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I have been thinking on life and markets all the time and all of sudden i realised there are lot of common things which could be associated. The title - Lifex was abbreviated form of my life's index (which goes every week up and down). Though I am not Bernaud Baumohl, to list all the indicators as he quotes in his famous book. It all started this way, when i started sometime back to question, am i feeling good / bad compared to yesterday / last week / last year. Definitely, when you compare the living standards, salary, wealth, education (or) which is quantifiable /measurable, we would have definitely progressed. But when u compute all the parameters, few of them could be intangible, which can bring your up / down. As we have 30 stocks that determines sensex's performance, I just thot of identifying few stocks (idnetifiers) which would determine by Lifex's performance. Career Wealth Family Health Morale Vision knowledge spirituality Entertainment and self-realisation. The a...

The last week in cricket was eventful with many exits and the greatest of all was Brian charles Lara's retirement from ODIs and which marks as a prelude to hang the curtains of his cricketing career, one of the fabulous cricketers along with Tendulkar, Akram, Warne, Murali and Walsh et al, i have seen in my during my living years. I would be talking with pride to my grandchildren as my uncles talk about richards / vishy about the exploits of Lara's single-handed demolition of / Sachin's swashbuckling "operation desertstorm" in 98' / Warne's ball of the century. Lara's cricket has brought enough joy to me, who signalled his arrival with a magnificent 277 at sydney (he named his daughter as sydney after that knock...) The one thing which i admired with Lara / sampras / lance armstrong / sergei bubka is their appetite to win and challenge their own records and the way lara jumped and pumped his fist after he got his record back from hayden stands testimo...

If I would be regretting a decision at the end of my stay in UK, it would be my decision for not buying my Yamaha E403 keyboard (could be E303 would do...even). I tried to resist my temptation of not visiting "Dawsons" the music shop in reading till yesterday, finally decided to enter the shop only to come out with tears which would have expressed my inability to carry back a keyboard (a Priced Posesssion) back to India. "Price Does Matter" - but i never found a way to carry back due to the restrictions of baggage/weight in Heathrow. Though there is an option to sell it back here (which i never would do, as it is valuable to me not in terms of price, but for other reasons). But this is one of my agenda to get a decent 61 keyboard once I am in India and start my lessons with musee musicals / Promusic in chennai. I have been longing to get a decent KB right from my 5th std in school, but unfortunately now i can afford to buy one, but i cannot take it back. That left m...

Hats off to Prakash Raj and Radha Mohan to come out with yet another decent movie. I just saw Radha Mohan's Mozhi, which is a simple tale of love between a musician Karthik / Babu (played by Prithivraj Sukumaran) and a deaf and dumb girl Archana (played by Jothika). Movie is pretty crisp in narration and free from cliches of the way they showed a deaf and dumb characters earlier in movies. The lead pair was beautifully supported by Prakash Raj, Swarnamalya, Bhaskar and Brahmanandham (famous telugu comedian). Viji's dialogues are apt and pretty straight from the heart. The use of Sign language was brilliant (even i wish i could learn after seeing the movie). Vidyasagar's music was class and particularly the piece "en jannalil" and Kannal pesum penne (remade from his own malayalam piece "walking in the moonlight"). Prakashraj who churns out meaningful and decent movies from his stable and I loved his previous ventures of Kanda Naal mudhal and Azhagiya thee...

This is not a detailed account of my visit to edinburgh, highlands and Skye. I have just captured my kodak moments of the tour and posted the selected ones for you. The castle on the background is the famous edinburgh castle. Frontal view of the Edinburgh Castle. This captures scenic beauty of Glen Coe. I tried my best to capture the misty mountains (Inspired by PC's work in Idhayathai Thirudathey...) Solitary House on the hill ...I wish i owned one... Myself sitting on the banks of Atlantic Ocean...it was a wonderful feeling...thanks to my geography teachers to touch and feel atlantic. Another marvellous scenic place in Skye. There were strong winds blowing in this region and one of the best shots. This was the shot I dreamt through out my journey. Inspired from Kandukondein Kandukondein song from the same movie where Eilean Donan Castle appears in the backdrop of the song. I spent 1/2 hr to pick the same location and the shot. Next time when u see the song, do see this pic. Mysel...

It was a scintillating experience last week when i walked across the long room and stepped into Lords, the Mecca of Cricket. BV, Suchet and Myself went to Paddington and then hopped into St Johns Wood station in the tube to reach the cricket lover's Kabba. As i had passed through the Bicentenary gates and then through the Grace gates, it was a wonderful feeling, which could be best captured in words only by Nirmal Shekar. MCC arranges for a daily tour at 12 and 2 everyday (except for the days you have matches...) We got our tickets and I was gazing through the antiques kept in the museum (in fact If my facts are correct, this might be the only place where you have a museum for cricket. First thing that struck me was the bat used by none other than WG Grace...He should be tall man who used long handle ones... Then I stepped in Brian Johnston theatre(one of the All-time best commentators of the sport) where i saw portrait of Sunny Gavasakar (aamchi mumbaikar...) and was looking out f...

Hats off to Deepa Mehta for coming out with a beautiful narration of the movie "Water". The Screenplay was neatly sketched and dialogues by anurag kashyap was class on its own. Ofcourse, I required sub-titles to follow few intricacies of the dialogues and narration. The Movie starts with Chuiya (the kid has played really her part well) is sent to house where the Widows are forced to live their rest of the life. The lady of the house played by Manorama, an yesteryear actor, runs the house and forces few girls to "facilitate" the so-called aristocrat "babus" of yesteryears. Chuiya befriends Kalyani (lisa ray) and Shakuntala (seema biswas, deserves definitely an award for her portrayal). Chuiya initially hesitates to accept the home (the one for destitutes) bt finally accepts the new way of life. In the meanwhile, Kalyani meets Narayan (John Abraham) who has rational thoughts and is moved by ideals of Bapu. Narayan wants to save Kalyani from the bereft state ...