What a start this has been to the new financial year – India picking up the World Cup! A truly comprehensive and a much awaited accomplishment. 2011, am sure has much more in store. Personally, I am hoping to accomplish many an ambitions this year, starting with moving my office premises to a state of the art facility come June. The company has definitely reached great heights in 2010 and laid a very strong foundation to an impressive 2011.

At the outset, with all this euphoria around the corner, I am quite intrigued by the recent show of support to the much publicised anti-corruption movement. Respectable Anna Hazare, sure has shown the youth of this nation a way to initiate change. The media has been quick in covering every aspect of this movement and the celebrity brigade has amply showered its stamp of alliance and support. Everything is going the way one would want. With the recent 2G scam developments, corruption in India is finally under the scanner, Again?

Pardon me for letting the cynic in me voice out this thought, but isn’t all this seemingly convenient? There have been hundreds of such movements across India at various points in time. Some garnering similar media coverage and interest and most nondescript. It is my strong belief that 3 months down the line, this movement, the setting up of Lokpal, the media, the celebrities, the seemingly discerning youth, will all struggle to remember and stick to the core purpose of this movement.

Am not saying what has happened is incorrect or will have no value, but this plague will need a rather different approach, a different solution, a different brigade of policing and monitoring and most importantly a committed political leadership to support such a cause. I don’t at this point in time have a clear method of solution to this problem, however, I have been immensely passionate about the affairs of our country and hence this food for thought.

Regardless of all the cynicism one may have, I do believe that the first steps taken are in the right direction. When done in earnestness, the deed deserves all the acceptance in earnestness. That’s something I try to follow. And maybe, just maybe, the adage “All’s well that ends well” could also be rephrased as “All’s well that begins well”.

Here’s to a great year ahead and best wishes to all.

 

" I am appealing to both the ethics and emotions of the (supposedly)
educated students and also their parents. It gives me great pain to
see my Campus so dirty, and not by some uneducated
people, but by the future students (who come for counseling for
engineering courses) of the University itself!

What value does the education have if you cannot imbibe its essence? Sad are the future
engineers who aspire to build buildings and great structures but fail
to keep their immediate surroundings clean.

Why do these young minds fail to understand that cleanliness is next
to godliness? Is moral science just some subject which you read and
not understand?

Please understand that ALL of you students are ALREADY dreaming of going abroad even before you join you course and dreaming of writing
to your family about the wonderful surroundings in the countries you MIGHT reside.

ALL of you FAIL to understand that those countries are what they are because people like you aspired not to leave the country they live in but to change their own country. Change starts from within.....all of you are seeking the change outside refusing to change within..

As parents it is very important for you to instill these values to your children
very young. When you throw a plastic bottle in the open and not in
the bin, please understand your children will not be different from
you.

A very important landmark and Alma Mater to many, I
deserve to be a better place and I do hope that there not many young
minds who litter their own university but expect miracles from their
country. I am not a exception but an example of the plight of our country

Please educate yourselves.....with all the right things in life....PLEASE"

Yours truly,
Anna University

"Client Deadlines, SIFMA conference in the US next week and more projects taking off in India and Singapore .... should we say we are still grounded!!!

Here are our VP Products and Solutions-Praveen with our tech team, discussing project deliveries.......Ground Level Meeting

Did I say we were REALLY hard pressed for time!!!
seen above are some of our UI team members trying to bring in more ingenuity by gaming off in our office XBOX 360

For those who have been an ardent follower/subscriber to Market Simplified, you are well aware of the progress that Market Simplified has been making.

Last calendar year we were proud to be on the leading Mobile Trading Platform providers in the US. This year we have made our foray in Middle East and in Singapore.

With SEBI releasing the draft guidelines pertaining to mobile trading in India, we launched our mobile platform for the Indian markets as well helping us to acquire the leading and some of the respected brokerages in India. With three of the Indian brokerages as our clientele and more in the pipeline, we are all poised to become one of the leading Mobile Platform providers Globally.

