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  • fritz Says -> bye bye 2007
    1:49 pm on January 1, 2008 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    Well the passing year has bought its share of good and bad experiences in my life they are as follows lets start with the
    bad things

    • heart break
    • bad health (malaria,heart attack,cold,fever, food poisoning etc etc)
    • killed the company I spent 2 years building it was very hard but had to do it

    good things

    • frizilla
    • good team for frizilla
    • some of my ideas finally took off
    • saw some of the work which brother has a capability to deliver am impressed with it
    • made some new friends
    • friends chipping in to help with my own venture (thank you guys)
    • brother finally found a calling and put his head down and got his first product finally ready the launch of it is next year

    This is my last post for this year so happy new year to everyone :)

     

  • fritz Says -> nice video about digg it has a catchy tune too
    2:04 pm on December 27, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  • fritz Says -> gd ads on TV recently
    11:32 am on December 17, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Well sometimes you feel good watching ads instead of the actual programs on TV this days.
    like the recent cleartrip ads and vodaphone ads have caught my attention

    The cleartrip ads about orange juice and the bar one about a cross dressing dude are both hilarious but I feel both are targeted to the right audience as well and the upmarket hip young generation which is the target audience for cleartrip will get the humor . but out of both the ads the one about orange juice is really good for some reason both the ads looks clich

     

  • fritz Says -> thanx to all who care about my welfare
    6:27 am on November 12, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Thanx to all the people who made phone calls sent sms’s and mails and had long chat sessions with me to know about my health and give advice and tips and even offered their cleartrip coupons etc hahahahaha.

    I really appreciate the concern shown and am really thankful for all the best wishes.

    Hmm from this episode I did come to know that there are a few people who want to see me alive hahahahaha yes from now on I am still pushing myself but not as much now I sleep for a decent amount and eat food on time and don’t skip meals anymore.

    But have not yet given up on pushing my mind and body but now do it a bit smarter like I told a friend few days back it is worth dying while trying in something you believe in and feel worth giving your body and mind rather then dying later in life repenting that you never had the will power to pursue your dreams.

    Well thanks once again on a lighter note the below image done by a close friend of mine selwyn is inspired by my the small incident in my life and no there are no prizes for guessing which incident hahahahaha :) so enjoy !!!!

    The image is not loading from blogger :( so here is the link chk out the selwyn’s blog and guess the image :)

     

  • fritz Says -> wow what a crib
    6:09 am on November 12, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    For all you who are wondering what is this post about well this post is about Mukesh Ambani’s proposed new residence in bombay called Antilia.

    Well I personally don’t own a residence of my own yet but will do so someday :)
    but I do follow a lot of this residential luxuries of famous people whether they are shown on forbes mag or on MTV Cribs yes I watch cribs because looking at those houses you learn what are the things you need to get for your crib when it is up.

    Well for a sneak peek at the proposed 4000+ crore residence of reliance CMD mukesh ambani the pic is given below of what the proposed architecture might look like once complete more details can be seen here in short it is

    • 27 storeyed
    • 6 floors for parking of 168 imported cars
    • one floor for an inhouse car service center
    • entertainment floor with a mini theatre with sitting capacity of 50 (looks like the rich guy does not have many friends hahahaha)
    • health floor with swimming pool and facilities for athletics
    • for visiting guests there will be 2 floors wow does this mean now all the visiting dignitaries of reliance be staying there instead of a hotel somewhere ?
    • 600 staff will be working there
    • three helipads on the terrace

    Way to go man what a place to stay hats off to you for that you should work hard and also stay in luxury and party hard after reaping in the rewards and finally the Indian Businessmen are realising it with the huge number of private jets being purchased, expensive imported cars, luxury apartments etc etc it is a good sign for a booming economy.

