I don’t know how authenticated it is… But I feel proud if this had been true and wish you will get back to those days :)…

Airlines
Indian Airlines	1800 180 1407
Jet Airways	1800 22 5522
Spice Jet	1800 180 3333
Air India	1800 22 7722
Kingfisher	1800 180 0101
Banks
ABN AMRO	1800 11 2224
Canara Bank	1800 44 6000
Citibank	1800 44 2265
Corporation Bank	1800 443 555
Development Credit Bank	1800 22 5769
HDFC Bank	1800 227 227
ICICI Bank	1800 333 499
ICICI Bank NRI	1800 224 848
IDBI Bank	1800 11 6999
Indian Bank	1800 425 1400
ING Vysya	1800 44 9900
Kotak Mahindra Bank	1800 22 6022
Lord Krishna Bank	1800 11 2300
Punjab National Bank	1800 122 222
State Bank of India	1800 441 955
Syndicate Bank	1800 446 655
Automobiles
Mahindra Scorpio	1800 226 006
Maruti	1800 111 515
Tata Motors	1800 225 552
Windshield Experts	1800 113 636
Computers/IT
Adrenalin	1800 444 445
AMD	1800 425 6664
Apple Computers	1800 444 683
Canon	1800 333 366
Cisco Systems	1800 221 777
Compaq – HP	1800 444 999
Data One Broadband	1800 424 1800
Dell	1800 444 026
Epson	1800 440 011
eSys	3970 0011
Genesis Tally Academy	1800 444 888
HCL	1800 180 8080
IBM	1800 443 333
Lexmark	1800 224 477
Marshal’s Point	1800 334 488
Microsoft	1800 111 100
Microsoft Virus Update	1901 333 334
Seagate	1800 180 1104
Symantec	1800 445 533
TVS Electronics	1800 444 566
WeP Peripherals	1800 446 446
Wipro	1800 333 312
Xerox	1800 180 1225
Zenith	1800 222 004
Indian Railway Enquries
Indian Railway General Enquiry	131
Indian Railway Central Enquiry	131
Indian Railway Reservation	131
Indian Railway Railway Reservation Enquiry	134 / 513 / 351 / 330
Indian Railway Centralised Railway Enquiry	1330/1/2/3/4/ 5/6/7/8/9
Couriers/Packers & Movers
ABT Courier	1800 448 585
AFL Wizz	1800 229 696
Agarwal Packers & Movers	1800 114 321
Associated Packers P Ltd	1800 214 560
DHL	1800 111 345
FedEx	1800 22 6161
Goel Packers & Movers	1800 113 456
UPS	1800 227 171
Home Appliances
Aiwa/Sony	1800 111 188
Anchor Switches	1800 227 979
Blue Star	1800 222 200
Bose Audio	1800 112 673
Bru Coffee Vending Machines	1800 447 171
Daikin Air Conditioners	1800 444 222
DishTV	1800 123 474
Faber Chimneys	1800 214 595
Godrej	1800 225 511
Grundfos Pumps	1800 334 555
LG	1800 180 9999
Philips	1800 224 422
Samsung	1800 113 444
Sanyo	1800 110 101
Voltas	1800 334 546
WorldSpace Satellite Radio	1800 445 432
Investment / Finance
CAMS	1800 442 267
Chola Mutual Fund	1800 222 300
Easy IPO’s	3030 5757
Fidelity Investments	1800 180 8000
Franklin Templeton Fund	1800 425 4255
J M Morgan Stanley	1800 220 004
Kotak Mutual Fund	1800 222 626
LIC Housing Finance	1800 440 005
SBI Mutual Fund	1800 223 040
Sharekhan	1800 227 500
Tata Mutual Fund	1800 220 101
Travel
Club Mahindra Holidays	1800 334 539
Cox & Kings	1800 221 235
God TV Tours	1800 442 777
Kerala Tourism	1800 444 747
Kumarakom Lake Resort	1800 445 030
Raj Travels & Tours	1800 229 900
Sita Tours	1800 111 911
SOTC Tours	1800 223 344
Healthcare
Best on Health	1800 118 899
Dr Batras	1800 116 767
GlaxoSmithKline	1800 228 797
Johnson & Johnson	1800 228 111
Kaya Skin Clinic	1800 225 292
LifeCell	1800 445 323
Manmar Technologies	1800 334 420
Pfizer	1800 442 442
Roche Accu-Chek	1800 114 546
Rudraksha	1800 214 708
Varilux Lenses	1800 448 383
VLCC	1800 331 262
Insurance
AMP Sanmar	1800 442 200
Aviva	1800 332 244
Bajaj Allianz	1800 225 858
Chola MS General Insurance	1800 445 544
HDFC Standard Life	1800 227 227
LIC	1800 334 433
Max New York Life	1800 335 577
Royal Sundaram	1800 338 899
SBI Life Insurance	1800 229 090
Hotel Reservation
GRT Grand	1800 445 500
InterContinental Hotels Group	1800 111 000
Marriott	1800 220 044
Sarovar Park Plaza	1800 111 222
Taj Holidays	1800 111 825
Teleshopping
Asian Sky Shop	1800 221 800
Jaipan Teleshoppe	1800 115 225
Tele Brands	1800 118 000
VMI Teleshopping	1800 447 777
WWS Teleshopping	1800 220 777
Pizza’s
Domino’s Pizza	1800 111 123
Cell Phones
BenQ	1800 220 808
Bird CellPhones	1800 117 700
Motorola MotoAssist	1800 111 211
Nokia	3030 3838
Sony Ericsson	3901 1111

