At the onset, i should thank my very dear friend Siji for giving mr an opportunity to see very spectacular scenaries and i wish him a very happy and prosperous married life. Me , Shivram and Sagar had gone to attend siji's marriageon 30 Novemeber.
We started from Bangalore on Saturday morning by the Inter City Exp. The day started horribky, as sagar missedthe train, he eventually took a bus to Ernakulam. I must admit , i have never seen such beautiful scenariesin in my entire life, where the train cut throughthe forest, with dams and rivers gave us the company. Intitially i was skeptical of undertaking a day journey, as i always preferred the night journey , but now i feel thank god i took the day journeyand witness the fabulous scenaries along the way. For the whole, we had the green vegetation to accompany us and there was not even a minute where i saw dry landscape, it was greenery all the way. Actually, i should name this article, A journey through green vegetation? Whats say haan ?
We had a 12 hours long train journey but we never felt any tiredness as the nautral beauty of our God's Own Country had such an impact on us that we ejnoyed viewing the natural beauty, rather than pondering ways to rest.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Are we heading towards Second Global Depression?
Are we heading towards a second global depression, which seems would have a much bigger impact than the Great Depression on 1929, as the aftermaths are already been shown with Company’s posting huge losses, employees are being laid-off, company’s going to cost cutting mode, banks are reluctant to lend money to investors which in turn is affecting company’s day-to-day operations. Each and every stock markets across globe are bleeding with losses be it NASDAQ, Nikkie, Sensex etc.
Every investor/common man has just one question in his mind, as to when the mayhem will stop? Billions of wealth has wiped off from investors coffers.
Many are surprised and shocked by massive impact of this economic crisis, investors and the common public were shown rosy picture about the financial situation and now suddenly they are finding themselves at the receiving end of the economic crisis.
History has repeated itself as US has become the virtual source for the economic crisis for the second time after it was considered the source for the Great Depression of 1929 whose effects were felt till the end of 1940’s.
In my opinion, it all started with the bankruptcy of the one of the biggest investment bank i.e Bear Stearns, which was sold to JP Morgan with the help of Fed Govt and the main reason for the fall out of Bear & Stearns was the Sub-Prime Mortgage crisis.
And then adding insult to injury was the bail-out of Fannie-Mae, the financial institution which has the distinction of being the highest lender of the housing loans and this particular event sent shivers in the markets across globe.
To top this another crisis hit the market was that of the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers, one of the largest and oldest investment bank, which did not see any reds in its balance sheet, until this particular quarter which hit the bank so hard that it had to file for the largest bankruptcy in the history of the mankind or the modern era.
These incidents did not go well with market, which has resulted in markets tumbling down and in the process breaking many records of the highest falls in a day, lowest in years and so on.
The global scenario is so bad that it prompted in Govt’s coming up with bail-out plans to provide life-support to the ailing world economy by infusing credit into market. The main aim of the bail-out plan is to provide Liquidity and many countries has have cut their CRR rates i.e Credit Reserve Ratio’s (lending rates), in order to infuse credit in the market.
This credit crunch has not spared any country whether developed or developing. The US has really been the hardest hit nation in this credit crisis, where the country is experiencing higher un-employment rates, industrial and economic growth rates have nose dived, higher tax regime, various state Govt taking a cut in their budgets.
Its great to see that developed countries are coming forward to form an alliance to ponder over the ways to resolve the economic crisis.
Hope so the strategy of the so called bail-out plans are successful, as it money involved are from tax payers pockets, who would feel let down if the bail out plan fails..
Every investor/common man has just one question in his mind, as to when the mayhem will stop? Billions of wealth has wiped off from investors coffers.
Many are surprised and shocked by massive impact of this economic crisis, investors and the common public were shown rosy picture about the financial situation and now suddenly they are finding themselves at the receiving end of the economic crisis.
History has repeated itself as US has become the virtual source for the economic crisis for the second time after it was considered the source for the Great Depression of 1929 whose effects were felt till the end of 1940’s.
In my opinion, it all started with the bankruptcy of the one of the biggest investment bank i.e Bear Stearns, which was sold to JP Morgan with the help of Fed Govt and the main reason for the fall out of Bear & Stearns was the Sub-Prime Mortgage crisis.
