God retires from ODIs..

Cricket wont be cricket anymore....without God!!
Thank you for being an idol for millions of crazy cricket fans..including me.
Long live SRT!!

Retirement

It was a bitter sweet moment for me when Ricky Ponting declared his exit from International cricket last week. The South Africans made sure that the great player was treated well in his last test; the crowd too roared as he made his way to the crease. It was unfortunate that Australia lost the test; even more disappointing that the last hurrah didn't come...though a lot of people expected it.

There are three distinct incidents that I clearly remember about Ponting:

1. His match winning ton in the 2003 World cup Final against India. He was treating Zaheer and company like a bunch of school kids. Hitting the ball to all parts of the park..the match was over before India batted. I clearly remember a front foot hook that he played for a six of a fast Agarkar delivery. Kudos!!!

2. Second instance was when India was visiting Australia in late 2000s(maybe 2006-07)..In this one particular test match, Ponting was fielding in the slips and God nicked one that went straight to him..No one except Ponting was sure that the ball had carried and he made a big scene when the umpire referred this to the third umpire. Eventually the slo-mo showed that the ball hadnt carried and Ponting was pissed..Cheater saala...

3. After the second incident, I was never a Ponting fan and always waited to see him in distress on the field. But Australia was in terrific form and the opportunity took longer than expected.. in the 2010 world cup match, it was a do or die between Australia and India.. the loser would be knocked out... and guess what India won that match and eventually the world cup...however in the Australia match...when the winning run was scored by India, the camera zoomed into Ponting...The look on his face.....humiliated...defeated..angry..!!!
Man, the wait was worth it!!!!!


However, I shall always be a fan of his batting, if not his character...the famous lean in his stance!!! Never seen such a lean in any batsman..It shows the fearlessness of the batsman..!!
Cricket will miss you Mr.Ricky Ponting!! Adieu!!

Did the English win?

England beat India in the second test match at Wankhede stadium (Mumbai).

However, it should be noticed that the best bowler in the English side; Monty Panesar has Indian roots.
Also the best English Batsman of the match; Kevin Pietersen is originally from South Africa.

Do you still feel the ENGLISH defeated India?

Perspective...

Year 1993: In a classroom full of children:

Teacher1: You see that child. He is gifted. Never forgets a thing.
Teacher2: Yes he is blessed. Has a fantastic memory.


Year 2008: At a bar:

Friend1: Man!! I am cursed.
Friend2: wtf dude!! Whats wrong.
Friend1: I cant seem to forget things...even when I want to.

Good friend

“Dude, running away from every big problem is not the solution.”

“Who told you that.. infact it is the best solution. Life is short; don’t waste time on solving problems”

Idealistic, sincere, fussy, always hungry, a good son, a better friend and a man with a golden heart! These are only few of the qualities that describe him. I have known him for many years now and though we may be in different cities now, we still are in touch.

Like me, he understands sorrow. He’s had too much of it in his life. There are times when I have told him “It’s as if you seek sorrow!!” However he is always smiling.

If you read this… let me tell you dude, that I am lucky to get a friend like you! 

Love?

What did you think the first time you saw me?


I thought you were the most beautiful girl I ever saw.


Were you disappointed when you got to know me?


How can you ask that?


I'm such a mess.


I love your mess.


The first time I saw you, I thought:"Look at that boy. I'm going to love him forever and ever and ever. "


-What if you get sick of me?


-I won't. I promise.

Life is a lesson

From "Take a look around" by Limp Bizkit:

Does anybody really know the secret

Or the combination for this life and where they keep it

Its kinda sad when you don't know the meaning

But everything happens for a reason

I don't even know what I should say

'cause I'm an idiot a loser a microphone abuser

I analyze every second I exist

Beaten on my mind every second with my fist

Everybody want to run (run)

Everybody want to hide from the gun (gun)

You can take a ride through this life if you want

But You can't take that edge off that knife (no sir)

And now you want your money back (money back)

But your denied 'cause your brains fried from the sac

And there ain't nothing I can do

'Cause life is a lesson you'll learn it when your through

'Cause life is a lesson you'll learn it when your through!!

Phir se ud chala

Phir se ud chala 
Ud ke chhoda hai jahaan neeche main tumhare ab hoon hawaale
Door door log baag meelo'n door ye waadiyaan

Phir dhuaan dhuaan tan har badli chali aati hai chhoone
Par koi badli kabhi kahin kar de tan geela ye bhi na ho...

