Category: Personal

Anand – The Vagabond Entrepreneur


Its been 13 years when I flew out of my parents nest… From then on my parents complain about my transformation to a new species… I was the first in my family to be different and crazy… I did and do things that don’t match my parents expectations as;

– I didn’t want to work and took up entrepreneurship…
– I hate being organized… I’m clumsy and do clumsy things…
– I hate saving money… I spend a lot to keep the eco-system rolling and I invest…
– I hate to be disciplined…. I’m disciplined to be undisciplined…
– I don’t worry making mistakes… I’m today because I did many mistakes than my parents…
– I hate planning things… A lot of my golden memories come from unplanned experience…

When I look back all my happy moments come from my vagabond life… A vagabond might be deprived of wealth and richness but I can vouch they are the happiest…

My own parents have created layers of materials that brings them happiness… I’ve never seen them being happy as they never get contented with what they have…They always felt sad for what they dint have and hardly took steps to get what they wanted… They always expected miracles to happen…

Someone who has been raised in such a middle class attitude nest I longed to live like a vagabond… I occasionally take break and live like a vagabond and return back to the nest… Now I long for my next vagabond adventure…

Looking for a hobby


As a student I had hobbies like stamp collection, fish breeding, browsing, poster collection and writing to my pen pal…

Once I became an entrepreneur I was fully into it and there was a gap… During 2008 when I was running thru a tough phase I wanted to distract myself and that is when I started with hobbies like blogging, Tweeting, Travelling, Driving, Watching Movies alone at home and amateur photography…

After 5 years blogging has become a habit… Travelling, Driving and Movie watching has come down drastically… For some reasons photography hasn’t caught up my interest…

From this year on I want to get hooked to some new hobby and not sure what to do and how to do… Also I want to work independently and work from different places… Want to drive somewhere halt in an unknown place and work… Goto my favorite Andaman island and work from there… Some of the hobbies I’ve in mind are…

Running a e-commerce site: One option have a hobby as per my liking is running a website… From my childhood i’m hooked indian arts like Kashmiri crafts, Tanjore paintings, Mamallapuram sculptures etc… It would be an idea to total all arts and crafts makers and create a platform online to sell them…

Coffee Brewing: Though I’ve passion to learn coffee brewing and create a unique (or secret) recipe… But not sure if I can do this as a vagabond…

Write a Book: Again this is another I can do with my tablet, smart phone, some good apps and internet… This will allow me to be a vagabond and pursue my work…

Entrepreneur Training Academy: I always evangelised Entrepreneurship and wanted to make it consistently…

Start an Incubation Center: Am setting up a small incubation center in Chennai which has all infrastructure to start a company and a small seed capital for startup…

In the above I prefer to run a e-commerce site or write a book as that gives me flexibility… For the incubation center it would be started with my friends companies and probably neXT year I can have that as a new hobby…

Moving with Faith & Determination


I’ve always seen GOD to be crazy as he has given many parameter of experience like happiness, sadness, anger, anxiety, loneliness, relationships, separation, laziness, pain and a lot more…

We are all happy when we FLY GOOD TIMES and mostly when we run through tough most people break some fight it out…

I first had my experience of breakup, backstabbing, losing wealth, dreams shattered and castle broken a couple of years back… My mind was filled with lots of unanswerable questions, unacceptable and dreaming for a miracle…

It took a lot of time for me to understand the reality and come to terms… Slowly I came across a world of experience which I wouldn’t have unless I’ve faced a tough reality….

This experience was on my capacity and I managed to overcome it…

Now god has put me on to the next phase of challenge where I’ve to win my father back, give strength to my mother, motivate my sister, calling (showing) my love to my wife and of course managing professional commitments…

First time god helped me get a trait of gaining self-confidence and a skill of independently handling turbulence…

This time it is managing emotions and managing a team… I keep running with this FAITH;

FAITH is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes sees us darkness…

Last two weeks have shown me how to handle life when it is beyond our control… I did get down on my morals sometimes… But now I started seeing the future where I can motivate a lot depressed people…

I see the future where I’m going to take care of my DAD like how he care-took me…

Prayers and showing more trust on god will definitely pay back….

