Reaching up

Today morning Aasim casually reached up and unlatched the top latch of our front door!!

He is tall for a nine year old – the first image which flashed in front of my eyes was – Aasim about 15 months  old would walk upto the dining table around meal times and peer very critically at the food kept there – only his eyes would reach above the table top. He never bothered to try and stand on tip toes to get a better view or may be he already knew it was not worth the effort…

and we could  read  in his eyes if the food presented was to his liking or not

The “Mere paas Maa hai!” factor

I had been struggling since some time to give a name or a phrase to the set of conditions which drives a person to work and continue working in a small setup. While this is very easy to define within a start-up – the “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” factor, a maturing but still

I have been clinically diagnosed to be suffering from Chikungunya fever since last three days. It would not be so bad only if the nausea was absent – the fever and joint pains I can bear but wrenchng your guts out every half an hour or so really SUX

The second rung re-visited

Some time ago I had boasted about how I had successfully nurtured a second line of command in the office and how well it was working. Since experience has taught us not to get complacent about any aspect of our business if we are to succeed and also since I was on look out for

Taking control back!

After a Reality Check had forced us on starting medications, we got our latest reports yesterday and as expected every value is back to normal. Will talk to our doctor and hopefully the maintenance dose will be much lower at least for the anti-lipid drugs. The entire last week was spend taking interviews but we

Random Rules

Be who you are.  Do what you love.  Employ people you like.

Recruitments

Recruitment  is most often the most frustrating of the things that I am supposed to handle. Anyone and everyone who can write mysql_fetch_array() thinks that they are better than Rasmus, it is an entirely different matter that the response is always “Rasmus who?” from these delightfully disillusioned geniuses when you really ask about him. Once

Don’t be a Nice Guy!!

Self-confident, caring, decent-hearted women find “Nice Guys” to be too clingy, self-abasing, and insecure – you would probably want to read the