Whats the hitch with getting hitched - Part II

Read on, if you arent already braindead after Part I

Lets try and analyze what the possible answers are:

Am i gay ? No, definitely not.

Am i one of these bengali-type-dhaadi/johlna bag/kurta type bachelor types ? Hell no

Any other unspeakable problem that prevents me ?  No

Girlfriend/Serious kasamusa (as IS puts it charmingly) ? Nope. (Unless one counts Fa's proposal in Feb. Fa, of course was joking and in any case has a boyfriend, a 10 year old boy and an Ex-Husband. Zeenat has a bloodpressure problem i have to reckon with!)

The answer isnt objective. It is a mixture of reasons.

The most obvious reason is that all this is much too early for me and it makes me extremely uncomfortable. At work or with social contacts i work with a strict system - when i am cornered / feel uncomfortable. I instinctively know that it wont work for me and remove it from my regular thought process bank - stop talking to people / answering calls / replying to emails - with a silly, fiercely wonkish resolve.

I mean, the subject was first broached 3/4 months before and it cant get too serious all too sudden - a guy needs sometime to figure out internally where he stands. No ?

For someone already in love with X or Y - getting hitched is something to look forward to - formalize the association, living together etc. For me, so far, its something that i havent given thought about. And in my opinion while i am still feeling 'insecure' at work ( I still am, Majorly in terms of many things) this might just prove to much too much of a thing to grapple with.

While it probably is something that eventually is going to happen - i certainly am NOT looking forward to it - atleast now - if you get what i mean. 

There are other minor issues - while my parents have enough money to not to let it be a consideration - i still would prefer to be on a much stronger wicket in terms of personal finances (There is my theory where one fixed deposit paying 40,000 a month in interest put in place as a trust fund BEFORE theres some1 dependent. The trustfund fully created from my own capital. Not Marlon Brando's)

I mean, why cant there be an option where i can choose to remain unmarried as long as i like - hoping to eventually develop a level of maturity adequate enough to actually be able to cultivate relationships, friendships over a larger selection of the female population - and possibly identify a good fit, i mean, um, chemistry wise. This, i guess, is the western system. 

[ ** Off track: The key argument against the above theory is that in the Indian market - the number of available, eligible females drops drastically (not unlike the extremes of a bell/Normal distribution curve) - after the 25/26 age bracket. 

So while i would have spurned the chance of actually getting into a satisfying, more or less stable (if not entirely 110% as dreamy as one wud av wanted it) long term asscociation - i will end up as an older wreck, no better equipped to land a 10/10 girlfriend than i am now - but with an alarmingly diminished set of available females to attempt to patafy by myself - and leave zeenat with this nearly hopeless, heartbreaking assignment.

This is probably the reason why Indians get hitched so fast - older means smaller market - so ones better off going with the guaranteed common minimum programme ]

Anyone just getting started on a career or is still working some 6 year PhD has all the reasons to keep their respective parents from nagging them - but in slightly special positions like how i am in - parents come after you with the proverbial pitchforks & torches - on a near daily basis - especially if they are the paavum, nice, orthodoxy kind. Cant blame them really. For eg. I am sure that all the above bullcrap will seem like a joke to them - hardly any reason to continue procrastinating. 

And thusly ends my tedious discourse on this subject. 

And with today's freakshow from breakfast, the onus shifts back to me - to prove how that the 1 year or so breathing space ive insisted on will condition me to face the ordeal better. 

If only i had been a more gregarious, less obnoxious, less sarcastic - normal kind of guy - i wud av had more friends, experiences to help me form a better perspective about these things.

*sigh* 

Whats the hitch with getting hitched - Part I

Disclaimer: This long and boring piece is in 2 parts. Might be pulled off tomorrow if it does not read well in the morning.

Earlier today -when i came back from gym - and thinking about brunch on the beanbag in front of TV - i was sternly told by - a rather determined looking -Zeenat to come down and eat at the table. Sensing that she was in one of her moods - i meekly ( and wisely) came down and started on the food. 

