There are thousands of pages and posts regarding not to join Quixtar and how you are fooled and hypnotized to join the cult. Recently I found couple of video's on youtube which shows transparent reality about the hierarchical structured multi-level marketing scam. Everyone who is approached by Quixtar, I recommend to see these videos.
Part 1, Part 2
In my perspective, Quixtar not only kills all your time but also that you will lose all your friends and self respect. You might earn couple of thousands per annum but its not worth cheating all your nearby.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Savings!
I had an interesting discussion with my friend recently on Savings. We wanted to know how much should you save from your salary?
First of all, why do we save?
Retirement? Rain check for bad time? Vacation and fun? Future prospects? or may be for all of these.
Say you are planning for your retirement (like 401K or any retirement policy) and you think you have earned enough to take care of recession, health issues and have enough saved for any small issues of life, do you still need to save? When do you think that we need not save anymore?
Well we just decided it all ends at your perspective.
There is no logical amount or % of your salary that can be determined, in general is needed to be saved by every person. Some people may not save and still lead a happy life, some may need not save and some may end up saving all their life for something or nothing. Some may feel its never enough savings and some may feel they need not save. So its just their perspective.
But from what I have read and heard about planning your future, a 10% saving of your salary is generally advised at least and upto a 40% depending on your requirement.
First of all, why do we save?
Retirement? Rain check for bad time? Vacation and fun? Future prospects? or may be for all of these.
Say you are planning for your retirement (like 401K or any retirement policy) and you think you have earned enough to take care of recession, health issues and have enough saved for any small issues of life, do you still need to save? When do you think that we need not save anymore?
Well we just decided it all ends at your perspective.
There is no logical amount or % of your salary that can be determined, in general is needed to be saved by every person. Some people may not save and still lead a happy life, some may need not save and some may end up saving all their life for something or nothing. Some may feel its never enough savings and some may feel they need not save. So its just their perspective.
But from what I have read and heard about planning your future, a 10% saving of your salary is generally advised at least and upto a 40% depending on your requirement.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Hard disk down!
Ok therz been long pause in my blogging and the culprit is my hard disk. All of a sudden my system went down just to tell me that my hard disk went bad.
So what is the lesson learnt? Never rely on computers and always always always backup your data.
What did I lose? Many pictures, songs and videos. Oops not only that but thousands of bookmarks, personal files, playlists, tons of downloaded software and most importantly the files that I did not backup.
People so please backup your data as often as possible.
Back to my photography here are couple of bloggable photos and links where I took them. (That leaves a trial to what I did these days ;) )
Blue Hills Reservation
Cannon Mountains
So what is the lesson learnt? Never rely on computers and always always always backup your data.
What did I lose? Many pictures, songs and videos. Oops not only that but thousands of bookmarks, personal files, playlists, tons of downloaded software and most importantly the files that I did not backup.
People so please backup your data as often as possible.
Back to my photography here are couple of bloggable photos and links where I took them. (That leaves a trial to what I did these days ;) )
Blue Hills Reservation
Cannon Mountains
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Richmond to Boston
My last day at Wachovia Securities in Richmond was Friday, Sep the 15th and my joining date at VistaPrint 18th. Now that's just a weekend to move north by 550 miles and start working. So was planning to start on Friday but my friends at Richmond wanted me to stay to have a blast and to leave on Saturday. I said fine and everyone accompanied me to Washington DC, so that they can spend couple more hours with me. Now there was more to this, all of a sudden everyone wanted to spend more time with me and slowly the farewell was off for another day. I just couldn't take all that privilege and love for me, it was like a big mountain of happiness just fell on me. I just did not had enough words and smile to express my happiness that everybody want to stay back in DC to spend some more time with me. We spent lot of time talking about all the things happened back there.
Thanks guys for all the love and care you showered on me.
On my way I also got a chance to meet my KSU friends and their families in New Jearsy. And I finally arrived to Boston on Sunday night.
Ok coming to life at Boston.
The first week was good at office, most of the time went on getting to know people and getting used to system. I am liking it, its good work and good place to work. I hated traffic for a while and now am getting used to it. Basically I have understand that its not Richmond. Its more busy life, happening place, so much to do around and more time to commute anywhere.
Coming to this week Song craze
Am listening a lot to
Woh lamhe song - So jao mein agar....Lyrics ,Song and
Omkara song - Jag Jaa Lyrics, Song
Irony is am listening to "So jao agar" song after getting up and to "Jag Jaa" before going to bed. And I have no clue. Well both the songs are very good to listen and I could write tons of lines for them.
