random musings...

I don’t have much knowledge about US politics and history but learning very hard now. I followed this presidential election process from start, may be because of our high profile candidate Barrack Obama from Chicago. Last 3 days, it was a great chance to acquire more knowledge from one of the leading political party’s convention. Each day there are new speakers better than previous day’s speakers, setting bar high and high. I believe as of now better speaker award goes to Joe Biden. He mentioned his father’s words of ‘when you get knocked down, get up very fast, get up’ is something everybody should follow all the time. In my mind, I created some negative image for Biden because I read about his comments about splitting Iraq into 3 pieces and ‘you can’t go to 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have slight Indian accent’ [Source : CNN.Com ]. Now I’m thinking that he is a straightforward, bitter outspoken, emotional man. He would tell whatever he thinks from his mind. I think we [world] ne...

Business sense with my wife and her family is big ZERO. For them, business means a non-profit organization, to serve community. But for how long, in order to serve community, we have to make lot of money to take care of community and ourselves. From my side, everybody has strong business sense. For us, business means making money, and of course gives away some portion for community. 2 years ago, my wife started a cooking blog , slowly and steadily she drew huge audience base and she worked hard to publish her posts. As my mom said, it required a special skill to write something, in step by step process, especially from cooking aspect. One day I noticed her blog visitor count, I was astonished. I asked her to add Google Ad sense to make some money, but she simply refused it because she doesn’t want visitors to click Google ads, instead of 'feed for hungry kids' community link. I was again impressed and praised her generosity. From the blog experience and 6 years of marriage life...

When I was kid, my mom used to tell me Ramayanam , Mahabaratham the great epics of Hinduism. As a kid, it was fascinating to hear epics as bed time story. One thing, I got interested from those epics is “ Bhagavad-Gita ” (Song of God) from Mahabaratham. But i still believe both of these epics are myth and superstition. Bhagavad-Gita is holy book for Hindus, like Bible for Christians, Quran for Muslims. Hinduism mainly deals with the way of life, even though Hinduism discourage war and violence, these two main Hindu epics are based on wars and to tell drawbacks of wars. One is between Ram (God) and Ravanan and other one is between cousins with one side got support from God Krishna. Song of God is the series of advice from God to Arjunan, one of the main characters from Mahabaratham, who is in war with his cousins to reclaim his country, which was lost by his elder brother because of gambling game between cousins. During the final phase of war, Arjunan lost interest of war and he realize...

In this world, most successful political leaders, big businessman/woman, legendary sportsperson had some issues during their childhood. Here is the main difference between east and west cultures. In west, early diagnose, treat well, channelize towards the advantage path. In east, it is called karma, he or she committed sin in previous life so he/she has to pay back for that, even small childhood asthma not treated well and that becomes his/her lifetime disease. When ever reporter asked Michael soon after his wins with world record, he usually replied that he was lack of words. He told in interview with NBC's Bob, he can visualize something well and remember a face with an occurrence, and he hate to lose, strive for perfection all time. Yes, he is dyslexic [most likely] with ADHD. His mom is a teacher, she diagnosed it well in advance, swimming is the salvation for ADHD, and hence US got a perfect swimmer for this century. The point is, during the NBC interview, they outspoken about...

Today is our 61 st Independence Day. India is getting mature and mature, still a long way to go to achieve developed country status. A long ago, a friend of mine, argued with me that why India is one country, it should be European Union format. 28 states are mainly based on languages and different cultures and we can’t be in a single umbrella. I also prematurely nod to that argument. I just compared European Union success and thought that was a great idea. But both me and him are missed an important history of our country and geography dependence on each one. We were separated by tens of thousands kingdoms before British conquered us. This kingdoms are heavily depends on each other for resources, mainly foods. Indian food habit is not same as western. Even we are depending on each other for small food grains. For example, Chera kingdom depends on Travancore kingdom for coconuts and Travancore kingdom depends on Martha for onions. In other words, none of the kingdoms were fully nat...