Courtesy : Bala Murugan

Yesterday I got latest issue of business gyan… What was special with this issue is it carries bala’s successful post on PF… Bala got an email from Business Gyan asking if they can publish the blog as an article… We felt it as an honored and we immediately accepted the offer… I take this opportunity to wish Mr.Bala Murugan for taking expra effort giving us such a great post and take Cogzidel’s glory to great heights…

You call visit this blog to read the original post… Also you can visit this link to see how it appeared in the magazine…

Also here is the scanned version of the post…

This is what my dietician advised me to follow for next two months… Let me let you know if I followed it…

Sample meal plan

Breakfast

Idli -2 + sambar (avoid coconut chutney)
+ Fruit -1 (apple / pear / guava / 1 cup papaya / orange)
Or
Wheat flakes -1/2 cup + skim milk -150ml + apple -1
Or
Bread (whole wheat) -2 slices + egg white omelette (2 whites) -1
Orange -1
Cornflakes (150 ml skim milk) – 2 cup + Pomegranate – 1 cup

Mid morning               

Buttermilk or fresh lime (sugarless) -1 glass

Lunch 1.00pm

Chapathi – 2 + Mixed vegetable curry – ½ cup 
Levy vegetable – ½ cup
Raw salad -1 cup
Buttermilk (avoid thick curds)
AVOID PICKLE, PAPAD, SWEETS, MIXED RICE

Snacks 5.00pm                                   

Tea -1 cup (½ tsp sugar only)
Marie biscuits -2 nos

Dinner 8.00pm ( EAT EARLY DINNER)

Chapati (without oil) -2 /Iddly-3 / ragi dosa- 2 +
Kootu or dhal or vegetable curry -1cup +
Sprout salad – ½ cup

Measurements/Quantity

1cup = 200ml              1glass = 250ml                                    
1tsp = 5gm                   1tbsp = 15gm

Guidelines

Cereals: Choose a variety   like whole wheat, wheat bread, multigrain bread, ragi, bajra, and jowar

Pulses: Include a wide variety like green gram, rajma,horse gram, soy beans, black eyed beans

Fruits: Eat 2-4 whole fruits everyday. Choose any seasonal fruit.

