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Just two more days .. And 2009 will end. A mixed year for me with some good / bad memories on personal, professional, social fronts.

Here is the year summary from my side ...

First about blogging : Reading other's blog, there was an improvement definitely but pretty bad year for my blogging venture. Just lost track and passion I had. But 2010 will definitely be like that .. I promise :)

MandY holding is doing well :) but not great. I made as well as lost some good calls. Won some by luck and lost some BIG ones as well. But overall, it gave me a good learning year. From coming financial year I'll definitely able to make use of these concepts. The target for coming year is 50% gain from april 2010 to 2011. I think I'll be able to achieve that. Let's see..

On personal part, had some kaande pohe programs by now and hope will be able to have shaadi ka laddu in 2011 :)

Got new blackberry this month and I can feel great improvement in my productivity. I am active 24x7 now professionally on personal front as well. Always connected on mail, messenger and a great push mail support. Apart from these I learned lot of new things and will continue to do so in future .. Had some great ideas but didn't get time to work on most of them. They all are due next year ..

That's it frnds.. Wishing happy new year to everyone !!!

Hello frnds ... remember me ? Was totally busy in my day to day routine work, job and personal things.

In last couple of months so many things happened. There was some great moments in personal life, family matters. Professional life gave increassed pressure but provided stability. That was much needed in current environment. MandY Holdings lost 40% of its capital due to my ignorance and over confidence.

Overall a mixed bag of experiences ... but thats life ..  and I am enjoying it :)

One more important thing .... got a blackberry from office. First time I shifted from windows touch screen phones to a non touch screen phone. Configured all my personal professional mail accounts and IMs on that. I'll be posting another separate post on that experience :)

Ending this small status update .. now I'll be regular here as I was before :)

Like a computer, a human brain is capable of doing several things at once. But our task manager is not as efficient as computer's task manager. Several times positive/negative outcome of one process affects another even though they are not related.

It would be great if we get a better, well managed, bug free task manager where we can simply right click and minimize or end any process.With this, a bad day in office won't affect your personal life or a girl friend's phone call won't affect your day to day work.

Hopefully GOD will install it in next release.

Studying is integral part of my life. I want to be a student throughout my life. The knowledge in this world is infinite and unfortunately I have finite time. Hence I try my best to utilize it properly to maximize gains. I have interest in almost every subject in this world. Thankfully god has given me intellect, analyzing power and fast learning abilities which allow me to gain knowledge from many subjects.

Now a days I am taking lot of interest in studying corporate strategy, HR, team management, leadership, finance etc. I am studying them at once and trying to relate one another. At the same time current news are giving me lot of situations to apply the fundamentals I am reading. Also getting lot of feedback from my day to day work, business strategies, technical, R&D part. Right from my engineering days I am a good programmer. But I have never restricted myself to one particular programming language. I am more interested in gathering requirements and finding solution using tools I have or create the tools I require. This gives me great ability analyze given situation and design solution if any. And good grasp on mathematics, algorithms and data structures gives me power to optimize these solutions.

It looks like I am writing my resume .. or giving HR interview ... I am not .. I am just writing my evaluation as a learner.

Speed, in depth analysis and out of box thinking are my strongest abilities. But at the same time, I lack long term view of any solution. I find it too complex to evaluate any solution over long period as I run out of memory when I consider minute details of the solution over long period. And without considering those details, I can not evaluate any solution. Thinking in short term also shows lack of patience. Unfortunately I have this problem.

Secondly, I don't believe on anyone - no person, no theory, not even myself. I evaluate everything. I am very happy when I prove something different than existing .. when I prove something wrong .. including my own principles .. myself.

Lot of things to write ... may be I'll have part II of this post later ... ... ... have lot of things to do :)

Who says men can not shop ? After listening lots of taanebaaji from my mother and sister, I decided to show off my shopping skills. I selected Big Bazaar in Raghuleela mall at Vashi .. next to my office.

With the courage of Shreeshant facing Brett Lee's bawling attack on Austrelian pitch, I straight way headed to grocery section. Took a trolly and started roaming around reading names and rates. I felt little confident after reading the names and called mom. Asked her to tell me what items I should bring. She was it surprised when she heard I am in mall for shopping. She started the list .. mug ardha kilo, masur, udid daal pav kilo, chavali ek kilo, vaal changale astil tar ek kilo etc. etc. etc.  Suddenly the items I saw few minutes ago started looking unfamiliar to me :) I double checked the section I was standing in. Tried doing some R&D but didn't work.