After the spectacular opening ceremony, Olympics games started with usual sprit and enthusiasm. Good news is, India ends its 112 year drought, Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra wins first gold medal for India. India won many gold medals from team sports but this is the first time that India won a gold medal for individual performance. This is good for a country is full of Cricket crazy people, his gold definitely helps some youngster to start playing other sports. As usual, Michael Phelps is in hunt for gold medals for team USA. I think he is born for swimming, his special ability is under water swimming after turn over, that gives a big push for him. Yesterday’s 200 M freestyle, no body can come near to him. Sunday’s basketball game between USA and China was also great. Just before 2nd half, USA showed all acrobats and over powered China. The same day, cycle road race also fantastic, not the game though, the race was some 6 hours or so, they covered Beijing’s outskirt, what a beautiful l...

All Chinese people, it is the proudest time ever. What happened today is not just a game opening, China showed the world their spectacular growth, and how a country can progressively develop from no where. Just 30 years ago, China was one of the 3 rd  world countries, not even able to control it’s own population growth, poverty, no contact with outside world.  This is not a yet other opening ceremony, well blended with high-tech, history, hard working, elegance, colorful fireworks and emotions. I was touched by one of the earthquake survivor , 9 year old boy's China flag hosting march with athletes. wow... Most Liked ones 1. The 360 deg. surrounding mega LCD screen. 2. The ground rolling LCD screen. So  nice. 3. Whole lit up with loads of fire works. 4. The ship theme, brought ocean and boats  right in the middle of the stadium. 5. Unbelievable fireworks from start to end, real feast to our eyes. 6. Very First drum display for count down. 7. Walking on the vertical LCD,acrobats. 8....

Apache CXF , I would say a right framework for right time. We built software to support B2B (Business to Business) or B2C (Business to Consumer), now we are moving towards SaaS and cloud computing, I would say, this is 4 th generation of computing paradigm. As SaaS(Software as a Service) name implies, Service oriented architecture is the future for all software applications. Scalable, interoperable and maintainability are the key for any software applications. What is Apache CXF? Last year, 2 of main open source web service frameworks xFire and Celtix decided to merge and submitted a proposal to Apache for a joint development. Apache CeltixXFire(CXF) is an open source web service framework. “CXF helps you build and develop services using front end programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.” Actually, we can pretty much easily plugin “any”...

Today as usual I met a friend of mine at train, he was just outburst about my yesterday's blog. There i mentioned that "who is smart? paying $1100 rent Vs $2200 mortgage". Because he is owning a house and exactly paying $2200 for mortgage!!!...Oops my bad, i just expressed my opinion and exactly matched his situation. I decided to strike the line. I started very positive about home ownership. In fact, i also started looking to buy a house at Naperville neighbourhood. It doesn't matter how much we are paying..all matters is "you are a proud owner of a home"...my friend. Ok. Tomorrow is Bear's first preseason match. Now million dollar question is who is going to be the starting Quarterback. Bears has long history of changing quarterback within every 2-3 games. Bear changed 49 times their starting quarterback since 1992. As per latest news, Orton going to be starting quarterback for tomorrow's match against Kansas City and Grossman will be for Seattle m...

Return on Investment (roi) is the key for all investment. On average, stock market gives 10-15% roi for any year. My personal goal is 50% roi for any given year. Did i achieve that first time? Answer is no. I couldn’t make it, in fact my first investment year, it was 2001, was massive distress. I lost almost $6,000 on one stock and total lost was almost $12,000. I used Las Vegas roulette style to make money from stock market, result is big lost of money. I was novice at that time. But i never quit, until today i invest some portion of my money into some investment, i never ever accumulate money in saving account. I believe each one is different, making money from investment depends on one’s personality. If someone is pessimist in nature, how can he/she make money from stock investment? For those, real estate is good option. If someone is optimist and flexible then stock market is cash cow for them. As i said, always remember nuclear war can only make stock market to disappear, in that ...

Happy Friendship day. “Every person is a new door to a different world” a famous quote. So be friend with everybody, learn, enrich, and collaborate with each other peacefully and meaningfully until they prove otherwise. Bull and Bear are one’s perspective about stock or overall market condition. Bull means full of optimism, take charge now. The bulls usually drive market to acme. Bear means cautiously optimist, don’t want to take decision now, slow down and usually drive market to nadir. For further reading http://ibloggergeek.blogspot.com/2008/06/optimism-vs-cautiously-optimism.html http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/08/24/optimistic-or-pessimistic-which-is-better The point to remember is, we should transmute bull mode or bear mode time to time. An investor who plays always bull or always bear means he/she tend to lose money and called pig. So how to become bull or bear based on conditions? Prediction is the key element of transmute. Here are points to predict market well before to take...