With me safely trapped at the table - marlon brando was woken up from his sunday morning shuteye session and was strategically positioned to cover her - with a tumbler of tea to keep him awake. 

With the reinforcements in order - she perched herself on a chair adjacent to mine - and started on her standard soliliquy ('serious talk') about getting me married. 

The usual speech runs in the following sequence:

a) The Intro: Lecture on the merits of treating me 'fairly' and having such 'serious talks' to discuss the affair. The idea of the intro is to sort of provide assurance that they always will listen to my side of the argument. 

b) Opening arguments: Essentially a lot of questions which are counter arguments to my standard list of top reasons why i dont want to get married now.

Rules: You are thrown a series of questions. You arent allowed to talk until specifically asked to.

Why do i think that i am too young to get married ? 

Why do i feel insecure (hmm, when did i tell her that?) ? 

When do i think we should get started ? 

Why do i feel that iam not settled at work ?

Do i actually intend to get married before i become 'too old' and cause a family scandal ?

etc. etc

The contents are fairly routine and do not really amuse me anymore. The idea is to soften you up for round 3 & 4.

c) Round 3: Specifications - Before i open my mouth - i am asked to give her a set of specifications for the ideal type of girl that i want them to look for me. Working ? Degree ? Location ? - again - i am normally not allowed to answer. Question after question flys around.

I will then be presented with the master list of parameters that Zeenat has defined. Good family. Good family. Not too old. Good family. Preferrably just completed studies (a.ka. not working). Good family (i dunno, this gets repeated several times) 

Before concluding - choicest of tambrahm epithets are thrown at IT companies - and such 'IT type girls & especially their parents who want 'US settled' or '5 figured salaried' boys and sneeze loudly when 'Madurai' is mentioned. 

d) Closing comments: Parts (a), (b), (c) are of course fairly routine, predictable and easy enough to evade. Part d - normally forms the crux / exact agenda of setting up the meeting. She usually launches into some brief about X or Y guy or his sammandhi's sister in law's cousin's 

'very nice daughter'   'very nice family' and so on - i mean, im sure one gets the idea.

Okay - this Sunday's part (d) was special in many ways. Zeenat looked sterner than usual - did not laugh at any of my attempts at jokes and was clutching this big envelope tightly - whilst throwing Marlon brando nervous glances. 

Eventually after getting through parts a,b and c - she did something that she hasnt done with me ever before - without warning she proceeded to extract papers from the dreaded envelope - and held them up under my nose - first, a profile of a particular female ** and then a series of photographs of this paavum girl ***

(**Interestingly, It read almost like a resume, with % of marks scored in HSC, list of hobbies etc. formatted out neatly in the word processor. I was sorely tempted to actually look more thoroughly into some of the details for amusement - i darent - for letting Zeenat misinterpret my interest) 

(*** It was almost professionally made - first in casual/daily wear, then in some kind of expensive looking sari and then in some harmless looking kurta type (western wear - i guess for zeenat's benefit). Quite frankly, the girl wasnt bad looking. Isnt her fault to send up getting featured here ) 

i was told to give my 'ok' or 'reasons for Not OK' then and there 

(all while my mouth was stuffed with Dosai & the divine Keerai Molagootal thats Zeenat's specialty) 

I closed the matter out by stuffing the last bit of dosai into my mouth and walking out - telling her, as sternly as possible, that she must play by the rules we had agreed upon earlier and not to discuss such things - in any level of seriousness - until after a year or so. 

While this normally puts her off for a few days - with minor grumbling of course - today - she promptly & rather hotly told Marlon Brando that i am the most confused, useless and disobedient boy in the world and that she wont waste another minute of effort trying to bring me in line. MB later told me that Zeenat burst into tears after i left and he expects me to 'fall in line' (his EXACT words) and not give her any more pressure or trouble.

The issue to be highlighted from the above, rather boring, narrative is that while in the past, most of such marriage related talk was mostly horsing around of some sort - Now - both the old man & Z think that i am old, the time is more than ripe to get me hitched and that i am showing signs of being 'difficult'.

