One more year added to my Life……..

Yes…. 1 more yr is added to my life……suddenly its looks like all my “masti” is gone…something from my life need is disappeared… I feel now a bit sophisticated...a person who needs to think of his career…. Need to think what has to be the next step towards my life… needs to look after my parents…. Suddenly all the thoughts are coming to my mind…… what has happened to me… it looks like now I am big enough to think all these things…..

Well it was midnight and cell phone started ringing while I was fast asleep…my friends were wishing me “Happy Birthday”. They were singing songs for me… this was the first time of my life when I was asleep on my birthday night…

I started my day with getting up up at 5:00Am--- I know it’s too early to get up…. Well I went to our temple “Jain Derasar”. Offered Puja and yes I was all ready to go to my Office “Netscribes”. I took my 7.27Am regular train from Dombivli and I was happy all the way.. It was my Day.. I could feel that… I was smiling all the time… it was a different feeling which came from within… No pains…no difficulties… no thoughts… All that was there ….happiness and it’s My Day…..

I got calls from all my friends whom I didn’t even expect… got scraps on Facebook and Orkut…. And it was all happy moment for me… still smilling…. As it was evening… I had a bday celebration at the office where my friends and colleagues were ready to smear my face with the cake…. And yes it was done so well that after washing my face, it was all shinning….I left from my office at 5.30pm for my home… I reached home by 7.15pm. there was something special for the dinner…I had my dinner with my parents and then it was fun time…..i met all of my building friends and just chilled and till 11:00pm we all went to have ice Cream… it was all fun…. I enjoyed like having done all the masti… and by the time it was nearing 12 midnight … I still received a call for birthday wishes… its was just a awesome feeling….

One thing which now makes me fear is that all my age to do masti is gone.. Need to seriously think on making my career… not that I never thought before… but the time is running… I wish to god to let me go back to my age of 18-23… let me be there and enjoy the life…. Let me be more “BINDAS”…..let me smash icecream on my friends face… let me put the ice in the T-Shirts of my friends and let me tease the gals…allow me to tie their duppata on the back side of the bench… let me throw paper balls on them and let me have more fun…let me flirt with them…..last week I met few of my very old friends and had wonderful time at Bandra Banstand… we all were dying to get in the pic… then at CCD and then having those Golgappas and finally Sizzlers…. I would have been the happiest person if god would have given my age back and send me back to my age of college and may be till the age of 23 yrs…

But now it’s the reality and time can never be back. I need to accept that. I need to be more focused….more understanding….yes since I am aware of it… I am ready to face it… but 1 wish I would always have in my life… If I had a Time machine and an option to go back.. I would like to live from 18 to23 yrs… every moment of masti….the fights…….. the anger.. the crush…. The flirt… the affections… I would again like to be in the most Notorious period of my life…

…………….A Message To God

Mumbai Meri Jaan ---- A movie dedicated to Mumbai Bomb Blast in the year 2006

A movie based on the daily life or may be day to day lifestyle of a middle class mumbikar and hats off to the director, producer and the all the Artist in the movie for connecting it to a middle class person and reflecting the aftermaths of Bomb blast.

I remember that day when I was working at Andheri west and just before the Bomb blast went off, we were leaving the office and it was 6.30pm. I had just switched off my PC and one of my colleague got a call from their home about the Bomb Blast at the station. We again started the PC’s and logged on to internet about the news… the number of bombs spots increased as we were refreshing the pages of the internet. We decided to stay in the office for the time being and then somehow I thought I need to reach the Andheri east station so that I can take a bus from there and reach Ghatkopar station and subsequently can take a central railway train and reach Dombivli. Also they had jammed the mobile services so I couldn’t call at home and let them know about me being safe. But then somehow I could call my neighbour’s landline and asked them to inform at my home that I am safe and will be reaching in 2 hrs time.

While I reached Ghatkopar station, there were few injured people who had sustained some minor injuries. There clothes were red in colour(blood - bathed). I some how thought of offering them water which I was carrying but couldn’t gather that much strength to ask them. One of them had injuries on hands and fingers. The blood was slowly dripping and they were trying hard to stop them. I cried and was helpless and was thinking what will be the reaction of his family members. I am sure he wouldn’t have worked for atleast a period of 15-20days. What if there injury would have been a permanent disability? What will be the life of that person? What if he’s the only earning member of that family?......
All these questions started in my mind and tears were running from my eyes and I tried to call my friends or family but since the phone lines were jammed, I was all by myself. I was nervous….my hands were cold. I couldn’t move myself and I was just crying. I was thinking about them. They got down at Mulund station. I kept on looking at them till i can see them.

When I reached home it was almost 10pm in the night. I couldn’t speak to my parents about this incident and I rushed to refresh and started crying again. I was thinking what is the life for some one who has lost someone in this blast or may be for those who have got any permanent disability, it is more difficult to sustain. The faces of injured people ran in mind and I could only see them.

