A day in the life
Some thoughts that pop up in the middle of a busy day, which are otherwise lost in the labyrynth of the thousands of tasks already overloading the mind, are what i hope to capture.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
My Brilliant Brain
The power of the brain has yet to be fathomed. To find out its power, one must be able to understand the working of a human brain. The brain has to understand itself, a sort of self referrential loop. The brain has to think about how the brain thinks, using the very mechanism it is triyng to understand. Can a system ever fully define itself, using itself?
Wholesale is a state of mind
A shop has things to sell. This shop might entertain retail customers if the owner wants to make a big profit on a small investment. Because of the big margin, the turnover of cash goes down, reducing the sale amount. Now if the same counter drops the prices a bit below the market prices, the turnover begins to increase. The shop sale amount increases, and it begins to look like a wholesalecounter. Now whether the establisment makes a bigger profit out of the sale, depends on the ability of the shopowner, to balance the margin and the cash turnover. to optimise the profit. This may be reduced to a linear programming problem, where the parameters to consider are margin and turnover to maximise profit. This is necessary because a shop runs to make a profit.
The problem might become more complex due to various boundaries such as MRP, shop next door, prevailing market rates, availibity of material, customer awarness of items available, purchase practices. MRP is a fixed parameter, shop next door is not totally under our control, market rates are more or less fixed, unless you have really stiff competition from a single store like Metro. Items are more or less available, unless there is a sudden change in law or logistics. Creating customer awarness is very important to maximise turnover. In this case margin begins to have a lower weightage in the problem. Purchase department has to be very powerful. Controlling all these variable parameters is where the skill of a shop owner lies. His mind has to be on the job 24x7, or the competition begins to take over.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Self pity is the only thing that holds you back
I saw a three legged dog today. She had pups... she was hobbling along searching for food. Her situation brought tears in my eyes... but she had to do what she had to do. She had to survive... she could not afford self-pity. Why cant we think in the same way when we are not in such a terrible situation. Why cant we stop wasting time and do what really has to be done? Why should we wait for such adversities before we act?
Saturday, December 08, 2007
ek se mera kya hoga.... !!??
Tho aap do lijiye........ aur mere liye??!!.. god knows what everyone wants... he knows everything, hes around yet hes not around... some shadows whisk by, people spend their whole lives chasing them... some people that is... others know exactly what they want... money!!
Aise bhi din aatey hai
There are some days when everything goes haywire and you have not done anything to provoke it. You are coolly sitting having you banana milk shake when the roof begins to creak... the timbers whine and the nails begin to loose grip... all you can do is look for the closest table to crawl under... its all about damage control ... to yourself, rest can take a hike!!! Wonder if it has anything to do with some influences like auras... hmmmm
Friday, December 07, 2007
How much is enough?
The more you want, the more you need;
The more you've got, the lesser you want it;
But you still need it; So you still want;
The more you got, the more you want;
The more you want, the more you need.
Aur ki chahat mein jaane kitne barbaad hue. Isi liye tho saat narak aur ek hi moksh hai!!
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Hafta vasooli n time
Bhidu, paisa nikal, saste me pat jaaega, nahi to saala itna pareshan karoonga ki nani yad aa jaaegi.. who has the time to bloody bear with this crap. Roti phek, kutta chup chap chala jaega. That happens once, now kutta is hungry again, he has digested the last meal, hes on the hunt for more... Now he's lookin for more than the last time, his appetite is wheted with the taste of paisa.
Saala, this bloody gunda gardi is the mantra of every government department. If you want your life to be simple, you better pay up. Where does one get all this money from to feed the dogs?? And remember after eating a few stomach fulls, these dogs begin to turn into wolves. This comes out from anothers pocket... simple. If you stop to look at and analyse this tamasha then you will only waste a large amount of your time, precious hours of your lives on something that is only goin to become worse. The more you try to fight, the more he is goin to try and harass you, just for the sake of one-up-manship, to feed ones ego. The taste of power is intoxicating, especially to someone who has no conciese.
There is no cure for this mutated variety of rabies. It is better to keep away and not be bitten.