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 4 http://www.kunalsheth.in/poems/tonight http://www.kunalsheth.in/poems/tonight#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:04:42 +0000 Kunal http://www.kunalsheth.in/?p=770 Tonight i shall drink
For my health stay always pink.

Tonight i shall sing
Like the bird in the spring.

Tonight i shall bow
To the almighty
And pray a path thou show.

Tonight i shall dream
My worries flow like boats in the stream.

Tonight i shall sleep
Memories of this day i shall always keep.

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.

I had taken backup of my nokia e71 through the Nokia PC Suite and it had stored files in the .nbu [nokia back up] format. I tried searching for some application which would convert .nbu files to the one Samsung supported. The closest application is Noki soft but the free version allows you to export just 50 contacts! The full version is available for $49.5.

I hit bullseye with Nokia NbuExplorer which is available for free! It reads .nbu files and picks up all contacts as well as SMS’s! You can store either one or the entire contact list in .vcf format which you can later easily export it to Samsung phone.

In a couple of minutes i was able to convert all my contacts to .vcf file format and import it to my Samsung phone. It took me a couple of hours hunting for the right software and a couple of minutes to transfer the contacts…

Hope this helps whoever has bought a samsung phone and wants to import his contacts from .nbu file.

Cheers.

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Finally i settled for Samsung C5212. The phone looks smart and has better built quality compared to others… It was easy to set it up… put the 2 sims and it asks you which is going to be the default one. Its easy to change the order whenever you want at the touch of a key… thing i liked was it rebooted itself whenever that was done…

You can have different ringtones for both your numbers… and its easy to browse through the call log or messages and know for which number the call/message was for…

It comes with Samsung PC Studio which is like any other desktop phone app. Some of the things you can do are

• Importing contacts from other phone
• Managing SMS/MMS
• Transferring music/files
• Organiser (Scheduler, Todo, Memos)

I had a tough time importing contacts from my Nokia backup files (.nbu). The scheduler was excellent. was able to fill in some 70 odd entries in a couple of minutes…

The tool box is like a bookmark for all the functionality of the app… Found 3 interesting apps

• Video Convertor (supported formats *.3GP, *.MP4, *.SKM, *.K3G, *.MPEG, *.MPG, *.ASF, *.AVI, *.WMV, *.DIVX)
• Disk Ripper
• Disk Burner

I found the keys a lil hard to type. Getting used to the nuances of the phone was not difficult.

It comes with 2 free games [Canon ball and Freekick], Has an image editor which i thought was a good feature. Voice recorder which can record upto 60minutes or as much as your memory card can support!

Another interesting feature is the Mobile Prayer. You can set what day/time you want the prayer to play… Currently it supports

• Hindu Prarthna
• Christian Prayer
• Islamic Salat
• Sikh Gurbani

The phone comes with a Charger/Data cable/Headset. Hate the fact that it doesnt have the usb charger. Will have to carry this charger everywhere i go.

I havnt bothered with checking the music player. The bluetooth worked fine. The 1.3 mp camera has tons of option to play araound with…

I paid Rs 6990. Too early to give a verdict. If you are using one and have something to add do leave a comment…

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.

I will just type a few lines

Wake Up India.

It’s Time To

Not Go To Work.

It’s Time To Get People

To Work For You.

Don’t Be An Engineer

Just Because You Have

A Degree In Engineering. Do What You

Think You’re Good At. And You’ll Be Good

At What You Think. Start Something

That’s Your Own. Where You Cant Be

Sacked. And You Certainly Can’t Quit.

-Narayan Murthy, Founder and Chief Mentor Infosys

The Economic Times Award for Corporate Excellence

The winners are

• Annkur
• Divya Chakravarthy
• Sharon Dev

You can click on their names to see the sites they recommended…

Some of the entries which came close to win were

• Kenroy Rodricks
• vikranth
• paresh
• Narayan
• Satish

Congratulations! I will be sending you emails shortly. You can also contact me incase you dont get my mail in a day [kunals75@gmail.com] or leave a comment.

For all the other people who did comment can use this code “ink20” and get Rs 100 off!

Cheers!