The space to vent your feelings

Its a holiday in Qatar on account of it being a Friday and here I am sober in the afternoon,for a change. Just had a good meal and feel on top of things. Amazing thing, the internet and blogging and youtube and all that. Ordinarily, the moment I start ranting about this and that L pokes me in the ribs to remind me that I am getting ahead of myself and and losing my audience. The best thing about this blog thing is that I can get on to my soap box and carry on regardless of everything and not live in fear of being called loud or worse, a BORE. The problem with being highly opinionated is that you get the urge to force the self same opinion down everyone's throat and want to be appreciated and called clever while doing it.Here I am , at peace, able to rant about anything and everything... Will wonders never cease?????
Sold some stocks yesterday. looks like the whole market is going to hell in a handcart. All other investments and assets along with it.To think that a few months back we thought that diversified investments were the secret. Looks like a few years savings have been wiped out. Good for the poor. At least at these times they dont have to worry about losing anything when they had nothing to lose to begin with. A few people I know have ended up with negative equity, which is worse than poor because the poor idiots have to pay all that before they can call themselves poor or zero wealth.
So my two rupee worth of investment advise is simple. When you feel the urge to go out shopping lie down till the urge passes. At this point the best option is to batten the hatches and circle the wagons till the whole thing passes. I reckon its going to be a good two years before anything looks up. And if anyone out there thought that we have seen the worst they had better gird their loins for whats conming next. It's going to get a lot worse....

Graceful ageing.......

The long holiday weekend ended worse than expected. There's this terrible Virus floating around. Sore throats and running noses, reminds me of this guy we had in college. He had a perpetual runny nose and a friend of mine used to call him Chief Running Nose, The Indian warrior!!!
I am digressing...The weather here in Doha is wonderful. Chilly, in the low 20s during the day and quite sunny. This is an unexpected bonus after our move from Abu Dhabi. The weather in AbuDhabi is not quite so cool in winter. It really is a lousy time to fall ill. Anyway, to get back to my virus,went to work on Thursday and came back early with a fistful of medicines. The evening was pleasant though. Slouching around in front of the TV with L and the kids.
Never used to get these cold /flu infections . Something like once in a couple of years. wonder whether the immunity is running down. Recent pictures taken in unguarded moments reveal an ageing that seems to have come on quite unexpectedly. Looks like it's downhill all the way from here!!
L parted her hair the other day and showed me streaks of grey. Seems she was quite surprised when she noticed it. Was in Dubai for a week early this month and the "Nathur" at my elder brother's apartment block mistook me for his elder brother. wasted a ten Dirham "Baksheesh" on the idiot...I guess I could go on and on!!

Creating something

This whole effort looks doomed from the start. My blogging ambitions started in a drunken moment this afternoon. What really wound things up was the fact that everybody appears to be blogging and I do not want to be left out. Perhaps it also helps that I have ambitions of being a writer. In any case the decision was precipitated on a Wednesday afternoon at the fag end of a long holiday weekend in Doha with a bit too much of vodka.
To start at the begining. My younger brought the PC to the dining table and the power cord snagged against my glass spilling Vodka all over the table. I should have realised that I was fighting a losing battle. On top of it Google was a little reluctant in letting me open a blog account considering that I had started one earlier that was stillborn. It kept directing me to that page and would'nt let go. The first effort from Google was in arabic which led me to believe that those guys in California are a lot cleverer that I had given them credit for. I had a torrrid time trying to get the English option going.
The assumption now is that it will be smooth sailing now that I have a live blog going
God bless me!!