Delhi Calling

After coming back from AIT, Thailand, I dunno why I decided to come to mumbai, at that time it seemed prudent, afterall all the big pharma are here, but ... and a big but, luck seemed to say otherwise, not that I didnt get offers, but they were, I may say Dismal, anyway no complaints. Today I may go to Delhi, waiting now for the Travel agent to call me up. Summer rush and all trains booked to capacity... I hope to get that ticket in Rajdhani, India's fastest Train ... ahahahaha.

Delhi has been beckoning me since the last few weeks, but I had been putting that off for some reason or the other, I hope to catch up with my Karate there, of course Old friends and will go for the scheduled Interviews as well.

Delhi .. oh my Delhi, love u so much. Gogo, Winnie, Rahul, chiro, jhumki ... and gang. Of course Tia is also waiting for me to have pizza with me, miss her so much she must have grown up now, the last time I saw her she was in grade 5 :P. Then there are ever-present Amit-gulu, also would like to catch up with "Old" Gulati saab (gullu badshah, as paramjeet likes to call him), Rai Saab and jalali. Haven't met or called Tarun sir for a long time. Wish to meet him this time and do some classes under him too.

The interview with Standard Chartered yesterday was a good one, Relationship Manager - was funny the way in which she was intrigued at the way I was positioning myself as marketeer, it was difficult but convincing that Marketing is done from the heart not with brain. Let this journey be a blessed one. Waiting for another very Important call lets see what happens. Life is not that bad after all things are looking up, I hope :P.

Amit

I thought I did Intl Finance ... Until

The world of finance continues to amaze me, I am and will always be a marketing guy, but finance is no less fascinating though, When I was in CERAM, in France, macroeconmics interested me more than other subjects like investment banking, or trading strategies or corporate finance. I liked Macroeconomics because it gave me an air of "Know-all" feeling , (maybe because very few people understand it anyway .. ahahahaha... ). The courses like International Finance, also helped form the Base for a broad understanding of International Economics.

Derivatives are another Mind-blowing animals which gave me a hard time, even though I was fascinated by the subject and its scope, I hated the teacher for his high-handed attitude. Anyway more on that later. Futures, options, .... gawd save me...

While trying to understand complex financial instruments in my course at CERAM, the basics had probably been underplayed, Today while trying to understand "Securities Trading" I came across some interesting "Strategies" like Dow Theory, Elliott Wave Theory, another very prudent View was the Multiple Time Frame Trading Strategy. Good readings for the basics if someone is thinking of Trading as a career.

Given the availabilty of time I would like to explore many other areas that I am interested in like macroeconomics, International Global Economics, Currency Crises etc.

Also I am thinking of blogging about my other hobbies/passions like photography, My travels, Martial arts, etc etc... maybe I am trying to put my leg in many areas, maybe I am spreading myself too thin ...

Hope to keep blogging

Amit Ghosh

Micky

It was Micky's Last day in Mumbai and he wanted help to help with the packers and movers, He had joined Infosys, India's premier software company at its Pune Campus. His wife poorvi was blessed with a kid a few weeks back, the day he joined Infosys, The healthy baby was born in the 1000 year old city of orissa - Cuttack. In a few weeks both mom and baby girl will join the proud father at their pune house.

After the packing was done and the goods packed off by the Movers and packers we went to izza Hut to have our lunch. The Pizza was great with pepsi and Salad to top it all. Nice lunch I did say :P.

Today Micky struck me as a mature man, a facet which I would say scared me a bit, Because ... he was a guy who grew up with me till life took us far away. My family used to stay in his grand-father's rented house, and they all used to live upstairs, we used to play cricket, gilli-danda, maar-pit, chhupa-chhupi, etc etc. Then We moved to our new home, He went on to become an Engineer, where he met his would-be Poorvi, our oriya girl. I went on to do what-not ... and am still doing something .. hahaha

Maybe marriage and fatherhood had brought out the mature man in him, which I was finding difficult to identify with, but I wish him to stay that way, and wish him all the success in life.

Bapi