Pyramid Tech ceases to exist as a brand (except for the visiting cards that need to be designed). Phonon.in launches today.
More on this later. As usual, wish me luck.
Friday, July 21, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Phaedrus...
...what a name, but I can't keep it for my organisation; I know what is good and what is not good. The name starts with a P, comes very late in the alphabet; is not an active verb.
I love my motorcycle; I plan on getting it repaired.
My car is lying desolate in Bombay (yes, I prefer the romance of Bombay to the trains of Mumbai), I plan on getting it to Baroda.
I have a dream - and am searching for it.
My sister is the most beautiful person on the face of this earth.
Where have all my girlfriends gone?
I would love to go off on a month long vacation to the Himalayas, but do not have the time or the inclination for it.
There are good days and there are bad - I need to get the business off the ground.
I am very busy with very little time - yet I am here typing gibberish on my blog.
I used to love a beautiful girl - and then we disappeared from each other's lives.
I hate hypocrites - I change my perceptions as it suits me.
I used to be very lazy and then I started putting fight.
Never judge a book by its cover - but clothes maketh a man.
I love music; people hit me when I try to make music.
I love business - technology needs to be leveraged.
I dream of someone who will be my Lesley (Bridge Across Forever).
I hate voilence and I love WW2 movies.
A healthy body is very important for a healthy mind; I enjoy running.
Fun is my way of looking at life, seriousness is how I try approaching it.
I love home-cooked food and am going to become a vegetarian.
I love my motorcycle; I plan on getting it repaired.
My car is lying desolate in Bombay (yes, I prefer the romance of Bombay to the trains of Mumbai), I plan on getting it to Baroda.
I have a dream - and am searching for it.
My sister is the most beautiful person on the face of this earth.
Where have all my girlfriends gone?
I would love to go off on a month long vacation to the Himalayas, but do not have the time or the inclination for it.
There are good days and there are bad - I need to get the business off the ground.
I am very busy with very little time - yet I am here typing gibberish on my blog.
I used to love a beautiful girl - and then we disappeared from each other's lives.
I hate hypocrites - I change my perceptions as it suits me.
I used to be very lazy and then I started putting fight.
Never judge a book by its cover - but clothes maketh a man.
I love music; people hit me when I try to make music.
I love business - technology needs to be leveraged.
I dream of someone who will be my Lesley (Bridge Across Forever).
I hate voilence and I love WW2 movies.
A healthy body is very important for a healthy mind; I enjoy running.
Fun is my way of looking at life, seriousness is how I try approaching it.
I love home-cooked food and am going to become a vegetarian.
Monday, April 03, 2006
Voila Indie Cricket!
The one day team seems to be on a roll. Forget the tests, the team seems to believe in instant gratification. As an arm-chair cricket enthusiast My Re. 0.02 on the current state of the team.
1. Give Viru a rest - making him play will just destroy his confidence. He is flamboyant, let him go back to First Class cricket for a season. (I know, now that I have written this, Sehwag is going to make a big one in the next match. Simple Murphy's law)
2. Get Gambhir in. He should be playing a lot more. The boy is high on confidence.
3. Don't abuse Pathan. He is GOLD. But come on, let's not abuse him
4. Give Greg Chappel some classes in the Indian culture. India is very different from OZ. He needs to know that the birdie in India is not given a PG certificate. Keep mum and get on with your work, mate!
5. Have a national campaign along with Pulse Polio, for the masses. Let's not react to every duck. But well, this is religion and a dogma is a dogma is a dogma (sic!).
6. Get some better pitches. We love to win. Our pitches are good. All pitches should be like Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. The best way to train ourselves for the World Cup. Come on get some swing!
7. Get the top order in line. The pressure builds on Dravid every time the top order fails and the law of averages will soon catch up with him. We do not want that to happen during the World Cup, do we?
8. Let the stock markets boom. This is quite a bit a corollary to what I had learnt a while back. There has been a study that has linked the Dow average performance with the length of the hemline in fashion during that particular time. Could there be some kind of a statistical correlation between the Sensex and the fortunes of the Indian cricket team? Why risk it?
I guess, I could be a very good team manager. Well, nevertheless.
1. Give Viru a rest - making him play will just destroy his confidence. He is flamboyant, let him go back to First Class cricket for a season. (I know, now that I have written this, Sehwag is going to make a big one in the next match. Simple Murphy's law)
2. Get Gambhir in. He should be playing a lot more. The boy is high on confidence.
3. Don't abuse Pathan. He is GOLD. But come on, let's not abuse him
4. Give Greg Chappel some classes in the Indian culture. India is very different from OZ. He needs to know that the birdie in India is not given a PG certificate. Keep mum and get on with your work, mate!
5. Have a national campaign along with Pulse Polio, for the masses. Let's not react to every duck. But well, this is religion and a dogma is a dogma is a dogma (sic!).
6. Get some better pitches. We love to win. Our pitches are good. All pitches should be like Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. The best way to train ourselves for the World Cup. Come on get some swing!
7. Get the top order in line. The pressure builds on Dravid every time the top order fails and the law of averages will soon catch up with him. We do not want that to happen during the World Cup, do we?
8. Let the stock markets boom. This is quite a bit a corollary to what I had learnt a while back. There has been a study that has linked the Dow average performance with the length of the hemline in fashion during that particular time. Could there be some kind of a statistical correlation between the Sensex and the fortunes of the Indian cricket team? Why risk it?
