Nov 1, 2009

ahh!! wht a day

Bliss!! this is what I can say abt today.. strted with a gr8 cric match ohh &:30 in mrng n playing cricket...Life dsnt get better..and than a gr8 food and than a book fair..yeah I didnt buy a book..i m nt an avid reader but u know thr was smthng for eyes 4 sure :P..
and than an alone visit to lifestyle whr I found some gd sshirts to buy, though I didnt buy thm bt visit was gd aand at last a Devils own in CCD..and in meanwhile I met one of my old frnd too..but all in all a super sunday :D

I am happy and will have a maggi cuppa mania 4 dinner now :P

Prashant

Oct 20, 2009

I just felt I have to write..I am avoiding this for its like 3 months I have not written it..Life has changed..I have my office opened..n as nyone can imagine it wasnt a perfect strt.. MY life iss getting complicated with so many things to think about..

Nowdays I feel myself looking down the road, like whether I am doing is rght..whether the struggle I chose is worth it..whether I wud come out of it alright..and suddenly I shirk away these thought and think atleast I am in a struggle because I wanted it n nt anyone else..I am in difficulty but at least path is mine..

These thought war which I call them are getting more n more pronounced as time goes on..I guess I had my share of success and nw its time i also get a tough ride..
will hold on till I dont fall..will hold on till i dont fall..

Jul 18, 2009

The Office

Last time when I stopped I had the place and I had to turn it into an office..and it took me arnd 15 days to do so..hve been a little slow..but yeah again learnt a quite a bit in these days..specifically abt the hard work ;-)..
Designing, mediating, media, decision making..hmm wht not have I done in these few days..
Just an incident of multitasking..I was sitting with my friend and was working on Board designs and was on Gtalk with two others disussing abt pamphlet content and giving another an update on wht is going on..n nthr frnd calls up n reminds me tht I had to send him some mail..tht looks exciting but..

SO do u need to multitask.. I think its totally depends on you.. if u r quick decision maker,if you have prepare yourself well and believe in yourself u normally wud.
Why I am telling you all this..
Prepare yourself well in the morning abt wht u are going to do in day..( it helps as uncertainity always strikes whn u r certain it wudnt :)

Dnt have an attitude of postponing things..it Costs dearly..

What ever happens dnt stop believing yourself :)

So the office is up with all partitions, furnitures, boards.. pamphlets, visiting card, LH's are in printing..Hmm its coming n I m getting scary..
So Monday is the day I am waiting for the day when the office opens after a small marketing campaign of pamphlets..with boards up on the office..m waiting..

Jul 3, 2009

Self empoyment

the work starts now..its fun to be all by yourself and take decisions all by yours..loving it

This is what I have been feeling for sometime now. As Andy told that we hear successful stories of entrepreneurship not the process I will try and elaborate on the process with my limited writing capabilities.
As I write now, my Landlord has delayed the work by 5 days but this happens..

So I stopped my last blog where I was going to find the place and talk to the landlord. Believe me when we go to the ground level the negotiation begins the most useful art to possess. I am not really good at it but I have learnt it after talking to innumerable guys about innumerable thing.
Some points I learnt

1. be clear about what you going to lose from the deal. Sometime it Just could be time but better is to monetize the time.
I did lose a month or more and a great publicity time by a single mistake of mine and some lethargy in April.

2. Know what you want and get it written as mind falters at the wrong times :P

SO keep these basic points in mind before negotiating..and believe me the other person is indefinitely a better negotiator than you when you are starting :-)

Now after gyan I come to the point ;-)

I got the place finally and really now I think April was not a mistake ( when you try and achieve your destiny whole world helps you) so I got a gr8 place at gr8 location and gr8 rent

Now after the place its about the launch which we are preparing ( we because their are so many friends who are helping me and they really are taking their time out from their work fom me.. I am really thankful to all of you guys)SO its all about the office layout, furniture, marketing, finance, operations and any function you can think of in life.
I have learnt so much in these few days.. believe me if an entrepreneur someday comes for a job to you( hope it never happens) Just give him a job. he will really prove to be an asset for your company.

One important thing before you decide to into entrepreneurship.

Make a B Plan specifically a financial plan and than make a 30% addition in time and money as u never know the reality( Am really struggling)

Hope you had a good reading. Please comment if you by chance read this and comment so that I can improve..as I really want that some one starting gets a little help from this

Jun 8, 2009

I just wanted to share my feelings of how being an enterpreneur feels like...
Hope you all like it :)

Just a brief history
So I am out of Bschool.. and I decided to take entreprenurship instead of taking a job..
Doing a Job would have been a really difficult task for me..this I learnt in arnd 3 years of training in various course I did. I had an experience of doing business. My Father started his own at age of 45 and when I was 15..I do helped him and than I too started of my own after my PG degree..did it for three years and than get into MBA stuff:)

So I was planning to start up through my MBA college..you know its a different feeling to work for only fo yourself..u dont work actually u enjoy working..you dnt think for how many hours you have worked or you dnt feel tht u missed a cricket match:)
During this period there are times where I felt very down ...and my self belief has gone but really always it happened that I got a call frm 1 of my friend and it helped.
I will never ever forget the help (moral and help with ideas) that my fiends have given me even when they are so busy with their lives..