Mom was firing requests one after the other. After 5-6 minutes, I was about to give up. Suddenly I saw one kaku - aged 50-52 shopping next to me. She was looking at me for last 2-3 minutes. I gave my GREAT SMILE (pitty) with my chinese eyes (michmiche dole), innocent looks (bavlat aani buddhu chehraa) and dimples (galache khadde). Then things started moving smoothly. Kaku found all items my mom requested .. after that my part was just to pull the trally. The toughest section in question paper was solved :)
Then there was one more confusion in soaps section. I found it extremely difficult to classify soap bar used to wash cloths and utensils. All the names were looking similar. Finally I found the correct ones by recollecting their advertisements. (Prashant Damle : bayko geli maheri, kaam kari pitambari etc.)

Finally, I should say .. the attempt was successful. I could collect more than 85% of the requested items. And the lesson learned was ... next time first find some kaku and then only call mom :D

Adding another task to my already busy schedule now. Have decided to give GMAT by Q2-2010. Kept a long time to study - 2 full yrs. Lets see how much I can do. Thinking of doing PGPX or something similar in 2011.

By that time recession will be definitely over (if it ever starts ..) and world will need fresh, new great leaders at that time .. he he he .. just kidding ... Want to do something in corporate strategy. Hope I'll be able to do it.

But is it a good strategy to reveal the plans in public ?? ;-)

Today was one of the most challenging day for me on emotional front. I was just returning to normal (see my previous post) I never expected I'll ever face such situation in my life.

I request kind hearted people not to read further.

I visited an old age home - Vruddhashram in Pune and a funeral after words. We know a 'Second Innings House' from Munnabhai movie. Retired people living happily with Vidya Balan. But when we reached there, the situation was different.

I saw a 20x20 room with 8 people. All of them aging more than 70-75 years. Out of 8 people, 2 of them were in coma, 2 were unconscious, one dead for five to six hours and remaining three alive. All together in one small room.
I looked at the faces of three people who were alive. They were waiting for something to happen or someone to come or probably death. Hopelessly hopeful. Even a cold blooded, emotionally rock solid person like me collapsed .. I couldn't look at them again. We just went and took the dead body out.

In tensed, hopeless situations I use smile or humor to get out of it. I remember a statement of Pu. La. Deshpande from Antu Barva : विशाल सागारतीर् आहे, नाराळीची बने आहेत, पोफळीच्या बागा आहेत .. पण त्या उदात्त तेला दारिद्र्य असे विलक्षण छेद देऊन जातं आणि मग उरत काय .. एक भयाण विनोदाचं अभेद्य असं कवच. Humor .. It works most of the time.

But I couldn't apply that in this situation. Everything failed .. I failed .. just couldn't find a solution .. SAD...

Sometimes I feel machines are better than human beings, they don't have emotions at least .. yet.

Today's experience gave me one very positive feedback. My people. I am very fortunate to have my people around. Knowingly or unknowingly I do things for them, get positive / negative feedback. Generally we don't see the importance of it but today's experience gave me a new meaning to it.

Just now Shalmali Sukhatankar sang this song in SaReGaMaPa. One of my favorite. Can't resist listening it again n again. Sharing it here ..

चांदण्या रात्रीतले ते स्वप्न तू विसरून जा
मी कधी होते तुझी ते सर्व तू विसरून जा !

आणिले धागे तुझे तू मीहि माझे आणिले
गुंफिला जो गोफ त्याचा पीळ तू विसरून जा !

मी दिली वचने तुला अन्‌ वाहिल्या शपथा खुळ्या
शब्द केवळ ते तयांचा अर्थ तू विसरुन जा !

प्रीतिचे हितगूज ते, कुजबुज ती, रुसवेहि ते
ते हसू अन्‌ आसवे ती - आज तू विसरून जा !

चंद्र ज्याला साक्ष होता, जे फुलांनी पाहिले
रेखिले प्राणांत जे मी तेच तू विसरुन जा !

Movie or Album: Aapli Awadti Bhavgeete
Singer: Manik Verma
Music Director(s): Vasant Pawar
Lyricist: Shanta Shelke

There are no mandy's comments, links with any other event etc. :-) Just enjoy the song ...

If you want to download the mp3, I am sharing it here : http://rapidshare.com/files/153993968/Chandanya_Ratritale_Te_Swapna.mp3.html

in less than 3 weeks I can feel ..


No one is asking me - 'chal ice cream khaate hein' at 12:30 midnight. Or share Sizzling Brownie with me at Cream Center.


No one is fighting with me for equal share in khau items.


No one is threatening to beat me with broom or lock inside bathroom.


Missing our debates over fundamentals. Missing someone who convinced me to do two things unconditionally - without looking for RoI - Love and Charity.


No one is saying 'तोच तुझा लाडका' when mom praises me for everything.




missing you sister .... finish your training and come back soon .... best of luck !!!!


PS : You must have got your first salary by now and next week is your birthday .. he he ;-D .. really missing you sis.