And then adding insult to injury was the bail-out of Fannie-Mae, the financial institution which has the distinction of being the highest lender of the housing loans and this particular event sent shivers in the markets across globe.
To top this another crisis hit the market was that of the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers, one of the largest and oldest investment bank, which did not see any reds in its balance sheet, until this particular quarter which hit the bank so hard that it had to file for the largest bankruptcy in the history of the mankind or the modern era.
These incidents did not go well with market, which has resulted in markets tumbling down and in the process breaking many records of the highest falls in a day, lowest in years and so on.
The global scenario is so bad that it prompted in Govt’s coming up with bail-out plans to provide life-support to the ailing world economy by infusing credit into market. The main aim of the bail-out plan is to provide Liquidity and many countries has have cut their CRR rates i.e Credit Reserve Ratio’s (lending rates), in order to infuse credit in the market.
This credit crunch has not spared any country whether developed or developing. The US has really been the hardest hit nation in this credit crisis, where the country is experiencing higher un-employment rates, industrial and economic growth rates have nose dived, higher tax regime, various state Govt taking a cut in their budgets.
Its great to see that developed countries are coming forward to form an alliance to ponder over the ways to resolve the economic crisis.
Hope so the strategy of the so called bail-out plans are successful, as it money involved are from tax payers pockets, who would feel let down if the bail out plan fails..
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Bloodshed at Wall Street
Last week has seen the bloodshed at wall street,as the big-wigs in the financial services domain have filed of bankruptcy and some are on the verge of filing the same, biggest of them is of Lehman Brothers who have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, biggest banruptcy in the mankind and Merril Lynch being bought by Bank of America for US 52 $ billion and we can expect some more companies to follow suit, with AIG, world's largest insurance company with respect to assets has asked the Federal bank for US 500 $ million loan and Goldman Sach posting a 70% loss in the current quarter..., so we can see the writing on the wall that big-wigs of the industry has succumbed to the Credit Crunch, the symptoms are strong for a Great Global Economic Recession/Slowdown which has already started showing its aftermarks, with employees being laid-off globally and the number are huge, on an average around 50,000 people would lose their jobs.....
Friday, September 12, 2008
Fab - 4 (Soon to be Fab 7)
You would be thinking that i am talking abt Fab 4 of Indian Cricket Team, but you are absolutely......... wrong, i am talking abt my Team in Pylon Consulting. The Fab 4 consist of Ravi, Alex, Zainab and Hiral.
I would like to share my experience of working in Pylon Consulting, we are recruitment firm catering to IT, KPO & Consulting domain opportunities, where i have the privelege of working amongst the best brains in the domain, who are highly talented, helpful and they are absolutely brilliant, exceptional... i am running short of exclaimations ............
I embarked on the beautiful journey on 24 August,2007 , eventhough it was my second job, but i had butterflies flying high in my stomach :) , as i was not sure whether i have taken the right decision, but now i am proud of my decision of starting my professional career in an exceptional company like Pylon Consulting which provides its employees platform to perform and where hard work is duely rewarded and the work atmosphere is great. I have successfully:) completed my MBA from IBMT i.e Institute of Business Management & Technology.
To be frank, i have been really lucky to have great team-mates in both my work-places, where they have been supportive and they are the source of motivation which acts an tonic in my case to strive harder and to achieve my targets. My team comprise 4 Gals and 2 guys, i am the krishna who is surrounded by gopis :) and i should also thank my boss, my mentor i.e Ravi, who had the guts to higher someone, who had been rejected in several interviews :) and he is the one who has taught me everything on recruitment, Research ( i take care of requirements in the research domain) and he always there to help you out.
I would like to talk abt 2 most important persons in my team, my two sisters i.e hiral and zainab, these 2 ladies are my back-up's, whenever i am mentally down with pressure, they pump energy into me by making me laugh :)
I would like to share my experience of working in Pylon Consulting, we are recruitment firm catering to IT, KPO & Consulting domain opportunities, where i have the privelege of working amongst the best brains in the domain, who are highly talented, helpful and they are absolutely brilliant, exceptional... i am running short of exclaimations ............
