On Entrepreneurship

After a stint, I happened to read the Entrpreneurship article by Guy Kawasaki. This is not a lengthy article and it tells about the five most important lessons that GK has learnt as an Entrepreneur. Out of the five lessons, I strongly agree with the 5th one although the other 4 might make a great sense to people who are Entrepreneurs.

http://www.sun.com/solutions/smb/guest.jsp?blog=five_lessons

Though I read Fake Steve's (Real Dan now), Seth Godin's, Tom Peters' and Guy Kawasaki's, I always like Seth's more than the others because to me, his writings are direct and to the point which is more meaningful. If you would like to read any of these, check my 'I Peek @' column.

He...

I walked away from my apartment towards the entrance and there comes 'he'. I blink at times when I see him and he looks at me without showing any feeling. I am confused on what he is thinking. I feel shy at times for doing this but since I want to avoid seeing him, I started taking a new route. The new route gave me a satisfactory feeling that he did not cross me. But the satisfaction remained only for few days. One fine evening after taking the mails and happily watching the kids playing at the swimming pool, I was shocked to see him in my new route. I stood for a second without knowing what to do. There comes a voice: 'Honey! Don't go away...He likes you...'. I smiled. I did not want to offend the voice but at the same time, I did not want to give hopes to him that I am reciprocating the love. I would never do that for anyone of 'his' type. To avoid complications, I just went near him with my heart beats sounding at a high rate. He just stared at me as he always did. I waved bye with a cute smile and came back home. After coming home, I was seriously thinking on how he found my new route. There are only two routes I could take and now that he knows those two routes, I don't know how I could avoid him staring at me. With all my guts, planned to do this thing the next day and I did it, as planned. As usual, he came and stared at me and I walked towards him and asked the lady who comes along with him - What's his name and the answer was Jimmy. He is indeed a cute black dog. As I approached him closely, he did not do anything other than staring at me. And the lady goes, 'My cute Jimmy likes you!'. I smiled back and came home with a sense of relief that Jimmy will not punce on me and I can follow any route that I used to go :):)

Poo Poo...

It has been years since I heard this song of Meastro Ilayaraja. It's a very simple song with less Aalaps and sangadhis but this song has captured a spot in my favorites list :) And, I am playing this song continually in my ipod and got a grip on the lyrics too. Googled it for the lyrics but could not find the video in youtube.

Lyrics here:
http://tamillyrics.hosuronline.com/read.asp?NewsID=4895

Weird...

I think about this.
I dream about this.
I don't want to think about this.
I don't want to dream about this.
But somehow it happens. All because of this subconscious mind. I take every step not to think about this. Whenever I take steps not to think about this, I think about this. It happens uncontrollably. I avoid talking about this but whoever calls talk about this to me. But I don't talk about it when they talk about it. When I talk or think or dream about something, it will never happen...That's my intuition.

Ok...So...What am I talking about? What am I thinking about? Or What am I dreaming about??? ;)

Flavors

This is the third time I am watching this Desi American movie called 'Flavors'. There is nothing great about this movie but I like this movie for portraying the reality of desis being in US. Desis on bench, how day-to-day life goes for a house wife in America, how serious is being jobless, friendships, beer, parents visit and how they look at things here - a real flavor in 'Flavors'. Out of the whole movie, I like two characters - Karthik for being a very practical and happy-go lucky guy and Rad's (RadhaKrishnan) mom fitting into the real Indian type of mommy. It's just a 'light' movie which can erode one's boredom and I can watch this again.

Wat I did last Aug...

I was sitting in the dining table browsing the internet.
Opened a notepad and started writing this.
Wrote this and reviewed, previewed and read again. Not satisifed :(
Went for a cup of coffee to think about it again.
Will I make it this time? I talked to myself.
Came to the notepad again.
Read and deleted few lines.
Do I need to do this?
Gave a break to my thoughts and strolled to my balcony.
Saw few cars coming by and noticed my friend going.
Thought if I could call her and ask her whether I should do this 'notepad' thing. Did not call her though and went to the notepad stuff again.
Speaking to myself: 'Look, if you start this, you should not leave it after few days. You should be consistent. You should show your interest. Should not think whether it will work out after few months. It's your love towards it and you should go for it!'

Decided finally and this is what I did last August 6th - 'Raji's Reflections'!

August 6th, 2008 marked the first anniversary of my blog. Just missed wishing myself! :) And, now it's your turn...Wish me ;)

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Got the first season CD and I could not control my inclination towards watching it. I watch it during breakfast, lunch, after work, before work :) I love Lisa Kudrow's role and the way she has acted it...It's THE ULTIMATE :) F.R.I.E.N.D.S = F.U.N :))

MSMT

I remember watching this when we had this only channel on TV - 'Doordarshan', during those good old days. I liked this and still love listening this song. I feel that this leaves a trail of 'patriotric' trend in me and believe that it does the same to many Indians. The song is melliflous and when I watch this, everyone and everything in this video looks beautiful to me (as a spl. mention: that red saree woman who sings 'ninna dhwaniya' ;)) I simply love watching it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhGyVgHPtI&NR=1

Wandering thots(1)...

One thing that comes for free and at anytime, no matter what if you ask or don't...That's ADVIC(S)E!

Earlier days, I used to see people who offer advices as a great personality and think that they have experienced a lot in life...Well, quite a few comply to the above norm...I had this thought without knowing the fact told above. As years go, I realised this and experienced that people who offer advice just go by what they wanted to say instead of thinking whether they would do the same thing if they were in such a situation? Nay...

Hence I quit listening...and asking someone for it...I go by what I think and what I would like to do...That makes me happy and matured even I fail at times...Failure gives me pleasure...A stroke to move forward...I like SUCCESS after failing so many times...Not the SUCCESS @ the first shot! That makes me timid...

Having said all these, if you ask me whether I offer advice to anyone? Not by myself...But if someone asks me for it, I will put forth my thought and tell that it's my suggestion but it's ultimately going to be his/her wish...

I dislike giving advice and taking too...
Takeaway: Don't offer it when it is not required or asked for, particularly in this case