Portugal = Losers...Louis Figo = A$$ Ho*e...

Disclaimer: I am not a great fan of the Holland, I am supporting Argentina to win the world cup and hence my views on Portugal is sheerly because of the way they played and not because I love Holland.

What a match yesterday, Portugal are through to the next round, the quarters…and Ned’s are out of the competition… they way Portuguese played yesterday was horrible, every time the referee turns they involved with the Dutch players, fighting and doing silly stuff…

Cannot take a decorated player like Louis Figo, head butting with a player when the referee was not there and after all this they ended up playing full side to the Ned’s 10 man side.

Ideally it should have been 8 guys for Portugal and 11 for Neds and the score line should have been 2-1 for the Dutch

So one good team gone… One good team with a lot of passion is gone…So Morons like Brazil would win the world cup again… thanks to the biased refereeing!!!

Here I Come Chennai… In A Fortnight...

“But my heart is into setting up a start-up. I want to do the startup life for a few years while I have the ability to take on a good amount of risk. I want to go miles away from what I am doing. I know I am risking it, but its fine with me… not fine with a lot of people though”

I am considering leaving Kathmandu and this organization… that might come as a big blow to everyone who knew me, all of them know I am here sitting pretty with my apartment and wife and a some money to spend with.

I know it myself too… there are professional issues at work, but I am not an idiot, I will never quit a job based on that ground. As I know now after 6 years of work experience it’s the same shit every where!!! Everybody reading this blog from an office computer would readily agree… it’s the same shit everywhere.

The reasons I am giving my wife/family/friends and myself for leaving Kathmandu and Linktree is

1) My wife is expecting so she needs to be close to home
2) Work here is long and we find it tough
3) Miss home and friends
4) A whole loads of stories like this

Honest to god this is not true. I am happy professionally as to what I am doing. I make a lot of decisions here pertaining to work, and I enjoy doing it. Its only when you decide and implement things you get to learn.

I learnt a lot, I’ve made extremely great decisions and bad ones too. That every bad decision that I thought was bad had a logical explanation behind it. I didn't always agree with the decisions but there was always a decent thought process behind every decision and, most of the time, after hearing the circumstances behind a decision I usually came to the same conclusion that they did.

It's not easy building a call center in an alien land and trying to generate over a million dollars.

Now what would have made me stay here? More money?? Relocation?? Staff?? Allowances??

Actually they offered almost all of that stuff (they didn't try the relocation part) and it still didn't work cause I wanted to do something completely different than what I was doing here. I also wanted to see if I could build something from scratch. Yeah, money and being close to my wife played into it too, but when I looked around I didn't see something that would keep me excited.

Now, if they had offered to fly around the world for business development might have been interesting. But, who knows? Maybe I'll get a chance to do that with my new company.
I enjoy working at Linktree, all the stumbles have all been or turned into a good learning.
But my heart is into setting up a start-up.

I want to do the startup life for a few years while I have the ability to take on a good amount of risk. I want to go miles away from what I am doing. I know I am risking it, but its fine with me… not fine with a lot of people though.

Here I Come Chennai… In A Fortnight

Catholic Church And The Da Vinci Code...

When will religious groups finally figure out that publicly denouncing a book or a movie is the surest way to guarantee its success? Religious people never seem to understand that the world is filled with people who do the exact opposite of whatever they suggest.

Hell, I'm one of those people myself.

If I hear that church people hate a movie, I'm in line for tickets on opening day. Has the Church forgotten Salman Rushdie? Would any of us know that name if he hadn’t been condemned by the Muslims? Has the Church forgotten Martin Scorcese’s movie, “The Last Temptation of Christ?”

In that case, the Church in America single-handedly turned a mediocre movie into a blockbuster hit. I tried watching that movie myself, mediocre, so mediocre… I could even watch it completely… again thanks to the Catholic Church it was a blockbuster!!!
Nice move Church. Perhaps you should have added some basic chess lessons to your seminary curriculum.

However. If the Church wants to make a lot of money for Dan Brown and Ron Howard, what do I care? Both the book and the movie will be off the radar in a few months. Nothing will have changed.

The second thing I’d like to mention is more important for the Church to consider. Christianity is a major, world-wide religion. It is 2000 years old and is the largest common expression of spirituality in the history of humanity.

Does the Christian Church really need to worry about a book and a movie? These things are here today and gone tomorrow, almost literally.

The Christian Church has withstood the Roman Empire, medieval Christianity, and the Age of Enlightenment. Somehow the Church even manages to survive its most dangerous challenge - scandal, decadence, and corruption within its ranks. Will Dan Brown now topple us?

I understand a carefully worded response to scholarly inaccuracies, but I don't understand the anger, the outrage, and the hoopla. Anything more than a gentle, factual correction is as silly as if George Bush were to show up at an Elementary School with the secret service because a 4th grader said something mean about him.

It’s as silly as if Ron Howard and Tom Hanks were to show up at my door, screaming at me for lifting a Da Vinci Code graphic from their website. Why would they bother? What threat am I to them?

The best and only appropriate response for the Church is to be about the business of the Church. Don't we have, I don't know, CHURCH things to be doing? Or even better, human things to be doing? If our love of humanity was as radical as Jesus called it to be, then we would never have to say a word.

In my mind, every time the Church responds to something like this with angry words, it is a bold indictment of our lack of active love, and therefore lack of relevance in this world.