Love is beautiful, so is the Stock Market
When you take a position in the stock market, you begin to look around for news that’s favoring your position. Your mind completely gives importance only to the news that’s positively favoring your position. When you fall in love with a girl, you only remember and give importance to instances where in there is a positive feeler from her end. In both cases you mostly end up making a loss. I have failed in both.
Well began is half done. What really matters is the entry you made. Considering the stock market if you first look at the charts and understand the situation of that particular script in the last three to six months you would get a fair idea of what would be the right time to take a position. Similarly if you would not hurry yourself and take a little time to understand the girl you like, you would get a better idea of how and when to let her know about it. It would also give you a clarity of whether the girl or the stock is right for you.
Nobody is perfect. It is not necessary that we are right every time. There is always a possibility that the decision you made hits back on you. It would be wonderful if you could accept that a girl has every right of having an opinion of her own. It would be wonderful if you could accept that your analysis was wrong. You can fall in love but it would not be true and pure if there would be a condition of expecting returns. The easiest solution to a possible major damage to your heart is to be aware that you might have to back-off at a point where it does not make sense in hoping, praying and trying to push things in your direction. We call this point a STOP LOSS. If you don’t have a stop loss, the damage caused to your heart may not allow you to start a fresh.
Once the girl tells you that she loves you, your target 1 is achieved. You continue to LOVE and there would be ups and downs in your relationship but if you have chosen the right script then you would see it grow stronger over a decent time period. Also your expectations would rise and you would move the stop loss higher.
Your relation goes strong and then there is marriage and then the spurt of honeymoon. Now here is the difference, you exit out of that stock and enter into another beauty. How we wish we could do the same with love. Over and over again.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Terrorist
I do not want to be stereotype here. I have been closely studying terror and have met a few people long time back who have been involved in terror. My personal view on terrorism is that its a disease fast spreading and is being distributed more generously by the so called doctors who claim to be curing it than the victims. The current circumstances suggest that soon life will be hell no matter how rich or poor you are. The ignorance given to this disease by the common man is very shocking.
Post 9/11 there have been innocent deaths worldwide but mostly in Iraq, Palestine and Syria which is why Muslims feel they are being targeted. They feel alienated in a sense. This is the tool used by evil minds to pull young innocent muslims into terror. I remember talking to a friend from kashmir. We use to talk about the reason for the struggle by the people in kashmir. The conclusion was that there are two sections of people. One was the sect (Calibans) that want to cause trouble and are always in the look out for young blood that can be made the sacrifitial goat. The other was the young blood that fell into the trap of the former. The primary reason for them falling into a wrong direction was the treatment they recieved by the indian army. What would your mindset be if your sister and mother were raped in front of you ? How would you react if your father was stripped naked and beaten up for no reason in front of your eyes? Im sure many of you feel that it is being exaggerated here but try getting into a conversation with a kashmiri who has lived in kashmir for atleast the last 15 years. Now this young blood being in an environment of these extremist would convert into calibans and begin to hunt for young blood. This cycle continues.
In India There are two entities we have in hand – a well-organised nation and the poorest, least literate and least organised community on one side. To control law and order, the police, intelligence agencies and the judicial system have not been able to pick up the radical elements in time. Hence they blame the least organised community.
Post 9/11 there have been innocent deaths worldwide but mostly in Iraq, Palestine and Syria which is why Muslims feel they are being targeted. They feel alienated in a sense. This is the tool used by evil minds to pull young innocent muslims into terror. I remember talking to a friend from kashmir. We use to talk about the reason for the struggle by the people in kashmir. The conclusion was that there are two sections of people. One was the sect (Calibans) that want to cause trouble and are always in the look out for young blood that can be made the sacrifitial goat. The other was the young blood that fell into the trap of the former. The primary reason for them falling into a wrong direction was the treatment they recieved by the indian army. What would your mindset be if your sister and mother were raped in front of you ? How would you react if your father was stripped naked and beaten up for no reason in front of your eyes? Im sure many of you feel that it is being exaggerated here but try getting into a conversation with a kashmiri who has lived in kashmir for atleast the last 15 years. Now this young blood being in an environment of these extremist would convert into calibans and begin to hunt for young blood. This cycle continues.
Whenever we speak about international terrorism, we separate the 'Muslim' aspect if it. "Instead of saying two Muslims, why can't we talk about them as two Bangalore boys, highly specialised in computers?". Apart from the calibans there is another section of the crowd who are among the villians. I believe that there is a small section of the society who are strongly against Islam and are always waiting for an opportunity to put the religion down. Hence you would always see the media flash the word MUSLIM/ISLAM more than anything else whenever anything related to terror is reported. Religion is something very personal. Its something like your salary or your wife. We should stop looking at issues with a communal angle. We should only look at things on whether they are right or wrong. If Kafeel has erred then he should be taken to task through the process of law. One has to realise that injustice happening anywhere in the world is the germ of heinous acts. Also the media should stop perpetuating hatred. We need to promote democratic ways of dialogue.
In India There are two entities we have in hand – a well-organised nation and the poorest, least literate and least organised community on one side. To control law and order, the police, intelligence agencies and the judicial system have not been able to pick up the radical elements in time. Hence they blame the least organised community.
A Hindu friend of mine said this to me "I have read the Quran. What I feel is that if all Muslims just read the Quran properly then peace will surely prevail.".
I think the problem is much more beyond the word MUSLIM.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Life in Bangalore
The use to be garden city and now the IT capital of India. I do not want to elaborate on how trees are being chopped or how the population and pollution is increasing. Its also not about the traffic in bangalore which is similar to 8 people in an auto and all of them discharging gas through the opening at the lower end of their alimentary canal. Its not about the goverment which is as stable as a unicyclist with a flat tyre. No its not about the roads or the infrastructure, Its about us.
