What brand of shirt & trouser do you wear?  Allen Solly, Van Heusen, Polo! Each costing you atleast a couple of thousand bucks!! How often do you go to restaurants, pubs? Once in a week, twice in  week, costing atleast 500 Rs each time.

Irrespective of whether you are a young bachelor, or a young couple  recently married & having one or no kids or you are a middle aged person with a high school going child, there’s no denying that the spending pattern of the Indians have changed a lot in the last few years. Everyone spends on br&ed products. The local tailors have long perished at the on-set of major apparel br&s. India is on a move. Everyone earns decent amount of money in the metros. Thousand rupees has no value today in the metros.

Have you ever thought how we react when we talk about the spend on Healthcare. My God!! His fees is 400 bucks. He just made a big hole in my budget. My goodness, this medicine costs 94 Rs. I stopped the Antibiotics because I got well in 2 tablets. You know what - each tablet costed 14 bucks. The Doctors these days just give you expensive medicine!!

Come on, I just want to ask these so called Rising Indian Middle Class. They can spend thousands on a shirt, thousands on a massage, facial, pedicure, hair cut; lakhs on a foreign trip. But when it comes to their own health, it seems they become the same old small town middle class hesitant to spend every penny they have. It is very surprisng to see people cribbing for Doctors fees, medicine cost etc when their vehicles would have guzzled up more petrol in reaching the Doctor & hospital. It’s all in the mind. Service industry is still in shambles because people don’t want to pay unless it becomes a question of life & death. Very few people buy health insurance on their own, citing reasons like their company gives them an insurance coverage already. How small is that corporate provided insurance, nobody cares.

Is it time when we start taking our health as seriously as we purchase our shirt or buy a pizza!! How many of the people over 30 actually go for a full body check up each year? How many have ever paid for it? Everyone is looking for FREE items when it comes to his/her own health. According to a survey, 90% of the young people in Bangalore have undergone health check up only because the health insurance company mandated them to get it done for free. Had it been a paid service, again, very few of these 90% would have been even insured.

Interesting to read such findings but it is time when we start allocating a certain percentage of our income. Even 2-5 Rs. per day to take care of our health coverage for life. People need to understand that health is not a one time down-payment item. It needs to be invested throughout the life time. Why become so stingy when it comes to our own health.

Be it Guy Kawasaki or be it Paul Graham or be it Steve Jobs - every pundit swears by the mantra that you should do what you love. If you do not enjoy what you are doing, there are very few chances that you will be successful in it.

So, here’s a question for those of you reading this post -

• How many of you actually love what you are doing ?
• If not, are you doing anything to change that ?

Feel free to leave your responses via anonymous comments. It would be great to get a feel of how many of you are actually pursuing your passion, whatever that might be…

The theory of 80:20 perfect applies to Indian Tech  Industry… my good friend Amit Darda defines the 80:20 theory as…

Almost all working people in corporate world must have heard about this. but still today no body is serious about this and day by day this ratio is increasing.

80:20 means it is a ratio of non working employee vs working employee. In almost all the offices in world only 20% of employee do work and 80% enjoys. Today with the new work culture, I feel this ratio is increasing as most of the employees don’t want to work. They just want big money for small work.

I seen many such cases and they are so lucky that even they get the places like this.

Often, people don’t find any enjoyment in the work… they are usually a part of a project & some other major stuff like that where there are 60 or 100 people like them are working for the same thing, thing which they might called an MNC project for some big-fish MNC client… and things which they miss are Recognition, India & Satisfaction. Personally, when I was working for my last company, though it was a midsize product company I was pretty aware of all these things. And, at start of my career this was the main reason I did not accepted offers from services companies in the town, though they were offering me much more than what I started with at my last company, but I was mainly looking for quality of work, team & recognition of things/work I do. I started-off as a freelancer in my college days, then the company I joined-in after college was pretty entrepreneurial. That helped me expanding my vision.

Nothing special about this post, It is not like that I’m not liking what I am doing… I’m loving what I am doing & I always love what I do…

This is just a post to see what you people think around about what you are doing rightnow…? Usually, I come across many people, many friends of mine… Even if they’re not doing anything they are pretty happy, and they pretend to be happy earning money for doing nothing in their office space, but sitting & googling & FWDing mails to their gangs, This is what we define as “typical employee minded”. Sitting & passing the month in the cube, almost doing nothing…  95% people I meet or know  are working for IT companies in the town and they are either not happy with their current work, boss or manager or looking for a change. Especially in the Indian Tech Industry, which is purely a service industry in our country… You must be familiar with terms like “sitting on the bench”… and stuff like that, So…

My question is why to sit if you can walk, you can do & most of all, you can think…?

Some say “fuck” “is” “dirty” and “sexual intercourse” isn’t because  the word “fuck” comes from the Anglo-Saxon and “sexual intercourse” comes from the Latin. But then we must ask: How did Anglo-Saxon get to be “dirty” and why does Latin remain “clean”?

Well, others tell us, “fuck” represents lower-class speech & “sexual intercourse” represents middle-and-upper class speech. This does not happen to accord with brute fact, Statistically: I have heard the word “fuck” in the daily conversation of Techies, Student, Professors, Politicians, Business Persons, Poets, Movie Stars, Doctors, Lawyers, Police Persons and most of the population of sombunall classes and castes, except a few religious conservatives.

And, even if “fuck” did occur exclusively in lower-class speech, we do not know, and can hardly explain, why it has been subject to a huge and bodacious fine when such other lower-class mode of speech as “ain’t”, “fridge” (for refrigerator), “gonna” and “whyncha” (why don’t you) have not fallen under similar sanction. Nor have we yet seen a ban on the distinctly lower class “Jeet?” “Naw—Jew?” (Did you eat? No, did you?)

The fact that some enclaves of religious conservatives do not use the word “fuck” (or are embarrassed if they get caught using it) seems to provide the only clue to this mystery.

Whatever, this will remain the same… still, my question is…

Why don’t people realize that saying “fuck” actually does not mean the real “fuck”! And more, Why don’t people realize that “fuck” is the most important event in the human civilization. Especially why the hell girls have a problem with the word “fuck”, they don’t like to hear it, they don’t like to write it, they don’t like to see it… but they love to “do it”!!…

What the fuck is this? …Peace!

Recently, some people objected me using or writing this word, I tried to explain the above thing. I don’t know why these people pretend that they don’t like the word, but they do it…! Anyway, I frequently use the word “fuck” at my office-space, and this is none of anyone’s fucking business to correct me, If I use this word. This is my damn country, I’m damn free, I will say whatever I feel like! Saying “fuck” is my way of showing that I’m not satisfied with whatever stuff going on in front of me. People, It is such a beautiful word!

Still, If anyone’s having objection… then fuck you!

Or…

If you still don’t like using the word “fuck” then, why don’t you use it with *proper english*

Don’t say fuck-off, say intercourse-off; don’t say fuck you, say intercourse-you!

Peace! 

PS: Yes, I’m forcing you to use the word, any problems?… then fuck you!