Relax

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erenity is an essential component for a successful life but not an easy thing. I feel it is the most difficult things to do. Once in a Yoga Class, I was told "Just free your mind of all thoughts and focus on your incoming and outgoing breaths...... Be in the present, be in the moment". To tell you very honestly, it worked for a couple of milliseconds and then my mind was moving at high acceleration from one topic to another from one place to the next.

Global Citizen

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ext month I will be visiting India. The visit to India forces oneself to think of the country in a different perspective.
I have criss-crossed India - as a child on family vacations and as a professional on assignments. In spite of seeing much of the country, I feel that I have not seen most of the country. What I have learnt is that India is immensely diverse, both geographically and culturally. The diversity of landscape, food, people etc.. from North to South and East to West is unbelievable. This diversity and culture allures people from around the world in search of something different.

Faith

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t is exactly 10 years to the date that I left my cushy job and have been on my own.
If I have to reflect back on the 10 years gone by then I would say that "Life is Funny", not in a comical way but it is funny in a way that you never know what is going to happen Next?? Every time something happens, I end up asking myself "How could I have not seen that coming?". As much as we plan our life, it often takes over and makes our plans go overboard. Nobody in the world is immune to this reality. Even the most wealthy, and the most powerful are not protected. However, what separates those who live and those who exist is the search and belief in faith.

Eat, Drink And Be Merry

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ith Spring in the air, everybody is out and trying to have some fun outdoors. But this year Tokyo has been really hot and Spring very short so to say. Maybe climate warming has taken it`s toll on this pretty country as well.Having spent my life in Mumbai and Tokyo, I have seen similarities and differences in lifestyle, attitudes and approach to different aspects of life. I have also witnessed the differences between working to live and living to work.

Human Endurance

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ith due thoughts and condolences to the people engulfed in the tragic events of Myanmar and China, I am back at my desk to write on a cycling endurance trip which I undertook recently in Chiba, Japan.I along with my friend set out for Tateyama, Chiba; from Tokyo early morning (6 am to be precise), on a perfect sunny day (this is Tokyo, Sun is already out and above at 6 am).
Part of the train ride to Tateyama is along the Tokyo Bay and at some places the distance between the train carriage and the sea is less than 500mts.

Mother Nature

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ello Everyone.
Stressed and Overworked for the past couple of months, I decided to have a holiday and let my hair down losing a few calories in the process. I did miss our weekly interaction last week. My due apologies.It had been a longtime since I had been into the mountains so when the opportunity cropped up, I latched on to it like a child.

The Team

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n a couple of days from now, our team is ready to take a well deserved Golden Week Holiday. It has been a lot of hard work for the last couple of months.
To be honest, I am not keeping count of the hours put in by our team. Matsuoka our main architect has had to work late to design the new software ideas, meet the deadlines on assignments and also correspond with our customers. All his hard work though appear`s to be paying off. The packages produced look great. The FitzGlobal designed by him has had a good response. His leadership and vision appear to be following the planned path.

Entrepreneur with A Heart

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t is somewhat unbelievable, sometimes unimaginable to meet a person of Indian Origin in Japan who has started his own business and taken it from Zero to 14 MUS$ in a short span of 10 Years.
It all starts with one person Mr. Gambhir (now known as Gambhir san). I met him on a flight from KL to Tokyo. Being as talkative as I am, we both hit off  well in the airplane itself.

Automobiles and Japan

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t is Saturday (12-Apr-2008), and it has been busy than ever. At 6 in the morning, I am rushing off to Tochigi from Tokyo to meet our new client (an Automobile Dealership Company) who is attending an Automobile auction at Tochigi. He wants me to understand his business before I start his work.
In spite of missing a train and once boarding a wrong one, I finally make it to the auction center. I meet our client a gentleman by the name Mr. Gambhir. He shows me around the place; walking amidst the massive lot of Heavy Vehicles (about 8,000 of them), I see many people of different nationalities, who have come here specifically to buy vehicles and export them to their countries. A lot of business (nearly 90% of it is International) is done at this auction and it seems every time this auction grows in size.

fountainhead

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am not a guy who is into pubbing and partying but like everybody else, I too need to rest and unwind myself. Especially after a hard week like the last one I had to relax.
Being brought up in natural surroundings in a house surrounded by large trees, I love nature. Tokyo is really not a green city, however it does have a sprinkling of gardens and parks.I had visited some in the past but never had I visited a Tokyo garden with a sole purpose of resting and unwinding.