I just plan to carry on this series and go more deeper into practical reality and update it as soon it is possible for me.. and if I can help any aspiring enterpreneur through this..it will be great..

Today I am going to look for 2 places for the office lets see how it goes :)

May 29, 2009

Just thought to put it on

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
- By Ram Prasad Bismil

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है,
देखना है जोर कितना बाजुए कातिल में है ।

करता नहीं क्यों दुसरा कुछ बातचीत,
देखता हूँ मैं जिसे वो चुप तेरी महफिल मैं है ।

रहबर राहे मौहब्बत रह न जाना राह में
लज्जत-ऐ-सेहरा नवर्दी दूरिये-मंजिल में है ।

यों खड़ा मौकतल में कातिल कह रहा है बार-बार
क्या तमन्ना-ए-शहादत भी किसी के दिल में है ।

ऐ शहीदे-मुल्को-मिल्लत मैं तेरे ऊपर निसार
अब तेरी हिम्मत का चर्चा ग़ैर की महफिल में है ।

वक्त आने दे बता देंगे तुझे ऐ आसमां,
हम अभी से क्या बतायें क्या हमारे दिल में है ।

खींच कर लाई है सब को कत्ल होने की उम्मींद,
आशिकों का जमघट आज कूंचे-ऐ-कातिल में है ।

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है,
देखना है जोर कितना बाजुए कातिल में है ।
रहबर - Guide
लज्जत - tasteful
नवर्दी - Battle
मौकतल - Place Where Executions Take Place, Place of Killing
मिल्लत - Nation, faith

May 19, 2009

is recession over ( Series 1)

On monday stock market makes history. It does what it has never done..within 20 seconds trading day was over..ohh as an investor I am happy my stock is 25% up and next day it does not loose the gains of monday. so it strenthens.

This event needed an analysis both from stock market point of view and fundamental point of view..this thought came into an unstable mindof mine tht just loves finance n Economics to the core..( if i did nt like enterprenurship the way I like it now..i Wud have been somewhere analysing this for earning bread n butter..nyways)and than I thought why n analyse it as a blog..so I decided to put my try to this blogger world( too much of a prologue I think ;-)

So firstly just trying to differ fundamentals and stock market point of view.. Fundamentals includes Corporate results and general Economic envioronment of the country and
Stc. Mkt point of view includes How does stc behaves( what drives market). Some Imp points include
1. Money Flow
2. Investment scenario ( political stability is one of the criterial)
3. FII's Investment
4. Speculative drive ( this.. yeah this made the Asian tigers crash in 1998's)
I have excluded fundamentals here..wait for tomoro for the reason n further analysis..

PS: Its in series so tht u guys dont get bore while reading..actully feeling sleepy ;-)..waise kya koi padhne bhi wala hain isse :P

May 15, 2009

I just found who I am

I just heard a line on TV sapne woh nahin hote jo neendo me aate hain sapne woh hote hain jo neend bhaga dete hain..or those are not dreams that comes while you sleep instead dreams are those which takes your dream away..

So I thought what is my dream and I realised I have no such dream..this all nonsense of me becoming an enterpreneur is stupid..this is just running away from myself, the true me who is afraid of his inability to succeed..who things he cannot survive in corporate world so why even try..only thing which gives me kick in life is thinking and talking..giving someone else advise that I didnt follow, thing tht should be done tht I have never done.. i am fed up of expectation around me, nt frm others but my false expectations frm myself..when I know I cant do that why do I try to show tht I can do tht..
I have no goal in life just keep on doing what I am doing trying to be happy in whatever I do..yeah I am happy relaxed looking person but is I really happy..no one can be happy If he tells such lies to himself..I am not satisified with what I have done but try n say to myself its ok you dnt want much..I want more..I want tht has never been achieved..I want to be a superhuman..but yeah I dnt work for tht so basically I just think n dream..
I want to achieve a lot and let someone else do it for me..this is a bad situation to be in and I am in this..I will like to get out of it..
so what I can do( first thought in my mind comes is bring your goals to a achievable level) so my mind ditches me It cannot fight my body or is it that I cannot fight my mind.. this is all in my mind..My lethargy n everything else..or is it I am not made for all this.. I am made for living an ordinary life..
Even my dreams of becoming a CA and after tht an IIM alumni did not gave me sleepless nights.. one time I cud nt sleep is when it was for playing cricket.. i cud have played it anytime day or night or when the temprature was 45 or 5 or where players were 0 or 11..when it was night or day I didnt care so was tht my dream..
I believe in Karma but do not perform it..I need a drive in life that can make my night sleepless I dont want to sleep now.. I have slept enough.. I want to get up in life and achieve something now..
Adrenaline has allowed me to post this on web quite possible it becomes for my own consumption ..