Thanks guys for all the love and care you showered on me.
On my way I also got a chance to meet my KSU friends and their families in New Jearsy. And I finally arrived to Boston on Sunday night.
Ok coming to life at Boston.
The first week was good at office, most of the time went on getting to know people and getting used to system. I am liking it, its good work and good place to work. I hated traffic for a while and now am getting used to it. Basically I have understand that its not Richmond. Its more busy life, happening place, so much to do around and more time to commute anywhere.
Coming to this week Song craze
Am listening a lot to
Woh lamhe song - So jao mein agar....Lyrics ,Song and
Omkara song - Jag Jaa Lyrics, Song
Irony is am listening to "So jao agar" song after getting up and to "Jag Jaa" before going to bed. And I have no clue. Well both the songs are very good to listen and I could write tons of lines for them.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Adious Richmond
Richmond - If I have to write about my experience in Richmond it would just take millions of pages. All I can say is that I had all essence of life. Some of my happiest days are hidden in the pages of my Richmond's history. I been always blessed by bunch of good friends and Richmond did not fell short of it. It was amazing experience finding so many good friends, enjoying every day, learning something from each of them and it just hurts somewhere in my heart to leave behind such a good place. But life is to move on and its time to say Richmond - Adious.
So here is some news from my side. I been offered full time in VistaPrint at Boston and I will be joining them soon. So that brings an end to one of the most eventful and happening part of life and am pretty sure it is also beginning of something bigger and brighter future in Boston.
Its been always tough on my side leaving back a place full of friends, memories and life. I sometime define myself as build up of memories and I clearly find it when I plan on leaving a place. Memories just brace through me. I had similar tough time leaving Columbus, Manhattan and India offcourse.
Counting on my memories I thought I should write up all the people's name whom I met in my stop of life at Richmond.
Lee F, Vijay C, Stephen D, Pratul S, Srinivas K, Preeti D, Arekh N, Ravi, Shameen, Kalyan C, Neha V, Anand L, Latha V R, Madhavi B, David C, Mike P, James B, James L, Don L, Mike K, Darren, Hari V, Ratnesh, Srini, Chiti K, Rachana K, Rajrishi, Vimala K, Venus K, Deepthi, Deepika, Swathi R, Nilesh, Priti J G, Santosh K, Mahesh, David M, Shankar, Cecile, Eddie H, Bushan, Britt, Mark S, Venkat, Nateshan, Satish, Latha, Shiva T, Madan, Smitha, Amrutha J, Asish, Mansi, Kadambari V, Himanshu V, Abid, Vivek, Wilma, Snehal, Srikanth, Sunitha, Swapna B, Kiran, Srikanth, Hemanth, Nirmala, Naveen R, Srujan B, Radhika B, Yatin N, Jatin N, Harish R, Manohar S, Shivsagar T and many many others.
Coming out of my memories, I had an amazing farewell week. Overall there were 4 farewell meals and many more get togethers and cook outs. The week went like a breeze but it will stay in memories for ever.
Here are the photos of the party's and lunches.
With the Richmond Family. Dinesh, Swapna, Amrutha, Kundan, Srikanth, Kadambari, Me and Kiran (L to R).
With the Team. David C, Lisa, Me, Latha, David M (L to R).
With Office gang.
Ratnesh, Raghav, Madan, Solomon, Eddide, Chitti, Srinivas, Joesph, Me, Promod, Venkat (L to R).
Some of the golden moments of my Richmond history are below.
Friends - Until we cross each others path you are all in my Yaadein.
Miss you Richmond.
So here is some news from my side. I been offered full time in VistaPrint at Boston and I will be joining them soon. So that brings an end to one of the most eventful and happening part of life and am pretty sure it is also beginning of something bigger and brighter future in Boston.
Its been always tough on my side leaving back a place full of friends, memories and life. I sometime define myself as build up of memories and I clearly find it when I plan on leaving a place. Memories just brace through me. I had similar tough time leaving Columbus, Manhattan and India offcourse.
Counting on my memories I thought I should write up all the people's name whom I met in my stop of life at Richmond.
