Hamara Bajaj on the streets of San Francisco

Waiting for my wife to pick me up the other day, was standing on the cross section on 1st and Mission. At the stop light, i saw a Bajaj Scooter waiting for a green light. Took out my phone to take a picture, but sadly the signal changed and the scooter took off ( hence the sandy picture)

It brought back memories of the same scooter my dad used to own. Fun days, i used to stand in front of the scooter and enjoy the wind blow my face during the summers. Winters of course was a different story.

Guess ! its only in San Francisco one can expect to see such sightings.

Sitting on youtube, i found an old commercial for this scooter. Trust youtube to do it.

Personal MBA

Lets do some cost benefit analysis of a 2 year full time MBA and one of these new personal MBA's. Check this site out www.personalmba.com

The cost of a modern day 2 year, full time MBA

GMAT = $500
ADMISSION FORMS = $500
EDUCATION 2years ~ $100,000
(at a not expensive, non ivy league, non worth it college)
OUT OF OFFICE 2 years ~ $15,000
BOOKS etc ~ $2,400
2 years @ 100/mth

Total expense = $253,400

How about a Personal MBA = FREE !!

Check this out, the manifesto of the personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
"Top MBA programs don't have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List features only the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research. So skip b-school and the $100,000 loan: you can get a world-class business education simply by reading these books"

So by reading these books you can save your 250K and also get all the knowledge you need.
What do you think ? I think its worth a shot, all that i need is a couple hundred to get some of these books to get started.

Start reading, implementing, networking, communicating and keep your eyes and ears open. That should take you a little ahead and yeah not have a hole in your bank (if it is still running )
I love this picture by the way, creative way of getting your point across.

Spread the cheer

So one of my google reader feeders pointed me towards this really amazing video of this guy who has travelled over 42 countries and done what he likes doing best, HAPPY DANCE !.

Yeah, thats right, you see this Chubby, really happy guy, dancing with random strangers for over 4 mins over 42 countries, with thousands of people joining him. This video has got close to 15 million hits and Matthew Haggard is now the face of the Visa Commercial.



This video bought a smile on my face,
This video got me to think about life,
Good things happen when you try to do good to others.
This video got me to realize that life is all about spreading joy and happiness.

If you cant be happy with your family, friends and at your work place then you need to do something about it.

why be happy only during holiday season ?
the time to spread cheer is not just the holidays but all through the year.
So help me God !.

Big Picture 2008

Boston Global's Big Picture does a great job of taking some excellent pictures around the world.

Some of the pictures are graphic and will cause intense reaction. View Discretion advised.

Part 1

With this shot of a US solider in Afghan reminding us how to hostile the conditions are and the risks the journalists take in taking some of these shots.
Lot of other pictures deserve comments but are too graphic and depressing in nature.


Part 2

If you looked at some of the chinese stadiums during the olympics and kept staring out of a) amusement b) stunned c)what where they thinking? d)all the above; Check this one out. I guess this is what inexpensive labor and plenty of capital can do to a nation.


Part 3

And after showing 40 pictures of violence, death, riots, despair, fire fights, terrorism, natural disasters, there is BARACK OBAMA, the person who assumes office to one of the most powerful offices of the world and one of the most trying times.

We hope, he succeeds.

Apple's 10000 icons

10,000+, originally uploaded by taptaptap.com.

Proves that creativity is a big part of the game

With 10,000 competing icons you have about 1 sec to sell your app visually

Your app may rock !! but someone needs to download it to testify that !.