    This residence will go well with his new flying office worth 245 crores see (this) for more info. Wow I am just imagining what the other ambani brother is doing who is keeping a low profile with all this big ticket spendings by elder brother well its not that he does not have the money but then again he does not have as much as his elder brother hahahaha

    Well it will take some serious spending by another Indian to belittle Mukesh’s crib in India but hey it can be done even though I would say all this are the things that even I look for in a crib but there are more facilities and a hell of a lot of cutting edge tech inside and outside.
    my crib so now you know the list of luxuries that I want to own someday is not just restricted to a private island and private jet for my world travels for holidays, partying and cuisine tasting hey who wouldn’t want to just board their plane and go to italy and have a pizza and come when in the mood rather then settling for a domino’s or pizza hut one :)

    Realistically(as reality sinks in sob sob sob) speaking at present I need a single bedroom apartment of my own and a small office to work on my building empire dreams :)

    Hmm am wondering why name a residence after a mythical island ?? any ideas y ????


    (image is shown from mumbaimirror.com)

     

  • fritz Says -> catching up with selwyn after a long time
    1:36 pm on November 10, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Well today was a fun outing in the afternoon when the four of us Me, Fonda ,Sarvesh and Selwyn all went out for lunch at Godinho’s it is a small goan restaurant here in panjim famous for its goan food. Since we all met in my office at campal and since sarvesh was the only one with a mode of transport he took up the responsibility of shuttling all of us to our destination thnx dude for the shuttle service :)

    So we sat down and continued with our chat and catching up with what is happening with one another I guess distance really pulls people apart and today I realized it since we had not talked like this for a long long time well if my memory serves me right the last time we were like this was on our trip to nagpur but then we had another monkey with us Satya hahahaha but now even with constant chatting and sometimes phone calls it is no supplement for a personal outing with the gang ;) but all of us are where we are because of the choices we made in our careers so it is all cool but whenever we are down we should make it a point to meet up (hmm am always up for it but the others come with a predefined schedule for their activities in goa and find it bit difficult to squeeze in old friends time in that schedule )

    Well after sarvesh made three trips from office to godinho’s to shuttle all of us there we got down and ordered our lunch (the service was slow it is because the place was full and they were short on waiters so it took some time for the waiter to come to us to take our order but we did take a lot of time to decide what we were having selwyn could not decide about chicken or squids hmm he was saved from his agony with the fact that there were no squids hahahaha and he has made bigger choices then ordering from a restaurant menu wonder how he made those choices ) Well finally we ordered I ordered pork balchao, fonda ordered beef fry with capsicum and sarvesh and selwyn settled for the chicken cafreal some french fries and some drinks two cokes and two 7up’s the food was not good not at all tasty like the normal godinho’s food maybe the cook has changed but then again we all had our lunch and then we headed back to my office for some more chit chat.

    There we talked about new ventures told them about my new comics idea and they could not stop laughing at my story but am sure its a billion dollar franchise and I will see who will laugh at it later hahaha (evil laugh). Talked about our jobs, where our lives are headed etc
    talked about movies, comics, games etc etc then finally we dispersed as selwyn had to get home and rest (that is the main reason he comes to goa to sleep hahaha) well it was quite a nice half day considering the fact that I was a bit upset with some office developments in the morning but the afternoon outing really cheered me up :) hopefully we will have more outings like this in the future with our lives becoming more and more work centric we find such things difficult to plan and execute as all of us are spread all over the place seperated by huge geographical distances and are no longer in a small place called Goa.

     

  • fritz Says -> facebook the 15 billion dollar social network
    4:04 pm on October 29, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Yes facebook is valued at that much when microsoft picked up a 1.6 percent stake in facebook for $240 million it gave facebook the valuation of 15 billion read this for more info.

    Well if this is not a sign of a bubble building then what is as far as investing $240 million in a company goes for Microsoft well it is no big deal for a company who is having close to $6.6 billion in cash reserves but the question remains why would microsoft give out such a huge amount for such a small stake in a company which does not have a solid business model yet the rumors floating around is that facebook is planning to monetize its user base by launching its own ad network. Well yes good that is very good but for how long can a social network claim they have a active user base well the normal trend now is where your friends move you move.

    For example I was on hi5 then moved to orkut and now am very active on facebook and orkut.  I don’t even bother much to login to my hi5 account to check it as my friends are no longer active on that so what does facebook believe will not give another startup an opportunity  to come and swoop  all its users to their network  will facebook be able to maintain its user base after all it is a plain vanilla social network it is no  yahoo or google where there is not just one thing but many things that can be done with one id you get mail, social network,shopping etc etc yes facebook has opened their platform to third party developers but so are other networks.