Lee F, Vijay C, Stephen D, Pratul S, Srinivas K, Preeti D, Arekh N, Ravi, Shameen, Kalyan C, Neha V, Anand L, Latha V R, Madhavi B, David C, Mike P, James B, James L, Don L, Mike K, Darren, Hari V, Ratnesh, Srini, Chiti K, Rachana K, Rajrishi, Vimala K, Venus K, Deepthi, Deepika, Swathi R, Nilesh, Priti J G, Santosh K, Mahesh, David M, Shankar, Cecile, Eddie H, Bushan, Britt, Mark S, Venkat, Nateshan, Satish, Latha, Shiva T, Madan, Smitha, Amrutha J, Asish, Mansi, Kadambari V, Himanshu V, Abid, Vivek, Wilma, Snehal, Srikanth, Sunitha, Swapna B, Kiran, Srikanth, Hemanth, Nirmala, Naveen R, Srujan B, Radhika B, Yatin N, Jatin N, Harish R, Manohar S, Shivsagar T and many many others.
Coming out of my memories, I had an amazing farewell week. Overall there were 4 farewell meals and many more get togethers and cook outs. The week went like a breeze but it will stay in memories for ever.
Here are the photos of the party's and lunches.
With the Richmond Family. Dinesh, Swapna, Amrutha, Kundan, Srikanth, Kadambari, Me and Kiran (L to R).
With the Team. David C, Lisa, Me, Latha, David M (L to R).
With Office gang.
Ratnesh, Raghav, Madan, Solomon, Eddide, Chitti, Srinivas, Joesph, Me, Promod, Venkat (L to R).
Some of the golden moments of my Richmond history are below.
Friends - Until we cross each others path you are all in my Yaadein.
Miss you Richmond.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Weekend trip: Luray Caverns
The long weekend went like a breeze. Apart from I got my house, I watched a very nicely made movie Lage Raho Munnabhai and illogical and crappy movie on relationships, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. If you haven't watched it, stay lucky! If you have watched the movie, do you think will they ever be able to stay together?
On Monday it was great to see bro visiting me. It was almost 9 months that we met. It was fun having long chats with him about every happening thing in his and my life.
We later visited Luray Caverns. I been to many Caverns including Borra Caves in Araku, AP - my best ever, Cave of the Winds - Colorado, Ruby Falls - Tennessee, but Luray was amazing, atleast with its beautiful reflection lake and natural piano.
Here is one nice photo of we brothers.
On Monday it was great to see bro visiting me. It was almost 9 months that we met. It was fun having long chats with him about every happening thing in his and my life.
We later visited Luray Caverns. I been to many Caverns including Borra Caves in Araku, AP - my best ever, Cave of the Winds - Colorado, Ruby Falls - Tennessee, but Luray was amazing, atleast with its beautiful reflection lake and natural piano.
Here is one nice photo of we brothers.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Home Sweet Home
Its been my long dream to own a house and today I am proud owner of a house in Hyderabad. It bring immense happiness in me.
Its been a long journey to achieve this moment and I have to appreciate my parents who worked so hard to search and go through troublesome paper work of bank loan and others. And with the soaring Hyderabad real estate prices, its been tough to find something in the budget. Everytime I used to call Sudhakar and YK, who have been instrumental in my quest, I used to find that the prices have gone up again. It just use to scare me up. But finally with help of one and all, my dream has come true.
Cheers.
PS: Near and dear email me for photos.
Its been a long journey to achieve this moment and I have to appreciate my parents who worked so hard to search and go through troublesome paper work of bank loan and others. And with the soaring Hyderabad real estate prices, its been tough to find something in the budget. Everytime I used to call Sudhakar and YK, who have been instrumental in my quest, I used to find that the prices have gone up again. It just use to scare me up. But finally with help of one and all, my dream has come true.
Cheers.
PS: Near and dear email me for photos.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Some days
Earlier today I was having discussion with one of my colleague and he mentioned that all his three cars broke on this weekend and he had to tow two of them over 30 miles. So are you getting where I am going? I feel that there are days which are quite terrifying like this and there are also equally brighter days. I just do not get why such coincidences happen to make some days a very good day or a very bad day, but they do happen. Probably stars get alligned or get tangled on such days.
Well looks like I am having some brighter days. There are few things happening good on my side, though not yet concrete. I will definitely let you know once everything gets settled.
I just told my colleague that probably 3 good things are about to happen to him on one good day 'quite oppositely similar' to three cars going down on one day...that brought a big hope and a smile on his face.
Well looks like I am having some brighter days. There are few things happening good on my side, though not yet concrete. I will definitely let you know once everything gets settled.
