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Long time, no see!

March 4th, 2009

Yeah! Its been real long time since I last blogged - almost >2 months.

A lot has happened between 1st Jan and today - I won’t iterate over all of it again but just that I’m happy being at home. Just today, I was answering rapid fire questions to a good friend and one that I was real happy to answer was “Pune or Delhi” - and my answer was obviously Delhi! - “apni dilli”.

Okay, so fast forward to 4th march 09.

Went out for a quick shopping spree - accompanying me was apna dude bro. Objective was to get a new pair of casual shoes and a nice pair of jeans. It wasn’t a mamoth task but it took us more than an hour to zero in on the pair of jeans I wanted. We surveyed more than 9-10 showrooms and finally bought it from the very first shop we had went to - One peculiar thing I noticed in almost all of the shops were “effects of cost cutting”. Almost all of the shops had turned down their air conditioning (resulting in an extremely uneasy temperature inside). So much so, some shops were turning on their music systems only when customers used to enter the showrooms. Wow! I hope it saves them more $$ than it shoo’s away the customers…

Anyways - shopping for a pair of trousers was easier than shoes. Another half an hour and we were still wandering and looking for a decent pair of casuals - somehow the shops here didn’t seem to have much variety… - or my tastes are different hahaha - some assurance was that Sammy didn’t liked any either. (okay, so I am not so much off the mark here )

And before retiring back home, we went on to play a quick game of pool. It was first time for Sammy - but he’s a quick learner. In the half hour we played, he managed (or I should say, I managed ) to draw the game at 1game each - maybe next time! lol

Nothing like being at home on a weekday, sleep till 1pm and have fun in the evening
Ye hai apni dilli…

Oh yes, how can I miss this - Sunil uncle (dad’s close friend) visited us in Feb. Here’s a capture form the get together we had at Pizza Hut…

Dad and Sunil Uncle

–over-and-out–

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Single minded objective for 2009

January 1st, 2009

Another new year with a bunch of new wishes. This is what happens every new year - year after year.After completing almost 70% (3.5 out of 5) last year wishes, I am feeling all charged up to touch the magical 100% wish completion this year. It has never happened with me before - but I’m a firm believer.A quick roundup from the last year’s new year wishing post…

~~Launch ApnaBill.com on or before 31st January~~ - DONE (we showcased ApnaBill.com at Proto in July 08, Our interview by PuneTech)
~~Be back with family~~ - DONE
~~Pizza holiday in January (more months to be decided laters)~~ - DONE (more months were covered during the year)
Dedicate 1 hour, 5 days a week to fitness - jogging (gym maybe) - PARTLY DONE (2008’s fitness record was much better than 2007’s).
Play Tennis once a week atleast - keep bugging Ratish/Kapil/etc - MISSED

Owning to the very first wish that got completed on 15th June 08 when we launched ApnaBill.com to the public - the year 2008 was one of the most wackiest and busiest year in my life. I was never so focussed thoughout the year - ever! The launch was just one of the stepping stones for what is in store for the future…and that alone decided the only single objective I am going to have for the coming new year - 2009.Objective(s) for 2009

Make Four Fractions a profitable venture.
- Bring ApnaBill.com out of Beta
- Graduate the <ff.labs/> experimental projects to Betas
- Rake in first Million Rupees (in profit) for Four Fractions
  - Start working for Four Fractions full time
  - Build a full time team
  - Convert JD 10-B as Four Fractions office.
- Outsource finance, monitor it personally

Anything that is not converging to this objective, either gets dropped or gets sidelined.Looking forward to 2009 with open arms and a ton of new ideas!

…

with dreams in my eyes

and a fire in my belly.

Happy new Year 2009.

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Home-coming!

November 23rd, 2008

Nothing beats home!

A small proof

Four Fractions had its first official team meet - though nothing official was discussed, we had a ton of fun - pure simple fun.

Chilling over coke! - Sam and myself

The pizza that we destroyed - we sure were the costliest customers that evening - costed Pizza Hut an extra 350+90+70 bucks!
As it turned out - we were served the pizza and garlic bread with onions when we specially requested them to serve it w/o onions. …and ofcourse PH paid the price - a free pitcher of Coke

All the w/o onions thing made everyone so damn hungry!

Mr. Sandy - our chief guest for the evening

- brainstorming -

Ofcourse - he is shadow practicing for the future… just in case!

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Why Jains celebrate Diwali…

October 29th, 2008

Ever wondered, why we Jains celebrate Diwali…
No! Its not because of homecoming of God RAM but some other reason!

Well… This day, back in history, Lord Mahawir Swami got “Nirvana”, ie - left the material world forever (no re-birth cycle any more) . The very next day, his disciple, Lord Gautam Prabhu attained “Kewal Gyan”.

Hence we Jains, celebrate this day by lighting diyas/candles & pray the GOD to shower prosperity & happiness upon us.

So! Light up the day & be happy!
Happy Diwali to all!

PS: This day, we have khichdi as our dinner! The reason being that all day long we eat all sorts of junk food, & hence the Dinner should make up for the all the protiens lost during the day