KC scribbles through...

RIAs Development...

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:26:00 +0000

Rich Internet Applications...

Hah, yea this is my first technical post in this blog. Donno wat made me think fascinating towards RIAs. RIAs are generally internet applications which are provided with features and functionalities of de very traditional desktop applications. The processing information is passed on to de UI but the actual bulk data is present in the application server. As RIAs is based on web applications, installation process is obviously very less or not required. Users can consistently use it irrespective of any operating system. Richness in application can be incurred when developing application in which calculation needs to be performed in the client side nd need not be sent back to the server. All these advantages might sound very simple during the early stages but these are quite distinguishable pros' of RIAs(eg. anyone involved with the mortgage calculations can typically guess the advantage of such a client-server/fat client approaches, I was involved for an half a dozen of months with it). Still being in the very early stages of learning RIA fundas, these were de very few advantages dat I was able to cognize abt RIAs.

Adobe(kindly pronounce it "a-DOE-bee", ho s**t! I had been pronouncing it "a-dob" till very recently. I had to bend my head down with shy when I came to know de right pronunciation. Anyway, I am just in de learning phase(an uncontrollable giggle within myself)) came up with its innovative product Flex which is dedicated for the development of RIAs. It comes up with a fantastic IDE(obviously, u need to pay for Flex Builder 3 or avail the 60 days of trial version) or the flex framework can be utilized in eclipse. Flex 3 SDK is released under the Mozilla open source public license. Flex uses MXML, an XML based language for building applications in it. Flex builder provides with the readily built swf files as compiled form. Scripting languages can be used alongside with MXML for the interaction with DB. It can very easily interact with XML based issues. Technologies that are commonly compared with flex are openLaszlo, AJAX, etc...

This is a sample screen developed with flex, PHP to interact with the mysql DB nd apache supports for the sake of a web server. As understandable, this screen implements very few features of flex. This is just for the sake of how flex interacts with the PHP script. It uses a very simple PHP script to make connection with the DB, fetching the records from the DB and building XML nodes which contains the fetched records. The script url is passed to the MXML code nd the nodes are parsed and displayed accordingly, as simple as dat. (Below is a sample code snippet irrelevant to de app in de pic )

Dedicated learning of flex will require a fair knowledge of actionscript as a prerequisite. The look nd feel provided by flex for RIAs is totally amazing. There are various sites designed with flex these days like Sony Ericsson, Yahoo!, Satyam Cinemas, etc...

Vagamon

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:13:00 +0000

Vagamon, in God's own Country...

The final sem was quite pain. Even though there was no great work pressure, may be the concept of doing things that we never liked might hav made things more arduous for we guys. This made us very excited from the very first word say tour. After almost 2 months of discussions about selecting the place to tour, finally we came to a conclusion with a bit of verbal misunderstanding. Vagamon was decided as our place of touring. It was 13 of us who settled for the tour finally. Kerala usually called the God's own country consists of explored and unexplored hill stations, and vagamon is supposed to be one of the unexplored spots in kerala. It is actually situated 65 kms from kottayam.

We started on the 8th of may nd reached kottayam on the 9th by 5 AM through train. The tempo traveler dat we had arranged was already waiting for us at the kottayam station. After a hot sip of tea we proceeded our journey to vagamon. Apart from enjoying the early morning site seeing, we also had fun in pulling each one's leg after a long time (actually pullin each other's leg was inevitable during the whole of 3 days) We had to travel 2 hrs uphill to reach vagamon. On reaching vagamon, we received a very warm welcome from the home stay ppl who were waiting for us. The resort was located at a remote place and provided us a gorgeous view from the hill top. The home stay was one of the best experiences we had in the tour. We had a peaceful accommodation in a gud bungalow as it was quite preplanned.

After the little breakfast with idly and banana, we went for a walk in the roads of vagamon with tea estates nd unknown trees on both sides of the road. Not very cold as it was already May, but we could experience a very cool breeze allover. Then returned to the resort and relaxed for sometime. After having a typical kerala cuisine lunch(typical kerala rice as well :( ) with fish and chicken we started to visit few places around vagamon. The pine forest was not all new when compared to the other hill stations but still not a bad place to take few snaps. Then we proceeded to the vagamon meadows and the kurisimala. Kurisimala was basically a Christian pilgrimage place, we trekked for abt 3-4kms in rocks and again a place which is worth a number of snaps. Then returned to the resort at around 6.30. It started raining quite heavily soon after 7. Then few of we guys started with the water service (velilaiyum thanni, ullaiyum thanni..) We were having a nice chat along with few pegs of vodka and music. Finally ended de day with a couple of chappatis.

The next day was scheduled for thekkaday, woke up and had the typical kerala breakfast of puttu nd banana. Then proceeded for thekkaday, spent more than a couple of hrs in the wildlife sanctuary nd lake view nd then proceeded to the surli falls in kumily. Not a very big falls all along, but still worth bathing der for an hr(especially for guys from chn) Then we started towards the resort. It was almost 9 by the time we reached the resort. The campfire was ready as we had planned it previously. Had long sessions of chat, dinner with music and campfire. It was almost 2.30 at midnight by de time we went to bed after a couple of pegs of vodka.

