There have been loads of changes in my life both personally and professionally… some good some bad…

My parents finally moved to a new house… something i am happy and proud about… they seem to have settled and adapted to the place pretty well…

i lost two dear neighbours… i have practically grown up in their houses… Sadly i was not around when they passed away… Good bless their soul…

i have been exceptionally bad in keeping in touch with my friends… Hopefully i will be better this year…

i finally managed to get my hands on a copy of License to Drive, a movie i been wanting for a very long time…

i slept through 2 movies this year… Something which has never happened earlier

i got in touch with a few friends who i had lost touch with for years…

i bought www.heykunal.com which points to the blog as well… Lot of people had trouble getting my last name right…

i am now using a blackberry… after years of hating it… i am a big fan of it

i managed to get my hands on Richard Branson’s Autobiography[Loosing my Virginity] and read it…

i did a management development program from iim-a (Naina/Shilpa i know this would make you proud )

i got hooked to Entourage and The Big Bang Theory…

i did manage to fit some travel this year… nothing major… small 2 day break kinds… Went to Jaipur, Shekhawati, Rishikesh…

This is going to be my first Birthday when i am not going to be in Bombay… Am looking forward to how this day goes…

Cheers…

]]> http://www.kunalsheth.in/general/happy-birthday/feed 5 http://www.kunalsheth.in/general/handwriting-analysis-i-am-spooked http://www.kunalsheth.in/general/handwriting-analysis-i-am-spooked#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:00:05 +0000 Kunal http://www.kunalsheth.in/?p=728 I never thought i will get my handwriting analyzed… well for one i never believed one would be able to give proper analysis just on basis how one writes… I have known Suman Kalra for a while… though we have not really interacted much i was intrigued about her profession… the other day we were talking about it and she agreed to do a free analysis of my handwriting… i was asked to write a couple of lines (no copy paste from anywhere) and sign twice…

This is what i sent her…

And this was her reply… Which spooked me completely!

Kunal, you are a fast thinker; you often find that your mind moves faster than you can verbalize your thoughts!

You don’t like dwelling in the nitty grittys but when it comes to it, you don shy away from it and you definitely don’t miss observing them.

You are anticipating and are quite excited about the future. You often think about the future more than living in the present. You have high goals, high self-esteem, and high confidence. You sometimes tend to have dreamer-like goals but thanks to your enthusiasm, you manage to accomplish them many times.

You are more or less an ambivert but you like your privacy. You enjoy your space and dislike it when people try to get too close. One can describe you as a person who enjoys meeting & socializing with friends as much as picking up a book and sitting by yourself at a coffee shop enjoying the solitude.

You are a self-made and self-reliant person; you don’t expect any support – emotional or otherwise from others around you. You are your own man Friday. You are very observant and very open to new ideas. You easily adapt to change. You sacrifice but on your terms. You are not the kind who goes all out and expresses his feelings but you’re not one to shy away from them either. You just take your time to open up.

You were irritated with someone around you when you wrote this sample.

You can be sarcastic when you want to be. However, you mostly keep that in check. Sometimes your anger flies off the handle and you don’t know what came over u. This is essentially because personally you dislike having to work/spend energy on and with those people who are stupid or are just not at the same level (of intelligence) as you. You hate having to explain. It’s a waste of time. And your brain loses patience because you have all kinds of thoughts that you feel r too fast to put down even, let alone explain (to the slow ones around you) however, more often than not, you keep your temper and patience in check. But when it flies off the handle, you don’t regret it.

Strong earthly desires – love, food, sex, money (all being earthly desires) this means you would spend energy, time, effort in attaining satisfaction for these desires (example – you’ll travel a distance simply to taste THAT biryani that someone suggested – don’t take this literally, its a metaphor for the earthly desires you feel strongly for)

Overall, a very positive person. You look at the bright side of life. You tend to miss out on opportunities because you don’t like playing too risky, calculated risks sound safer to you so you stick to them. You’re more confident about yourself professionally now.

She’s hit the bull’s eye! well almost… I was not a believer before and i never expected someone could tell so much from just a couple of lines… Suman tells me that this is just the tip of the ice berg… When she dishes out a professional report its around 10 pages and with tons more insights about one…

Sweetheart that she is, She has agreed to give discount on her services for readers of this Blog… So if you do want to get spooked drop in a comment…

Cheers!

Suman Kalra is a Handwriting Analyst, NLP Trainer, Hypnotist and an avid blogger.

You can head to http://www.sumankalra.com to know more about her…

She will answer your questions…

So go ahead and post your questions in the comments area.