2010 has been a great start for the company on the whole...keeping fingers crossed

Took off from Mumbai on a Jet Airways 9W 461, flew for 20 mins and we hear a LOUD explosion sound on the left engine, then the aircraft starts shaking violently for a few mins...everyone knew that we were not in a normal situation and it was bad....in panic for about 5-6 mins then turbulance stops and finally captain announces that we have to go back to Mumbai cause of some technical snag...ohhhhh man cant believe the calm and composure of the Jet Airways Crew...they declared full emergency and landed with fire engines chasing us..

Apparently it was left engine's (Referred as Engine 1) gas tube which exploded due to temperature raise and the engine failed. We landed back with single engine...which is not a big deal though.

When your life is at stake, it puts some things in perspective...started writing a love message for my family and my entire company on my boarding pass....as if it would reach my family if we fell from that height haha..

I was very anxious and so was my entire family, they all received me at the airport when I took the alternate flight to Chennai. My family was in tears when I showed them the message I wrote on the boarding pass when the aircraft was having a free fall from 39000 feet after one engine flamed out. Of all the people I know the aircraft are built to fly safe with only one one engine. Still when the engine flames out suddenly the aircraft will definitely plummet and fall free until it stabilises on the other engine. I also know pilots are trained to handle such emergencies every time they go to simulators. All that is OK. When on flight at 39000 ft when you hear a thud and aircraft falls free the thought comes to your mind is " what if the aircraft does not recover".....It is something I will never forget in my life...

My uncle (father's younger bro) gets knocked down by a bike coming in the wrong direction in Adyar when he was crossing the road. He had a severe head injury and the bike guy didn't even bother stopping to see what he had done to a poor sole who was just crossing the road. Worst his wife (my aunt) was crying for help and two responsible citizens arrive at the scene and relieve my uncle who was battling for his life of his mobile and purse and run away. This is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of in my life

What country are we living in!!!! Where are all the values which our elders used to teach!!!

Edward Luce's title was apt for our country " In Spite of the gods".....In spite of all the gods our country is growing up with hooligans like the two guys my uncle was blessed with after his accidents...Even God cannot save us I suppose..

Happy 2010 to one and all

It feels great to usher in the New Year with our new clients and followers. This year we at INXS have extended our horizon to greater lengths and are raring to go! With newer clients and more mobile devices conquered, we are set to make this year OURS. So what is new in INXS kitty, a lot….do check out our website www.marketsimplified.com. We are proud to have TD Ameritrade, OptionsXpress, FXCM, PFG Best and Choice Trade as our clients.

I personally have taken the resolution to follow my passion this year….Running and Aviation.

"Greater miles and higher skies are on my wish list for the year"

Wish you all a year full of good health and happiness

Honestly all my expectations including the weather was INXS ;) during this year's "Chennai Give Life Marathon"

Starting with registration and medical test which was mandatory for all half marathoners, everything was organised really well.

Registration/ Medicals:

For Rs 100, your value for money what you get -
- medical test for all half marathoners
- if you are above 35 or your BP or Heart Rate not satisfactory you will be asked to do a ECG
- if ECG is not clear you get a Echo
- your marathon registration
- water at all water points
- some points had glucose as well
- finish point had cold unlimited butter milk (very thoughtful)

Dont want to write on what could have been better, as there are enough blogs and articles talking about this. So let me take this only on the positives of the marathon

The day:

I think this is the best weather Chennai could ever have. Never thought I would finish the half marathon, with all the lack of practice for the last 6 months. But the weather was the best inspiration for me apart from our own Chennai runners, Hari with a broken finger, Senthil with all his "walk the talk" ideas, Hariharan, the marathon chaser (also quoted by NDTV) from Hyderabad (amazing inspiration for everyone)

At the Start Line

Chennai Runner at the start line

Oath Taking:

Running with Harishankar (broken finger), Hari (marathon Chaser), Senthil (all rounder), Bharghav ,the newly wed runner ;)

NDTV interviewing Chennai Runners

Running Saint (Saint who runs or Runner who happens to be a saint !!!)

Overall it was fun and I enjoyed every minute of the run. Ran for health or charity or just for the heck of it end of the day all of us were happy, thats more important...

Thanks Shankhar Lal M Patel for the pictures
Thanks Chennai Runners for the awesome inspiration and great company.