The next morning we decided to return home. Vacated the resort quite early in the mornin and proceeded to kottayam. From kottayam we moved on to thrissur which was more than a 3 hrs ride in bus. Next step was to move to pallakad, it took us nearly 2 hrs to reach there in a more than pathetic bus ride. Pallakad to coimbatore was equally bad experience, guess the driver was a beginner, was taking his own time to reach coimbatore(nearly 3 hrs). I should say dis was de most worse experience for me to travel a 650 odd kms in bus. Kerala is basically known for de pulchritudinous female, but never saw one in vagamon(had to digest the fact dat, vagamon was quite unexplored ). Had lot better site seeing in the entire bus travel from kottayam to pallakad ;)Finally reached chn on 12th mornin.

In all it was a memorable trip except the fact dat few of our friends were not able to make it for de trip.

Kuruvi - A curse to watch...

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:40:00 +0000

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Kuruvi - Suttu kollunge

After the mega flop "Azhagiya Tamil Magan", Vijay was supposed to bounce back in Kuruvi with the Gilli team, which was a run away hit in 2004. The movie was planned for a May 2nd release but was postponed to May 3rd coz of the IPL match in Chennai. Kuruvi is the debut film from the Red Gaint productions, the home productions of Udhayanidhi Stalin. It was very obvious dat it was the first movie of the production house, coz of the marketing done for de movie. Stepped into Satyam after fighting for a 120 rs ticket (dis has becum quite usual des days) for the night show at 10.15 PM on the first day. Knew dat the movie didn't get a great reception, but still went for it with a hope over Dharani, de director. The movie began with an ill-favored car race, guess Vijay says "why only Ajith can drive, but even I wil do it". The highly expected Vijay introduction was in a nonchalant style, with even de die hard fans of the star showing a beam through their face.

The whole storyline can be guessed within the first 15 mins, when manivannan makes his un-distinguishable promise to the villians. Vivek was able to provide atleast a very minimal comic relief in de movie. But he too was pulled out after the intermission. There was a huge commotion in the theater during the interval - A fan of Vijay was suffering the beatings on behalf of his thalaivar from his friends for having pulled them for such a movie ;)

Music was better, as usual in all Vijay films. The song pallanadu sung by vidhyasagar was a gud number and will make ppl tap their foot. The re-recording was gud and supported the so called action packed movie. Vijay trying to expose his non-existing muscles was one of the most weird concepts of the movie, apart from his idiotic stunts. Suman and ashish vidyarthi provided the role of bad men. The talented actress Saranya was very hardly used, nd the facial expressions for which she is known for was total irrelevant. Trisha as usual appears in scenes just before and after each song sequence. Malavika was wrapped-up for shaking her legs in the opening song, but audience seldom found her on screen except to provide a smooch for Vijay.

Usually Vijay remakes some telugu movie, but dis movie is shot mostly in andra (cudappa). There is some huge sentiment associated with Vijay and gulti, I suppose. The film was taken to malaysia nd singapore without any reason, may be just for de sake of high budget stunt sequence. The Kuruvi team which aimed at a block-bluster wil end up in just scattering a great amount of shit at the box office. Really a curse to watch it.

Positives: Dasavatharam trailer in the beginning :) :) :)
Vivek Comedy
Song Sequences

Negatives: Storyline
Screenplay
Action
and finally Vijay

End of College days - III

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:59:00 +0000

The Bike...

My third yr started of normally, it was during de start of the 5th sem dat I got my bike from home(had to try too hard to convince my dad, thanx for the support from mom :))... Started spending the days roaming in it. It made me quite easy to bunk the noon hr classes and get to movies at 2 PM quite peacefully. My frequency of night shows also increased quite drastically, increased visiting distant restaurants.
Days passed quite soon, de count of bikes in class increased nd we guys planned for a trip to munnar. We planned for the trip with 5 bikes(10 guys totally)... I could still remember the trip was planned for a weekend startin from 25-08-2005(:) purely coincidental, i say).. The rain started to pour as we set for the go. We had planned the trip to munnar via pollachi and udumalpet. The rain was pouring down quite heavily but it hardly intervened our enthusiasm. To be honest, it was the first time my bike's reading had touched 100 km/hr. Ho yea! we were setting the roads on fire during a rainy evening.. Reached udumalpet dat nite nd decided to stay at a friend's place as planned earlier. Woke up early (a very short nap, i shuld say) and started heading towards munnar. Amazingly beautiful nd a fantastic drive to munnar. We decided to stay in a so-called resort. Started to explore the naturally inherited beauty of munnar. It was heavy rainy period during dat time, basically supposed to be rainy almost throughout the calender. Went to few places like the rajamala, devikulam etc(don remember the places xactly). One place that was supposed to be more than awesome was the top station. Actually we failed to reach the place, we had to stop a few kilometers before the top station coz of mist, fog nd heavy rain. But still de journey til dat was too gud. Then we returned to the resort in de evening and had dinner in sum local hotel. That night was quite pain wreathed with few bikes giving trouble. Had to keep everythin in check before proceeding the next morning. Had a dreadful sleep among few leeches in the bed.