Kisi manzar par main ruka nahi
Kabhi khud se bhi mein mila nahi
Ye gila tto hai main khafa nahi
Shehar ek se gaa'nv ek se
Log ek se naam ek ooo

ooo o...
Phir se udd chala.........................6paT

Delving Deeper Into Mis-selling

Excellent article by Dhirendra Kumar:

Delving Deeper Into Mis-selling
High-pressure sales tactics corrode trust, but appear to be inherent in the economics of financial products

Last week, I wrote about my struggles with insurance salesmen, which I tried to turn into insurance salesmen’s struggles with me. I also compared insurance sales tactics to email spam. Spam, whether physical or digital, succeeds when there’s a large asymmetry of cost between the spammers and their victims. If the seller can afford hundreds of failed attempts at a sale because one success will more than pay for it all, then it makes more sense for him to be indiscriminate in selecting potential targets. From that it follows that the efficient way of selling products like insurance is to employ hoards of low-cost ‘resources’, as they are called, and hit as large a number of people as possible. This equation has three inputs. These are, one: the cost of the hit. Two, the success rate. And three, the scale of payoff from a successful hit. The scale of payoff is the proportion of the money paid up by the target that can be skimmed off to pay for the entire sales effort. It is this last variable, which is even now, (after all the tightening that IRDA has done) of a completely different scale for insurance products.

The style and scale of the resources dedicated to the sales effort, as well as the hostility they generate among the targets is now part of the game—it won’t change. Which is rather tough on the resources, who happen to be human beings who are just trying to make a living. They sound like hard-working young men and women who make a sincere effort to do their job the way they have been taught to. Unfortunately, a bulk of the interactions they have with people must be ending up in an irritated or even hostile reaction.

Sooner or later, they would learn that there’s something underhand in what they are doing and that would start colouring their behaviour. For example, a colleague received a call from someone who was peddling what he calls a ‘savings plan’ from x, where x was the name of a large Indian business conglomerate. However, the caller wouldn’t say that he was calling from the insurance company of x. Even my colleague repeatedly asked him whether he was calling about an insurance product, the caller refused to admit it, and kept repeating the same phrase. He did this because he must have known from experience that the moment he uttered the word ‘insurance’, a certain percentage of calls would just be cut-off. Therefore, he was trying to get his pitch in without doing that.

I don’t know about you, but I happen to think this is really pitiable situation. Are these pathetic subterfuges really the only way to sell some financial products? I’m told that some banks have a policy of rotating their relationship managers quickly because as time goes by, a greater and greater proportion of the customers start getting hostile towards their relationship manager. A new face helps temper down that hostility because some of it gets deflected on to the previous individual rather than the organisation.

As I said earlier, this sort of a thing is not inherent to insurance, but merely a by-product of the economics of financial product under some circumstances. In the days of incessant NFOs and high commissions, mutual funds were also sold like this. When, in the middle of the last decade, there was a liquidity glut in the economy, loans (even unsecured personal loans) were sold like this. Even today, real estate is sold like this in some markets.
Continuous exposure to intense hype about financial products that eventually prove dodgy has a corrosive effect on all future interactions. Many customers have slowly come to a state of inherent distrust of financial products. Two decades after liberalisation of the sector began, this is a sad place to have reached.

--Dhirendra Kumar

Lehrein

Beautiful song, fantastic lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS938LjwpSk

Lehrein

Khoyi khoyi si hoon main
Kyun yeh dil ka haal hai
Dhundli saare khwaab hai
Ulja har khayaal hai
Saari kaliyan murjha gayi
Rang unke yaadon mein reh gaye
Saare gharonde ret ke
Lehrein aayi, lehron mein beh gaye

Raah mein kal kitni chirag the
Saamne kal phoolon ke baag the
Kis se kahun kaun hai jo sune
Kaante hi kyun maine hai chune
Sapne mere kyun hai kho gaye
Jaage hai kyun dil mein gumm mere
Saari kaliyan murjha gayi
Rang unke yaadon mein reh gaye
Saare gharonde ret ke
Lehrein aayi, lehron mein beh gaye

Na na na ..

Kya kahun kyun yeh dil udaas hai
Ab koi door hai na paas hai
Choo le jo dil woh baatein ab kahan
Woh din kahan raatein ab kahan
Jo bhi dhakhal hai ab khawab sa
Ab dil mera hai betaab sa
Saari kaliyan murjha gayi
Rang unke yaadon mein beh gaye
Saare gharonde ret ke
Lehrein aayi, lehron mein beh gaye, beh gaye

IT consultant

There is this guy whom I know. He completed civil engineering in 1992. He was working for some construction company after that.

When I was in college (roughly around 1999-2000) I once took this guy to an internet cafe. I guess this was his first time in a cafe.
He was sitting next to me when I typed yahoo.com and pressed Enter.
This guy started staring towards the printer.. After thirty seconds he asks me "Why are no mails coming?"
Hehehehe...screwed up..isnt it?

Well, I bumped into him again in 2010 in a different city.
"Hey how are you..?" I asked him.
"I am great. How are you?" he asked me.
"I am good mate .. where are you working?"
"I am an IT consultant in XYZ!!!"
 Insannnnnnee!!

Well...whats more screwed up? This guy or that fcuking company?
 
 

Question

Body restricted by the mind.
OR
Mind restricted by the body.

Which one is worse?

Full circle

crawl..stagger..stand up...walk...run..stumble...fall..stand up..walk..run..stumble..fall..stand up..walk..run..stumble..fall..stand up..walk......fall..

LIFE