May 12, 2009

Why I am not focussed..Why I am running from Myself.. Why when I want to enjoy life in different manner I am living it like any other person.why I am araid of failiure when I was never before..where is my energy gone..Why I am not coming back to what I used to be..why I have stopped thinking while walking when everyone else got irritated .. why I have stopped going out..drinking coffee.. even stopped trying to flirt .. why I am afraid of no again.. why I am not confident enough.. Why I am not critical enough and becoming more of a politically correct person..where is my stupidity gone
Is this the reality tht has struck my flight towards dream.. or I am finaaly maturing losing my child like energy and believes.. when I used to not think before doing something or is it I am afraid now that my type of life dont exists..
dont know and dont want to know eiether..only thing I want is to get back to tht naughty stupid energetic Prashant..Come on u can do it dude

Apr 21, 2009

Print media world

I am shifting back to jaipur and this shifting has cut me from internet and TV now for 22 days exact...so my only source of INFN is print media and I am getting a good dose of it including Hindu TOI and Biz line. ..sometimes it feels good to not be in thick of action and read news after it has happened as it stops taking u some unwise moves or comments but sometimes it bewcomes frustating and on top of it I too dont have my Laptop for now...ooppphhhh its boring but think its more productive..Hope to get back into life soon :)

Mar 25, 2009

terrorism and personal gain

I was just reading a news article which quoted Mr. Ric Charlesworth that subcontinent has changed since 1980 when he played hockey professionally in Pakistan.
He thinks that Commonwealth games and hockey world cup next year may be Jeopardised because of security concerns.
Australia did not send the hockey teams to India because of Mumbai attack and he goes on to say that he left the job on mentor to Indian hockey also because of security reasons.
He just forgot to mention the reason at that time, on the contrary he said it was all due to IHF fault and we all agreed with him as he was a foreigner which we think are superior..so he remebers this now after a year..
I dont say India is safe or Pakistan is or everyone should sshow solidarity to India but I say this why to take out personal grunt on this matter Mr. Ric Charlesworth.. I admired you as a strategist but now I am sorry to say you have lost respect in my eyes and I think in eyes of many other Indian fans..

the comedy show

In Bangkok one thing which I have with me is free time and because of this number of saas bahu serials I have watched in last 10 days far exceeds whole no I have watched in my life time. But believe me these serials are changing..the shadyantras and saajishs are giving way to a mix of normal life serials but this is not about saas bahu aur saajish :P this is about a very important thing for us all Indians( elections) and I think whole world is also waiting for the outcome..
So while watching these serials I sometime switch on the news channels also and in tht by luck I saw a pannel discussion. Actually everytime I open any news channel the news out thr gives me enormous confidence that If I failed as an enterpreneur I have Indian news channels as my backing :P
any way the news was that Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta will do campaign for congress..
As a management graduate I was thinking what a great move by party to attract young people..we dont have young leader so attract them with Filimi chamak dhamak.
I was amazed at the progress India has made, Now shahrukh instead of selling pepsi( ohh..its Coke its difficult yaar) is going to sell congress..nice move by party..
first Jai ho copywright and now Shahrukh and Preity.

As a young educated voter I was contemplating that what these parties thinks of us Indians fools who we will vote since Jai ho is being played or shahrukh says congress is good or BJP is good..dont we have our eyes, ears and mind of our own.
Dont our PM, Mrs Gandhi can say what Shahrukh will say..
is this our politics..Ankur you were right when you say politics in this country is going down to an unthinkable level...
I am confused for whom to vote..I see no alternatives in front of me..
Instead of waiting for someone to stand up and get counted when will I do the same..
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this is why politics has gone down to this level

Mar 18, 2009

The B-School Story ends :( :)

So I am going to be an MBA soon(provided that I did not fail all my last term paper and going by the records I think I should not fail any ;-))
I have left the campus beefore 15 days but did not got on internet since than as I was visiting one of the most beautiful country in the world Thailand and still I am sitting in my place at Bangkok but it is not about the visit tthat will come later its abt the B school story

its an special feeling to get a degree which youu wanted so badly and for me it will always be a dream come true. Yeah not fully but partly yeah I got what I wanted.
Many things I heard about a B school, IIM Indore made me revisit tthat.. those dreaded night outs at IIMs were missing from my life.. that different world where everyone is at his own is also missing..I found real good buddies out there at my stay..
but yeah there were classes ffull of discussions, there were mess bakar at 3 in night, badminton at 3:30.. night cricket.. football...yeah there were new initiatives ...night outs to submit assignments as u were sleepin for the whole week :P
There were guest talks..some which made you more bald..and some which made you think..ohhh can this be done or why the speaker is going to stop.

there are loads of thinks to write and I think there are several posts in which I am going to bore you all

PS: I know the post did nt make much sense but now its over :P ;-)