The next morning was still rainy, we just decided to visit a couple of places before the journey downhill. The journey downhill was equally joyful. The travel through the ghat roads was highly spectacular. We returned to hostel after a really great trip.
The 5th sem was quite very usual, I continued bunking classes with or without someone for company. I had my PC nd my sleep as a very reliable company for me those days. As a trend of software engineering dept in my coll, I too had a couple of gud friends in the chemical nd mechanical dept. Had spent sum valuable time with them. Got a better company in their form whenever I bunked my noon classes. We used to speak about all crap issues, mostly pulling each other's dept.

The third yr was supposed to be one peaceful yr without much speculation except the aim to get an internship. There were all big deals of ideas across the class to fetch an internship for each one. As time passed, sum how I managed to grab an Internship in my home town. So, my 7th sem was supposed to be spent at home. That sem internship was one big hell(actually, I hav to use a worst adjective than dis to describe it) where I ended up learning nothing at all.

End of College days - II

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:05:00 +0000

The split...

The second yr started of with lots of expectations and de wait for juniors had cum to an end as they all flocked de college. Joined hands with few mechanos in de coll and found some gud plans to treat de juniors. Started off few crap sessions with de juniors, may b they wuld hav to re-quote the same experience of mine with my seniors(no big diff was shown from our side as-well).. But, I hav to mention de fact dat der was one big diff dat v experienced with our juniors. We were convicted by de college officials for ragging de juniors off campus. It all happened wen v took de juniors for an evening walk to de near-by deserted road, whr we were caught by a patrol police nd in turn informed to de college officials. We were then asked to attend an enquiry on de following saturday which included the princi, our dept HOD nd the AO. It was 9 of we guys who were made to wait for nearly 4 hours before attending the enquiry. Advices were flowing from all parts of the students community abt what nd how to talk during de hearing. Few of de final yrs were also present der told their experiences wen they were found guilty, ragging. They also frightened us abt their suspension from coll for 10 days for their act of ragging. On hearing dis, couple of them from my set started to weep. Though I too had de same feel, didnt show off dat much but started teasing them for sumtime. Finally de hearing began, we were asked some so-called intelligent ques but somehow we manged to be acquitted(thanx to few of my jrs for their co-operation)(In pic: I am quite kempt, unlike these days ;) )

When all des were happening, I had to experience de all time big split within friends of de class. I was not able to find out the exact reason for the split. Had to digest the fact dat few were due to my loose talks nd others however without my own knowledge. Splits were from various corners of de class. I found pain even in seeing few of their faces. I tried creating situations for solving de prob or atleast to ease things a bit, but my attempts were in vain. I had to say, I lost few of them completely. After quite sometime, things had calmed down nd I was in a position to regain a couple of them :) :)).... The 3rd semester terminated with few ups nd downs, mostly everythin being on de negative line for me. Had to crack my balls for clearing dat semester. Till date I donno how I cleared my 3rd semester. (In Pic,left to right: Raja(hehe), Gopi, Venkatesh, Bharath, Sriram.. Undoubtedly, I had to miss dis trip intentionally ;))

4th started started off quite peacefully. Later on again problems seem to raise from all corners of the class. I tell u, my second yr was THE worst during my coll days. All sorts of crap happening all over. It was durin dis yr, I had my first genuine booze, guys called it vodka(MGM vodka, some local brand)... I had sat down with one of my seniors(my gud friend) nd de rest were my juniors along with a couple from my set. We sat, forming an irregular circle... "phuk" was de sound nd der opened de vodka bottle(one of my jrs opened it), HO my god!!! it was an art opening de vodka bottle dat way, I still don do it correctly. I didnt know de correct way to mix it with de soft drink. Few der helped me around. I found it quite diff to cope up with 3 rounds after a heavy dinner. So, went to bed nd had a fabulous sleep(In pic:The Class).

I started bunking my classes regularly starting from dis semester. Though I didnt hav better things to do in de hostel, just bunked nd had few gud sessions of post-lunch nap or even gud chattin sessions in hostel. Attendance was lagging quite a bit, so was losing few dozens of marks(who cares!!!).. Lab hours were equally bad, so I spent most of them in my room watchin repeated movies ;)).. Was not a very tough semester to clear, may b those days it had becum a practice for me to clear papers in border. Finally cleared de 4th sem nd now I am into de 3rd yr. Dis yr was supposed to be tough as I had to find an internship at de end of the yr.....................

End of College days - I

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:51:00 +0000

Those early days...

