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January 31, 2008

Kumara Parvat Trip

Filed under: Travel — pegasus @ 2:50 PM

Kumara Parvat is the second highest peak in Karnataka (The highest is Mullayangiri near Chikmaglur) located near the Madikeri-Mangalore district border. There are two routes to the hill top, one from Somvarpet(Near Madikeri) and the other from Kukke Subrahmanya(Mangalore district).
We are planning to go by the Subrahmanya route. Does anybody has any prior experience of this route, or has any information to share.
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BTW Economist has a nice audio series. Doing Business in XXX (foreign city). If you have time, just listen out what they have to say about the few important cities of the worlds (unfortunately India is still not covered)

DLF (Selling Family Silver)

Filed under: News — pegasus @ 8:51 AM

DLF (real estate developer) reported a net profit of 2145 cr on a revenue of 3651 cr for the quarter ending dec 2007. Sounds impressive! Lets dig a bit deeper.
More than half of this profits came from sale of 1850 cr worth land (assets) to a promoter companyDAL (DLF Asset Ltd) whats even more surprising is that this is not the first time this deal happened. In the past 9 months DLF has sold undeveloped property worth 5,000 cr to DAL.

Why do I think as a bad sign?
1. the asset sale is artificially boosting the profits and is hiding the fact that DLF is not being able to develop and sell property (its core business is failing) It is able to do this massive sale now, but this is not a sustainable business model
2. REMEMBER: DLF is trading at a significant premium to the land bank value. So people are counting on the profits it would have made by developing it. And by not doing this duty, DLF is robbing its share holders their rightful due.
3. Sale of assets to the promoter’s firm never happens at market terms. The prices are affordable and the cashflow/payments happen at their own sweet time. No wonder DAL is yet to pay for the land it acquired several months ago.
4. DAL is a separate firm, and none of the profits made by DAL will ever flow into DLF. As a matter of fact DAL is expected to be listed as REIT (real estate investment trust) in Singapore in the coming months.

As Prax pointed out, DLF has a rotten history and have repeatedly cheated the shareholders. Read Sucheta Dalal’s article on it.

January 30, 2008

EU puts limit on Carbon Trades from India

Filed under: News — pegasus @ 12:11 PM

Although I do not totally agree with the concept of Carbon Trading (esp the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) credits), but recent move by EU is simply outrageous.
The carbon trading had sponsored over 300 (1/3 of the registered projects around the world) reforestation programs and clean technology implementation in the country. But with this move all is going to stop.

A close friend of mine had plans to buy a large track of Desert Land in Rajasthan for afforestation. Lucky for him, this news came just in time.

So How difficult is it to create a hit Song

Filed under: Cartoons, education, Humor, Links, music — Sandip Chaudhuri @ 8:51 AM

Scott Adams believes that he has an answer, or at least one of the answers.

Dilbert Blog is one of the most if not the most interactive blogs on the net.

The song writing started out by Adams asking the blog readers to write catchy phrases which almost mean something.

Write a Song

A band weeded the response from the readers and based a song with them.

The Hit Song You Wrote

And now we have a video:-
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January 29, 2008

“The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race”

Filed under: Thoughts — pegasus @ 11:11 AM

This interesting article by Jared Diamond, Prof. UCLA School of Medicine written in May 1987, puts forward some convincing points that humans might be better off had they not adopted agriculture…. Although I do not fully agree with it, it does put forward some interesting points.
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January 28, 2008

How to Avoid the Flu

Filed under: Humor — pegasus @ 12:00 AM

* Eat right! Make sure you get your daily dose of fruits and veggies.-
* Take your vitamins and bump up your vitamin c.
* Get plenty of exercise because exercise helps build your immune system.
* Walk for at least an hour a day, go for a swim, take the stairs instead of the elevator, etc.
* Wash your hands often. If you can’t wash them, keep a bottle of
* Antibacterial stuff around.
* Get lots of fresh air. Open windows whenever possible.
* Get plenty of rest.
* Try to eliminate as much stress from your life as you can.

OR … You can take the doctors office approach. Think about it, when you go for a shot, what do they do first? Clean your arm with alcohol.

Why? Because alcohol kills germs.

So……

* I walk to the liquor store (exercise),
* I put lime in my Corona (fruit),
* Celery in my Bloody Mary (veggies),
* Drink on the bar patio (fresh air),
* Get drunk, tell jokes, and laugh (eliminate stress)
* And then pass out (rest.)

The way I see it, if you keep your alcohol levels up flu germs can’t get you!!!

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