Category: Personal

Against all ODDS – My triumph in all its GLORY!!!


  

The year 2008 was the most testing phase of my life… Was totally shattered by betrayal, loss of possession, loss of relationship and a bunch of legal disputes against me!!! Let me eloborate on all the odds;

Betrayal: 

  • From someone whom I assumed to be my best buddy till that day!!
  • From someone whom I thought would be my better half!!

Loss of Possession: Lost a company which I launched for which pledging my life & career for!!!

Loss of Relationship: That is the time which showed me the true face of more people who left once I lost money and identity!!

Legal Issues: I had to face a bunch of legal challenges for the next two years people who betrayed me!!

Criticism: Was criticised for getting cheated & for being a loser… Those were defiantly not a sort of criticism which I could take at that point of time!!

Judgemental: People became judgemental about every action of mine..

I was at odds and future looked blank. I was not in a mindset to fight back as I was emotionally,morally & monetaril broke!! Wanted to take a break, wanted to freak, wanted to roam free!! But society & parental pressure didn’t allow me to do that!!

Finally I started again!!! I knew each move would be watched, judged & criticised!! So, I decided to move to a place where I had no friends or relatives!! That happened to be a blessing in disguise!! I started and worked for 6-8 hours a day and I;

  • Joined a fitness studio and worked out everyday!!
  • Did Vagabond Like travel every weekend!!
  • Read a lot of books!!
  • Networked and got new friends & acquintances in this new place!!!
  • Watched a lot of movies!!
  • Boozed like a fish!!
  • Took up to marijuana!!!
  • Cried when needed!!
  • Started Blogging & Tweeting all crazy experiences!!
  • Did what all I wanted to do, even if it was bad!!

The change of place, new friends, doing what I wanted and documenting my my experience as blog gave me the needed distraction and purpose to be engaged!!

Slowly my intensity in handling hurdles became aggressive… Was able to handle challenges, quash the hurdles and finally started seeing success against the challenges… Today I’m happy and obliged to almighty for putting me into such a challenge!!

 Against All Odds I could finally triumph by being me and being decisive!!!

Disheartening to look at the condition of our Bangalore House!!!


Came to Bangalore House along with my mother, to work on some repairs… When we entered it was disheartening to look at the condition of the house!!!

When we entered the house, it had a bad odour, there was a bunch of stray dogs in the garden and the entire house was like a dump yard!!

I was worried for two reasons;

  1. It was built by my dad and I’ve a special connect for that!!!
  2. My dad had maintained it well!!! Even when he was transferred and was not in the city, he made sure he was able to keep the house neat & clean!!

Just fixed a contractor to dig a SoakPit, Relay Slab on the terrace and do an exterior painting!!! Next is to find an agency and fix up the daily maintenance of the house!!!

World Entrepreneurship Day



My Festivuswould be World Entrepreneurship Day and I want to celebrate it 24tn February of every year… Yes that happens to be the birth date of Legendary Steve Jobs who taught the world how to dream and how to make dreams come true!!!

How all the day can be celebrated??

  • One entrepreneur all over the world can be awarded World Entrepreneur Award, something on the lines of Nobel or Oscar!!
  • There can be Startup Battlefield and Pitches, conducted for funding!!!
  • Entrepreneur Clubs can be formed, make entrepreneurs as members and raise donations from successful entrepreneur… Those funds can be used for Entrepreneurship Development, something like Rotary Club for social Service!!!
  • Day can be developed like Black Friday & Cyber Monday!!! It should be crazy deals all over the world!!

Why it has to be celebrated??

  • Entrepreneurs help build a nations economy!!
  • Entrepreneurs help in Job Creation!!!
  • Entrepreneurs bring best products and services to the end users!!
  • Entrepreneurs successful or failed add value to society!!! Successful ones become role-models and failed ones becomes mentors!!!

Thanks to WordPress “The Daily Post” for this wonderful topic!!! It made me think of such a day!!! I wish someday 24th February would be celebrated as a grand festival!!! 

Let me try to start it with a small group from this year!!

Goof Ups Continues……….


  Last year went to US to incorporate a company and to open a bank account!!! To my surprise things happened in hours, it was as easy as buying a movie ticket!!

After opening the bank account, I got a temporary debit card and I was told I’d be getting a permanent card in a month!! Then I moved and forgot to check if I received a permanent debit card!!

For last 8-9 months I kept accumulating funds in my account and wanted to make a withdrawal by wire transfer!!! When we tried to make a wire transfer the last mode was card validation!!! And started realising my goof ups from here!!!

Goofup 1: We kept trying the card we had and every time validation failed!!

Goofup 2: Found there was an alternate way to validate through mobile!! Then had to disturb my friend to reactivate the number and after the number got reactivated, we found the number already on bank records was wrong!!

Goofup 3: Had no option other than to go for phone banking.. Gave a call to phone banking and got my phone number corrected..

Goofup 4: Just realised for online banking I had to validate the new phone number and only possible option was to validate thru the card!! Now again card validation failed and account got locked!!

Goofup 5: Again went for phone banking and got the account unlocked and confirmed that I was using the right card!! When I again tried to login and validate, it failed!!

Goofup 6: Again called the Phone Banking and came to know I was using a temporary card and I was sent a permanent card to my friends address which I specified during account opening!!

Goofup 7: Morning got the new card details from my friend and when I logged in I found out that it has to be activated before using!! Activation had to be done thru ATM or phone banking!!!

It was my mistake that I was not careful to validate my phone number during the time of opening the account and to follow up with my friend for the permanent card!!! These two carelessness of mine has costed unnecessary effort leak!!!

Just remembered a proverb I was taught in my kindergarten;

A stitch in time saves nine!!!