I just told my colleague that probably 3 good things are about to happen to him on one good day 'quite oppositely similar' to three cars going down on one day...that brought a big hope and a smile on his face.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Boston
I am in Boston this weekend and I am enjoying like crazy. It was fun meeting some old friends and also trying Golf. Golf looked to me interesting and fun sport, hope I do it more often. On top of Golf I scored my highest in Bowling (164) though lost to Arekh (175). And after 3 hours of poker I gained back from my loss, just to know that I made ZERO dollars! It was just fascinating that i made exactly nothing.
Well, here are my latest lines. I thought I should add english words to my verse, and thus here is my latest crazy poem...
To all my Crushes:
Barastha pani Ice banjaye,
Garajtha badal Calm hojaye,
Bijli ko Shock lagjaye,
Mera dil ka Bulb glow hojaye.
Hope it brings a smile..
Well, here are my latest lines. I thought I should add english words to my verse, and thus here is my latest crazy poem...
To all my Crushes:
Barastha pani Ice banjaye,
Garajtha badal Calm hojaye,
Bijli ko Shock lagjaye,
Mera dil ka Bulb glow hojaye.
Hope it brings a smile..
Sunday, August 06, 2006
pictures: To the newly wedded
This weekend some of our Engg. friends met to celebrate the wedding of our classmate, Ravi Kiran. Since picture speaks more than thousand words, I need not explain much.
To the newly wedded: Happy married life.
More at http://kyadamakanti.blogspot.com/2006/08/get-together.html
Cheers,
Group photo of engg frnds met.
Photo at a Go Karting place. (If you are looking for me, I am the photographer ;) )
To the newly wedded: Happy married life.
More at http://kyadamakanti.blogspot.com/2006/08/get-together.html
Cheers,
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Gang of four
Am so glad that now I have two of my closest cousions and brother in US. I was all alone for three years and suddenly in a year I have company of three people. So, now we are Gang Of Four. Welcome Swathi...hope you are enjoying your first day.
Lyrics: Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK)
Lyrics are the life line of the any song. I am always been fan of good lyrics and I hate the songs which do not make any sense. I try to go through the lyrics if I start to like the song. Ironically there are many songs which are either music based or video based and have not much of meaning nor sense. These lyrics are good to read and to remember so that you do not make such mistake if you want to write up some day ;)
Well, I recently started listening to Kabhi alvida na kehna's title song. Its quite impressive lyrics and after you listen the song for 3-4 times, you start liking it..something which usually happens with A.R.Rehman's songs.
Let me see if I can critic this song....this would be first of its kind that am trying to write up.
here are the lyrics that I found online (I have corrected the typos)....as time goes on, I will add my comments on the lines...
Lyricist: Javed Akhtar (one of my favorite)
Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna
Tum ko bhi hai khabar
Mujhko bhi hai pata
First time listeners would expect more from lyrics as Khabar and Pata do not rhyme, but you wont feel it after a while
Ho raha hai judaa
Dono ka raasta
Definetly situational
Dur jaake bhi mujhse tum meri yaadon mein rehna
This is the most important phrase of the whole song.
The beauty of this line is that even though you are referencing this line to other person, you are implying it to yourself; to remember and not to forget!
Its a huge difference from a usual line like "Dur jaake bhi mujshe, mujhe yaad rakhna".
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Jitni thi khushiyaa
Sab kho chuki hai
Bas ek gham hai ki jaata nahi
jaata nahin
Samjha ke dekha behla ke dekha
Dil hai ki chain isko aata nahi
Aansun hai ki hai angarayee
Definetly you can relate tears to angarayee but here it creates much more sense with the next line, though redundant.
I wonder how the lyrcist gets involved into the poem. Its tough to write up without being in that situation. I know its the skill and that is why they are famous, but definetly appreciable.
Aag hai kab aankhon se behna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Rut aa rahi hai
Rut jaa rahi hai
Dard ka mausam badla nahi
Rang yeh haalka itna hai gehra
Sadiyon main hoga halka nahi
Lovely line....this brings out the complete picturisque representation of the song...sadiyon main hoga halka nahi....shows the gravity of the pain and you can relate all the feelings as if you are looking at the painting...
Halka nahi
Kaun jaane kya hona hai
Hum ko hai ab kya kya sehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Kabhi alvida na kehnaa
Tum ko bhi hai khabar
Mujhko bhi hai pata
Ho raha hai judaa
Dono ka raasta
Dur jaake bhi mujhse tum meri yaadon main rehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
kabhi alvida na kehna
Well, I recently started listening to Kabhi alvida na kehna's title song. Its quite impressive lyrics and after you listen the song for 3-4 times, you start liking it..something which usually happens with A.R.Rehman's songs.