Bangaloreans (this word is quite difficult to define, any person who resides here (own/rental house) with atleast one blood relation or himself/herself earning in the city of bangalore for atleast the last 6 months), May i ask what life means to you? I am no scholor but to my sight its all about work and money. I have a friend who sells imported glass tumblers and he was telling me about how he sold a few glasses to a star hotel for double the normal price. He never realised that we were sitting in the same star hotel and having a coffee which was priced ten times its cost. At the end of the day a person who decieves the best is richer. And why does he want so much money ? believe it or not its for pride and status in the society. Another very strange incident was once when i had been to a BPO for an interview. I came across an employee of that company who had a 6600 nokia handset which was priced around 12k at that time. But he was dressed in bathroom slippers for office. Hotel Empire is the only resturant in bangalore that is open till late hours and for that reason they charge Rs. 15 for a small cup of tea and we call it the most happening place. The most important thing here is not good times or good friends or your mothers smile or your dad's health, its all about wealth which is either not used or used in something that really does not matter too much.
My dads stories about life in bangalore in the 60's and 70's makes me wish i was born at that time. No computers, Mobile phones, Television, washing machines, not even an electric stove. People use to live at that time too rather i should say people use to live LIFE in those times. Born in the eighties i have not experienced it but i am very confident that it was much more peaceful then. You would hardly see any cars on the road, it use to be much cooler (considered as a hill station at that time) and lots of sports. Once my dad was walking to his college (2 km away from home) on the way one of his classmates of the opposite sex was going on a bicycle. As she passed by my dad she shouted out " HOP ON". He still remembers this incident and even today it makes him blush. In todays times hop on has a totally different meaning. There is no charm left when talking to someone of the opposite sex. My basic point is that we are going too fast and we give a lot of importance to things that are not very important. We buy phones for their looks and features where as its basically used for verbal communication and sms. Dont we all realise that we are getting conned. We are being decieved by advertisments and our minds are being hypnotised. We all goto pubs almost every saturday but fail to take our family for an outing for months together. Im sure respect for elders would be the next to be attacked and we (25-35 years) would be the victims.
I would like to end by saying that warren buffet who was the second richest man in the world, cheated people , made a lot of money and gave it all away to charity. Is that all life is about?
Bangaloreans (this word is quite difficult to define, any person who resides here (own/rental house) with atleast one blood relation or himself/herself earning in the city of bangalore for atleast the last 6 months), May i ask what life means to you? I am no scholor but to my sight its all about work and money. I have a friend who sells imported glass tumblers and he was telling me about how he sold a few glasses to a star hotel for double the normal price. He never realised that we were sitting in the same star hotel and having a coffee which was priced ten times its cost. At the end of the day a person who decieves the best is richer. And why does he want so much money ? believe it or not its for pride and status in the society. Another very strange incident was once when i had been to a BPO for an interview. I came across an employee of that company who had a 6600 nokia handset which was priced around 12k at that time. But he was dressed in bathroom slippers for office. Hotel Empire is the only resturant in bangalore that is open till late hours and for that reason they charge Rs. 15 for a small cup of tea and we call it the most happening place. The most important thing here is not good times or good friends or your mothers smile or your dad's health, its all about wealth which is either not used or used in something that really does not matter too much.
My dads stories about life in bangalore in the 60's and 70's makes me wish i was born at that time. No computers, Mobile phones, Television, washing machines, not even an electric stove. People use to live at that time too rather i should say people use to live LIFE in those times. Born in the eighties i have not experienced it but i am very confident that it was much more peaceful then. You would hardly see any cars on the road, it use to be much cooler (considered as a hill station at that time) and lots of sports. Once my dad was walking to his college (2 km away from home) on the way one of his classmates of the opposite sex was going on a bicycle. As she passed by my dad she shouted out " HOP ON". He still remembers this incident and even today it makes him blush. In todays times hop on has a totally different meaning. There is no charm left when talking to someone of the opposite sex. My basic point is that we are going too fast and we give a lot of importance to things that are not very important. We buy phones for their looks and features where as its basically used for verbal communication and sms. Dont we all realise that we are getting conned. We are being decieved by advertisments and our minds are being hypnotised. We all goto pubs almost every saturday but fail to take our family for an outing for months together. Im sure respect for elders would be the next to be attacked and we (25-35 years) would be the victims.
I would like to end by saying that warren buffet who was the second richest man in the world, cheated people , made a lot of money and gave it all away to charity. Is that all life is about?
Monday, July 9, 2007
Namaste
Hello World
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I am Adil Saleem, a software engineer in bangalore. I dont know if anyone would ever visit this blog but its high time i stop talking to myself. I would try to be as polite as possible but no assurance. I am very political and love to talk about current affairs. Also this blog is my personal musing, and as the constitution of india has given me the rights to freedom of speech i would appreciate no intervention. Sensitivity is like beauty, it lies in the eyes of the beholder. Hope to keep this blog going for as long as the web is not dusted away.
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I am Adil Saleem, a software engineer in bangalore. I dont know if anyone would ever visit this blog but its high time i stop talking to myself. I would try to be as polite as possible but no assurance. I am very political and love to talk about current affairs. Also this blog is my personal musing, and as the constitution of india has given me the rights to freedom of speech i would appreciate no intervention. Sensitivity is like beauty, it lies in the eyes of the beholder. Hope to keep this blog going for as long as the web is not dusted away.
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