Vegetables: Include one cup each with lunch and dinner. Restrict using roots and tubers regularly

Green leafy vegetables: Eat thrice a week

Milk and milk products: Choose skim milk for preparing tea, coffee, curds .Include 300-400ml everyday

Oil: Change your cooking oil every month or use a combination from gingelly oil, sunflower, safflower, rice bran, groundnut or corn oil
Oil and sugar: 2-3 tsp per day

Water – drink 2-3 litres per day

Healthy beverage options:
Fresh lime juice                                   Black tea with lime                  Clear soups
Vegetable juices                                  Green tea                                Buttermilk

Avoid
Deep fried foods, Sweets, fruit juices, soft drinks
Pizza, burger, cheese sandwich, Chocolates,Indian sweets, ice creams
Excess salt – pickles, salty snacks – chips, mixture etc
Maida based foods – rumali roti, parota, kulcha,naan, cakes , biscuits

Include

1. Egg white, chicken (without skin). Fish only. Avoid fried dishes
2. 1 cup of subgi and 1 cup of raw salad each with lunch and dinner in day
3. Use green leafy vegetable 4-5 times a week.

General Guidelines

1. Change your cooking oil every month, chose from gingelly, rice bran, and safflower, sunflower, corn and groundnut oils.  Do not reuse cooling oil.
2. Chose high fiber fruits like pear, apple, pomegranate, papaya, pineapple sweet lime, orange and guava
3. Mix soy flour to atta in the ratio 1:5.  You may add ragi flour or jowar flour (kambu) instead of soy flour.
4. Use barley once a week instead of rice.
5. Use 1 tsp of ground flaxseed everyday. Add to chutneys, chapatti dough, salads or mix with fennel and eat it.  It is rich vegetarian source of Omega 3 fatty acid.
6. Garlic -5 flakes, 1 tsp fenugreek seeds everyday
7. Include a  Vit. C rich food in a day for anti oxidant properties
8. Gooseberry, fresh coriander leaves chutney, citrus fruits, papaya, pomegranate, fresh tomato salad, sprouts, broccoli, plum, cherries, strawberries, lemon are excellent sources of Vit. C.

Last weekend I was in Bangalore for attending “Startup Saturday” and “Heavy Metal Bloggers Meet”… I made a small post about Startup Saturday and didn’t do justice for Blogger meet… I thought I must write one because I’ve never seen such an energizing meet where getting along was soo informal and easy…

Before sharing the experience I want to tell you about IndiBlogger.in a social networking site for bloggers and the site is gaining momentum… I really like the concept behind the site and thrilled to know if is run by someone from Chennai…

Heavy Metal Bloggers Meet happened at Stone Pub in Indra Nagar 100 feet road, venue is stone throwing distance from my old office (I had short stint as employee might be less than 3 months)… The meet was sponsored by Kingfisher and beer’s were offered for free; am happy recession didn’t affect beverages industry… My Special thanks to Vijay Mallya & Kingfisher….

Networking in pub is not a new affair to me… Infact I’ve a lot of beer mates in my life… But this time it was different because everyone is a blogger and synergies are equal… Met couple of interesting folks… I remember couple of names Sourav, Amit, Swaminathan, Revin, Karthik, Naveen, Anwin(Organiser), Narayanan (We knew each other before)… We shared our experience and then there was some quiz conducted…

Then I sat along with Amit and were discussing about entrepreneurship… Yep I’m a Startup evangelist and when I see someone interested never give them room to leave :)…

Here are some on the snaps taken and you can fee how it would have been;

Thatz the Banner for the Meet…

Free beers and you can see what the consumption would have been… People took more than their limit and it then you can imagine… it was FUN FUN FUN everywhere…

Even there was glamour attached… And these were the people who organized the meet…

Itz me(Orange T-Shirt) & Sourav…

Quiz Time

Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Six ways to make people like you

1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile.
3. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
6. Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.

Win people to your way of thinking

1. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
2. Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, "You’re wrong."
3. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
4. Begin in a friendly way.
5. Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.
6. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
7. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.
8. Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view.
9. Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.
10. Appeal to the nobler motives.
11. Dramatize your ideas.
12. Throw down a challenge.