Let me see if I can critic this song....this would be first of its kind that am trying to write up.
here are the lyrics that I found online (I have corrected the typos)....as time goes on, I will add my comments on the lines...
Lyricist: Javed Akhtar (one of my favorite)
Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna
Tum ko bhi hai khabar
Mujhko bhi hai pata
First time listeners would expect more from lyrics as Khabar and Pata do not rhyme, but you wont feel it after a while
Ho raha hai judaa
Dono ka raasta
Definetly situational
Dur jaake bhi mujhse tum meri yaadon mein rehna
This is the most important phrase of the whole song.
The beauty of this line is that even though you are referencing this line to other person, you are implying it to yourself; to remember and not to forget!
Its a huge difference from a usual line like "Dur jaake bhi mujshe, mujhe yaad rakhna".
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Jitni thi khushiyaa
Sab kho chuki hai
Bas ek gham hai ki jaata nahi
jaata nahin
Samjha ke dekha behla ke dekha
Dil hai ki chain isko aata nahi
Aansun hai ki hai angarayee
Definetly you can relate tears to angarayee but here it creates much more sense with the next line, though redundant.
I wonder how the lyrcist gets involved into the poem. Its tough to write up without being in that situation. I know its the skill and that is why they are famous, but definetly appreciable.
Aag hai kab aankhon se behna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Rut aa rahi hai
Rut jaa rahi hai
Dard ka mausam badla nahi
Rang yeh haalka itna hai gehra
Sadiyon main hoga halka nahi
Lovely line....this brings out the complete picturisque representation of the song...sadiyon main hoga halka nahi....shows the gravity of the pain and you can relate all the feelings as if you are looking at the painting...
Halka nahi
Kaun jaane kya hona hai
Hum ko hai ab kya kya sehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
Kabhi alvida na kehnaa
Tum ko bhi hai khabar
Mujhko bhi hai pata
Ho raha hai judaa
Dono ka raasta
Dur jaake bhi mujhse tum meri yaadon main rehna
Kabhi alvida na kehna
kabhi alvida na kehna
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Photography: Reflection and Balance
(view it in enlarged mode before you read)
I have noticed that some of my interests are temporal and some are sinusoidal (they surface sporadically). And one of my craze is for photography. I tried to learn it from time to time but it's still very basic. Whenever I think too much to take a photo, I have ended up spoiling it. The best one's are always quick shots ruled by my instincts.
This is one of blogable photographs amongst my zillion photography shoots..
I like it because it has good reflection and the color balance of the sky and water to the train tracks and reflection is quite appropriate...kind of being in symphony..
So, far this is the most appreciated photo from my colleagues as it hangs in my office cube...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Define: Happiness
I feel the most complex word in dictionary is to define Happiness. It can be so different from one person to other and can change any number of times in one's life. Today I might feel happy about something and the same may bore me tomorrow.
Since some time I been thinking that how much time an average human is happy. If anybody is even happy for quarter of the life, I would say he has lived his life (obviously without counting the amazing childhood part). The biggest problem with humans is to understand the worth of whatever they have and to find happiness in it. Its always that he needs more or he is not happy with whatever he has.
Somebody defined Happiness as "Happiness is a journey and not a destination" very apt. To stay happy across the journey of life is to feel satisfied with what he has and finding worth of what all he owns.
Happiness can be from family, friends, health, wealth, nature, time, entertainment, food, sex, travel, being lavish, pride, power, past, making jealous, sadism!, fans, beer, achievement, victory and or any combination of these or many more...
If everybody can find what they have from above list and forget what they do not have from the list....probably that could make them happy...
I wish I can make atleast one person happy everyday...(I know that ONE person for most of the time will be myself ;))
Cheers,
Since some time I been thinking that how much time an average human is happy. If anybody is even happy for quarter of the life, I would say he has lived his life (obviously without counting the amazing childhood part). The biggest problem with humans is to understand the worth of whatever they have and to find happiness in it. Its always that he needs more or he is not happy with whatever he has.
Somebody defined Happiness as "Happiness is a journey and not a destination" very apt. To stay happy across the journey of life is to feel satisfied with what he has and finding worth of what all he owns.
Happiness can be from family, friends, health, wealth, nature, time, entertainment, food, sex, travel, being lavish, pride, power, past, making jealous, sadism!, fans, beer, achievement, victory and or any combination of these or many more...
If everybody can find what they have from above list and forget what they do not have from the list....probably that could make them happy...
I wish I can make atleast one person happy everyday...(I know that ONE person for most of the time will be myself ;))
Cheers,
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