Friday, February 22, 2008
I hate Rachel Green.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Seven Deadly sins n' US
2nd lecture in the morning, we're i.e me,Pensi and Prince Negi discussing rather judging our human profiles. The criteria was where we stand considering seven deadly sins Wrath,Pride,Lust,Sloth,Gluttony,Envy and Greed. We rated ourselves on a scale of 10. Any two of us would judge the 3rd person.
wrath----- 2----- 10--------8.5
pride----- 5------8.5------ 8.5
lust-------7-------6---------6
gluttony -- 6----- 2--------8
envy------3-------2 -------2
greed------4-----2---------5
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net/70--- 35----42-------46.5
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Conclusion :
*Pensi : Okay types human profile.
*VikasH : THis world made me a bit bad
*Prince Negi is a minion of the Satan
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
IPO Myths
This is the greatest myth about IPOs. Many IPOs will result in losses for the investors, the prices of the same will go down because of several reasons like a weak company, over pricing, weak management or simply because the price fell along with the general markets. A look at the companies mentioned below, these firms show you how many IPOs have failed in the past.
A second myth about IPOs is that if one steers clear of the smaller companies and invests only in IPOs of well-known companies one will make guaranteed profits. This is also not true as we can see that a lot of well-known companies like HT Media, Provogue, OBC, Allahabad Bank, Jindal Polyfilms, T.V. Today Network are listed in the table below. These are all big companies and chances are that most investors would have heard of them before the IPO. But still they figure in the list and the most likely reason is that the issue was over priced.
This is an important learning for all of us.
Cigarette n' Marlboro @ IIT B
Every IITian begins by thinking he will never get addicted. Smoking at staff canteen post lectures is a daily ritual. Attending meetings for the various organizational bodies at Shack, having the lovely morning snack at Kresit, now the juice at Bhavani, or the famous chai at Mahendar bhai (main gate) is inevitably accompanied with smoke flying off. A nonsmoker obviously feels out of place and just to feel a part of the group, he starts to smoke, one a day. The craving begins, and soon, he finds himself walking all the way to staff-c for a smoke, gathering those difficult four bucks from his wing. It surely is a sight. And when one cannot wake up in the morning without a cigarette, the reality of addiction has set in.
Once while making fun of the whole habit, we were discussing how disgusting this habit has become and how addicted we all are (contrary to our earlier beliefs that we could never be addicted and we carry a will stronger than Skywalker), we realized that we smoked without sense or reason. Smoke before lunch, after lunch, before lectures, after lectures, before an exam, after an exam, with a chai, without a chai, in times of stress, in times of idleness, being happy, being sad, being with friends, being alone etc. Give me a fuckin’ break . It dawned upon me that I had become a chain smoker. It was ruining my health; I was depressed, hardly socialized, slept through the day and felt drowsy all the time. It was not as if I smoking to counter examination or project stress. One puffs away every waking moment of one’s life without even noticing it. One grabs a quick smoke in a hurry, to kill time, while talking, while working. We smoke unconsciously, cigarette after cigarette, without even realizing. Is it worth it?
I decided that whenever I felt like smoking I shall stop everything and prepare myself for a ‘meditative’ smoke. Go to some quiet place where I can sit undisturbed, alone. And when I do smoke, I shall only smoke – no multitasking. No more smoking with friends, with tea or coffee or no more hurried puffs. I followed this religiously, and pretty soon I discovered a sharp reduction in my intake.
Many smokers use the cigarette as a crutch in moments of stress or discomfort; the cigarette is sometimes used as a tranquilizer. But the heavy smoker who tries to handle severe personal problems by smoking heavily all day long, is bound to discover that cigarettes do not help him/her deal with his/her problems effectively. When it comes to quitting, this kind of smoker may find it easy to stop when everything is going well, but may be tempted to start again in a time of crisis.
Whatever!! I know am not a chain smoker not because every smoker thinks so because first of all I don’t even look at fag when I am home and 2nd I don't smoke cigarettes, I smoke Marlboro so if it's out of stock I am not a smoker. Smoke is just TP thing, it’s 4 am in the morning and you’re still up, staring at your computer, you haven’t changed your position in last 4 hours and you’re all fucked up, you need a break. Nobody else in your wing is up, what you got to do. Lit the darn fag up and get over the moment.
Why the market falls faster than it rises?
This piece of literature talks about at a couple of reasons because of which this happens.
