Fight to Stand Out.....

Stage gets set when we are laid down by the nurse on the hospital bed.......boy or a girl....fair or dark....fat or slim....how much does he/she weight....what were the expectations....are they being matched...acheived.....oh!!! "how cute n sweet" is one comment for sure....but the facts discussed before would decide how actually it is, according to them...!!!!

Brutal comparisons and fact finding aunties are all around a child life for all his heavenly child hood....i fail to understand what is there to fight for...so much competition when most of us end up cribbing about the work we get to do n find peace in another beer bottle....lyk i said in my last post " Our education hardly teaches us anything about the work we do, but our work does coz we practice it day in and day out"....thus, unnecessary burden is so unasked for....

So, what should one do....fight all his life to meet what is expected out of him/her....fire all what he got to stand out in the crowd......but does this thing end at any point when one can say that job is now completely done....AM FREE.....its lyk one of those bosses who is never satisfied......"Follow your passion" is a superb statement to make but does not come as easy as it sounds......
 
This is what i believe and hope ::: that all of us should be able to stand out or make a difference now that we have come to the party on earth......this can be in anything that one knows for oneself, in any damn field, be it an NGO, be it a preacher, be it a musician, be it a person who inspire others by his actions or style of living, be it by working for a social cause, be it a standup comedian who help people intake 3 but not 4 beer bottles, be it a yoga teacher who is being followed n liked by many senior citizens of a society.......stand out n make some difference some place that each one of us know that we can.....!!!!

How about a Professional Plumber, Gardener, Electrician....

This is about the professional lyf and the work that we do....i cant talk about everyone but about myself n things that i observe @ work.....I did computer science engineering, mba in marketing/finance....landed up in a bank...started working...started learning stuff.....after nearly 2 years...i now know what and how am i supposed to do my work....but before 2 years, did i know it....the answer is obviously ::: No, i didnt....so how do i know now....because i practiced it in these two years and would continue to do so.....!!!

My education didnt teach me much about my work but my work did....education taught me or may be just made a try of computer languages....greek finance jargons " even greece didnt understand them, i guess "...which i rumped up n vomited on the exam answer sheets.....this doesnt mean that education is useless....but yes! measures should be altered with....thus, i agree with tareen zameen par as most of us do....

Again, i am not totally talkin abt education practices in our country, but as i got in banking, others went into diverse fields including manufacturing, consultancy " oh! the consultancy " , retail, pharma, research n so on......learned their domains n after few years...they know their specific jobs n how to perform it....now, they are the respected educated lot (albeit, education didnt give them much).....

Now, how about an electrician or a plumber or a gardener who directly started working and knows his work very well, but he doesnt seem to get the respect that we guys get.... i also learned stuff from work n him too....neither am i making any changes in the present structure of work in this world nor does he....so why do i get more respect than him....bcoz i have a supporting degree and a formal shirt!!! well! give him a professional electrician degree....he already knows how to do it and probably more than an electrical engineer from one of the thousands engineering institutes.....n yah! a lil more respect....

My Guitar....Aim for the Year 2010....

Am sitting in my lobby...have my semester engineering exam lined up in a few days.....suddenly a divine idea comes to ma mind that i should learn guitar and infact, a feeling of restlessness dropped in....what have i been doing all these years.....why cant i start it right now....!!!

Next day, from a small music shop @ Rohtak, i buy the first Gibson guitar....now where do i go to learn......search for the teacher begins....manage to find a surd who hardly knew any chords and still told me that i will be an expert in 3 months.....so basically, 3 months i wasted with him....another 6 i wasted with myself practicing whatever he taught me..!!!

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By good god's grace, i came to delhi for doing my MBA and started playing with chords G, D, E, F.....went to few places to learn....performed with singers @ college and @ other b-schools....dont as k for results yet...

then came the job n the corporate shit....barely managed to keep up with whatever i had learned in college, leave aside improving it.....but there always has been a sense of incompleteness while playing this instrument.....a feeling that i need to be a lot more good.... i need to feel the music.....feel each note.....know and understand whatever i am playin.... and should be competent enough to have that adrenaline rush.....!!!

