Friday, January 25, 2008

Australian grand slam 2008

Lovely tournament this year indeed. Nadal, gasquet, Henin gone. Federer is seriously challenged this time and is likely to lose in Semis against Djokovic. Tsonga and maria sharapova played like as if they are possessed (by our own women god - mariamma)all through.

How will Federer and Nadal talking to themselves over dinner before leaving australia... my imagination goes like this...
"Yaar ivanga, engenthu varanga, edukku ippadi velayadaranga, nammalai gali pannuvanga pola, okkanthu, room pottu strategy discuss pannalama !!!"

IPL Auction

BCCI does it again. They almost collected 6000 crores by selling team franchisee to biggies like UB, Mukesh Ambani, India Cement, GMR, Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta etc... We need to wait and see how it helps young cricketers to perform, how the tournament is conducted etc... But, cricket gets excellent push as again !!!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Jodhaa Akbar Music

Jodhaa akbar music is out finally !!! What a composition from our beloved A R Rahman... Mindblowing indeed. This music CD is a must buy for for real, un-biased, music lovers. Chuck the pre-conveived notions... go for it...

Stock market global crash Jan 08

What a crash.... Historical... Never before crash witnessed so far...People call it meltdown, mayhem...

One question which i cant answer from my friends is... How come you guys dont know that the US economy going into recession 3 weeks back... & what changed your view in 3 weeks.... difficult to answer.

The point is markets melted when someone started selling, herd mentality created panic in everyone's minds, people ran to sell stocks... I dont think, people are selling in profits, they are selling what ever they can to avoid payment crises...

We will see better time for indian stocks from 15000 levels of sensex for 2008. If you are an investor, go ahead and buy nifty stocks with 6 month holding view. You are unlikely to lose money.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Sri Lanka trip photo link - revised

Folks...

Revised path of my srilankan tour photos...

http://www.flickr.com/gp/50378337@N00/p5mUi0

Stock market - update - Jan 17

"I feel that some of the stock prices shows irrational exuberance so I predict correction in Sensex from 20500 levels to 19000 to 19300 levels for Jan 08. If at all the bull rally continues, it will have resistance at 20800 levels for Jan 08." - I have written this as part of outlook for Jan 08.

As expected and predicted, market came down and recovered from today's low of 19650 levels to 19900 levels as of now.

I strongly feel, de-coupling with global market would happen shortly when the earnings comes out in full swing from today onwards to Jan 26th or so. Buy on declines and keep an eye on markets until budget. Volatile days are ahead.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Chennai Book Fair - 2008

Went to Chennai Book Fair on Jan 13, Sunday. Book fair has really become big this year than compared to any previous years, i felt. So huge, close to 400 shops. Faithful, huge crowd thronged the place at Poonamalle High Road.

Observation # 1 - Too many tamil books than English (i should even say 75:25)... Cant figure out why so much of change... Is it bcoz of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's influence? or Tamil Appeasement? ...

Obsevation # 2 - Sighted books on Che Guevara everywhere !!! Dont think, one will find so many books even in Cuba on him :)

Observation # 3 - Vairamuthu's works, Character building books are in demand. Saw some new books on "hindu beliefs".