I embarked on the beautiful journey on 24 August,2007 , eventhough it was my second job, but i had butterflies flying high in my stomach :) , as i was not sure whether i have taken the right decision, but now i am proud of my decision of starting my professional career in an exceptional company like Pylon Consulting which provides its employees platform to perform and where hard work is duely rewarded and the work atmosphere is great. I have successfully:) completed my MBA from IBMT i.e Institute of Business Management & Technology.
To be frank, i have been really lucky to have great team-mates in both my work-places, where they have been supportive and they are the source of motivation which acts an tonic in my case to strive harder and to achieve my targets. My team comprise 4 Gals and 2 guys, i am the krishna who is surrounded by gopis :) and i should also thank my boss, my mentor i.e Ravi, who had the guts to higher someone, who had been rejected in several interviews :) and he is the one who has taught me everything on recruitment, Research ( i take care of requirements in the research domain) and he always there to help you out.
I would like to talk abt 2 most important persons in my team, my two sisters i.e hiral and zainab, these 2 ladies are my back-up's, whenever i am mentally down with pressure, they pump energy into me by making me laugh :)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Glory at Beijing
Hail the 3 Musketeers of Indian Sports (Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Singh& Sushil Kumar ).
India has finally won more than 2 medals in their entire olympic history. The 3 Musketeers has done our country proud by wining medals at the largest sporting extravanganza on the Planet Earth i.e Olympics .
There were many first to happen for India at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing i.e India's First ever Individual Gold Medalist in Abhinav Bindra, India wining more than 2 medals Since Helsinki Olympics, Wining all the medals in Individual events.
The moment of the Olympics for Indians would surely be the Gold Wining performance by Abhinav Bindra in shooting and the national anthem being played since ages on the olympic arena since the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
This olympics has seen the rise of new sporting heroes like Vijender Singh, Jitender and Akhil Kumar in Boxing, Abhinav Bindra in Shooting, Saina Nehwal in Badminton and the Indian Archery team too had a good oympics in both Individual and team events. I hope this triggers a sporting revolution in india, where more people would take a liking for the Olympics Sports , good support from the Govt by providing the athelets world class infrastructure to use and hope so more corporates start sponsoring the olympic sports and give cricket a miss :)
The next target for the Indian atheletes would be the Commanwealth Games in 2010 at Delhi, where india should focus on the fininshing in Top 5 at it's hiome turf, which would give hopes for a bigger haul of medals at 2012 Olympics at London.
Now its the responsibility of the Indian Olympic Association to make use of the success achieved by India at the Olympics, to promote the sports in the country and start planning from now for the next summer olympics at London and after what we have seen about the Infrastructure provide by China for the olympics has been of great class and quality, now its the turn of IOA and the Govt of India to show to world that India can also provide world-class sproting infrastructure.
I believe India can targets medals in Shooting, Boxing, Wrestling, Archery, Hockey, Weighlifting, Badminton and Tennis at the London Olympics.
Hearty Congrats to Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Singh and Sushil Kumar for bringing laurels to our country and made all of us proud.
Cheers for the 3 Musketeers !!!!!!!
India has finally won more than 2 medals in their entire olympic history. The 3 Musketeers has done our country proud by wining medals at the largest sporting extravanganza on the Planet Earth i.e Olympics .
There were many first to happen for India at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing i.e India's First ever Individual Gold Medalist in Abhinav Bindra, India wining more than 2 medals Since Helsinki Olympics, Wining all the medals in Individual events.
The moment of the Olympics for Indians would surely be the Gold Wining performance by Abhinav Bindra in shooting and the national anthem being played since ages on the olympic arena since the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
This olympics has seen the rise of new sporting heroes like Vijender Singh, Jitender and Akhil Kumar in Boxing, Abhinav Bindra in Shooting, Saina Nehwal in Badminton and the Indian Archery team too had a good oympics in both Individual and team events. I hope this triggers a sporting revolution in india, where more people would take a liking for the Olympics Sports , good support from the Govt by providing the athelets world class infrastructure to use and hope so more corporates start sponsoring the olympic sports and give cricket a miss :)
The next target for the Indian atheletes would be the Commanwealth Games in 2010 at Delhi, where india should focus on the fininshing in Top 5 at it's hiome turf, which would give hopes for a bigger haul of medals at 2012 Olympics at London.
