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	<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Broken windows, litter and MRTS station</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/09/04/broken-windows-litter-and-mrts-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.influenceatwork.com/Media/BrokenWindowsArticle.pdf
Anyone who had been to the lighthouse MRTS station will vouch for this. I don&#8217;t think we need research to prove. But anyways.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>http://www.influenceatwork.com/Media/BrokenWindowsArticle.pdf</p>
<p>Anyone who had been to the lighthouse MRTS station will vouch for this. I don&#8217;t think we need research to prove. But anyways.</p>
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		<title>Indian sub-continent sans cricket</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/09/01/indian-sub-continent-sans-cricket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if the game of cricket would again be restricted to the good ol&#8217; white countries? 
Media houses in the INDIAN SUB CONTINENT will run out of &#8216;news&#8217;.
Vetti journos would lose jobs.
Actresses would choose less dumb boy friends.
Players will not make the kind of money they do. If you don&#8217;t exist, you can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What would happen if the game of cricket would again be restricted to the good ol&#8217; white countries? </p>
<p>Media houses in the INDIAN SUB CONTINENT will run out of &#8216;news&#8217;.<br />
Vetti journos would lose jobs.<br />
Actresses would choose less dumb boy friends.<br />
Players will not make the kind of money they do. If you don&#8217;t exist, you can&#8217;t make money.<br />
We will not have cricket boards, hence no question of &#8216;the richest cricket board&#8217;.<br />
Cricket will be restricted to the home backyards, where hopefully it is not &#8217;spot fixed&#8217;  and hence it is in it&#8217;s purest form.<br />
Cricket will be forgotten in due course (the world will not end because of this).<br />
People will grow up and move on to much more important things. Which is not bad at all.</p>
<p>Knowing full well the true titans of the game from the INDIAN SUB-continent countries, and with due respects to their achievements, after considering all the pros and cons, I think net-net, it would only be good for everyone, especially the sub-continent countries  if they stop patronizing cricket. </p>
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		<title>EA</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/29/ea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly opened EXPRESS AVENUE mall has helped me immensely. I can now go to citi center and be done with the needed shopping quickly.
I am eagerly waiting for someone to open a bigger, better mall than EA so then I can then go to EA and be done with my shopping quickly.
My feedback on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The newly opened EXPRESS AVENUE mall has helped me immensely. I can now go to citi center and be done with the needed shopping quickly.</p>
<p>I am eagerly waiting for someone to open a bigger, better mall than EA so then I can then go to EA and be done with my shopping quickly.</p>
<p>My feedback on EA:<br />
Full marks for parking facilities in terms of space.<br />
Walking through the mall is comparable with the Valley Fair mall in the bay area. The ambience and the scale is world class.</p>
<p>Bad points:<br />
No marks for the way the &#8216;podhu janam&#8217; approach the parking. Overtaking, coming on the wrong side seems common there as well. I sincerely request folks to follow &#8216;tamil tradition&#8217; by switching on their headlights while approaching in the wrong side in future. </p>
<p>Crowd. I was stunned by the crowd. So much so I was out of it in about 35 mins which includes 20 minutes for getting in, out and searching for my motorbike. Many people attain nirvana in crowded malls. They &#8216;hang out&#8217;, &#8216;chill out&#8217;, &#8216;make out&#8217;, &#8216;eat out&#8217; etc.  I will never hang out in such a place even if some one gives me a cup of free pulioyadharai, ven pongal with lot of ghee. I sincerely request the management to open a Pothys, Chennai silks, RMKV etc, there so that i will never come to the mall again.</p>
<p>My wife had a lot to complain about the restroom. The possibility of a world class mall with the best branded retail outlets in the world, and the people who look like super models walk past you co-existing with a &#8216;galeej&#8217; restroom is possible only in India. No other country can give you that experience.</p>
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		<title>Indian Managemantra</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/27/indian-managemantra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often wondered why the Indian managements are by and large opaque in their dealings with employees. Even trivial things will be hush-hushed. I realized a couple of days back thats because the average employee does not respect nor appreciate transparency. My experience tells me that we Indians worship and bow to authority (see [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have often wondered why the Indian managements are by and large opaque in their dealings with employees. Even trivial things will be hush-hushed. I realized a couple of days back thats because the average employee does not respect nor appreciate transparency. My experience tells me that we Indians worship and bow to authority (see kalaignar paaraatu vizha, JJ paaraatu vizha etc), but if the authority likes to be friendly and transparent, the folks in general back bite, talk negative and make fun of those who are trying to make things better. Sometime back we lost a very good manager because, alas, he was too open for his own good. </p>
<p>My wife works in a college where I think even the glass will not be transparent, and yet the organization works like a charm. The semi-literate management  knows how to <del datetime="2010-08-27T07:10:53+00:00">manage</del>control a group of highly educated doctors and make them dance to their raaga. I think the maxim &#8216;we get what we deserve&#8217; holds true for most of the things in life, and I think this is especially true for the management we work under.</p>
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		<title>AGMs</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/26/agms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got this from theequitydesk.com
Vivek I has the opportunity of attending a few AGMs and except me and Chinki no one talked about the operatiuons of the companies, people were talking only about discount coupons, bonus, dividends and free bus rides to the AGM venue etc.
