Reading update

It’s not that nothing has been happening, in fact lots of things have been happening.Bon Vivant may get a bigger order at a BPO firm, keeping my fingers crossed about that. We visited a farm on Friday to see if we could lease it and start farming. Doesn’t look very promising, it’ll take a lot

Sites to bookmark

Startup resources –http://mca.gov.in/(updated – 06/03/09)Almost all legalities related to setting up a company can be completed online from this site. One of the most useful feature is checking if a company name is available for registration. Create a user i.d as ‘registered user’ and after logging in select ‘check for company name’ from the list.

Interesting finds

QipitA neat little web app – it can beautify and do other wonders to pictures of documents you take from your mobile or digital camera. And, not just documents, but whiteboards, brochures and other stuff too. You just click the picture and if you have email access on your mobile, just email it to an

A new LOB

Well, not really an LOB, but at least a new project. I am to teach computers to the chairman of a construction company and his wife. His secretary called me up last week if I was interested, and I jumped in. Went to meet her and she explained to me the requirements, etc. I agreed

When it rains, it pours

Nov 4Met the admin in the morning. Murthy seems busy with arrangements for his daughter’s birthday party. He didn’t make it to the meeting. I couldn’t negotiate with them to increase the price at all. What’s more, they need so many other things to be done by us. I am not sure if we will

Post Diwali

Got confirmation of my first order today (initially on a trial basis). It’s at the pharma company I had earlier written about. If they are happy with us, we will get a contract for one year. The price they want the food at is very low, but maybe we can negotiate this with them. We

Encouraging

Met with reps from a pharma company today, they seemed interested. I hope we can get this deal. At least I’ll be making some subsistence money. I have had a one year fixed deposit with ICICI with 8.5% interest since April this year. Any guesses how much it has accrued till now? 0.4%. That’s right,

Long hiatus

It was a long break from blogging for a couple of reasons – I went home (Dharwad) for a week and before that, my internet setup was all but destroyed. latter was a good financial blow – had to buy a new laptop adapter and some other equipment, all because of a voltage problem.I bought

A brave decision

Now, for something completely different.The links below are about a story which is not so usual – in fact, even unusual in India. A person going ahead and getting a sex change operation done. And, I knew this person too. A senior from college (don’t know personally) – Gunraj Dhaliwal, very good singer, reputed to