread the word about this site if you happen to read it. I need to get some traffic on it. :)

So here goes my first venture. Let's see what I learn from it.

From Confusion to Clarity

Today I've finally made a definitive decision over the biggest confusion a software professional in India faces.

I've met 100's of guys in London and now Houston who are staying onsite from years together. They came as singles and are now married (some of them with kids too). They'd love to go to India and settle down but they give me this reason and stick around endlessly.

There is more opportunity in the US. Also, going back to India, they won't earn as much money. So stick around.

Now, for those who think "It'll be great living in US", here is a real life eyewitness state of Indian people in US.

You can't really pull out the culture out of the people. So, Tamilians would stick with there jaat bhais and so would Kerelaites. In reality, all South Indians live a completely secluded life in the US. They form a mini-TN or mini-Kerala for themselves out here and are completely happy with it. They don't interact with anybody they don't go out very often. They don't wanna discover anything. Their life is a misery which only they understand.

As for the rest of the Indians, they mix up but, that mix up is limited to only Indians. They won't mix up with any of the natives. I've yet to meet a Indian guy from my last 2 years of experience in London and Houston who had really 'pally' English or American friends.

The only interaction with natives is on a office lunch , or a special party from the office like Christmas. Some of them, to show thier affections to thier bosses call them on dinner at home.

Also out of my 1.5 years of experience in London I might have spotted atmost 2wice or thrice some "British Indians" hanging around with native junta. Indians abroad have a community of thier own and they only limit themselves to that. Yes, I am also talking about 90% "British Indians" too.

So, "I won't earn as much money in India", what could this mean? When I think of myself saying this, the only thought that creeps into my mind is, I'm afraid of going back and making big on my own back in my own country. There is a fear in the mind, that I will need to work long hours, I will need to get into petty politics and after that what will I get? just a promotion? Instead of that I rather stay in US or UK so that I make more money.

Life for Indians in US as far as I can see is, " Something good will happen tomorrow. So let's wait and see. If it dosen't happen at least we'll have more money!"

I'm now convinced after thinking this through over and over that this is pure escapism. I'm no longer afraid of making it big in my own country. Only if I need fast cash will I ever travel abroad. And I will never settle abroad. It's not my piece of cake!

This is the confusion I've solved.

Free but Caged!!

I will regret the time from Feb 7th 2006 to March 7th 2006 of my life.

I have this complete month off. No work. But, I am still trapped. Its like a caged holiday. I cannot go anywhere coz' the plane tickets are very expensive, I can't drive since I don't have a SSN card, and to top that I need to search an apartment too!

Mexico is 3 hrs away to drive, but I don't have my passport.

Kapil lives in Dallas but the Greyhound takes 15 hours to reach there. And by car you get there in 3. Car? No, I dont have a licence.

SFO where a couple of my friends live is again 4 hrs by flight. And flight tickets at the 11th hour are too expensive.

I am trapped. This again proves that God does not exist. Coz' if he did, small inconvieniences like this could easily be avoided by some miraculous magic.

So here I am sitting in my hotel room like a sad ass and writing this piece of blog. I don't even know whether it will make sense to the reader.

Total inactivity is dangerous. Since you are bored to death you find new ways of passing time. For e.g. eating. Yes, I feel like eating every 1/2 an hour. I don't know why. First entire week I gave in to the cravings. However, considering the fact that I am already around 10 kg overweight I had to pull the strings. The only way I could avoid this was by only turning to liquid rather than solids!

I bought around 20 packets of soups from a Indain store here. Knorr soup. And everytime I feel the craving for eating something. I gulp down an entire cup of soup.

This is the wisest thing I could do since I couldnt get my cravings under control.

So what can i say,
An empty mind is a devils restaurant ?

Houston, Texas

Quit London, have reached Houston.

First couple of weeks are going to be hard since I'm gonna have to wait for my passport to be with me. Only then, can I move out into an apartment, have a licence, a car rental etc.

When you come to US, you realise their need for Oil. Here , in texas, people drive pick-up trucks, which can house at least 8 people , alone. Such vehicles give a mileage of 5-10 miles per gallon. Now you know why innocent Iraqis are being killed.