The problem for kids who live with parents, are attached to them, even work with them is that - there some times like these - where you dont think like they do - and they dont think like you do - and from their perspective - they cant see one sane reason that why i dont agree to discuss the 'getting quickly hitched' issue.

So at last, we arrive at the key question to be answered : Whats the hitch with getting hitched ? 

Read on in Part II 

Of logic defying dalali & larger truths

Came back early from work today, skipped Gym too. Staring at the screen, nearly braindead - and will probably go back to this

I always thought that Gladwell was a bit of psycho - his columns on the New Yorker were always long winded, majorly wonkish and almost always making 10 screen long cases out of 1 page long issues. 

Well, as a slightly detailed read of the first few chapters of Blink tells that i probably lack the patience, sophistication to deal with such work - let alone appreciate Gladwell. 

So apologies are due, i guess.

Ok, other things:

I am sure every1's been reading the papers - the UPA won big (inspite of my abstinence) and the markets vaulted 15/17% on Monday. Held on to those gains yesterday and today.

Yesterday and today all the action has been in the Non-Index stocks - catching up to the index ones - running up % gains that defy any kind of logic and are historically unprecedented. (The % movement per day)

Did you know that from 15 March 2009 - till date today - 20 May 2009 - (2 months +/-) my stock portfolio returned an amazing 65.04% . Thats an annualized return of 390%. 

I mean, wow!

Now getting back on track - point is - while i was of course confident of the general direction etc. the magnitude of the move is clearly logic defying.  TV experts however have been cooking up justification, rationale to justify such a move, then the actual market holding up etc. 

The whole episode leads one back to the theory that every vocation i seem to involved in appears to be arbit - i mean for all the thought, emailing back and forth, phone calls and newspaper subscriptions taken out - a colourblind monkey could have picked 20 random 'A group' stocks and still would have ended up with a 30-40% gain. Why - just plain blindly buying just the index would have taken me about 50% higher - i only managed a 15% outperformance.

As the old man said, when i gave him these figures - "Hmpf! Lottery ticket" - then went on to his usual lecture about 'how it is hard to find young people to do physical work (as in factory, manufacturing) and how people seem to be gravitating towards 'kaathulaiyum, computerlaiyum panra velai '

But it still does give one some satisfaction - when the actual knowledge of each stock's numbers gives you the confidence to decide on levels, confidently commit larger money into each position and finally still end up outperforming the market, even in such logic-defying circumstances.

For eg. the index has been quiet yesterday and today - but ive made close to 8% - in fact most positions still look as if they have siginificant steam left - more outperformance will depend on how i move my positions around - pull money out of index sensitives - play the momentum and so on...

While there is every reason for me to feel good - i feel like a bit of joker because i still cant figure out if i just was lucky to get caught with the market or was rewarded for what work id done up. 

I guess im just a grumpy greedy b$%$%#d who does not know to have fun!

Makeover

The blog is a fucken mess. To add fuel to this already roaring fire - i ve also imported the old blog and merged it into this one.

The end result, to me, looks like Muttaiah Muralitharan attempting a reverse sweep (or vijaykant romancing asin on screen). im sure you get the idea. 

Cant quite put the finger on whats wrong - the template or font or color or just my browser ! 

I like one thing though - the spacing between lines of text looks best with this template - so im going to keep it for a bit. 

Onto other things : 

I appeared to have called the elections right. But havent put my money (well, ALL of it atleast) where my mouth was - i took out 10% of my portfolio on Friday - now it looks like Monday will be a 5-6% gap up. I'l just do my regular thing - sit, refresh 10 times a second and bitch about it for a week. 

The TV journos are having a field day - election results, Singh is kinng, LTTE surrendering / prabakaran killed !? - My favorite TV Journo - Arnab is flipping his nuts live. 

I just love him, really do. Asshole.

