Vishy wins the chess world championship

Vishwanatahan Anand (it think Vishy is better...:) ) won the world championship beating Valdmir Kramnik this week....an awesome achievement considering he won it in a sport which does not have the financial muscle and physical backing as cricket has in India.

Vishy has won in all major forms of chess (rapid and the traditional form) and this goes on to prove he is once in a lifetime player.....attributes which i believe which set him apart from others are ;-
1) His very modest and earthy mature
2) High levels of concentration (chess is the most mentally demanding of all sports...probably a reason a dimwit like me is not gud at it)
3) Dedication and discipline towards a goal.......
and a lot more attributes.....

Hope i can imbibe a few of these attributes....

Way to go Vishy.....we are proud of ya.....

My favourite poem

have not much to write so am posting my favourite poem......i read and think of this poem whenever i am down.....do go through it......

Don't Quit Poem
by anonymous
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you must; but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow;
You might succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup.
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit;
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit

Happy diwali

the festival of lights is here.....the victory of good over evil....

May we all rise above our restraints and fulfill our expectations and take a step towards being good citizens of a great country.....

Happy diwali.......:)

Do fundamentals work in a bear market

Equity markets are a nightmare nowadays....sometimes when i get up in the mornin i feel why am i goin 2 work....investors are trusting my insurance company with their money to manage and when i see that we are not able to protect the money, guilt arises but then you realise tat nothin in life is permanent so nor will this phase be.....so long term investors keep on pumping in the money......

I believe this is the best time to invest if you are sitting on cash.....i know you will kill me for sayin this but one never knows where the bottom will be....its better to take a risk at these levels than regret it later.....signing off with two great quotes.....

"Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful" - by the great Warren Buffet

"Before the dawn the sky is the darkest"........ so be strong and hang in there as i am.....

How could one person take control of our lifes

Tuesday -21st october 2008.
i get up in the morning to a message of my sweet boss ( he is one of the few good ones left in the world...touch wood) that Raj Thackeray has been arrested. I put on the T V to see what i feared. MNS party workers ( are they party workers or anti social elements) vandalising a taxi, burning tyres on the roads. My mom asked me to stay put and not to go to work. But knowing how brave or in her words stupid i was she gave up.

I my house at the normal time to catch my private bus to work( am few of the lucky ones who travel in relative comfort but through the dreaded POWAI!!!!! route). to find out that none of the buses are working. The poor drivers of these buses are north indians and they were afraid to venture out with their vehicles...i finally had to travel by a best bus (which i managed to find after a lot of trouble) to work and reached office a hour late and on my last fumes on the verge of collapse (a great way to start work isnt it).

Leaving from work i decided to leave early and again took a BEST bus back to work. I reached home in record time but the bus left me a few kilometers from thane(where i stay) where riots had started. I tried catching a rick and lo behold the rickshaw driver asked me 150 rs......i told him i want to go home and not buy ur rick.....finally i decided to walk and after walking for 30 minutes reached home......

Sitting at home as i write....i feel bad not for myself but for the poor bus drivers of my private bus service who are afraid of their life....for the poor biharis who were beaten up by MNS hooligans....for the taxis and rickshawalas of mumbai who had their livelihood taken away from them....WHO GAVE A SINGLE PERSON to determine my life....is this the country our freedom fighters fought for....where a person is not forced to earn his livelihood just because he is from a different state.....

There are times when i feel ashamed that i am a indian and tuesday was one of those days.....the leader of MNS stays in a upmarket locale, drives a mercedes, his kids have taken german as a subject in college and he says he is fighting for the marathi manoos.....i say if he wants to fight for the marathi manooos but have u asked the marathi manoos what he wants....he wants peace, he wants that to reach home on time, he wants safety of mind, body and soul.....

i feed sad to conclude that we as indians have given a person who believes in the sadistic nature of politics the right to rule our lives....if a young politician thinks this way i wonder what others do.....please think about this the next time you vote...

DO YOU WANNA VOTE FOR A YOUNG POLITICIAN WHO FIGHTS FOR THE MARATHIS MANOOS OR FOR MUMBAI.........

bye tilll the next time......