 
Such an approach helped us a lot because we got a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got this from theequitydesk.com</p>
<blockquote><p>Vivek I has the opportunity of attending a few AGMs and except me and Chinki no one talked about the operatiuons of the companies, people were talking only about discount coupons, bonus, dividends and free bus rides to the AGM venue etc.<br />
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Such an approach helped us a lot because we got a chance to talk one on one - face to face with the management whereas the other shareholders were filling up empty Bisleri bottles with Instant Coffee and stuffing samosas in polythene bags!.</p></blockquote>
<p>- Basant Maheshwari</p>
<p>http://www.theequitydesk.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=861&#038;PN=123</p>
<p>No wonder equity investing is considered risky.</p>
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		<title>Fortune in front of a bank</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/25/fortune-in-front-of-a-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It somehow seemed odd that three guys offered to check my fortune in my palm in velachery  two days back. All in a soan of few minutes. The first guy offered near IOB in by pass road. The second guy offered when I crossed the road to go to the HDFC bank.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It somehow seemed odd that three guys offered to check my fortune in my palm in velachery  two days back. All in a soan of few minutes. The first guy offered near IOB in by pass road. The second guy offered when I crossed the road to go to the HDFC bank.<br />
The third guy offered when I park my vehicle in front of Axis Bank near Sutherland Global Services. I crossed the road and I spotted a fourth one offering his services to another hapless bank customer near The Karur Vysya Bank. </p>
<p>I had no cue how many have landed in velachery. Why near bank premises alone, on a week day afternoon? Are they really some no-income fortune tellers desperate for a scapegoat or are they part of any conspiracy theory only time will tell.  </p>
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		<title>Yuvan deserves a re-rating?</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/24/yuvan-deserves-a-re-rating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened to  &#8216;Naan Mahaan Alla&#8217; from a website which plays commercials mandatorily and songs optionally (raaga.com) today. I should I say i instantly liked a couple of songs&#8230; Blame it on my &#8216;matamaana rasanai&#8217;. Rasanai&#8217; apart, I thought this Yuvan guy needs a relook from the Tamil koorum nallulagam for these reasons:
He is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I listened to  &#8216;Naan Mahaan Alla&#8217; from a website which plays commercials mandatorily and songs optionally (raaga.com) today. I should I say i instantly liked a couple of songs&#8230; Blame it on my &#8216;matamaana rasanai&#8217;. Rasanai&#8217; apart, I thought this Yuvan guy needs a relook from the Tamil koorum nallulagam for these reasons:</p>
<p>He is yet to work on any big bang project - read a Kamal, Rajini, Shankar, Mani ratnam film. He invariably works with several first timers, a good percentage of whom are not sustainable material. When the movie sinks so does the music. We are well past the days of his father when one would unhesitatingly spit at a movie like Ninaivellam Nithya, but worship it&#8217;s music.<br />
Notwithstanding that disadvantage, I think he still holds his own. A lot of my friends still have that &#8216;kana varun velai.. Andhi maalai&#8217; song sung by a dentist called Lavanya Prabhu.</p>
<p>Whenever he has worked on half decent directors he has given very decent music - selvaraghavan(7g, pudhupettai), Ameer (paruthi veeran). </p>
<p>About 15 years back, when asked about Rahman, kamal responded like this, &#8216; After a big Ilayaraja, there is only Rahman&#8217;.  </p>
<p>I dare say one can say the same about Yuvan after ARR?<br />
Any difference of opinion? </p>
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		<title>Fraudsters on iTunes and PayPal</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/24/fraudsters-on-itunes-and-paypal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This maybe old news to those who follow techcrunch like the way a Mylapore Mama follows THE HINDU every morning. But anyway, beware!
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/23/paypal-itunes-fraud/
I&#8217;d say de-link, and be safe. No point in crying &#8216;vada poche&#8217; later on!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This maybe old news to those who follow techcrunch like the way a Mylapore Mama follows THE HINDU every morning. But anyway, beware!</p>
<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/23/paypal-itunes-fraud/">http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/23/paypal-itunes-fraud/</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;d say de-link, and be safe. No point in crying &#8216;vada poche&#8217; later on!</p>
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		<title>Funvest</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/18/funvest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have started to post on www.funvest.com, a blog for thoughts and ideas on investing in the Indian stock markets
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have started to post on <a href="http://www.funvest.com">www.funvest.com</a>, a blog for thoughts and ideas on investing in the Indian stock markets</p>
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		<title>Q and A</title>
		<link>http://expertdabbler.com/2010/08/17/q-and-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q:why do I like &#8216;kilimanjaro&#8217;?
A:One gets the tune even in the first couple of rounds of listening. Nothing complicated. No strict requirements like one should listen to that  for 108 times before one &#8216;gets&#8217; the tune. I don&#8217;t have the good sense to listen to something I do not like the 1st time for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Q:why do I like &#8216;kilimanjaro&#8217;?</p>
<p>A:One gets the tune even in the first couple of rounds of listening. Nothing complicated. No strict requirements like one should listen to that  for 108 times before one &#8216;gets&#8217; the tune. I don&#8217;t have the good sense to listen to something I do not like the 1st time for 107 more times in the hope that I will get it. Pardon my musical ignorance.  </p>
<p>How come I liked Delhi 6 &#8216;masakkali&#8221; or &#8216;kandu kondein kandu kondein&#8217; instantly? Is that because something is wrong with that song or with me? I don&#8217;t know.<br />
Sometime back listening to music was a simple thing. That has become a much more complicated project nowadays. </p>
<p>So songs like &#8216;kilimanjaro&#8217; are a welcome change.  </p>
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