Before i go back to make sense of all the stimulus thats flying around - heres the unlikely winner of my own 'song of the month' contest :

 

Update

Start     1170
End              1393
Out                397
In                    52
Difference    568

While the above crap looks like an impressive show - im not all that impressed. Sintex industries slightly more than doubled since then and the genius in me decided out to cash out at 30% and switch to something which is up a pathetic 6%. 

(Moral - If youre too lazy to do a balance sheet analysis : You will pay the price and get kicked up your arse. You will get in - you wont know where / when to get out. You will NEVER - EVER - ride a multibagger. EVER) 

I am slightly heartened by all the political news coming on TV - once the votes are in the bag - all the regulars have started talking about switching alliances and similar political jokery - meaning that the chances of a third front in power (Imagine the effect of Prakash karat or Mayawati as PM on capital markets) or even the abominable advaniji as PM appears fairly lowish. 

Iam hoping that there is a lot of drama next week and the market crashes (to get back in of course). 

Fingers crossed

Oleochemicals

Am doing a project report on some of this. Loads of fun it is - making up majorly glorious projects, market analysis and the likes - theres the odd hitch or two with depression when actually working out commercial nitty-gritty

Ive slept all afternoon - not feeling one bit guilty about abstaining from the vote (cudnt travel back and forth just to vote) - have put out half a dozen fires from the morning, feeling much better.

To quote C - Sleeping in the afternoon is the next best thing to watching this - an hour or two of it totally changes ones perspective on oneself's life :x

A raging fire in brazil now becons - it will turn into a major shitstorm if not put out today. *wish me luck*

*Ding*

Just hung up the phone after a 20 minute heart to heart with a pakistani customer.

These pakistani guys have this way with their words - 15 mins of an avuncular, mildly rebuky hindi lecture from a favorite customer you spent many a wee hour at night to develop - and I have tears in my eyes. I really have. 

He had been trying to reach me for the last 3 days - i did not send replies to his emails, quoted him a wrong price last night and did not of course answer my mobile when he called because i was in and out of coating division visits (which is another sob story in itself) all of the days.

He thought i wasnt well or was pissed off with him or just preoccupied with something terribly urgent and life threatening. 

It took me a full 15 minutes to mollify him - 'bhai jaan' him and complete his work - which normally takes only 10 minutes of concentration  - which id successfully procrastinated for 4 days.

Trouble is - hes not an isolated case- there are equally pissed off brazilians, syrians, colombians, egyptians, iranians and i guess the girl or two from Uruguay & Chile - who are normally used to my style of work suddenly find that theyve lost a normally bubbly, quick and resourceful friend.

I am drifting - im irritable, pissed off and brooding all day. A little tired too. 

Maybe i should quit going to the gym - i prefer being a fat,well liked, productive guy - than being a thinner, procrastinating, excuse-providing asshole. 

Am Suddenly feeling alone, miserable and stupid. 

Update:

I just wikified procrastination. The first few paragraphs hit you like a kick in the balls. 

Procrastination is a behavior which is characterized by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite procrastination as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.

Psychology researchers also have three criteria they use to categorize procrastination. For a behavior to be classified as procrastination, it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.

For an individual, procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt, the loss of personal productivity, the creation of crisis and the disapproval of others for not fulfilling one's responsibilities or commitments. These combined feelings can promote further procrastination. 

While it is normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological or physiological disorder.

Of Tomato processing, Rotis and Joomla

Ive been at it again, the cookery that is. 

First some boring background gyaan:

Earlier - went to visit the website guys - i was shown a layout for sooper deployment of Joomla for first marketing & then eventually internal document management - if i were a self employed/salaried techie - open Source CMS is what id be doing during free time. Trust me, it blows your mind off. Its free and runs out of one's browser and is getting more and more powerful by the day.