Be a Leader: How to Change People without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment

A leader’s job often includes changing your people’s attitudes and behavior. Some suggestions to accomplish this:

1. Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
2. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.
3. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
4. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
5. Let the other person save face.
6. Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise."
7. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
8. Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
9. Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

I wanted to share with you all a real case where in I got help from many brains in the world… Yesterday (02/17/2008) I was loaded with lots of work… In the back of my mind I wanted to create a FUN environment in my office… I was unable to think anything beyond Chess, Carom & Table Tennis… So I decided to get more ideas/thoughts from people and posted a tweet

“folks can you suggest some indoor office games which you loved to have it in office”

To my surprise there were tremendous response and still I keep getting suggestions… Here are some on the replies I got in twitter…

halfbrain @anandnataraj [games] Install some good multiplayer shooter games in local lan and ask them to play against each other..even girls enjoy it about 5 hours ago from web halfbrain @anandnataraj regarding games.. Is your office big? If so put up a TT table otherwise darts will be a good diversion another good idea is.. about 5 hours ago from web sudarmuthu @anandnataraj [folks can you suggest some indoor office games which you loved to have it in office] Table Tennis about 5 hours ago from web in reply to anandnataraj    archonline @anandnataraj how about chess 😛 about 6 hours ago from twhirl meetgopal @anandnataraj Chess & Carrom (Low investment, good games, less space). If you can afford, threadmill & TT for physical exercise about 6 hours ago from web in reply to anandnataraj manishmo @anandnataraj Carom, Darts, TT, Chess, Scrabble, about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to anandnataraj arifulanam @anandnataraj him. Thus the elimination game continues to its finish. about 6 hours ago from web arifulanam @anandnataraj name happens to start with the letter he gets in his turn he is out of the game, the game continues from the person next to about 6 hours ago from web arifulanam @anandnataraj so on till ‘z’ & start again from ‘a’ with the next member or next round- the important thing is if anybody’s about 6 hours ago from web     arifulanam @anandnataraj For a large group: Alphabet game : The first member starts with the letter ‘a’, next one says ‘b’, next one ‘c’ and about 6 hours ago from web arifulanam @anandnataraj you can play the usual games like 20 Questions Pictionary Antakshari Dumb Charades Most of the suggestion might be common but Dart, Network Gaming, Scrabble, Treadmill for exercise, Alphabet game and more were not in my mind at all… That is the power of multiple brains working for a single need and I must really thank twitter for creating such a platform…

Also there are many cases where I used twitter and other social networks for my benefit… Since this is in parse of Twitter let me tell what all I gained from twitter till now… I won two business deals thru twitter… I wanted alpha testers to test a product developed by Cogzidel and when I posted tweet requesting help, there were lots of people who showed interest to help…

 Let me list some of the benefits I got from twitter…

• Sharing of knowledge
• Sharing of information
• Sharing of ideas
• Getting business
• Collaborating & Co-creating
• etc

Just understood the power of social media and community participation and wanted to share it with you…

Thanks a lot Twitter…

Though accounting is a support function it demands high importance in an organization… I remember this famous quote said by Rich Dad to Robert Kiyosaki

“You accounts statement shows there is cancer in it”

In the book Kiyosaki states “when he met Rich Dad to get his advice on the position his business, what Rich Dad asked was for Accounts Statement and reviewing the accounts statement he said Kiyosaki that there was Cancer in his company”. What Kiyosaki means is a company’s position can be read from its accounts.

Likewise a promoter needs proper accounting systems and practices to reap the benefits of all the hard work he has put into his entity… Companies like Worldcom, Enron, Satyam and many more unheard stories have fell down because of accounting irregularities…

Accounting reports are very important and an entrepreneur needs it to take strategic decision… Without an Account’s Report most of the decisions taken can’t be accurate and can prove a costly mistake…

Also we need to Account’s reports and projections when we apply for a loan or approach PE’s or VC’s for funding… But this support function has mostly been sidelined by many promoters and by the time they realize their mistake, it would have been too costly…

So, I recommend entrepreneurs to give high importance to Accounting function’s and hire a experienced Accountant and gain control from the beginning… If you are unable to afford an experienced accountant you can outsource the support services where in you get the same advantage and still have control…

Let me consolidate some points and make a brief…

• Accounting reports helps in strategic decision making…
• Analyzing and reviewing performance of company’s growth…
• Need these reports to apply for loans and for approaching VC’s & PE’s for funding