Honey where's my Money

the financial crisis happened because unwise investment managers sold unviable inverstment bundles to people. these investment managers used financial models which they themselves did not understand completely to justify the risky products they promoted. the models were greek to most of us and so we relied heavily on the expert advice of our 'so-called' investment experts. we chose to walk over our common sense and bank upon some set of numbers that were gibberish to us but were of great insight to some other 'inteligent' men. the models get passed on from year to year and person to person and survive all types of analysis and questions simply on the premise that they were 'okay' last year too.

there is a strong need to simplify things. infact things start to get complex when our greed takes us over. we want to make that quick buck, or should i say 'big' buck in 'little' time. it is then that we even start exploring opportunities that dont really exist in the real world but are simply born on our computer screens!

s - sex!

the sensex seems to be going mad these days. people always told me its a mad mad market for shares out there, but i never really believed them. i thought some common sense was all one needed to get the better of the stock exchange. well, i was slightly wrong or have been proved wrong atleast for now (till my investments give me some profits!)...

i really wonder at times what drives these prices. nothing drastic seems to have happened in the last one month or so (apart from the budget which was not a shocker by any means..) and the index has jumped about as if its ass was on fire! my investments though have only payed heed to the downside, they seem to ignore the upside very conveniently...

birthdays are meant to be special days. i have never really paid too much attention to them though. be it as it may, this birthday was quite fantastic. the people around me made it worth getting older! ;)

i love delhi and i also hate it! i love mumbai and i also hate it too! i guess its just this thing with our country - something or the other is always lacking (and lacking in plenty...). mumbai rocks for the people there - they seem to be much more chilled than the DAYLIGHTS (delhite) here. the crudeness of the people here irks me no end. the lack of courtesy is troubling. i wont even bother comparing the two places for the infra and amenities they have. mumbai might fall short on that front even to a timbuktoo..!

i hope to fill u guys in on the trek i recently took. the place is called Roopkund (lake) and the journey is the most beautiful i have taken. tired you get, but so what!?! the pleasure completely overtakes you! (... more to follow...)

insouciant, petulant etc etc - these are words that would keep me going. where? - places that i really want to go, tests that i really want to take and books that i really really want to read... and suuei just keeps me up there.... with the words and otherwise, on cloud 999 all the time! :)