Lunch at the old dhaba express buffet - they have hiked the charge for the all-you-can eat-veg-buffet - from 55 to 80 - cant remember the last time i went to lunch there - the famous thaiyir saadam was still present - cool, sticky - im guessing - made with  last night's left over rice :x

[*After posting, i realized that i wrote 'buffett' in place of 'buffet'. heh. Changed now :x]

I shared a table with about 10 first years from CEG hostel - all chatting away about Cups, girls, mobiles, Chennai superkings & Engg Mechanics - i still remember that we went to lunch there almost every sunday back when we were kids from the Hostel too. 

I walked back - at 2 pm - in the sweltering heat - dont ever walk to places more than 10/15 mins away when in madras especially - in the afternoon. DONT. EVER. 

Ok - lets cut to the chase now. 

How to make & eat Tomato gravy in 20 mins. 

Take 2 teaspoons of oil in a sort of a pan and heat.

Add, like, 4-5 spoons of uluthamparupu (Bengal gram?), 2-3 spoons of mustard (I did not, wasnt availabe at home) and, um, like, saute until they are nicely sizzling.

Add 2 teaspoons of turmeric powder to the sizzle, a pinch or two of salt. 

** Cut up 2 green chillies lengthwise (Not in omlette type small pieces) add to the sizzle.

Bring down the stove so that the pan nicely simmers and stir stir for a bit until all the stuff gives off a nice smell.

Take 4 or 5 nice tomatoes (Even slightly sour ones will do), hold each of them over the pan along with a knife (to make sure that water in the tomatoes does not spill out needlessly), cut them into large pieces, tip them into the pan. 

Stir well - manually try to masticate / beat any of the larger pieces of tomato into pulp - with the spoon - the idea is to make sure that the juice from the tomatoes seeps out nicely and becomes the cooking medium in the pan.

Remember - we havent added external water at all - all of it is from the the tomatoes.

Sprinkle salt and tear up like a handful of coriander leaves - and add to the pan - stir stir for 5/10 minutes or so - and voila - a nice - Tomato Gravy is ready. 

(Cant call it puree i guess, Gravy is the closet word i can think of!)

** - the chillies are a critical step. If you put in 1 or 2 more - it can screw up the entire thing by making it extremely hot. Be warned.

This is tomato gravy - the shelf life of this preparation is normally not more than 7-8 hours i guess. 

We can make a sort of a PICKLE - with a shelf life of like 3/4 days (with a fridge) with the following improvisations: 

- Mash up the tomatoes in a mixer - strain them to remove atleast half the moisture - BEFORE Adding to the pan

- Make up the loss of cooking medium with OIL - The amount of oil in the formulation is directly proportional to its shelf life - Inversely proportional to its taste - and i guess oil makes it unhealthy.

- A product with even longer shelf life can be made by adding about 30% onion / garlic paste, mashing up the entire mass in a mixer (The chillies and all) - BEFORE the actually hot work with the pan.

I actually made this gravy and about 4 rotis (from basic materials - flour, water and all) in just over 25 minutes - and i guess it is a fairly useful recipe to use to make good, wholesome, tasty khana for 1 or 2 people pretty damn quick.

I am still struggling to get a proper measure of quantities - for eg. i ve ended up making enough gravy for 2 meals - so half of it is now in the fridge to check for expiry tomorrow and consume if all is well. I also ended up making enough atta to roll out 10 rotis - im making all of them - and put them in the fridge - heat them tomorrow. 

One generally unrelated observation 

- it is MUCH easier living with your parents when youre on a diet / losing weight / seriously excercising etc. - stinking gym clothes to be washed daily - watching what one eats - self cooking leads to over producing (improper control over batch sizes due to lack of adequate practice) and which inturn sometimes leads to overeating and so on...

Lets see, i appear to be on course to make my old man poorer by 10,00,000 on 31 August 2009 - but the rate of weight loss appears to decrease with more weight loss - for eg. i lost my first 5 kilos in like 30 workouts - and the next 20 have just about taken out like 1.5 kilos - will revisit strategy after another fortnight i guess.

Textile wonkery

Disclaimer: Dont tell me that i did not warn you. This is a WTF post actually started sitting at work. This IS work actually. I hope that the lack of time to write about generally nonsensical things will probably drive me to actually write more and more,um, useful things.