Finished my schooling in Singara Chennai, nd after a whole lot of confusion abt courses nd colleges finally settled for CIT, Coimbatore for S/w Engineering. The day still remains fresh- July 9th 2003, de first day of my college life. I went to hostel prior to college to settle my baggages in my alloted room. All new nd fresh faces from all parts of de state nd a few from de neighbouring aswell. At first look, I thought der were all hi-fi studs among me. Anyway, was foxed very soon in dat issue ;) (lol)... Started to interact with all guys very soon. Not very late, the students for other courses also flocked the college nd hostel. V guys were very eagerly waiting for few gud chicks in college, but were waiting for the whole of college life nd eventually failed to find even a hand full of them ;))... A few days latter we were asked to meet the seniors. Had to say, it was quite a f*$king time with them involving lifeless intro sessions and so-called ragging. Slowly started interacting with the other dept guys nd seniors. (In pic, from left to right: Charan, me, Gopi, Rams, Bharath nd Balaji(from the door top).We shared the same living place(CIT hostel))....

Life at classes nd labs were quite painful listening to few irksome lectures nd attending labs without any spice in it. The entire fun was after 5 in de evening; chatting with guys in hostel, pulling each other's leg, loud songs in hostel rooms, surfing at de internet cafes near by, purposeless walks with friends on the college road nd wat not... Most of the evening time would fly away by just thinking how to spend it. Weekends passed away by sleeping, movies nd very rarely playing some sports. Being attracted towards movies, frequented all theaters in the city. My only criteria for movies wuld b entertaining me for 3 hrs nd featuring really gud looking actress(Anyhow, thoroughly enjoyed de genuine movies nd like reviewing them).. So, very hardly spend time with books nd never had the idea after the so-called hard working during the 12th(atleast pretended to hard work during school days ;) )

Was waiting for a home visit eagerly during de early period but de frequency got reduced as days passed. Although nothin much fascinating was happening at college, just loved spending the time with friends. Being in coimbatore with lots of places near-by to spend time nd chill out, v guys very hardly took steps for any trip. But fortunately or unfortunately ;) decided for a class trip to Ooty. We had arranged a tempo or bus or some crap(I faintly remember) which would squeeze in the 25 of us, who were ready for the trip on a early friday morning. (I culd remember, it was during the hostel day function for which de first yrs were not allowed to attend). The trip was intended for 2 days, visiting almost all important places of Ooty nd its neighborings. It was during dis trip dat I decided to hav a go at my first drink, few experienced guys said it was called beer(Kingfisher strong)... Ho, f&*K!! how culd one drink dat when it stinks like hell nd tastes like s**t... Just a sip was enough for me to regurgitate. Guys around started teasing me(huf, who is bothered).. Just went away but struggled to find some sleep for myself. And I tel u, dat was de last time I touched de BEER..(anyway after a yr, vodka provided me de break-through in booze ;) )The next mornin v were fresh nd ready to roam, went to few places nd returned to hostel dat evening at 9... As 1st yrs had to be in hostel by 9...(actually struggled a lot to be in on-time)....

Amidst all these, we had the pain of attending mid-sems(twice a semester) nd practicals. With all sorts of things, de time passed quite soon nd we were heading towards de end of academic yr. Finally there came the study hols for the first sem(first yr was a non-semester pattern).. I went home for de 10 days. Had spent the next couple of weeks with books nd pain of touching it after a long time, nd some how managed to clear the first sem successfully.

"Hey, hurray!!! I am a second yr student now" nd with a wrong intension dat no one culd ques me for anythin(actually deceived by few worst tamil films, lol)... The "gethu" prevailing over my head nd awaiting de juniors...............................

Is goa getting dangerous for tourist???

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Goa has always been a tourist place for foreigners.As history says, its fame has very obviously been quite high that it had made possible for itself to become de shooting spot for more than a couple of hollywood movies. But very recently Goa is also becoming quite famous for few unhealthy reasons like abusing, molestation, sexual assault, murder, ravishment etc. This has created the speculation among the tourist from the west to have a second thought of visiting goa nd chilling out. More recently was the death of Scarlett Keeling(in pic), de 15 yrs old british tourist. She has made to India with her mom(Fiona) intending to stay back in India for 6 months. But unfortunately, Fiona had to discover her daughter's semi-nude dead body on feb 18th 08 as de goa police identified her on the shore of goa beach.
The goa cop then immediately started their investigation about the death of the britain female. nd quite safely ended up saying she was over drunk nd drowned. But the doctor who conducted the first autopsy, claimed dat the police had ignored his suggestion dat Scarlett would have been killed. Adding to the fuel was the claim of Scarlett's mom, who said her daughter never had the habit of using drugs. This resulted in the suspension of the superintend of goa police for lack of proper investigation. Very lately the goa police had found the personal diary of Scarlett(confirmed by mom fiona herself), in which she had written about her desire for late night parting, alcohols nd sex. She had also written about her last experience with one of her friends before she had left for India. All these have reopened the case of Scarlett.