So, finally after graduatin to a decent level in rhythm playing, i plan to move to acoustic solos n do all the major techniques that are crucial to play solos effectively....also, to ensure that i am aware technically of whatever am playing.... i plan to do Rock School of Music thing...clear the exam for grade 4 this november .....

So...i look forward to have the grade 4 certification in my hand by this year end,....there is not much else that am aiming by the end year...Person, Sumit Anand, may not change much by december end but his fingers n music sense ideally should....

I wish myself best of luck for this small but really crucial endeavor....muahhh...!!!!

Want to be a billionaire....where should i invest...

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Stocks, Mutual Funds, IPOs, Private Equity, PMS, Fixed Deposits, KVPs, Post Office Instruments, Corporate deposits, PPF.....sound like a plethora of options available in the market and naive investor would feel obliged to get "Wealth Management Services" from bank, a broker "sounds funny", financial institutions . However, as the quote says " Simplicity is the inherent strength of every big idea ", same principle applies to investing - Keep it simple.

Taking the case of a young investor aged 27-32, all set to step the paddle for a home, a big car, high flying lifestyle, kids education, n still left with enough for the good old days.....some task to perform!!!!....Thus, following questions should be answered :::

Where should one start from, what instruments should one get into....arent stock really risky, isnt property the best and the safest bet....there are so many mutual funds, what the hell are ULIPs, think i should have one because they offer guaranteed returns these days.......what do i do??

Would take up individual instruments and situations to make it simple n understandable....for now....do 2 things...:: START AN SIP IN AN DIVERSIFIED EQUITY FUND AND BUY YOUR FIRST LARGE CAP STOCK.....

All Humans behave in the much expected manner.......Enhanced !!!

I, as a child, always used to wonder about why people are associated with a certain behavior. So often, a comment like this would arise in between conversations "oh! he is a lawyer, take extreme care while dealing with him"..."oh! your father is a doctor...impressive"......"that guy is in the army(my daughter is single,u know)....

i would listen to these comments and would get happy about the fact that my father being a doctor falls under the much respected community.....but my point here is different....i used to think that a lawyer can be a good person... and a doctor can be bad...so one should not really make such presumptions basis his/her profession....why dont we treat everybody as humans....why such presumptions.........but, then, i was only a child to whom not many adults listen....

Later, now, when i am young and handsome( u know! is ur daughter still single!! ) working with a bank.....believes that, probably they were right in their presumptions about people basis their professions....

We deal and behave the way our profession demands for most hours of the day.
For example:: i, as an adviser, would sell several products to my clients, so, they will have to be careful about what they are buying from me( A financial Adviser, u see!! ).....
A lawyer will make his stand with the client irrespective of the truth beneath.....
An air hostess will go all out for getting more flyin hours under the belt "if u know wot i mean".....
A saint will speak and wear an attire in the much expected style.....


this list goes on and on about people......." Check out your boss tom. "

Even when i de-link the profession angle to it, statement still holds true about people and their behavior:::

If i see a beggar outside my car, i expect him to cry in front of me, he lives up to it more often than not...
An American roaming in one of the malls in Delhi would talk n walk as expected.....
A small town guy will be in awe to see the happenings in a metro and its so evident on his face....

Then, this leads to a conclusion that its not bad or wrong to make presumptions, infact, it is critical and should be believed coz we do happen to deal with a lot of people everyday and such information n thereby, conclusions should help.....

But i still wish, on professional front, a person could be like the one he wants to be not what his profession demands from him.....albeit, i still havent figured that out for myself.......but i must mention that the hunt is on everyday...!!!!....

What am i going to write...

i had been thinking about what i am going to write in my blog and how is bloggin going to help me "other than increasing my typing speed @ office"......gues i will pick up random ideas which could be about music, people, topics, happenings, my trips, my status...

but parallel to al this...wil defitinitely to have a professional PERSONAL FINANCE category....which will talk about one's personal finance....lolz...

will try n make it happening by adding links n pictures n videos....

happy blogging to me...since i dont have many followers yet....yeahhh...