The article “the best performing ceos in the world” caught my eye. Of the 50 ceos mentioned 35 of them didn’t have a mba degree! On average the top 50 ceos increased the wealth of their shareholders by $48.2 billion.

It was found ceos who were promoted from inside the company tended to have stronger performance than those brought in from the outside.

I do have a couple of friends who have got their b school degrees and bring a lot of value on the table. Their thinking is more progressive and better equipped to deal with challenges… The question I would want to ask is how important do you think a mba degree is? Since I don’t have one it would be difficult for me to comment on this but am curious.

I shall blog about my experience soon… tilll then do drop in your views…

Cheers.

Surprisingly on an avg i did 4 posts a month. My fav post would be “Design your own Personalised Tshirt!“. I had to spend a lot of time to get this post done but it was worth it! Also this opened up a new category “Contest” which i am sure readers of this blog found interesting.

My best comment would be by Czaie. It makes me smile everytime i read it…

I have a couple of ideas which i want to blog about but they are time consuming… lets hope i can get some of them live this year…

What to look forward this year? A couple of contests shall come up soon… and hopefully some posts too

Thank you everyone who has been visiting this blog and leaving your comments…

Cheers!

The time has finally come for me to say good bye to my home in Santacruz. We have to vacate the place today… I went there to have my last dinner knowing that i wont be walking in those streets ever…

Most of the things have been moved into a garage… Our home is almost empty… In the next couple of days they gonna demolish the building to build a new one… [sadly we wont be moving in back unless i can raise a couple of Crores in the next 1 year]

The Sheth family have been staying in this house for more then 65 years. My grandfather when he moved to bombay took up this place which was close to the railway station and also to Podar school where he was a teacher…

My brother and I were raised here… The place was small but never felt so… Our doors were always open inspite of me telling my mom to be careful and not let it be open all the time… It was a perfect place to grow up… lots of trees around, a big playground and lots of kids… add to it school friends namely Hitesh staying just a building away and my cousin Mihir in the next lane…

Some things i will always remember like all the kids learning to cycle, watching movies at neighbours place, bursting crackers in divali, flying kites, friends coming over, buying our first refrigerator and tv, going out every new year to juhu beach, bullying my brother to go out with me, all of us playing carrom or cards at nite after dinner, going for juice… going to beach in the morning for walk…

Everything was close by… the beach, bandra, airport and the railway station!

When i think practically this move is right and about time… But when i think from my heart i just dont want to let go… but i know it will be difficult to hang on to this place… some point of time i will have to move away…

Akhand Jyoti #1,
8th Road,
Santacruz East,
Bombay 400055

I shall miss you…

Update: Spent an hour at home…  mom/dad left at 430pm… there was nothing to do for them… the house was empty…  I sat for a while and visited our neighbours…Spent some time with my bro in the house…

At 5:45pm I locked the house and handed the keys over…

Emotionally Drained.

Just a quick brief

Date: 28th Feb 2009
Team Size: 4 (3guys+1gal)
Task: Treasure hunt spread over dozen forts
Cost: Rs 1625/person (includes Travel+Food+Stay+Pickup/Drop) + Tons of Freebies!
Place: Lonavala

Forget Treks, Marathons, Treasure Hunts.. Nature Knights invites your team to participate in the great adventure – “Trek-a-thon Treasure Hunt Challenge”.
Race into history covering almost half a dozen forts and more than a dozen riddles archeological / tasks to be completed in less than two days. A travel and trek adventure.

Constrains

• Team size 4 persons
• All four members of the team have to cover all target destination in the treasure hunt together
• At least one member of team has to be a lady candidate
• The Trek-a-thon Treasure Hunt Challenge starts on February 28, morning at Lonavala base camp at 7:30 am. (Starting Mumbai – February 27 night 9 pm ex. Andheri, Mumbai).
• All teams have to report back at the base camp before 10 pm (else there be penalty points).
• Day two activity will begin at 8:00 am onwards
• Other rules, challenges and constrains for the event will be shared on the day of the event.