Anyway, dis is not the only case in which goa has had problems. There has also been few other murders of britain females in quite succession. The goa government has indeed laid few harsh rules of closing bars by 11 PM, over 100 police in surveillance etc. Inspite of these actions by the governement, the tourists are feeling unsecured and they hardly think of returning back to India and goa especially. This will end up in reducing the revenue generated by the tourist every year. Hope this situation at Goa wuld change nd tourist remain flocked-in every yr(atleast till I visit Goa ..lol)

Thoughts...

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:07:00 +0000

The most painful thing in life is, sitting opposite to a person whom u love nd knowing very well dat person is not urs...

My Failure rate is growing higher nd higher, dat it might even kiss the angel in heaven...

I might succeed one day, but i am afraid if all successful men will be hanged to death on dat day...

If there is sumthin dat wont suck wen I do, it can only be a vacuum cleaner

We were strangers wen v met, i am afraid we wil b strangers wen u leave!!!

One last thing u need to remember abt heart is dat they can only take so much before the break!!!

You always admire what you really don't understand...

If u dont succeed, then tell the world failing is ur style...

Ppl say failure is the stepping stone to success, but wat if it becums ur destiny...

Quitters never win, winners never quit. Those who fail doing both r idiots. I am afraid the world wil call me an idiot...

The more you know makes you think der are lots more to know ...

Expectations may fail but fate cannot...

Few of the above may not be famous, coz they r my own thoughts...

Auto mania...

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:03:00 +0000

There is always been a passion for automobiles for individuals throughout the world, nd obviously Indians are nt exceptions. When few group of people believe in mileage nd maintenance there cums de other group which is fond of performance nd very often say de "catch me if u can" mantra. Very recently few Indian launches are being planned with a 250 cc mark, these bikes are tagged at Rs 1 lac. Bajaj is the first name which strikes wen speaking abt high speed bikes in India. Bajaj's 1 lac bike is planned for auto expo dis jan. Bajaj had already seen a modest success with its cruiser type Bajaj Avenger with 200 cc. While the main stay Indian successful bike manufacturer Hero Honda has only its old fame KARIZMA in dis segment. Previously the yamahas had plans of launching its first high price bikes in Indian, those with the very attractive 900 cc nd the 1500 cc. Both slated at de mammoth 10 lacs price tags. May be dis wuld happen sometime early dis yr. One may think who is gonna afford 10 lacs for a motorcycle in India, but mind u! der r few real nuts in Mumbai nd across few other major cities in de nation who wont mind spending dis amt on their favorite autos. "Speed thrills, but kills" may be de government slogan but who cares, few say "Catch me if u can"!!! nd start setting the road on fire. Nevertheless, v can have a very gud show at de auto expo in sumtime.

All this happening at one end, there r few auto companies at the other end challenging their low budget 4 wheelers. TATA has promised to release its 1 lac car with all de basic necessities. The F1 fame Renault along with de Mahindra marketing is viewing de launch of its own low budget car tagged at just above 1 lac. Even with de current no of cars in city one cant control de s**t traffic in city limits(pity the police incharge aiming to control it). Nd wen these cars cum into circulation, no big surprise dat hell lot of them wuld dump their 2 wheelers nd opt for a 4 wheeler. Wat ever may b de case, if dis idea succeeds then de auto market is gonna see a massive profit.

The 2 wheelers heading towards its higher ends nd the 4 wheelers towards their lower end, one cant say which is healthier or even which wuld find de apt fruit. Both r diff segments nd both aiming at the diff sector of people. Anyway, its not gonna happen very late. We can either sit back nd enjoy the fun or even opt for participating in de fun, which is left to each individual.

Entrepreneurship...

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:00:00 +0000

"Entrepreneurship" is one buzz word which fascinates most of the youth in India these days. Days have gone where people were happy with the monthly salary that they earn. Everyone these days wants to go global and earn a business of their own. This may be because of the blowing air from the western culture, which is basically very healthy. This is one best area where Indian youth have done a brilliant job in the recent past. Entrepreneurship may be one skill which cannot be thaught but can surely be developed. Readers might very obviously think, who is this dame f&#king idiot to talk about entrepreneurship when he is just in college days. You are very correct but this is not to improve on entrepreneurship or tips for developing it. This is just a straight forward view upon entrepreneurship by a very young chap. Readers so can therefore put forward your views on the same.

Before stepping into the river it would be better to know about the nature and the depth of the river, in order before starting de preparation upon entrepreneurship it would be better to know the characteristics of entrepreneurs. The few characters that i had observed have been
Passion for improvement
Decision making
Flexibility
Risk handling

Speaking about entrepreneurs, they have been of two categories, one may be inheriting and improving and second starting up a new one. Among this, inheriting and improving would be an easy task when compared to the later. Today v have been talking abt the ambanis; all credit goes to the legendary dhirubhai ambani who was able to handle the pressure and the critics of those days wen he was up to start up a business of his own. And today Mukesh has a easy way of inheriting things and keep improving. Who knows wat wuld have been the condition of Mukesh if the ideas of dhirubhai had pissed off. What ever might be the case, today Mukesh is the business tycoon of India and flies in his private jet worth RS 242 crores, his mobile office.