Now waiting for the banking hours as phone banking is not 24 hours!!! Hope everything will be resolved and fixed!!

You never took the time to know me!!! You never took the time to understand!!!


A moment ago it seemed it was yesterday
You were here with me and everything seems to be the same
What am I supposed to do with all these empty rooms?
Sit here in solitude with the smell of your perfume
You never took the time to know me
You never took the time to understand
You never took the time to know me, yeah
‘Cause lovin’ you is all I ever had, still lovin’ you is all I ever have

This is the song which I keep listen when I had my breakup!!! I played this song while I worked at in the gym, when I drive and while going to sleep!!!

AKON has real connect with breakups and women mindset!!! This Is The Song I could make an immediate connect and this remains my ever green favourite!!!

Busting off the challenging start!!!


It was a messy start for the day where mistakes of the past were disrupting today’s progress!!!

After a lot of GOOFUPS and misses, got struck from all ends!!!

Now came out to chill with Bala & Ravi, have lunch and finish up with a movie.. Hope this break will relax the mind, help us think and come with a solution!!!

For now let me enjoy my favourite director Quentin Tarantino movie The Hateful Eight!!

Lived the memory


It is always feels good to visit your native where your ancestors lived and belonged!! I use to visit my native Chidambaram every year, it was 1990’s which made this place more memorable!!

Those days it was dirty, smelly & people’s attire showed they were from a rural place!! These day the town has improved a lot on cleanliness & people way of dressing!! It is coming close to urban standards!!

I keep visiting relatives, dad’s friends, Nataraja temple and movies as a child!!

On completing my graduation and after getting busy with work there was no time for friends, relatives, temple and movie!!! Still I went to Chidambaram which was go & come the same day visits, which was mainly for offering Pooja for our community God!!!

This week I’ve made sure I stay and cherish my childhood life back!! Unfortunately I couldn’t visit relatives, friends & Nataraja temple.. It was a tiring drive and work as always!!!

But I went for a drive around this small town and went for a movie which I remember going almost 13 years back!!!


Then closed my day watching Aranmanai 2 at Lena Theatre!!

Finally could live a small part of my childhood!!!

Simply Irressistable!!!



That’s Cutlet!! One of the secret ingredient of my Aunty.. Yes she has specialised cooking these Cutlets which are not deepfriend, also they are not high in calorie & it tastes really good!!

It is Simply Irresistible!! Longing to get more from her!!!

The Junk in my life & how overcome them!!


I’ve been a very proactive kid in sports, business & extra curricular activities… But I’ve been a underperforming student… My whole capacity was measured based on my academic performance… My own parents crushed my dreams, and pushed me to put that extra effort to excel in what I was not good at(Studies)…

The stigma of being a poor performer in academics made me;

  • Low in self esteem.
  • Low in self confidence.
  • A comedy stock.
  • Live being bullied by above average kids.
  • Live a life of frustration.

Things I was forced to QUIT!!

Sports: I was a naturally gifted athlete & sports person which came from my maternal grandfather, maternal uncle and my mother. Sports Day is the only day I felt like a hero. I had dreams of building a career as a footballer or an athlete. But I was forced to quit because of academic performance.

Fish Breeding: At the age of 12 I started breeding fish at home and was selling to local kids. Made around ₹2000 a month during 1992. My parents forced me to quit, as they believed earning money would bring down my interest in academics.

HDK Dealership: Those were the days of audio cassettes. People use to buy empty cassattes to record their favorate songs. A 90 minute empty cassette costs ₹40 and I use to buy those cassettes to record songs. HDK(or HDC? Could collect the name) was the market leader for its quality!!

One day thought of taking dealership for HDK as local shops were selling low quality cassettes.Immediately wrote a letter to HDK asking dealership. I got a response from them telling they didn’t have a dealership option. But they offered to give a cassette for ₹20 if I could place an order for 100 units. The total investment was ₹2000 and my parents had the money I earned through fish breeding. Again they didn’t give that money and discouraged me to continue..

Movies: My interest on studies was drastically coming down as I couldn’t cope up. Got an opportunity to become a troop dancer in movies. Again I was not allowed to continue as movies are not considered as a career option for person coming from a reputed family..

Finally I took a stand that I wanted to become an entrepreneur when I was 20 and perceived with great difficulties. But I had to come across a lot of junks like;

  • Emotional Blackmail from closed ones!!
  • Discouragement from closed ones & friends!!
  • Pessimism from incompetent stake holders!!
  • Crooks who try to cheat or exploit!!

It is impossible to totally eradicate such people. But I do following things to remove those junk take over me;

  • Associate and Hang-around with Movivated and Like-Minded people!!
  • Watch motivational movies!!
  • Listen to motivational songs!!
  • Read success biographies!!

This is what I do to “Clean House of Junk”…

A life without computer: What does it look like??


Lived the first eighteen years of my life without access to technology. There were no internet or mobiles then, even a computer was considered a toy for wealthy.

Then slowly internet came and it quickly took over me. Also I built a career backed by Internet & Mobile.

Then at one point in life I was running through a rough patch. Then I started blogging just to keep me engaged. Over a point blogging became an habit and slowly if became an addiction.

Today I can’t even think of a life without Mobile, Internet & Blog!!!

I’ve tried many instances to stay away from gadgets and technology for one day in a month. Slowly within hours it made me restless and I give up!!

I know it is not a healthy thing and one of my 2016 goal is to practice staying away from Computers / Technology at least once a week.

I’ve planned to convert my small land measuring little more than an acre into a farmhouse and consider engaging myself into farm activities every Sunday.Will jump into execution as soon as my wife joins me.

Life After Blogs: I’m seriously considering to buy a big farm and venture into organic farming!!!