Monday, October 27, 2008

A boy, A girl and A song



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A random rambling….

I knew this boy who loved a girl passionately. Like in a fairy tale, he proposed her. They dated and got married happily. They were so much in love, in awe of each other. They danced their way happily into a couple of blissful years of married life. While getting dressed, too often they would end up dancing in front of mirror for any and every song. No, neither of them was good at that but they did.

Then the boy one day chanced upon hearing a song. It was a soulful melody. A haunting one at that. He told her about that song. She heard it a couple of times and fell for that. That’s when it all began. They both heard that song every night before sleeping. Couple of weeks later, they found themselves listening to the same song, day in day out. He did it at work, she did at work, and they both did the same at home. They became so dependent on the song that they used to hear it every night on a repeat mode until they dozed off.

A couple of months later, the boy got fed up with the song and he stopped listening it. Slowly she too did the same. They were still happy, very much in love. The boy wondered what ever happened to that song.

It’s been really long since I heard from him. But the last time I spoke to him, he said the above story and was wondering about how he remembers just those days of 7 long years companionship with her.

I said it was a memory that he will cherish for a long time. When everything else around him changes, these handful of memories are what that stay with him.

Listening to this he said he was waiting, for the next song that is.



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Friday, October 17, 2008

Stock Markets


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Once upon a time, in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.


The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20 for a monkey. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms.

The offer increased to $25 each, and the supply of monkeys became so small that it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. 'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35, and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each'. The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

They never saw the man nor his assistant again, only monkeys everywhere! The man from the city had made a monkey of all the poor villagers. Hope you now have a better understanding of how the stock market works!!!

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