When an individual today wants to start up a business, there are lots that he needs to face. He has to work his balls out to earn each and every penny. Thanks to the Indian economy which is not worse as the American. When an American starts up business and fails he can only settle selling hotdogs on the streets of Newyork. He could imagine settling at the either ends rather than hanging around somewhr in the middle. Who culd deny the fact abt DELL going bankrupt overnight due to de decline in share rates. But dats not the case in India, one culd aim at improving his business quite slowly but very steadily. So, the risk factor is considerably low wen compared to the US markets.

Anyway, each job today has its own pros and cons. Few advantages of own business would be self employment, better economic growth, healthy competition etc. Anyone who aims to go big boy! the only way is to own business rather than cleaning the shoes of the English men.

My Heart says...............

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:26:00 +0000

I wasn't aware...

I wasn't aware of the theft
u know what; it was my heart
I thought my heart would never break
I wasn't aware, it was already happening

know sumthing was wrong with me
I wasn't aware it was 'coz of u
for the first time my heart
nd mind seem to be contradicting

I wasn't aware dat i was drowning
but it was all alone in an ocean
i wasn't aware i had turned coward
but dis happened with no choice

shuldn't hav broken your heart
I wasn't aware my words were doing it
I know sorry wont make u complacent
still wonder if i made a big mistake

later, I have to move on like i never knew you
I wasn't aware, i had such strong-heart
dis is one big instance for de whole life
which promises i cant hav any further big loses

I wasn't aware; but i need to accept
dat i had failed to own you
cant always keep up de promises
i made to you, forgive me

pushing it hard, my life so long
lots of thoughts to carry in all
I wasn't aware, if this was de end
but need to believe as time passes

may all ur wishes will be done
I wasn't aware if dis was my best wish
no choice other than to let u go
U r gonna face the world without me

Will pray the lord, for a best life
in this world for you
i shuld be aware atleast of this...

Pradeep KC

The art of Trading and Investments - An expert opens up...

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:21:00 +0000

Trading has changed a lot in me, says................
A chartered accountant, Mr Junjunwala is a firm believer in equity and that too, direct exposure to equity. "Since 1985, when I bought my first share, this has been my full-time business. Today, I do not have a single paisa which has not come from the stock market,'' he says proudly.
Asked if the market has given him good returns, he responds, first with a broad smile, and then: "Well, I am Mumbai's highest tax-payer in the individual category... of course, that was earlier and not now.''
He believes that being a chartered accountant has helped him understand the capital market. "For investing in stocks you have to understand the business of that company and the laws it has to follow. Being a chartered accountant allows you to understand all these things, including annual reports.''
His investment strategy is very clear: A part of his money goes into long-term investment and that portfolio gets churned rarely. But the part he invests in trading is being reviewed and churned constantly. The advantage of trading is "that it has given me the capital for my long-term investment.'' Though at any given moment he might be invested in the same scrip, both for trading and for the long haul, the strategy he adopts is to make a clear demarcation between the two. "Trading and investment are two distinct activities requiring different thought strategies and approaches,'' he says.
"For instance, in trading, the immediate moment or the immediate week is important; but in investment, even the immediate year is not important. I have been a shareholder of Apollo Hospitals for seven-nine years now. I bought it at Rs 20; and I sold at least six lakh shares at about Rs 350.''