Till date I haven’t spoken to anyone about what I had seen and still my eyes get wet when I think about the incident. I can’t forget this incident in my whole life. But today when i watched this movie, it thought of sharing this incident.

Even before this incident had happened, I had heard a bomb blast which had happened in a Bus near Ghatkopar station. The train in which I was travelling had just left the ghatkopar station. My train jumped in the air for a second and banged on the track. The driver didn’t stop the train. We could see some fire and smoke coming from that area, but since the train had got into the speed. We just left and then few people got a call from their friends and relatives telling them about the mishap. During that time I couldn’t understand anything and was just thinking of reaching home. My sister was in the next train and her train was stopped for quite a long time at ghatkopar station. She reached home quite late and started crying and hugged mom tightly. She caught hold of mom tightly for about 10mins and couldn’t speak. She saw the injured people who were blood bathed at that time.

While I was watching this movie, my eyes were filled with tears and couldn’t stop them. My hands were shivering. I could imagine the state of terror which they must have gone through and I saw the way people who helped carrying the injured people. I saw those blood bathed clothes and their hands helping for the better cause. Truly it’s the spirit of people that have kept Mumbai coming over such incidents again and again. This is what Mumbai is…and that’s the way life is carried. Even today while getting into the train, if these things come in my mind by any chance, I don’t board the train as I lose confidence.

But yes, I have got that much strength to offer water to an injured person. Or for that matter I can help people in such incidents. But I pray to god that these incidents shouldn’t occur as it takes away some lives of people.

I would request all to see this movie and pay a tribute to all those who have lost someone and pray to god for those who have survived that incident and bless all the people who somehow helped these people.

Netscribes opens Pune centre....

Another milestone achieved in consulting space by Netscribes as it opens another office in Pune on 23^rd July 2008. It’s the 3^rd centre after the successful start of Kolkata centre a year back. The new centre will function as a high-end outsourcing hub for global clients in the areas of financial and business consulting, research & analytics, corporate intelligence and content management.

Netscribes is moving from services to knowledge consulting space to keep pace with the changing market dynamics and definitely looking at some new areas of opportunities. We see lot of companies moving from one country to another, moving from one business line to another and the changing global and business needs leaves a lot of opportunities for companies like Netscribes to provide them with necessary inputs and the best of the solutions.

With ever increasing competition and to keep the pace of growth, Pune as a location is a great boon. With its closeness to Mumbai and availability of large pool of highly experienced and technical people, it leads to diversity in unity and lots of different methodologies to be implemented in the process.

So keep watching for more in this space!!!

Oil Rises ? Is it fair

We all are talking about one thing that is going to concern to every economy on this earth. Energy demand is surging as strong growth in developing economies balances slower demand in the West.

Reasons for rise:
Ø Oil provides about 40 percent of the world's primary energy, according to OPEC, the exporter's cartel. OPEC is not ready to increase the production of crude (oil).
Ø Oil is traded in commodities which also is one of the reasons for rise in price.
Ø Due to on going motor season in US and presidential elections in US next yr and Olympics in China next yr, both these countries will have high requirement of Oil. They will try to fulfill their own demands. So again oil prices are all set to rise.
Ø Developing countries like china, India are trying to grow at 8% - 9%, so again their energy demands are to be met.

Why such a step by Indonesia?
Indonesia is pulling out of OPEC as it is no longer a net oil exporter, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources said on 28 May. The country of 235 million people is Southeast Asia’s only member of OPEC. But it has had to import oil because of decades of declining investment in exploration and extraction due to corruption and a weak legal system, which make oil companies wary of doing business in the country.

Where is India?
India has a refining capacity of 149 million tonnes per annum of crude.
Today IOC is talking about rationing of Petrol which will mean that according to the individual petrol pump sales, they will be provided the oil. Ultimately it will lead to shortage of oil in the market.
Example: IOC has a 40.4% share of the business. IOC is currently losing Rs300 crore a day because it sells petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG at a loss of Rs16.33 per litre, Rs23.49 per litre, Rs28.72 per litre and Rs305.90 per cylinder, respectively. Crude oil prices have more than doubled from a year ago and hit a record $135.09 (Rs5,836) a barrel on 21 May.

Solutions
Ø The only alternatives are to let the price rise according to the international markets and accordingly provide the subsidies.
Ø Also one option can be to form a cartel of importers so as to bargain with the OPEC and prices can be restored.
Ø Oil trading on commodities should be banned.
Ø India as a developing economy should consider other ways of meeting Energy Demands. Nuclear energy is one of the options that India must look at.
Ø Also since Elections are also due in India the current government is not taking any chances or risk by raising prices. The issue is more political in nature.

Anyways we need to be ready to have a price hike by atleast Rs 5/- on petrol.