I guess, I could be a very good team manager. Well, nevertheless.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Motorcycling (Actually!)
And what is good Phaedrus, is not what I am talking about here.
Spent the last half hour riding around on a 350cc Royal Enfield Bullet Machismo. Was that a completely different experience than riding my KB125 RTZ. Don't get me wrong. As mentioned in my review at Mouthshut, it still remains my first love.
The Bullet is a completely different piece of machinery. A motorcycle, not a Jap-Bike. It needs love and tender care to kick start and drive. No throttling to vroom your bike. The Bullet will just not take that from you and shut itself if you do that. It takes a lot to start a Bullet too! Not a normal kick-start. Decompress, observe the gauge, kick, nope Baby says push the kick start. He started the bike by pushing the kick lever with his hand!
The most beautiful part of the bike is once you get it onto the road. The regular thumping of the bike. Boy, does it just make one feel larger than life. What better a feeling for a narcisist like me. The bike just rolls with a regular thump.
I am going to buy a Machismo. Wait till the business kicks-off. Dad, I should have heeded your advise while buying the KB and bought a Bullet instead. Well guess, each bloke learns about the value of a Bullet at a certain time.
Spent the last half hour riding around on a 350cc Royal Enfield Bullet Machismo. Was that a completely different experience than riding my KB125 RTZ. Don't get me wrong. As mentioned in my review at Mouthshut, it still remains my first love.
The Bullet is a completely different piece of machinery. A motorcycle, not a Jap-Bike. It needs love and tender care to kick start and drive. No throttling to vroom your bike. The Bullet will just not take that from you and shut itself if you do that. It takes a lot to start a Bullet too! Not a normal kick-start. Decompress, observe the gauge, kick, nope Baby says push the kick start. He started the bike by pushing the kick lever with his hand!
The most beautiful part of the bike is once you get it onto the road. The regular thumping of the bike. Boy, does it just make one feel larger than life. What better a feeling for a narcisist like me. The bike just rolls with a regular thump.
I am going to buy a Machismo. Wait till the business kicks-off. Dad, I should have heeded your advise while buying the KB and bought a Bullet instead. Well guess, each bloke learns about the value of a Bullet at a certain time.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Passion and Obsession
Daily life these days more or less consists of getting up in the morning, playing squash for a while (while in Mumbai or jogging back home after work while in Baroda), strategising and deploying all the things that need to be deployed for Pyramid Tech. Seems to be fairly dreary but (un)fortunately, it cannot be more action packed, more fulfilling. Atleast over the last two weeks, hardly has there been a night when I have not patted myself for a day well spent (sic!).
Keeping one's focus towards a few objectives is hard, especially getting the grit and determination to go along thoughts and plans that one has worked out to be productive. A few moments with youngsters (yes, I say that!) who have a passion, who are obstinate and have never ending energy is like rekindling the flame. Spent probably an hour with a youngster, the Baby, atleast for the timebeing. An engineer by profession; analytical, passionate and creative by action. We were going through his portfolio of achievements the discussions meandered. And as usual, what did they meander towards - what are the things that inspire us, get us to do what we want to do.
He made me run through a quote from Meet Joe Black. The quote went - Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.
The quote is more in context of love between individuals, but isn't that what love with one's life, one's passion is about? Going ahead with what one is passionate about, irrespective of the dangers and obstacles. Does not mean one goes blindly into something, however, it is fairly important to go with what one's heart has to say, without probably thinking of the end-state or the nice world that makes us live in our comfort zone.
As Neo from the Matrix would have said, (and was the subject of a mail from yours truly to a friend yesterday) I am not here to tell you how it is going to end, I am here to tell you how it is going to begin....A world without boundaries, without rules, without controls. A world where anything is possible. Where you go from there I leave to you.
That's probably what passion is about, what love for one's life is all about. Probably thats the direction one needs in life. If you feel so passionately, go ahead, deliver once. What do you have to lose?
Good job, Baby.
Keeping one's focus towards a few objectives is hard, especially getting the grit and determination to go along thoughts and plans that one has worked out to be productive. A few moments with youngsters (yes, I say that!) who have a passion, who are obstinate and have never ending energy is like rekindling the flame. Spent probably an hour with a youngster, the Baby, atleast for the timebeing. An engineer by profession; analytical, passionate and creative by action. We were going through his portfolio of achievements the discussions meandered. And as usual, what did they meander towards - what are the things that inspire us, get us to do what we want to do.
He made me run through a quote from Meet Joe Black. The quote went - Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.
The quote is more in context of love between individuals, but isn't that what love with one's life, one's passion is about? Going ahead with what one is passionate about, irrespective of the dangers and obstacles. Does not mean one goes blindly into something, however, it is fairly important to go with what one's heart has to say, without probably thinking of the end-state or the nice world that makes us live in our comfort zone.
As Neo from the Matrix would have said, (and was the subject of a mail from yours truly to a friend yesterday) I am not here to tell you how it is going to end, I am here to tell you how it is going to begin....A world without boundaries, without rules, without controls. A world where anything is possible. Where you go from there I leave to you.
That's probably what passion is about, what love for one's life is all about. Probably thats the direction one needs in life. If you feel so passionately, go ahead, deliver once. What do you have to lose?
Good job, Baby.
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