The first share he bought in 1985 was Tata Tea. It doubled in three months and he sold it.
So, should investors get out when a share has given good or expected returns?
"Not necessarily. Investors should not have any set targets. We can only invest in the realm of possibility and the possibilities change with circumstances and times. So, we must re-evaluate our strategies periodically.''
Explaining why an investor should not have set targets, Mr Junjunwala says, "Take a shareholder of Infosys. An investment of Rs 1,000 today might have become Rs 10 lakh. If the investor had set a set target, what kind of returns would he have made from this scrip? Would he ever have imagined it would give so many bonuses or that it would touch a high of Rs16,000?''
A good strategy to sell a share would be getting out when you have lost 25 per cent of your notional gain. "Suppose you had bought Wipro at Rs1,000 and it goes up to Rs10,000. If it starts falling and comes down to Rs 7,500, you should sell it. Along with that, apply your judgment on the status of the market. Supposing the market is very bullish and people are very gung ho, that is the time to get out. Another cardinal principle you should learn from the market is never expect to buy at the bottom and sell at the top because you cannot catch either,'' he says.
Interestingly, he did not buy Infosys "and that will be one of the biggest regrets of my career and I have decided to get that written on my grave... that I missed buying Infosys.''
Returning to timing one's exit, which can make a big difference between winning or losing at the bourses, he says:
"There are various considerations which you have to take into account. You might decide to get out from one share because you feel there are better alternative investments. Otherwise, it might not make sense to sell a share that might give you even better returns. So, I would again stress, investors should not have pre-set notions.''
Elaborating, Mr Junjunwala says that basically an average Indian saves for "three purposes; to buy a house, for the children's education and marriage and for old age.
So, depending on the age profile of a person and his family responsibilities, I would say that he should have between 25-75 per cent of his wealth in stocks. I would put the average exposure of an individual to equity at 50 per cent.''
And he believes that this will be a sound strategy to follow at any age. When you look surprised, he responds thus.
"I advocate this because in India, it is not possible for ordinary people to invest in real estate; the prices are too high. After you have got a house and have, say, Rs 4-5 lakh to invest, I would advise 50 per cent in stocks �?? either directly or through mutual funds.''
But he himself does not believe in mutual funds and has no exposure in MFs. "I sit here, day after day, doing actively what the mutual funds are doing. Mutual funds are for people who do not have the time to track their investments.''
Today, Mr Junjunwala is invested in about 40-50 scrips spread across sectors and that give him a feeling of safety. His strategy is not necessarily to go to the top companies of any sector; if a well-managed company is available at an attractive valuation, he buys it.
He has an interesting response to what 15 years' exposure to the stock market has taught him.
"Several things. It has made me dynamic, but then it has also humbled me. I was once one of the most dogmatic men. But the market has taught me that I can often be wrong. It has also reinforced my views of a capitalist society. It has taught me that ultimately the stock market does recognise and respond to reality.
You can create aberrations in the market; but those aberrations do not last. It is in recognition of those aberrations that our opportunities come in life. But then greed becomes a problem.
Today, if you get 9-10 per cent from bank or fixed deposit, and if the market can give you 20 per cent return, through dividend or price appreciation, still people are not happy. People's expectations from the market are much higher.''
Mr Junjunwala adds, "You asked me about how and why I missed buying Infosys.
That is yet another lesson the market has taught me. "Make mistakes, but do not keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. And do not regret. Learn from mistakes, but do not regret.''
But though he missed the Infosys boom, other technology shares have given him rich returns. BFL Software is one. "I bought this stock at Rs 70 and sold at Rs1,400; PSI Data I bought at Rs 10 and sold at Rs1,100. I have made money in CMC too; but then there have been counters where I have lost money too.''
Another stock that has been a huge winner for him is Sesa Goa which he bought at Rs 30 and sold around Rs 1,500, after keeping it for three years.
Surprisingly, Mr Junjunwala has not invested in bluechips of the yore, such as an ITC or Cadbury.
Not too forthcoming on how he picks his stocks, he says breezily, "Investment and trading are something which cannot be taught. They have to be learnt; by watching, by making mistakes and by experience. Also, I do not believe that successful investment is mere intelligence or research; it is wisdom.'' But he is quick to point out that he is not an epitome of wisdom. "I have made and continue to make lots and lots of mistakes.''
At the moment, Mr Junjunwala is bullish on the stock market; if the Sensex goes to 3,200 and remains there, it will be a "good time for investors.''
As for the sector of his preference, he is bullish about technology and the PSU sector because "these stocks are undervalued and divestment is inevitable. As inevitable as death.''
Right on cue, his phone rings, his advice is sought, and BHEL is recommended.
On the present rally lasting he has an interesting point to make. "As long as there is doubt in people's minds... and I can see only doubt... the market will go up.''
His advice to small investors is never to "fall in love with your stocks. Also, a common mistake investors make is that just because something has gone down, they buy it. Or because something has gone up, they sell it. This should never be done; either in investment or trading. Another advice I would like to give is: Do not be sticky about the brokerage, go to brokers who can give you right advice, even if they charge a little more.''

GURU - The movie

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:22:00 +0000

GURU

The most awaited movie through out the nation hit the screen last week(12th Jan'07). The movie kept the expectations among the people for a couple of reasons, may be because it was the legendary ManiRathnam's direction and the story was about an Indian Business tycoon - Ambani. The lead was Abishek Bhachan as GuruKant Desai and Aishwarya Rai as Sujata, Madhavan(Shyam Saxena) and Mithun Chakraborthy(Manik Dasgupta) have performed a very important role along with Vidhya Balan(Meenu). The music was accelerated by A.R.Rehman and lyrics by Gulzar, cinematography by Rajiv Menon.

Mani totally seem to have concentrated on the later period of Guru, once after he established his polyster company(Sakthi Corporation). May be, he has missed out showing the early period of Guru, and the real struggle that he made to become rich. Whenever the background sounds "Guru bhai.. Guru bhai", i am sure u would have whispered "Dhirubhai..Dhirubhai" (Dhirubhai Ambani)within yourself. Guru was also shown to have worked with "Shell" in his early stage.The phrases of Guru saying "Think big, Think ahead, Think fast" was very expressive. These 3 instance in the film would have made the resembles between Guru and Ambani very easy and effective.

Madhavan was given the role of letting out the wrong done by Guru. Madhavan worked as a reporter under Mithun Chakraborthy for the newspaper "The Independent". Guru was made to appear in the court for the export fraud and the other wrong doings of his. The explanation that Guru gave to the judicial officials infront of the press was very effective and that had helped him hold the support of his share holders. Finally he ended up as a biggest entrepreneur in the nation.