One reason why this happens is because of traders buying shares on margin money. This happens as follows. Suppose you have shares worth Rs. 1 lakh, on these shares your broker will allow you to take positions of say up to Rs. 40000. What this simply means is that you can buy and sell shares worth Rs.40000 without actually having to cough up this amount. This is called playing on margin money. In the above example the margin is 40%, which means that you can play up to 40% of the shares that you own. Every time the margin decreases below 40% you have to either square off the position or you have to keep extra cash with your broker. Now assume that you have also entered into such a trade where you had shares of say HLL worth Rs.1 lakh and you have bought shares of Infosys for Rs.40000 with the margin hoping to sell them off later in the day and make a quick buck. Unfortunately for you however the market falls and the value of HLL now remains only Rs.90000 whereas you have bought Infosys worth Rs.40000. To maintain the margin of 40% your broker calls you to pay up additional margin money (called margin call in market parlance). You decide that its not worth it and sell the Infosys that you have, further creating downward pressure and lowering the price of Infosys. If you look at the bigger picture and see the market as a whole there certainly will be another person who was holding Infosys worth Rs. 1 lakh and HLL worth Rs.4000, because of your decision this person would need to sell his HLL now. This is a vicious cycle in which many traders will now get trapped and what started off as a correction would result in a big fall. This is one of the prime factors why markets fall off sharply in a single day, the fall being anywhere close to 300 to 800 points on the BSE.
Another reason why the market falls rather sharply is what is known as “Panic Selling”. What this means is that small and new investors in the market see that the market is falling and they think that there is no end to the fall. Often these investors enter the market with the lure to make big money and know little about what companies they are buying and have little confidence in their investment decisions. Such investors tend to sell all of their holdings in such falls and bail out of the markets. In the process they tend to drive the prices of the shares that they hold further down and end up pushing the prices abysmally low.
The above two reasons are quite common and can be witnessed in every big fall that the market has. Its for you to understand these reasons and the next time you enter a trade be aware of such reasons and play the market carefully. Anyone who has been in the market will tell you that it is almost impossible to avoid such losses. So maybe you will lose money on such transactions as well. Considering the way the market has risen these days it is probable that the situation confronts you in the near future. You must not completely shun away from the market after such a situation but must understand the reasons, learn from them and not repeat the mistake.
THE BEAUTY OF FADING LOVE
The atmosphere seemed so intoxicating as if some
enchanting music was set,
My heart started beating wildly,
Each bird and each flower was jolly and lively,
When I looked into your eyes;
I was lost in paradise.
When you looked at me with your promising heart
That we'll never live without each other and we'll never part,
For a certain moment , I thought your love was
enough for me to survive.
I wish I could have isolated those precious moments
And cherished them forever and forever till the end.
Although we knew that life would be a great risk ahead,
But our love was sufficient for us to tread.
We never imagined that we would ever be able to live
without each other,
But...we were part and our lives went on and on and
so was the weather.
Those were hard and struggling days when I had to
live without 'you',
But then I realized... life goes on and on and doesn't
stop for 'me' or 'you'.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Friend zone
Season 1, Episode 7 "The One with the Blackout"
Joey:It's never gonna happen.
Ross:What?
Joey:You and Rachel.
Ross:Why not?
Joey:Because you waited too long|to make your move.....and now you're in the "Friend Zone".
Ross:I'm not in the Zone.
Joey:No, Ross.|You're mayor of the Zone.
Ross:Look, I'm taking my time, all right? I'm laying the groundwork.Every day I get|a little bit closer to...Priesthood!
Joey:I'm telling you, she has|no idea what you're thinking.If you don't ask her out soon,|you'll end up stuck in the Zone forever.
Have y'ever wondered what the hell is "Friend zone" ??
A woman does not easily change her mind and become sexually attracted to a man she has already placed in her friend zone. This is said to be very different from how a male's mind works, and as a result leads to a string of false expectations on the part of the man. It is not impossible to get out of the friend zone as it is stated in many texts. In some cultures and societies, women keep around many possible suitors and marry the person they feel most comfortable with.
Many dating seminars and texts focus on how to avoid the friend zone, advising immediate cessation of all contact once a man finds himself in the friend zone. This is illustrated in the film, "Just Friends", where the main character, played by Ryan Reynolds, advises his friend to "Just walk away". It should be noted that this is usually paired with a philosophy designed for womanizers to help have sex with women, with a priority on constantly meeting new women. But for some men it is for the sake of finding a secure, loving relationship with someone they truly adore.
Sex columnist Catherine Townsend describes it as a mutual problem where two people are "trapped in that place of hopelessness and desperation", when they don't want to "risk ruining the friendship if everything crashed and burned". Townsend also cites a feared loss of romance and mystery as well as a fear of rejection. Cosmopolitan magazine has called it "relationship quicksand", but notes that in a 2001 Match.com survey, 71% of respondents hoped that they would fall in love with a friend.
COnfession 2
I am doing this blogging shit because i took a resolution back in '07 that i am gonna start inditing my thoughts.
let's see..last time when i used my blog was nov. '06 ...when some motherfucking courier service had pissed me off ...i raped 'em with my heavy literature and after that I pen it down in my blog.
let's see what happens this time
CIAo
England Prevails
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