Hi Friends,
Recently I have been to a shop in Mumbai(India) which is very famous for electronics home appliances. This vendor has a chain of shops (huge shopping malls type) running across the city under the name "Vijay Sales".
I checked up on a TV (Videocon Brand)and checked up the price tag. The product MRP was Rs. 14000/- and due to a festive offer they were selling it at Rs 10000/-. Along with the scheme offer they were giving a exchange offer where if bring your old color TV and get it exchanged than the new TV costs you Rs. 7999/- only.
Well looking at the figures, the final price is almost the half of the MRP of the product. It is even more surprising to know that they earn still good no. of percentage amount after all the discounts.
Can you just imagine that we keep bringing inn lots of stuff with just marginal percentage of discounts being offered during the festive season. After getting the discounts we get the feel of doing something in a smart way... but still those manufacturers are earning a lot, taking out all their profits from your pocket.
That's the way product industry goes.
What say?
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Hi Guys,
Here is some shocking news from my side.
Just 3 days back, I had a bad experience of my life.
In pune, we have a flat on rent at 3rd floor. The house owner owns the complete building and given all flats on rent. On that morning around 7.45, I was sleeping in my bed, another rommie was having shower in the bathroom and the 3rd one went on terrace to do some pooja.
The 3rd roomie daily moves out like this for 10 mins, and on that day someone just swiped our room within those 10 mins and imagine what we have lost.
I have lost my Titan Watch worth 1200/- and Wallet having 1400/- Cash and All other Cards and info. My another rommie has lost his mobile worth 6500/- and wallet having 1400/- Cash. Nobody came to know about this untill it was time to move to office.
This was really bad as we all were in house when this theft happened. Nobody could imagine that we will face such a situation. House door was open for just 5-10 mins and its gone....
It was a good lesson for us but a costly one. In future we will be very careful about such things. On that eve only we installed a night latch on our door... hee hee hee doesn't it sounds like "we are applying locks on stable after hourses ran away"... but we have to do it either now or later.
Well, just a request to you all to be careful about such small things which may lead to a serious problem in life.
Shrenik.
Here is some shocking news from my side.
Just 3 days back, I had a bad experience of my life.
In pune, we have a flat on rent at 3rd floor. The house owner owns the complete building and given all flats on rent. On that morning around 7.45, I was sleeping in my bed, another rommie was having shower in the bathroom and the 3rd one went on terrace to do some pooja.
The 3rd roomie daily moves out like this for 10 mins, and on that day someone just swiped our room within those 10 mins and imagine what we have lost.
I have lost my Titan Watch worth 1200/- and Wallet having 1400/- Cash and All other Cards and info. My another rommie has lost his mobile worth 6500/- and wallet having 1400/- Cash. Nobody came to know about this untill it was time to move to office.
This was really bad as we all were in house when this theft happened. Nobody could imagine that we will face such a situation. House door was open for just 5-10 mins and its gone....
It was a good lesson for us but a costly one. In future we will be very careful about such things. On that eve only we installed a night latch on our door... hee hee hee doesn't it sounds like "we are applying locks on stable after hourses ran away"... but we have to do it either now or later.
Well, just a request to you all to be careful about such small things which may lead to a serious problem in life.
Shrenik.
Monday, May 03, 2004
Haiku - Butterflies
Butterflies setting out
to cross the sea,
have disappeared:
My self comes back to me.
He is saying that all our thoughts are nothing but butterflies trying to cross the sea: they will disappear somewhere.
Have you watched your thoughts? If you have lived forty or fifty years, how many million thoughts have crossed the sea and disappeared? Every day, you go on creating new thoughts and they go on disappearing into the dust.
Only one thing remains with you, and that is your am-ness. Only you remain.
As a Zen poet has said, “Clouds come and go and the sky remains.” It never goes anywhere, it never comes from anywhere. You are the sky. Anything that happens in this sky is just a traffic — no need to be concerned about it, no need to be identified with it.
Osho: Turning In, #6
Butterflies setting out
to cross the sea,
have disappeared:
My self comes back to me.
He is saying that all our thoughts are nothing but butterflies trying to cross the sea: they will disappear somewhere.
Have you watched your thoughts? If you have lived forty or fifty years, how many million thoughts have crossed the sea and disappeared? Every day, you go on creating new thoughts and they go on disappearing into the dust.
Only one thing remains with you, and that is your am-ness. Only you remain.
As a Zen poet has said, “Clouds come and go and the sky remains.” It never goes anywhere, it never comes from anywhere. You are the sky. Anything that happens in this sky is just a traffic — no need to be concerned about it, no need to be identified with it.
Osho: Turning In, #6
Sunday, May 02, 2004
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