The film was also dubbed in tamil with the voice of Surya for Abishek bhachan and lyrics by vairamuthu. "Guru" was well screenplayed by Mani Rathnam and its clear that he had done a lot of ground work for the script.The songs and the background music composed by A.R.R was a great strength to the movie. Cinematography too was very expressive in most part of the film. In short Guru - "The story of a Business tycoon with a typical ManiRathnam touch"...

Team India

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:39:00 +0000

Indian Cricketing Action

Cricket has been an attractive game among the Indians, may it be the children or youth or the aged. It has become an inevitable part of each and every individual in India. Although its not been our national game, it has its recognition in all parts of the nation. We can easily find cricket being played in streets and small grounds. When the Indian team plays a match we can notice all TV shops flooded with people. This shows the interest over the game. There is always high hopes on Indian cricket team. Anyway the expectation is not always fulfilled.

The Team India is suffering from horrible form for the past few months. May be the downfall started in the caribbeans where the Windies broke the Indian thread of consecutive wins while chasing targets. Their worst form continued in the DFL cup '06 at Malaysia and Champions Trophy '06 in India. The Host even failed to reach the semis' following their loses against the Windies and the mighty Aussies.

There may be many reasons yielding their worst shows recently.The pick of the lot may be; the big guns failing to fire once again, the bowling crumbling asusual, and few of youngsters suffering from injuries. The batting had always come good when India had been in best of forms. Normally atleast one of the big guns fire and the middle order tends to lend a supporting hand. But this never happened in the recent matches that India played. Indian are considered good players against spin, but in recent past they have struggled against the part timers aswell which is not a pretty good sight. When there is a bad performance with the bat its the bowler's part to defend low targets. Its very pathetic that Indian bowlers have never been deadly in any part of the world. Its not necessary that they need to be express like the shoaibs or lees or bonds but its important that they maintain a good line and length consistently. The spinners have also not being effective in picking up wickets. There is always been low confidence among the bowlers over themselves which has been a major drawback.

Chappell was brought in as the coach for Team India so that India wins a maximum of matches.There has been a few euphoric highs but many lows. The strategies used are not effective, rather its now turning out to be worst. Sending in Irfan at no 3 was started as testing and is now become the normal batting order of India. And this might have lead his way for his poor bowling performance. Providing ample chances for kaif has now ended up with nothing other than, he continuing his bad form.

India once again thronged with injuries. Yuvraj Singh, who has shown vast improvement in recent times is injured and was not able to make up for the important match against the Aussies in the Champions trophy '06. The injury was said to have happened while playing kho-kho; which is not very impressive. Experts say that player dont tend to take even minimal care playing those unofficial sports during practice sessions. And now Yuvraj is doubtful even for the World Cup '07 which is scheduled 4 months from now. The Indian Team has to have an eye over these kind of injuries which may result in major set-backs. Just a month back the batting mastro has returned from injury and now it is the in-form middle order batsman. These are never positive sights for the team. May be, Yuvraj should try to recover fast for the World Cup and provide confidence for the Team India and the fans.

With the current form of the Indian Team, its clear that they cant make it even to the semis' of the World Cup '07. Only if players work hard with "commitment" and come back extremely well and play good cricket, they can dream of competing with the best in the earth at the World Cup '07. Even if they cant win the cup, they need to put up a good all-round cricket to keep the crowd cheering behind them.

Daring trip to TADA falls...

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep KC) — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:47:00 +0000

TADA on a saturday morning...

We had an idea for an one day jaunt to a place around Chennai to over cum the hurting internship. After hours of googling the best venue that we were able to get was the TADA falls. The best reason for choosing tada was, coz it was just 85 kms from chennai and a day was enough for it.

It was a very early saturday for me. As planned we all met at the padi signal. All 4 bikes arrived the signal at 6.30 and we began our way to tada. Tada was exactly 85 kms from chennai. We took the NH 5, which connect Chennai with Kolkatta. It was a part of the Golden Quadrilateral, a wonderful road construction by the Highway dept of India and we all decided to set the road on fire.After riding about 65 kms we took the kalhasti road which is west to the NH 5. We again started to rule the road for about 10-15 kms till we hit the Varadaiah Palem. Then a local over there, steered us the way to the tada falls. The road was fairly good till we traversed the Telugu Ganga. The road after that was atrocious. It wont be fair enough if I call it a road. It was just a path made of rock and sand. Riding my bike was an irksome job in that path. We locomoted our bike for those fierceful 4 kms. Then we reached a small stream of water with depth of just one feet. We cut-through that stream with our bike and then decided to park it.

We then started to trek our way to the falls. We speculated that it was 5 kms for us to trek. On our way we saw a couple of places with stagnant water. We were very fatigue that, we even thought of dropping the idea to reach the falls. But we made up our mind to do it. We had to mount few really big rocks after which we attained our target.

The water was very clean and pure than what we call as mineral water in the city.We spent around 2 hrs in the water and then started back home at around 3.00 pm.
Although we had a deadly journey we were able to enjoy the day at the tada...