You got to get to know this Lady….MM….let’s call her M Square…..she’s been a part of the Bombay Stock Exchange Circuit for Donkeys years….she’s not a Broker….but knows most of them…atleast the ones’ that matter…..trades in and out all the time…an addict you might call her…cries when she loses…cries even more when she has to pay taxes…handles her own portfolio…nobody elses
Her passion for stocks supersedes all other passions,including those she may feel for her husband and kids…….she’s more Sensitive than our Sensex !…..I thinks it must run in her genes…she’s been brought up in one big joint family and in a commercial environment, as a big mill owner’s daughter…”Those were the days” she reminisces
At Two in the night she’s online and initiating a chat with me saying “What’s Up ?” and I tell her to go to sleep promising that the Sensex would be Up the next Day…We’re always popping up on MSN during Market Hours exchanging stock notes and research and how our kids are faring in school…both our daughters are in the same division…same class and same school
She’s more into Technical Analysis and reads Stock and Index charts all the time…I’m not into it at all…More a Fundamental Guy
She’s street smart and her Instincts are very sharp…she can smell a winner before it becomes one…..”I told you so !” is her common refrain when I don’t heed her call…and when she herself does not heed her own call or instinct she utters ” I’m sooooo stupid…I’m an Idiot…a fool ! ”
Her Network is very strong…all “Bhais”…no “Behens”….she’s an ace at keeping these “Bhais” at arms length…some of them are “Big Bhais” in our Capital Markets….after all this is the line where you work hard and play hard…she’s especially get’s hot when she inquires ” What’s Hot?” and expects a Stock’s name and I reply “You!”
She prefers stocks to shaking a leg while her husband,who’s a great guy, loves partying…he’s promised to take me instead of her to happening do’s…he’s invited regularly to quite a few Page 3 events…he’s in a top position in a top ad group..I’ve told him I would prefer “do’s” where I can have some intelligent conversation…he’s not yet taken me !
She never talks shop when we’re chatting even when I’m trying to “de-addict” her if you call it that when I try to veer away from stocks….Awhile ago I did succeed in breaking through her Stock barrier where she revealed her creative side…she emailed me two poems she had written in English…here’s One of them….if it’s not below it means she’s asked me to remove it from this blog and I would have done so to respect her creative privacy
In dark nights
Silence speaks
The words not uttered
Linger amidst the arch of the brow
A kiss lies quiet on the moonlit bed
The hours
Are not afraid to pass on
By the windows
The heat of summer fading
Lovers sleeping
Their breaths mingled with each other
The heart is not quiet
It searches its own picture
In the past
The present
Climbs steps one by one
Reaching further onto long roads
With some flowers along the side
Some blooming,
Some yet budding
Some withered and forgone
Long roads
Silent words
Dark nights
Dormant emotions
The hands of the sky are empty
Even when the stars are plenty
The clouds do not echo
Their voice
Silence speaks
The words not uttered
Do they always go unheard?
On long roads
In dark nights
The need of love
Grows
Like seasons
Without the need of reasons
Love
Is never right or wrong
It’s like
A beautiful song
That lives
On and on
In the hearts
Of those
Who long
To belong
To love………..