The first now will later be last...

Spoke to an old friend this morning on the way to work and he said that he had started writing a blog - that reminded me that I had started one too...in the dim and distant past! A few quick searches and whoa! there I was ...back at RRM!!! And lo and behold, no one seemed to have missed me...that's the beauty of writing an annonymous blog....there's no pressure to write because no one is following you and so you can go at your own pace. Having said that, 1 post in 2 years is a trifle slow but then what's a couple of years in a lifetime...I think one realises that as one gets older (and wiser??? not so sure!) and has seen how careers meander and as Bob D put it brilliantly, 'the first one now will later be last'. Indians are crazy about their careers and career advancement...what work level is so and so at and which batch is he...it all evens out at the end...
Saw the Indian hockey team sweat to draw with the South Africans and it made me wonder how it has come to pass that we are getting beaten by nations that have absolutely no history of playing the sport. I think the problem is that we have a bunch of old foggies at the helm of hockey who haven't realised that the game has changed totally...it's all about speed, stamina and power (yeah, it's all about getting penalty corners and then getting one hulk to bash the ball in!)...Hero Honda can keep saying 'Phir se dil do hockey ko' but the fact is that no kids are playing hockey and it's a brand whose time has past...the times they are a changin'
This is the year to run the half marathon...I think if I don't do it this year, I'll never do it...be too old for it...tho' I know an ex-boss of mine who ran the London marathon at 48 and he was a guy who smoked like a chimney and looked like a guy for whom the very act of moving his arm to bring a cigee to his lips, was exercise enough! So it can be done...but I want to do the half in less than 2 hours....so have started running a couple of times a week and it's coming along nicely...ran 10km in 57 min last weekend which was great as a start, far better than I ever thought I could...
I like the idea of typing out thoughts without spending too much time moderating...the thought that no one is going to read it also helps;-) Nobody is judging be here...hopefully I'll be back soon, certainly not a 2 year hiatus this time...

Pinging off the walls of my head!

As the title suggests (and I am telling myself that I will stick to the philosophy), I am going to shoot from the hip and not spend time (waste time?) finding the perfect word to describe what is going on in my head. Feels good to start typing without any coherent thoughts. Stock market crash, starting my own company/business are the only things that occupy my thoughts right now. Is it a good time to buy (sensex at sub 13K)? I promised myself that I would buy aggressively when the market tanks and the experts are talking only doom and gloom, and forget about it for the next few years. But now when it does seem to me that we are close to that, I am thinking that maybe I can wait a bit - maybe there is another 10-15% downside on the price, but more importantly atleast another 12 months before prices go anywhere - and earn interest on my money in the meantime. The other side to this is that one cannot time it perfectly, so get in and chill out. Will you get a sensex of 20k in 3 years? A no-brainer. In 2 years? Well, maybe. So then, buy now and keep buying for the next 6 months and then chill out for the next couple of years. Maybe it is time to start a business. Jump in and go for it. The old job is coming along just fine but it's getting boring. The money is a number in a bank statement, nothing more. So what's the downside - go for it. Yeah, maybe you will make a fool of yourself but who gives a rat's ass for that. Who and what are you doing it for? To build something, to create a company and a business that you can be proud of? To do something different since the thought of working for someone else for the next 20 years seems ridiculous? But why leave this cushy job that is high profile, pays well and is not wildly high pressure? To do something that will keep you awake at night? You must be crazy. Well, yes, I must be crazy but I think this is the ideal time to give it a shot. Getting back to a job should be easy - atleast I think so right now! Let's see how it pans out but I am going to swing for the fences here.