Updated Stock Market Dictionary...

With reference to the recent bloodbath at the Stock markets world over here is an updated version of what different terms stand for ...

CEO - Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO - Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no pocket money, Girl Friends and wives get no jewellry, and the guys get no sex...

VALUE INVESTING — The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER — What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

FINANCIAL PLANNER — A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW — The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Reliance Power at Rs. 550.00 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nut house.

PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in use.

WordS of WisDoM ( ==WOW :D )

Now I believe that everything happens for a reason.... People change so that you can learn to let go..... Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they go right.....You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart, so that better things can fall together...! [:)] 

What's right isn't always popular... & ... What's popular isn't always right....

Consider the situation : A Group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track. The train came, and you were just beside the track interchange. You could make the train change its course to the unused track and saved most of the kids. However, that would also mean the lone child playing by the disused track would be sacrificed. Or would you rather let the train go its way?


Let's take a pause to think what kind of decision U/we Would/Could make.


Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess.Exactly, I thought the same way initially because to save most of the children at the expense of only one child was rational decision most people would make, morally and emotionally. But, have you ever thought that the child choosing to play on the disused track had in fact made the right decision to play at a safe place? Nevertheless, he had to be sacrificed because of his ignorant friends who chose to play where the danger was.

This kind of dilemma happens around us everyday.Isnt it ?? At workplaces,colleges , community, in politics and especially in a democratic society, the minority is often sacrificed for the interest of the majority, no matter how foolish or ignorant the majority are, and how farsighted and knowledgeable the minority are. The child who chose not to play with the rest on the operational track was sidelined. And in the case he was sacrificed, no one would shed a tear for him...

Well as for The great critic Leo Velski Julian who narrated this story..."I would not try to change the course of the train because I believe that the kids playing on the operational track should have known very well that track was still in use, and that they should have ran away if they heard the train's sirens. If the train was diverted, that lone child would definitely die because he never thought the train could come over to that track!"

Moreover, that track was not in use probably because it was not safe. So even if the train was diverted ...in your attempt to save a few kids by sacrificing one child, you might end the track, we could put the lives of all passengers on board at stake! And up sacrificing hundreds of people to save these few kids. While we are all aware that life is full of tough decisions that need to be made, we may not realize that hasty decisions may not always be the right one....

Some food for thought ... :) :)

Are V Scared of Being UNiQUe ?? :O

Why do we do what everybody else does, just like everybody else ? And don't tell me that's the best way. It's certainly not the only way, and I doubt if it's the best way.

Life is a creative expression.

We're all different. We're all unique. Each one is beautiful. Isn't that how people are supposed to be? Yet we all follow the status quo. We're really not that unique. Actually i sometimes feel we're too scared to be unique.

Each of us is born a dreamer .I've always been inspired by chasing my dreams ,making them come true..not that i've always been successful bringing them to life,but i haven't failed too badly either .Day before yesterday-another sleepless night ,over the same old dilemma ..GRE/CAT/GMAT ...as i see my friends getting their scores ...pushing up for CAT prep ...and holla..here i m ! yet to even decide which way i wanna go ....I tried to listen to my heart...hoping to get lucky with an intuitive flash,which shall throw me an answer in an impulse, something i resolve to stick by.But i din hear anything ...all i want right now ...is to take my life slow...do things i love...learn flute ..sketch (o yeah ..i purchased a sketchbook ..!! my first ever at that ..!! out of the blue a few days back..:D )...and a lot many more things .Should i go for GRE/CAT just coz i CAN do it ? (kk ..i ll reframe that to ...coz "i stand a decent chance to make it ".:D ) ..well ...i m nt sure ...

...and then towards morning i was again plagued with that same old (and arghh disturbing ..?? ) urge to turn an entreprenuer right after graduation ...followed by same old traversal of mental crossroads and that load of WHAT IF's !...

While walking to oracle today ...when i saw a newly constructed buiding on the ring road ...jus wondered if i'll own something like that some day?...[[well if i kept walking to ORACLE everyday on the same road for coming years.....i certainly wont :D :P]]..but then ...i thot...wat if i really go ahead wid the thing i am really passionate abt ..? ..jus wondered if narayan murthy kept walking to a day job..and never dreamed beyond ...would v have that splendid INFOSYS (look at the buliding man ...!!) out thr ?...well ...then ...u can never say ..how things turn up for U...yes i m afraid ...not exactly of failing my dream ..but yes ...of a lot many other things ...and to be honest i am really not sure if i am ready for the plunge...

I have this urge to break away from what's expected. Society can't tell me how to live. I have the capacity to make my own decisions.I really want to get done with this life of "WHAT IF's and BUT's" ...Why do we always accept with such blind allegiance? We don't question. Well, it's time to start questioning. WHY???