A thing or two about Textile processing in the Indian market's context:

General flow: 

Fiber (raw cotton) -I-> Yarn (thread) -II-> Fabric (woven stuff) -III-> Garment (stitched stuff)

I - the old fashioned 'mill owner type work' buy big bales of cotton and spin them into yarns :x - labor intensive - big establishments needed, dunno how it works in tamilnadu - lugging cotton all the way from other parts from India. The end product of mills is grey yarn.The grey yarn is procured by others and 'dyed' to give 'dyed yarn' 

II - yarn to fabric - umpteen units function in this segment - they convert one kind / mutliple of yarns into clothing material - kind of like taking black thread and making a roll of black cloth - if u get the picture. There are a million variations in this process - all kinds of names for different weaving techniques and so on.

III  - Fabrics to garment is of course the business of converting colored rolls of cloth into shirts, trousers and underpants by stitching. 

** Grey means 'undyed'/'unprocessed,um, in terms of chemical treatment'

1) Natural fiber based

i) Cotton

        1. Cotton fiber -> Fiber dyeing (niche)

        2. Grey yarn -> Yarn dyeing (Major volume)

        3. Grey fabric -> Fabric dyeing (Major volume)

        4. Garment -> Garment dyeing (Almost unheard of in terms of volume)   

So cotton processing essentially needs just two systems to be standardized - (2) and (3) - yarn dyeing and garment dyeing. Probably needs just about 5 or 6 chemicals per system - leaving of course the dyes alone. Needless to say, big market in South India.

ii) Silk  -  There is a lot of Yarn dyeing (Silk yarn that is) - little fabric dyeing - most of the silk is processed (colored) as thread and then woven - for eg. into sarees and the likes. Silk garments are nearly always made by dyed yarn  - Rarely does one see grey silk made into fabric to then getting dyed. There are one thousand quirks in the art of silk dyeing, special dyes need to be developed and so on. Volume vis-a-vis cotton is pretty small.

iii) Wool - Smallish market in the south. Mediumish market in the North - Some fiber dyeing - most business remains in Yarn dyeing - and then wet processing, feel modifying of the spun fabric - theres a lot of fancy fabric manufacture - knitting etc. - the chemicals needed are slightly different. Again 2 systems needed for Yarn dyeing & Fabric dyeing - the formulations will remain identical - but minor tweaking needed. Overall volume / clientele is not too exciting to work up a sweat initially.

2) Synthetic fibers

Polyester , Polycotton (Cotton synthetic blends), Polyviscose (Rayon etc.), Exotic ones.

These are chemically made stuff - directly extruded into fibers - the end product is like rolls of thread - synthetically made - the fun part is that they can be blended together with each other DURING extrusion (some cases) - or they can be ROLLED together with a certain proportion of cotton t0 provide a sort of a balance in properties. They are even sold as 'colored threads' made directly with a color - no need to be dyed.

Polyester remains the largest segment - big in ludhiana - growing in the south - Polyester yarn dyeing and polyester fabric dyeing need nicely tuned systems - the mechanism of dye fixing on them is different from the process involving cotton for eg. - so this system is something that needs a different portfolio of products.

A nicely balanced, client focussed portfolio with good surfactants / wetting / degreasing, soaping, stabilizing agents, levelling agents, fixing agents and surface feel modifiers - a portfolio totalling not more than 15 products ought to do the trick. 

We appear to have close to 40 - the old man only smirks if queried. Theres is this new testing machine in the plant which churns out rolls of processed yarn day in day out validating customer formulations vs ours and so on - measuring everything from fastness to water uptake.

The guy in the lab tried to jargonbomb his way out of my queries - but the poor bugger isnt aware that ive been through this with hazaar times more nutty stuff like leather processing where they maintain local sets of jargon in every possible language - punjabi, tamil, urdu, arabic, chinese, thai and what not.

