Updates !!

There are probably a million things I want to pen down:

1. Work is good, pretty smooth start till now. I have one employee working full time, one part time, one consultant and two on contract basis for electrical works.
2. Also jumping into LED works. Its all energy saving afterall :-)
3. It JUST started raining, as I'm writing this :D
4. Life is getting boring apart from work excitement. Waiting for friends to get married.
I attended a marriage recently, an acquaintance from business and I realized how much fun it would have been if all my friends were in India. sob sob

5. I'm expanding my office to take over the whole hall. Roomies are being supportive, poor guys :D
6. I have to buy a lot of office furniture. Already bought a all-in-one printer. Need three computer tables, two chairs etc.
7. My friend is coming from Dubai to help me with the technical stuff. He'll stay for a few days with me.
8. My brochures and website would be ready by wednesday. I'm sooo excited :D
9. Ahh ...what else, oh yah I lost 5pounds :D I'm fit again.

The only sad story rt now is I keep having these silly fights with someone I really don't want to. Life is sooooo simple but some people just complicate it huh!!


I could write a lot more, but I got to be elsewhere now :-) adios

Tensed ?

I always knew I have a good knack to run business', but never knew starting one would be such a hassle :-). There are a million little things to take care of and its a chicken or the egg story at every step!!

Phew ...

Business kickoff is good, but looking at the number of solar power plants coming up, I'm really tensed about the new competition. I really feel, I should have started back in 2008 when I initially decided, but then no point thinking over it rt :-). Looks like I have lost the opportunity to build a solar plant till 2013, atleast for public purchase. Ofcourse we never know how things would go in the private sector.

There is this incredible wealth of information I have acquired over the last few months, (inspite of my laziness ;) ) which I just hope I could put to proper use. All I need from here, is patience, persistence and self motivation.

I hired an engineer who will be my trump card for the next step, he is expected to join from June 1st, which means I'll have to take an office space or atleast 2 cubicles/cabins. More costs.

I'll be using tempest advertising for all PR related stuff including website, brochure etc etc. Doesn't come cheap, but then I could invest that time in my business. Outsourcing is how we have lived.

Just few updates from the back of my mind, got a long day ahead, time is running by, and its already Friday :( wish the clock rotates back 1yr :D


On a different note, as a sequel to this post (http://saaketh-preetham.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-cheat-on-her.html) I bought a new mobile, my 3rd phone in 6yrs. I had to sell the HTC due to its battery backup. Bought a Nokia 7230 (http://www.nokia.co.in/find-products/products/nokia-7230), basic features, no touch screen (I don't like touch), good battery backup, wide screen. Thats all I need :-) n Oh its a slide phone, I always had a thing for slide phones :-). Strange that Nokia didn't come up with a piece like this earlier. But better late than never isn't it.


I had a nice 3day trip home, not to relax though, along with few family members. I had to sleep for a day after coming back :D but it was worth it. Had lot of laughs, miss cousins, it would have been a blast if any/all of them were in India. huh !!

The hard truth !!!

My heart has been bleeding blood for quite a while regarding the focus of media on non-trivial issues.

Today, Shashi Tharoor, in his interview to NDTV made a question, just one question to Barkha Dutt. In the last few weeks there were a couple of highly placed delegates who visited India, there were some PMs who visited India, there are soo many things happening in the ministry of external affairs and he tweets about them too. So why didn't any media report any of these. Why is media only focussed on controversies with no proof and why doesn't it report to the public the actual happenings in the govt, things that actually make a difference to thier lives, things that change the way of living.

I love Hindu, for it stands to be the only newspaper which just mentioned Sachins 200 in front page and detailed article in sports page on a day when there were other major political changes happening. It remains to be the only paper whose main article remains to be the PMs visit and policies on nuclear deal and secondary article on Tharoor. It happens to be the only print or otherwise media which appears to maintain the integrity.

I bow to thee !!!

I'm hiring

1st lesson learnt in business, don't try to do everything yourself to save 10bucks, you could earn a 100 if the time is utilized otherwise !!!

I tried to overdo things, take care of office design, website design, certifications, registrations, accounts, blah blah blah everything. Net result I lost focus for a while, on what is the most important thing, actual business. Luckily I didn't lose much as govt is drafting some new policies and everyone is in a standby mode.

Now I need to hire employees, my 1st one being a Solar Design n Installation Engineer. This is getting very difficult, esp in India. I need someone with 1.5-2yrs experience. Is it too much to ask? Training a electrical engineer has become very very costly n then there is the attrition problem, but for now doesn't look like I have much of a choice !!!


Anyone interested??

Good things

A new post from a one time regular blogger, reminded me that there is an end to everything. Especially in the internet age of this 21st century nothing stays forever. Blogging was a fad few years back, though the original idea of a blog was to have an online journal, it slowly turned into a place where people could find audience for their thoughts, and later it was just about the audience and no of comments. Not that I have anything against it, but it wouldn't really work for long coz you'd have to keep up with your writing skills, stick to the theme (like the newspaper columnists do) and constantly work on luring more audience.

So was the case with myspace, next orkut, wouldbe twitter. The idea of finding audience on net is appealing but has to be constantly reworked n strategy redefined based on the mindset of your audience. You would not be able to be yourself, coz you'll have to serve to their needs. SRK can't put down his frustration on KKRs coz his audience would just be disappointed, Bachan can't scold his daughter in law even if he felt like coz thats not expected from him.

Most of the regular blogs I used to visit are in a coma, so changing the list on the right side of the page.

This is just an arbit thought, n that's what this blog is about, my thoughts. So for the minute few who read it, ignore if you got bored :)