Can we buy a little happiness everyday
Every day is a blur, every day is another churn of the machine, every day is another fleeting memory, everyday is another sad story. I recently befriended a girl and almost instantly envied her because she seemed to derive happiness from the smallest and most trivial things that most of us so nonchalantly wave away. […]
Blaming the market turmoil on FAS 157
What a blast from the past. FASB is finally issuing new guidance about market-to-market accounting rules after much finger pointing from both the Congress and the Wall St wonks. Almost a year ago, there was a big furor by Blackstone’s Schwartzman about the potential dangers of FAS 157 and the blogosphere debated about it pretty […]
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si
is now stuck in my head. The seven basic notes of classical music are the 101 of all basic music learning, yet I have never heard of them till last week when I was asked to memorize them till I could sing every song in these syllables. The first thing that came to my mind […]
The Bozon Threat
A couple of decades ago, public health officials noted an increasing and alarming phenomenon. Smart people who had spent a lot of time with stupid people were turning stupid. Permanently. This was seen as a significant problem. Investigation revealed that stupid people emit a small, lightweight particle that travels in irregular motions like a fly […]
Bank Nationalization….Been there, done that
Today AIG sounded more like ‘Americans in Grief’ than ‘America’s International Grandiose’. Both WSJ and NYT had front page articles covering the big bad wolf and how it was consuming our hard-earned dollars faster than we can say kaboom. There is a large public debate on whether nationalization of banks and financial institutions is a […]
My favorite wine – Gewürztraminer
If it was any easier to pronouce, I would be just drinking brandy. Gewürztraminer (ɡəˈvÊrtstraˈmi:nÉš) is a sweet, sensous and aromatic wine that has hints of roses, passion fruit and floral essences. I don’t remember exactly how I first tasted Gewurztraminer, but it was definitely by chance; it was one of the scores of wines […]
Why I am rooting for Slumdog Millionaire
I suppose there are scores of rave reviews for Slumdog Millionaire out there; so i figured it wouldnt hurt to do make the count into count+1 (spoken like a true geek). Even though Bollywood is still the most profilic movie churning machine in the world, there are probably only a dozen or so truly unique […]
The only way to save GM
Today I had a chance to skim through the restructuring plans presented by GM and Chrysler to Congress (GM Plan, Chrysler Plan). GM’s situation is much alike Citi’s; both are too big to fail, both have a lot of toxic assets on their books, and both have a far reaching ripple effect on the global […]
What makes us grown-ups
I believe I once read in a fortune cookie that…. “people are as old as they want to believe they are”. I remember that as a child I once wanted to be a doctor, to save lives, to be the hero who rescued the day, the godfather-persona who everyone would owe a favor to. Those […]
Why I will blog more regularly
People blog for three different reasons: a. They want attention and they have interesting lives and thoughts they want others to know about b. They want to make money from their blogs at some point, so they start blogging about one particular topic c. They like to influence others through their opinions and insights, typically […]