Registration (Rs.6,500/- per team of four persons i.e.Rs.1625/- per head); Ex. Mumbai pickup and drop. Also includes:

• Trekking food (Packed Lunch / Bottled Water / Basic Medical Kit) for Day 1 and Day 2 of the event
• Camp Fire Dinner on Day 1, night
• Accommodation for the night in cottages
• Transport

Prizes
1st Price – Life Membership of Nature Knights for all members of this team; Plus Out Doors Survival Kit Plus …
2nd Price – Five Years Membership of Nature Knights for all members of this team; Plus Out Doors Survival Kit Plus …
3rd Price – Three Year Membership of Nature Knights for all members of this team; Plus Out Doors Survival Kit Plus …

Gifts For all participants

• Multi-utility Survival Gadget
• Nature Knights T-Shirt
• One Year Membership of Nature Knights
• Plus Discount Coupons for Nature Knights Events
• Ensured Slot in Eco-Challenge Race – November 2009

Contact info
Asif – 9821081566 / 9619182010; asif@natureknights.com
Nimesh – 9820169693; nimesh@natureknights.com
Dnyanesh – 9820834622 dnyanesh@natureknights.com
Website: www.natureknights.com
Email: info@natureknights.com

Some of the things which i love doing there

• Take a swim or just sit by the swimming pool
• Go to the Gym
• Go to the SPA (paid) or use the Jacuzzi and Steam rooms (free)
• Walk around the property
• Go to the Velvet Lounge
• Enjoy the buffet breakfast

So it was pretty easy for them to sell me the Renaissance Prestige Club membership last year [Rs 8250/year]. It was a good deal as i got

• 1 room night free
• 4 buffet vouchers
• 50% discount coupons for stay
• 50% discount on F&B
• 6 month Free Entry to Velvet Lounge

This year they have come out with an offer [for its Prestige Club Members] one cannot refuse. Sadly i cant avail of it since i will be traveling during that period and i dont want the coupons to go waste… So if anyone interested I can transfer this offer to you!

Stay 1 night and get:

Special weekend rate of Rs 6000 per room per night inclusive of buffet breakfast for two.

Stay 2 nights and get:

Special weekend rate of Rs 5500 per room per night inclusive of buffet breakfast for two.

Stay 3 nights and get:

Special weekend rate of Rs 5000 per room per night inclusive of buffet breakfast for two.

This offer is valid only on the 24th, 25th and 26th of January, 2009.

The Rates otherwise per night Rs 20,000!

If any of you want to avail this offer just drop me a line.

Do you have to pay me anything? Nopes.

You will have to make the payment directly to the hotel. All you will need from me is the Discount Voucher and my Membership Id.

Do forward this anyone who you think would be interested…

Click here to know more about Renaissance Mumbai Hotel

Cheers,

For those who don’t know which country these domains belong to…

.ly is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. Wiki link

.li is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Liechtenstein. Wiki Link

My hunt for a registrar started. I usually register domains with Indialinks or GoDaddy but none of these registered a .li domain. I asked aalaap and also did a google search and found a couple of sites like

• Netim
• Webnic
• 101domain
• EuropeRegistry
• Marcaria
• Domainr
• AfricanRegistry

Switch - Official Registrar for .li and .ch Domains

The prices on all these sites varied from 16 USD at Netim to 100USD at 101domains. Luckily on the wiki page for .li Switch was mentioned as the official registrar… I was surprised that the price was not as high i had expected.

They had two options Switch Basic for 17CHF [15USD] and Switch Guard for 34CHF [30USD]. In 10 minutes i was able to register the domain and pay for it.

One thing which i would have liked was registering for multiple years. At the moment i noticed that max you could register was for 2 years on some sites.

Anyways it took me a couple of days but i think i got a good domain at a fantastic price!

Some previous related articles

Domain name Woes & some Fantastic prefix/suffix!

How-To Kick Start your own website

To calculate price in your currency head here Price Converter

Cheers!

• Work a little less
• Spend more time reading
• Travel
• Make tons and tons of money
• Watch more movies!
• Walk
• Drive my car
• Learn 1 thing new
• Spend time with my Parents
• Blog a lot more
• Drink more Water and Have meals on time
• Sleep atleast thrice a week on time

Phew cant think of anything else yet… Lets see at the end of the year how much of this i have landed up doing

Cheers!

Highlights of this year are:

• Buying my first car. The Lancer. It took me a while though to actually drive it myself
• Attending Protos in delhi
• Being a part of the organising committee for Barcamp Mumbai
• Meeting Guy Kawasaki
• Trip to Bangalore in July
• Getting my bottle of Baileys irish cream and Malibu courtesy Sids & Narmada
• And of course starting my Blog!

Come to think of it not much really happened Anyways looking for 2009! i already know that 2009 is going to be a important year for my family and me…

I want to thank everyone who has come to this blog. My parents, my bro and who ever is up there looking after me… I am glad that i can see,  hear, talk, walk, feel and everything else…

Cheers!