A strange irony indeed !

What a strange irony the current financial predicament has put upon us. Science will let us all live to be 100 or more, but the economy will make sure that the last 40 years we'll be running on empty. Almost a poetic justice of sorts.

Inconspicuous consumption

Typically, people spend when those around them are spending, but in a downturn, the need to compete evaporates. You can stay right where you are without falling behind. Consumers’ focus may have shifted from striving to catch up to those above them to contemplating the fates of those below them.

A standing 'paradox'

A very cogent explanation of the difference between knowing and doing. A standing 'paradox' is why great athletes seldom make the best coaches. The answer appears to be related to the difference between knowing how and why something should be done, and being able to do it without analytical thought.

Similarly, w.r.t trading and investment, not every analyst (technical or otherwise) may be a great trader or investor, and many traders and investors may be only marginal at analysis.

Same old..

well...well...its been just about a year since i last blogged... i just read what i blogged last year...and i must say...my life sure hasnt changed much...
its still the same rudderless boat adrift...same kind of job...with no meaning...just doing the bare minimum to sustain myself...and some more...
where is my life headed???...need to decide soon what to do with my life....got to get some meaning to it...doesnt really feel like its going anywhere....
anyway....i keep watching discovery channel a lot....and i wonder...y am i not part of any of the interesting stuff thats going on around the world....y do i have to be part of the crowd thats watching this stuff on tv...y am i not part of the crowd thats actually doing that stuff...
man...need to take steps soon....else ...i will probably end up reading this stuff again next year and i dont want to end up writing the same kind of stuff that i am writing now...

signing out for now....

If only...

If only technology was so advanced that we could directly blog what we think from wherever we are...
The other day, I was driving home from a friend's place(it was a long drive back)...and I was having so many ideas and thoughts that I wished that there be some kind of device that will directly blog my thoughts without having me remember all that and come home and blog....
The real cool thing...i bet...would be when you could directly connect to the internet from your mind and blog...but then, if you could connect to the internet directly from the brain, blogging would certainly be the last thing on your mind...right?
Maybe we will get there some day....and when we do...the world will never be the same again......

Aimless life

Have been thinking of where my life is heading....and it turns out....nowhere...
Guess this is what they call a mid-life crisis....Feels like a rudder-less boat set adrift in this ocean that is life....heading nowhere....but going with the waves...
In hindi...you would say....zindagi jhaat banke reh gayi hai.... which means.... my life is f*&^%$ up....
I feel so worthless in life... like my life uptil now has been just a waste...except for a few small exceptions...
What is it that makes a person successful...and what is success....Is success a measurable quantity? probably not...would you call a person who is a millionaire, a successful person? If so, what would you call a billionaire?....a super successful person?
i guess, success is different for different people...for some ... it would be to earn lots of money...for some...it would mean to achieve fame, doesnt necessarily have to go with money... and for some, it would probably be to be loved...
Success...hmm...do i seek success? i dont know...
i go to office every day, but dont feel like working at all...dont know what it is, but my work just does not motivate me to work at all...
i only hope i get a direction in life pretty soon....else in another 30 years...i would still be writing the same shit that i am writing now...and i sure dont want to see me doing that...
i guess enough ramblngs for today....

My first blog

Just created a new blog. It feels like I am entering a whole new world today. Gives new meaning to what Shakespeare said "All the world is a stage and all of us are players".