Kayaking.. in Monterey

Had been to kayaking in Monterey around 2 weeks back with Amar.
Busy to write in detail ... :P ( also read as lazy !! )

For guys who want to check out kayaking
http://www.montereybaykayaks.com/info/monterey.php

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are you busy.. ??

I used to consider myself pretty busy, weekdays hardly any time for anything else other than work. I was talking to a person, who is planning to move from semiconductor industry to Investment banking. think about this...

An average invest banking associate, say in Goldman Sachs spends at least 80 hours a week in work for atleast first 4 years, until he becomes VP.

thats startling... some motivated, crazy guys even log 90 - 100 hours a week.

May be thats a sacrifice , when you make more than 200k per year.

Now I need to rethink or rephrase... when I say or think I am busy :P :)

Politics.. shouldn't it concern us ?

I was watching Larry King show on CNN today. He was interviewing Oliver Stone about his upcoming film about George W Bush. I was really pleased to see such a high profile director taking so much interest in political events and who had clear opinion about everything.

Politics is some thing which touches our daily life. Decisions made by these people affect our life so much.

I do not see any Bollywood guys taking any stance on political events or having any meaningful conversation [ I should say except Aamir Khan ] . Most of them can not talk anything beyond page 3. Most of us talk / think / involve so much about Movies, Cricket. Is not political events more important than these ? I guess most of our directors are happy making same old masala movies.

mobile phones .. next frontier

Today , I got a chance to attend a talk by CEO of Nokia, . It was very interesting. He was mainly talking about how mobile and internet worlds are converging. Some interesting statistics like Nokia was founded on 1865 and how fast we have around 4 billion mobiles now. Thats about 2 mobile phones for 3 people.

He was talking about joint strategy of Nokia and Symbian. How to tackle new guys in game like google and apple. He was a very humble guy for a Nokia worldwide CEO. Imagine you are like most powerful man in Mobile industry.

I kinda got up to date with whats happening in telecom industry and a glimpse of High profile corporate get togethers. It was very diverse group.. financial firms, tech companies, people from Japan, Russia, Finland.