Blog Picture

I had initially posted my mugshot but the limited feedback was less than gratifying and then I thought why not use the picture space to remember some of the favourite authors, their works or their characters. At the moment it is Cervantes's Don Quixote and his faithful servant Sancho, both of whom, whenever I remember them, make me feel lighter!!

Posting pictures is easy as everything is online these days. Just hope I am not violating any copyrights...cheers

A Son is born!!

God blessed us with a son at quarter past noon on May 6, 2008. Baby (birth weight 3 kg) was actually due a fortnight later but both he and Dipti are doing fine as of now. The arrival of the second child means a much more busy daily routine but since my mother in law is currently with us, she is bearing the brunt of the strain. We are still thinking of a name for the baby (Saumitra, Somanshu, Shivam, Satyam, Prajval are some of the names on the shortlist).

My elder child (just writing 'elder' gives me the heebee jeebees!) Priya is showing some signs of sulking but overall she is quite pleased to have a brother even though just a night before the birth she was quite clear that she wanted a sister as otherwise we would have no use for all her barbie and other girl things and would throw them away. All said and done, betoo (that's how we call her most of the time) is very special to us as she has been the focus of our lives over the last 5 years, during all the traveling and living overseas and in a way she is my lucky charm. But now that the second one has come, he too would receive the same love from us.

Pictures follow soon!

New job role

I am now a part of the crazy world of forex trading. Sounds cool? It is! But there are more things to learn than just candlesticks and Fibonacci's retracements.....the atmosphere in the dealing room is quite vertiginous to say the least!!

I am only 3 months old in the business so shall keep you posted.

Mediterranean Blue

The Goal

March 28, 2007

Challenge at workplace

One of my reccurent professional challenges is finding accurate and 100% trustworthy information on the internet on any topic in general and the financial world in particular. In case of the latter, most free information is very sketchy and of course often inaccurate but most annoyingly it is simply not there-right? This is so because companies and data providers will charge a hefty permium for simply collecting information from public sources and converting it in to glitzy PDFs. Surely there is a value add in what they do and I dont want to take it away from them but I believe that public information should and can be made publicly available at no cost.

My blog is born!

Hello

I intend to use my blog for the following purposes:

-Share my reading, music and traveling interests

-Hope to take my Italian culinary skills to the next level by getting to know experts online

-Disseminate knowledge and information about the Indian Banking industry and regulations in a structured and friendly manner. My target audience is Indian banking customers and potential foreign investors in the Indian Banking (and Financial ) System (IBS). I have been part of the industry for the last more than 10 years in three diverse locations in India.

That's it! Feels great about having my own blog and all....thanks to google

Cheers,

Sid (Siddhartha)