Formed a few more blogs! Shall Start active blogging this month on

I think WordPress is far better than Blogger. But, blogger lets you put Google Ads and WordPress.com doesn’t. So I created 5 new blogs in Blogger.

They are all on topics that I am passionate about

1. Algorithms and Programing
2. Getting a Dream Job
3. The future of the Web
4. (Bangalore) Entrepreneur’s Paradise
5. Handwriting Analysis

They say, its good to have 1 blog and a good one. Like Ashish Sinha’s Pluggd.in. But I feel like maintaining all 5. And I want to put quality content in all 5. Sounds like a mammoth task. But lets make it happen. After all these are all my passions.

So lemme devise a strategy for them :-

1. Algorithms and Programing: 1 new problem everyday
2. Getting a Dream Job: Inactive till June
3. The future of the Web: Inactive till June
4. Entrepreneur’s Paradise: 1 post a day
5. Handwriting Analysis: 1 post a week

Sounds doable.

Lets take it on!!! I’ll share the blog links by the 2nd week of May with some content in Blogs 1,4 and 5.

Barcamp Bangalore 6 – My Best BarCamp Ever!

I wasn’t around when the BCB6 planning started. I was enjoying my vacation in Bhopal. I came back to Bangalore a week or so before BCB6 and found little work to do in the organizing front. There was an amazing response in the call for volunteers and 56 people volunteered. This was a major breakthrough compared to previous Barcamps.

I initiated a couple of sessions in BCB6. The first one was on Startup Pains. It was inspired primarily to identify authentic issues that I could take up as a KickStart.in initiative and do my bit towards making Bangalore a heaven for startups. It was led primarily by Prof Suresh. He brought in some presentations and put in a lot of facts in the picture. We got some 5 pain points. 4 of which we had compiled before. The solutions too were something in lines of what we had thought of earlier.

Chetna forced me to sit down with her for her session on Star Signs, astrology, palmistry etc. She chipped in my name and handwriting analysis as well. The session on Star Signs was informative, I figured out that a Star Sign is different from Sun Sign. And as expected there was a lot of debate. I asked if Rajiv, (the guy who was an armature palmist and who seemed to know the most about the topic) if he could tell 1 major incident from my past. If he could accurately say that, I would be a convert. He couldn’t but he did say a thing about creativity which I agree with.

Astrology got even more heated arguments.

Now my turn came to speak about Handwriting Analysis and I was already thinking like “what am I doing here?”. Anyways, I chose not to talk much. I offered to do a 2 line analysis of 10 people who volunteered. I’ll tell 2 things about each of them. If all of them found those two things to be their typical qualities then people could take Handwriting Analysis to be a Science and if it did not match, they could brand it a pseudo science or whatever. And there was only 1 line to read from. It was a gamble, the data was insufficient. But I thought it would be fun and took it on. Result: Out of the 20 or so handwritings that I analyzed, all agreed and only 1 disagreed with a thing I spoke on optimism. I don’t know what the others thought of HandwritingAnalysis though.

Shourya was at his cynical and logical best though! When I looked at a sample’s T bar and spoke a thing about enthusiasm, he commented immediately about the 2 exclamation marks that the sentence carried (something I hadn’t even noticed!!!).

But thats not what made it my best barcamp ever. I just loved the participation. For the first time, I didn’t go to the gates to tie the banners. And when Aditya and I went to the L Cluster after the feedback session to clean the place up, we were surprised to find that everything was spic and span!!! This kind of things happen when people take the event as their own. I guess in BCB6, the majority did take it that way!

I met a lot of amazing people as usual. It was just too good an experience to describe in words.

A sexy new possibility.

Here comes another bullet post. I’ll finish writing this within 7 minutes.

A whole new possibility came to my mind today when I was thinking of my Ma’am. (Mrs Kamal Baduni. My teacher from APS Dagshai who is just like a mother to me). I anyways think of her a few times every week! But this time I thought of going and staying with her. I was thinking about going home and thought it would be so wonderful if I could stay with her also!

Thinking of the same a wonderful new possibility came to my mind. How about traveling the country staying with my friends and family all the time! Sounds great doesn’t it? There are a few hitches though. 1 its not practical. Not the travel part of it but the money part of it. If I am not earning then the experience will be more painful than fun for me.

So the next imp question is – “How do I earn money while consistently being on the move?”. Well there are many ways.