To add to that they have deliberately made nearly no public transport. Cities like Chicago,NY etc have a good interconnected public transport system, but the rest of the US drives. And for that it needs OIL. This was one of the most noticeable facts after I came here.

However, they are themselves realising the danger of being over dependant on OIL for a long time. You can clearly see that practically all American car manufacturing companies are rolling out prototype models with Alternative fuels.

Toyota has launched Toyota Prius Hybrid, which runs on a combination of electric powe r and normal fuel. Chevrolet has launched over a million vehicles which run on a combination of E85 Ethanol (which is manufactured from 'corn') and normal gasoline.
This is what excites me. This is what I call maintaing the edge, come what may.

On relative comparison, Mani Shankar Aiyer (for those who don't know, he is the Petroleum minister of India) is vooing the Iranian and Pakistani governments for allowing a Oil pipeline into India. While this step is completely welcome, the ministry needs to put in billions of rupees in alternative fuel. Coz' if we get ahead in the race for gaining our upper hand on alternative fuel vehicles, we can actually realise our dream of India becoming a super power 50 year quicker than current estimates.

I wish I was in the Government.

Might have lost crores of Rupees

I had an idea where-in we would start a company which manufactures electronic books. These are books which provide you the exact comfort as your good old books but are electronic. I and Sandy Yadav (whose unfortunately good for nothing. Pun Intended) did quite a lot of research on it in 2004. We actually went hunting for technocrats who might assist us in developing this technology. I was pretty sure that this was a billion dollar idea. In fact, I'm still sure of that.

The idea failed. We never reached anywhere.

Now, in 2006, Sony has launched the first version of its e-book. Read it here.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/29/sony-to-announce-us-e-book-reader

Imagine if I had started off manufacturing these. I could have been a millionaire man!

But i lost it. :(

An Idea can get u xtra 3K a month!

I'm a guy whose got new ideas. I keep getting them and they keep coming in. Here is another one.

I've invested in a couple of mutual funds which are giving average returns. The returns are around 3K in a timespan of 6 months. The principal invested in each of the mutual fund is 10K.

Now dig this.

What if I keep investing 10K every month in a new mutual fund or as an SIP in each of the already invested mutual funds? I only need to take care that I dont invest in some really bad non-performing mutual funds.

There is a plethora of new MF's which keep listing all the time. I just need to pick up the more well known fund houses and keep investing in them.

Lets do a bit of maths:

10K * 12 (investing each month of the year) = 1 lac 20K

This is nothing when you compare to my stock investments which were 2 lacs once.

Even if each fund gives me 4K a month, it will be an extra income. :-)

See, I told you I get bright ideas for earning more money.

Alright then, I'm off to study some good performing mutual funds.

Boredoom setting in

End of first week in London and the same old boredoom is setting in. Last year every friday me and the roomies used to get to Central London and drink our way through the night. However, I dont like it anymore. Same old guys (the roomies). One of the guys is cool and the other is currently pursuing MBA. He is in a different state of mind. We keep talking the same old things. I guess today I will stay at home. Won't accompany them anywhere.

Morever, there is no point ogling at the english chicks which we used to do, I hate it. I'm thinking of getting a chick of my own ;-). I'm on a major hunt this time. God knows what was I doing last year. Should have started doing it then.

Depression man .. manic depression. I can make a good song right now if I was a musician. Emotions are running high.

Reached London

Well, whenever I try to see my blog I dont see the last 2 updates of mine on it. I can see all the rest. Looks like this blogger.com software is dodgy. Will give it a week. If it dosen't get sorted out I think I will switch to rediff. That's pretty good I heard.

So, the saga has gone 7000 miles apart now. I've reached London. There are quite a few things to talk about now.

Firstly, I might be included into a new project called COMS for which I might have to get to Houston. There are hurdles to it but. As you know life aint that simple.
Some big time manager there is being asked to influence my onsite manager here to get me out of this project and include me into that. Its kinda long shot but lets see how it goes. Till now everything is being going smooth.

So now my quitting plan needs to be rethought. It might be like this. I go to US on an H1. I see that I am getting a better Salary outside so I switch.

In case going to US fails things are as they are, meaning, quit here in UK and get a newer job. Now again, that has strings attached. Work permit issues and all that Jazz!