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting…

Pigeon Chicks in my House


Just noticed a pigeon has formed a nest and has hatched 2 chicks in one of the bedroom window…

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Nervous Day


Woke up to take my dad for a CT scan and after 2 hours doctor visited and said he immediately needs a surgery…

We were asked to do the arrangements for surgery and that too by evening and we were never given time to take any opinion…

My sister reached the hospital and consultations with my uncle and our family friends doctor started… There was complete nervousness and confusion…

By now couple of relatives who were informed started giving their opinion… I was already disturbed and when I saw tears in my sisters eye I thought it was time to act…

I asked my sister to talk to the doctor on surgery… I took up an appointment with a doctor referred by my doctor uncle… I had to collect the CT scan CD and take it to get the opinion…

After begging and showing my emotional cry I could get the CD from Radiologist with lot of fuss… After getting the CD immediately rushed to doctor and got our second opinion and he too recommended for a surgery…

Already he has undergone 3 major surgeries under last 4 months… It was a tough decision to take… We decided to go with surgery… It was very delicate in handling the doctors… For them it was yet another surgery but for us it is our dad…

By leaving the burden on god and praying him we are done with surgery which is said to be successful…

Now our concern is to pray for our dads recovery… He has already undergone a lot of pain and trauma… I plead all the renders to pray for hiatus quick and full recovery…

Kamal Hassan a real gentleman


When his movie Viswaroopam was running into problem there were lots of fans who have started sending the ticket money as DD to the actor who has invested a fortune…

I didn’t believe in such acts (sending DD) because for a business person risk is a part of life… He should be ready for unexpected and to overcome situational… Also he is not going to refund the money if the movie is not good…

Anyways fans showed there love and support to this deserving actor… I was curious to know if Kamal would encash those monies or now…

When I came to know that Kamal has returned them all… My respect for him has grown multiple…

You are a true gentleman SIR!!!
You are the true UlagaNayagan…

I’m proud to be a generation which grew watching your classics and master pieces…

Hospital a place to stay away


At different stages in my life I wanted to stay away from different places…

– As a kid I hated schools and wanted to stay away from schools…
– When I had to visit a police station for the first time I waned to stay away…
– When I had some legal issues I had to goto courts… This was the last place I hated until now…

I’m almost living in a hospital for last 6 months to take care of my dad… All the above listed places could manage or handled… But a hospital is a place where we see more sorrow and pain of people…

Hospital is a place where emotions plays big part… Lots of strong people would be seen broken… This one place can teach you a million lessons…

Now if you ask me I’d be glad to visit and live in any other places I hate to the core; but definitely not a hospital…

Someone speaking my mind


Someone is hearing my mind voice….

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Uncertain Times


Last six months have been very testing…. For a person who is motivated, decisive and tough; it is very challenging as it is a time which tests that basic trait….

Yes I’m running thru the trauma of my dad’s health for six months now… Always my parents have given their best to my sister and me in spite of their middle class earnings… They are soo god-fearing, impractical & ordinary common people…

Have been struggling to bring back dad by making him mentally tough and help him win over tough times… Unfortunately I couldn’t push him and make him mentally tough….

Am standing helpless watching him being weak, indecisive and fragile… As am emotionally connected too him I had to bog down to his ordinary ways…

Now left the destiny to god and walking thru with blind hope… Wish god gives mental strength to my dad…

Plans collapsed… But enjoyed!!!


It was 8 PM and called Karthick to check what was he upto… He just got up from his afternoon sleep… We were thinking a lot to engage into some fun activity… We thought of;

  • Going to Hotel Green Park for a drink… But we got bored of GP and drink….
  • Thought of going to Cafe Coffee Day and again there was. Of strong purpose…
  • Then thought if we can drive to Kerala or Karnataka to watch Viswaroopam…. We almost froze this plan… But I had to revoke this plan as my wife was visiting me this weekend…

Finally decided to goto Moonrekers at Mahabalipuram for dinner and spend the night at Cafe Coffee Day the who night…

Wc called Sundar and he was ready to join us… But we got caught in the traffic near Kathipara and it was already 10 PM… Then we thought of going to Buhari for a Briyani… While crossing Velacherry I saw an Andra Hotel by name UGADI and was teasing Karthi that Telegu people have spread everywhere…

Karthi asked if we can try it out there and myself and Sundar seconded it…. As we came out we were delighted wonderful Andra food… We had Plain Rice, Steamed Rice, Chicken Briyani, Fish Curry, Chicken Curry and fried prawns… And yes now we found a place which we will be frequenting often…

From there we drove to Mahabalipuram CCD and it was a fun drive as it has been a while we have been out together… On reaching CCD we sat out and were cracking jokes and in came the manager telling that the joint is closed by 11 PM….

I was disappointed as I couldn’t get my cold coffee :((… Finally my friend Sundar Kumar a go getter went I side the shop and asked if they can give us a Cafe Frappe and he got me got me one…

Finally noting happened as we planned but we couldn’t complain as we enjoyed the day…