• I can become a blogger. This blog + my yet to be started tech blog + my handwriting analysis website can fetch me sufficient money.
• Also I can conduct – Handwriting Analysis workshops and do some live analysis in malls for fun. This way I can earn money.

The next problem is Computer! I don’t have a laptop yet and I would need one. Anyways I have kept “Buying a laptop and a sexy cell phone” in this years targets. I just have to focus on buying it soon enough.

So how much money should I earn every month such that I can easily go and have fun? I guess 40k a month will be sufficient.

Buttttt… What about my entrepreneural dreams? Well, this is a tough question. I’ll need some time to work it out.

But the possibility is wonderful!

Aha.. I have taken 11 minutes already. Its gonna take me another minute to put the tags and publish. But good I am improving on writing bullet posts!

Analyzing handwritings in a Mall!

Today was fun. To me it was a big thing to go and do handwriting analysis in a populous place. But I went there confidently and did everything with confidence as usual. Quite an experience. A few people told me that they were very impressed. A couple were not satisfied 100%. The MC kept calling me a handwriting analysis expert! Incidentally she happened to be a junior from my college.

I thought I would be speaking on the mike and there would be a big crowd around me but I ended up doing 1 on 1 analysis. I had invested quite some amount to arrange for all the stationary expecting about 300 people to submit their handwriting. So I had reason to be upset but I dismantled it and got over it in 2 minutes (I am going through the lowest phase of the year so far and I must acknowledge myself for being really powerful in the circumstances). After the whole thing finished, my throat was hurting and I was dead tired. In fact I’ll hit the sack straight away after hitting ‘publish’. Whatever….

According to Spencer Johnson’s – “The Present”. One should focus on whats right, right now. So whats right right now for me is -

• I had fun
• A lot of people acknowledged me
• I have the emails of quite a few people who would like me to give a seminar at their offices.
• Some of them might have had major breakthroughs at understanding themselves and their spouses.

I have 2 options now.

1 is to stick with Handwriting Analysis persistently and go do seminars in all those offices and find some way of earning while doing that. Write blogs, build up my site, put adsense and chitika in it and expect returns.

OR

Move over to something else and earn some money to pay my bills. I don’t know why but I don’t like this idea of money getting the better of me. This is 1 area I want to transform. Money should not move me, I should be moving it.

Right now I am biased towards option 1. I have starting enjoying discipline. Talk about persistence!

Tomorrow I have to leave home by 7 to be on time for the “creation meeting” of Tanaya’s 2nd SELP workday. Man I am so tired. I really wish to sleep my whole tomorrow over. Ill have to hit the sack soon.

Nice habit. Writing your journal every night. Someday when I am really successful I can look back at these pages and amuse myself!

Good Night!

Bye the way, today I did my simpleology and exercise and no yoga.

Some tension creeping in!

I could not sustain the beautiful start in the morning. By mid day, I had a deal to do live handwriting analysis (using a mic) in a big mall on a busy day! Wow, quit a deal. I was excited and nervous. I spent the rest of the day preparing a survey and making a small writeup for the action tomorrow.

Now I have not done live analysis for the last 4 years. Doing it in front of so many people, in a big mall sounds a little overwhelming. I know that I know only a quarter of what I used to know earlier. And I don’t remember any of the catchy phrases that I used to conjure while analyzing earlier. Not to mention, I used to analyze only in front of a small crowd of 10-20 people on an average. But I guess I am not tensed about this as much as I am about not having any money to pay my bills. This live analysis session is not gonna pay me anything. The deal we have struck is like this. I guess I should not worry about money so much. I feel the universe/God wants me to use this opportunity to create money for myself. Something will happen. By 15th Ill pay all my bills, and of course without borrowing it. Thats a promise I make to myself.

Ok, no more negative thinking. “Bimbiglio” this is the word that I use to challenge any negative thought. When ever I get a negative thought I challenge it and replace it with a positive one. The thought that I am replacing this negative pattern with is – “I’ll read Ray Walker, the whole book. Do 2 dummy analysis tomorrow. Go to the mall and have fun.”. Wow! I am already feeling excited. Yes, all I am gonna do tomorrow is have fun. Have fun and nothing else.

Ok, so there I go studying my Handwriting Analysis book.

I am assisting in the ‘SELP production team’ on Sunday! After all the fun I have tomorrow, I’ll have even more fun and learning the day after.