Any specialty / application oriented chemical business is best approached by breaking it down into simple operations. So the nextime someone says PE, PC or PV - you know that hes just jargonbombing you to keep you from questioning his body of knowledge on the subject / to make sure that you treat him as an expert. 

Continuing with the rant from earlier posts, i think the luckiest bloke in the world is someone who is a Cotton/PE/PC/PV processing wonk and hasnt even heard of Megan Fox or Intrinsic value estimation by Graham/Dodd/Buffett first principles. 

So, we end with more gyaan thusly -  "pick your designated area - become a wonk and stay as one forever"

[P.s Please do not leave comments containing swearwords or cast unwarranted aspersions on my character based on the contents of just one or two posts made when seriously  stressed. :x ]

F*$#ing blogger. Screws up font formatting like this. Its behaving like quite an ass on Chrome, dunno why.

More gyaan

If you know that a Stream of work you are involved on a day to day basis is a total useless thing to do, i mean TOTAL - no current profitability, no future prospects (i mean, at least as your imagination sees it) - should you just pick up your phone and tell your boss and move on with the long list of other jobs you have to do ?

Questions to raise before that:

a) Maybe i lack vision ?

b) Maybe i am not working hard enough ?

All the same, theres an ego and about 50 grand a month in overhead riding on the phonecall 

- i HATE firing people / getting people fired - 

- But if you look at the scenario as one where you are bleeding cash in Lacs per month, paying a couple of blokes 50 grand a month to do it - theres only one answer. No?

Gyaan for all my blog's faithful followers* 

(*Ha! laugh today ye asses, ye will all regret it for sure, for i shall one day run a blog as popular as Da Real ShaQq is on Twitter. $#%&!) 

-> NEVER get into management, atleast when youre too young. Even if your father owns the company and pushes you in.

-> Look for a job where some guy on top tells you what to do and someguys below you in the pecking order present their arses once in a while to get gently kicked and massage your ego. Even if it doesnt pay much nor is any fun. Look for such a niche, settle down - tear up promotion appraisal forms or use them to practice coloring with crayons - find a girlfriend who looks like Megan fox - and be content to stay with the job. 

-> If forced to work in the HR field, for pete's sake work for the HIRING department, even if you just push papers and lick arses all day. Do NOT become a managerial type in the HR field even if they offer you double money and 2 dozen vestal virgins as compensation - you have to FIRE people then. It is not a happy situation to be in. 

Goddamn! the heat must be getting to me. 

Gyaan

Here is something that i suddenly realized earlier today whilst working out of my usual spot in the plant 

- Being successful at work, especially the kind of work that i aspire to be doing (As in growing X into 10X in 5 years etc.) has actually NOTHING to do with talent or knowing stuff. 

Such success* in life is = 95% repetitive, persistent, chutiya kaam + 5% gyaan, funda, dreams, imagination etc. a.ka. hifi kaam.

[*I am not saying here that success = Happiness, satisfaction etc. - just plain vanilla success - your outfit grows bigger, u make more $$$, u have more $$$$ to do new things and so on.]

So, one might argue - this kind of indicates that chutiyas will be more successful, rich - while the smarter blokes will be failures. 

Well, the above argument clearly explains why many smart people, class toppers, junta with IQs above 150 are sometimes failures. Doesnt it ?

The ideal person - should be smart enough to buckle down and get all 95% chutiya kaam done properly - so that he/she gets a platform to show what he/she is made of - when doing the 5% hifi Kaam and obtain a proportionately higher output in terms of success in the end.

Scenario A: 100 units of chutiya kaam = 100 units of success  

Scenario B: 95 units of chutiya kaam + 5 units of hifi kaam = 200 units of success.

Scenario B in more detail:

Level1: 95 units of chutiya kaam (level1) opens level 2 gates - 

Level 2:  5 units of hifi kaam 

Successful completion of Level 2 = 100 units of success, The princess, 2 or 3 bonus levels etc., which wud total to another 100 units (Im talking like super mario here, if you get the idea)

Holy f$## what have i become ? :x