A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a Rupee 500 note.

In the room of 200, he asked, ‘Who would like this Rupee 500 note?’
Hands started going up.

He said, ‘I am going to give this note to one of you but first let me do this.’ He proceeded to crumple the note up.
He then asked, ‘Who still wants it?’
Still the hands were up in the air.

‘Well,’ he replied, ‘What if I do this?’ And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty.
‘Now who still wants it?’
Still the hands went into the air.

‘My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson.
No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth Rupee 500/-.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless.

But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. You are special. Don’t ever forget it! Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.
‘VALUE HAS A VALUE ONLY IF ITS VALUE IS VALUED’

This is a true story which happened in the States. A man came out of
his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck.

The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy’s hands into pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital.

Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he
finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy’s hands. When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, ” Daddy,I’m sorry about your truck.” Then he asked, “but when are my fingers going to grow back?” The father went home & committed suicide.

Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or u
wish to take revenge. Think first before u lose your patience with
someone u love. Trucks can be repaired.. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can’t. Too often we fail to recognise the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge.

People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.

Just checked my friend pjain’s blog explaining todo’s other than business model, revenue model, and team for startups, it is good he has thought about all aspects of a startup and where they fails to think, nice blog…

pjain’s blog http://www.teknatus.com/blog/pjain/things-to-do-when-rolling-your-own-startup

Some how this blog has caught my attention, the Title itself attractive “Starting a company is like landing on the shore of a deserted island”… Even has explained feel factor of an startup entrepreneur and explained with examples on how can it be if one is successful and what happens if one fails… Nice read and highly recommended…

Blog Link : http://evhead.com/2008/10/starting-company-is-like-landing-on.html

Can anyone solve this?

Only skilled people can open this file… Once you succeed to open
this file, you will find names of the people who have managed to open this… Now it is your turn!

http://www.anandnataraj.com/files/Copy_of_Kasoa37.xls

How to open attached file?

A man was traveling to Kasoa

At the bus stop, he met a man with 7 wifes

Each wife has 12 sons and 12 daughters

Each daughter of the man ‘ s wife had 4 sons and 7 daughters

Each son of the man ‘ s wife had 7 sons and 4 daughters

Each grand daughter had 4 friends

How many people got to kasoa?

The number of people who got to kasoa is the password to open attached file. Once you have opened it, add your name and challenge others.

Have a great day…

If you are in India do you remember all the Maruthi Ads “where ever you go you can find a maruthi service station”… In spite of all that finding a road side mechanic is a common site.

Have you ever thought if it would be good if we have a roadside mechanic for all your system and software related issues. Even if you had are they available 24 hours? Are they capable of handling all the issues? Are they qualified and have right testimonial?

If yes your entire wait is over. Understanding this gap there 6 professionals who have left there high paying jobs from IBM, Slash Support, Wipro, Sutherland and started a service to solve all the Technical issues over phone, email and chat.

They ran a beta run for 3 months and got tremendous support and applause for this type of service, thought it is not something unique, they say they were not aware of their competitors when they first discussed about this idea. Also they claim that there is different and unique. It is Pay-per-click model where customers pay only if the issues are solved.

When I questioned them what happens if the client runs away after solving the issue, they claim always clients are very supportive and they in fact reward them by paying a premium than their fee to motivate this service…

Only flaw side of this service is it is only available for US if you want a support over phone & not for other part of their, on contacting their CTO Mr.Bala, he claims people still call to their US no. though it expensive & they are also planning to launch there service to different English speaking nations.

I personally contacted them for frequent internet disconnection issue over char and to my surprise it was sorted in 20 min over chat. All I had to do was to trust them and install remote access software and give access to my system. Also I utilized there free trial run during there beta run.

As a gratitude I think I must write a word of appreciation and pass a message about their service with all my readers and this is definitely a mutually beneficial post…

To know more about there service visit Support1000.com.

I’d like to dedicate this blog to my first cousin Madhumitha, she is doing her graduation but she has lot is oratorical and narration skills. She has helped me to do my MBA assignments even when she was in her school. I don’t mean to say her whiz kid, but she has an odd one out in our family, I often wondered if she originally hails our genes ;).

She is an avid reader of books and we have often shared our thoughts on the books we read. In my busy schedule I asked her to read books and share the crux with me, which she promptly does.

Having seen her narration in writing I’ve asked her to take up writing as a career and also made arrangements for her to pursue that. But she has not taken those thoughts seriously. I’m happy that she at least took my words and started blogging and let this be a good start for her and I wish her to be a successful writer.

I’m one of her early fan for her writing and I’d like to share one of the blog she has written and would like you to look into the narration and pass on your comments.

Just look into this blog http://madhumithauday.blogspot.com/2008/10/food-not-just-concept.html

If there are any passers to this blog, just let me know how to groom a “raw talented writer” into a professional writer.