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October 2011

Markets follow world lead and open strong in India as Greece & Europe get a strong Breather at a huge Price though…Caution continues to Stock Punters…Don’t Play Poker Blind !

On Global cues Sensex too opened up by over 3% and  600 points,but has now retreated a bit to 17771 as Greece & Europe get a strong Breather at a huge Price though

After several months of High Anxiety and a final night of High Debate,Greece finally got a significant bailout…Lenders agreed to take a 50% haircut on existing Bonds and convert the same to new loans at preferential rates…Greece will be handed  a Hundred Billion Euros as the New Year begins but will have to agree to huge austerity measures to bring down the Debt from the current 180% of GDP to 120% by 2020….It’s not going to be easy for Greece….it’s people have been resorting to violent protests in recent months…these may intensify

Just one simple advice for those punting in Stocks,Currencies and Commodities….don’t play Poker Blind !  

We are all Experts on everything !…Currently We are all in that “hmmmm…” Euro Expert Phase blaming our Sensex Mischief on Greece…humming by default the ‘Mera Naam Joker’ Classic “Aye Bhai,Jara Dekh kay chalo !”

It is quite amusing really…we are experts on just about everything on this planet !…and blame just about everything for the mischievious way our Sensex behaves

…..awhile ago we were all experts on the US Economic and Financial Crisis and what Obama should or should not be doing….then we turned inwards yet again and cursed our Government for Corruption & Inflation ….we are now in that “hmmmm…” Euro Expert Phase and are all awaiting when Greece will default and worse,exit the Eurozone

….meanwhile our Sensex continues to mock us,reversing trends daily while remaining rangebound within 16000 and 17000

Can’t help humming that classic from ‘Mera Naam Joker’…”Aye Bhai,Jara Dekh kay chalo…Aaage bhi nahin,peeche bhi…daye bhi nahin,baye bhi…uppar bhi nahin,neeche bhi…Aye Bhai !

R.I.P Steve Jobs of Apple…There is No Cheat Code for Cheating Death

R.I.P Steve Jobs of Apple

He’s Cheated Death for a few Years…but there is no Cheat Code for Cheating Death

Passed away day before after enduring Pancreatic Cancer and a Liver Transplant

From I-pod to I-Phone to I-Pad and finally to I-Cloud now

Reblogging his 2005 Address at Stanford as below

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Steve Job’s June 2005 Address to Stanford Students

August 30,2008

It was with some amusement that I read the news coverage this morning  of how STEVE JOBS,the Co Founder of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation, read his own obituary !

It seems Newswire Service Provider,Bloomberg’s gaffe occurred during a routine update of STEVE JOBS’ biography.Many newswire services have obits written in advance for prominent people to enable them to quickly put them in the news on death of that person…Bloomberg has an obit prepared for Steve Jobs already and inadvertently published it yesterday only to retract it later ! 

It made me recall a heart warming Speech that STEVE JOBS gave to Stanford University Graduates in June 2005…a Speech that I distributed regularly to participants at my workshops at the BSE Training Institute in 2005 and 2006

In this Speech STEVE JOBS  talks of his Life and breaks it down into Three segments of

  • Connecting the Dots
  • Love and Loss
  • Death

You can view it on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

Enjoy

Gaurav A Parikh

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Thank you. I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots.

Connecting the Dots

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. read more

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