Now its the responsibility of the Indian Olympic Association to make use of the success achieved by India at the Olympics, to promote the sports in the country and start planning from now for the next summer olympics at London and after what we have seen about the Infrastructure provide by China for the olympics has been of great class and quality, now its the turn of IOA and the Govt of India to show to world that India can also provide world-class sproting infrastructure.
I believe India can targets medals in Shooting, Boxing, Wrestling, Archery, Hockey, Weighlifting, Badminton and Tennis at the London Olympics.
Hearty Congrats to Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Singh and Sushil Kumar for bringing laurels to our country and made all of us proud.
Cheers for the 3 Musketeers !!!!!!!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Unfulfilled Dreams
I have always wanted to be a Traveller, who travels to new new places and explores the natural beauty of our beautiful country,but i have not been able to fulfill my dreams on that front so far. But i have not given up on my dreams and i have planned to visit places, which i have never visited, top on my list are my 2 fav destinations i.e Pune and Ooty. I really love to visit Pune, because of its rich culture, good climate and great people. During my final year of my graduation, i had planned to pursue to my higher studies in Pune, but destiny took me to Bangalore, which i would call the land of dreams. I have always loved to visit hill stations and my Ooty has always been ne of my fav destinations to visit. It has captured my imagination through pictures of green mountains, stunning and picturious surroundings which i was aquainted through the various mediums like TV, Photo's, Word of mouth experiences, which generated lots of interest within me. I am planning to visit Pune/Ooty, next month. I will surely share my experiences with you.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Recently watched movie
Recently i watched Dashavatharam, to be frank i went in expecting a masterpiece from a Great Actor Kamal Hassan, it was not happy to the see the final outcome. The main Crux of a movie is its Story which was not up to the mark. Among the 10 characters played by Kamal Hassan, i really liked his potray of US Villian, Telugu Police Officer, Chinese Martial Arts teacher were good and rest were not up to the mark. But i was really awed by the efforts and hardwork put in by him to potray those 10 different characters and then music of this movie was also not great apart from the Introduction song. There is no dobt in my mind that he is one of the best actors of all time produced by Indian Cinema. Surely this movie can we watched atleast once. I am eargerly waiting for his next project "Marmayogi"
Cricket Diary
Dhoni pulling out from the Test series against Sri Lanka, is just the tip of the iceberg waiting to happen. With the extent to which Indian players have playing non-stop cricket for almost more that a year, is very tiring on the body of the Players. Dhoni has been playing non-stop cricket since last July, when indian set out on tour of Eng/Ireland and then T20 Championship in South Africa and then back to back series with Pakistan and an almost 3 months long Australian Tour and then the IPL and Bangla Tour and now the Asia Cup, phew..... THe BCCI should take care in preserving the players by not exposing to too much cricket.
With BCCI not including Saurav Ganguly and Dravid in the probables list for the champions trophy, which i feel almost signals the end of the ODI careers of the 2 most best talented players produced by India. They have done our country proud by their consistent performances on the Field.
With BCCI not including Saurav Ganguly and Dravid in the probables list for the champions trophy, which i feel almost signals the end of the ODI careers of the 2 most best talented players produced by India. They have done our country proud by their consistent performances on the Field.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
IPL Saga
The DLF IPL has come as a blessings in disguise for many younger and unkwown players to display their talent in front of billions of people. For players like Ashoke Dinda, Iqbal Abdullah, Rajat Bhatia, Amit Mishra and list can go on, it would have been a distant dream to play along side the greats of the game like Glenn Mcgrath, Warne, Saurav Ganguly etc.
The T20 matches are like a masala movie which has all the ingredients for a hit movie like action, drama, comedy and it entertains you to the fullest.
The T20 matches are like a masala movie which has all the ingredients for a hit movie like action, drama, comedy and it entertains you to the fullest.
Welcome
Hi All,
Finally i fall for the blog world, unable to resist the attempts to stay away. This is my first ever blog. I have the named my Blog as Krystal Truth, because of the plain reason that in this forum we will speak truthfully on the wordly issue in a krystal clear manner.
Welcome to the world of Blogging..........
Finally i fall for the blog world, unable to resist the attempts to stay away. This is my first ever blog. I have the named my Blog as Krystal Truth, because of the plain reason that in this forum we will speak truthfully on the wordly issue in a krystal clear manner.
Welcome to the world of Blogging..........
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