    I am really struggling to understand why Microsoft would value facebook so much when myspace is termed as the king of social networks and I recently read somewhere that it is valued at $10 billion  now when the market leader is valued at $10 billion and and upcoming star is valued at $15 billion based on factors like opening up the network to outside developers which other competitors can easily copy and are copying and opening to third party developers.

    Well bubble or no it is good news for all tech entrepreneurs as it shows that the market is right for tech ideas and the VC’s are willing to invest in any ideas whether they are built on good business models or no.

    As of now it looks like millions of users is more important then having a good business model

     

  • fritz Says -> some good shows on TV right now
    12:29 pm on October 29, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Yep there are a few good shows on TV that I follow now

    The big bang theory- This is a show every geek will associate themselves with a must watch for any guy who appreciates science like I do comes on zee cafe on thursday at 9 pm

    kyle xy- Good show is a kind of like the old star world series John Doe which I saw a few episodes of but this one is good with youth twist to it and the mystery is nice and intriguing have seen all the episodes so far it comes on saturdays on star world at 8 pm

    ugly betty- yep a very good show every guy wants a office assistant like betty efficient and dedicated to her work it comes on star world on Tuesday at 9 pm

    notes from the underbelly- This is funny stuff and is a sitcom of expecting parents and how they are trying to come to terms with the pregnancy comes on zee cafe on thursday at 9:30 pm

    well thanks to tata sky and their reminders I don’t miss many shows now

     

  • fritz Says -> some good ads on TV now which I like
    2:41 pm on October 14, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Zen Estilo - yep the one in which the couple is eloping from home I think it is humorous and something different for a car I still remember that fleur xavier one for tata indica wow that was a super duper ad a hot chick and good music (they had that lobo song "love you to want me" playing in that ad) that was a ad which got imprinted in the minds of people but I guess it didn’t do much for Tata Indica. But I wonder what happened to fleur xavier she was really hot and sizzling

    Airtel-Google - The Airtel Google ad the Indiana Jones rip off for a story line is a great flick for anyone who understands the Indiana Jones series and the quest for knowledge that is emphasized in all of Indie’s adventures but for some reason I think this concept will be wasted on Indians who would feel that the ad is a bit odd but must say it is a bit lengthy but overall fun and something different. First time I saw the ad I thought it was a Indianna jones movie trailer :)

    ulta perk - yep this ad is also good but here is what I find odd the dog chasing a postman is something that you associate in the US and not in India. For some reason I feel Like this might be a rip off from some foreign ad just like the Airtel-Google

    Neo Sports India-Pakistan series - Yep this is the best ad out there right now first time I thought it was a public service ad for viewers to check their LPG gas stoves at home but the ad is good and well executed and passes a strong message to the viewers

    Hcl Leaptop - Yep the one in the coffee shop one is good and hilarious the

     

  • fritz Says -> a perfect little car for me atleast one of the many out there for me
    1:02 am on October 11, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Yep a car like (this) would be perfect for me down here in Goa even though there are bit of concerns about it just going 125 miles on a charge that is roughly 200 km well for a small place like Goa it would be perfect for me to get around the only thing that will have to change is the color though Wink as it has to have some sort of shade of blue but even this is color is cool enough for a guy whose name is D’souza Fritz D’souza

    Oh if it can come with all the necessary cool gadgets and must haves like a missile launcher, a GPS tracking unit, a beer chiller,a nice music system, a TV with a satellite dish ya ya this is a lot to ask even without this gadgets the car is good to look at and also a technological marvel in a way I guess so a must have anyway once it hits the market and you don’t have to move around a lot on one charge for your vehicle I guess this vehicles would pick up and go mainstream if they could be recharged fast like even if it goes 200 km but if you could recharge the vehicle in say 5 minutes for another 200 km that would be perfect as then instead of gas stations you will see electric charging stations within the radius of 200 km.

    Well this one is by Subaru and Nissan is also coming out with one but I wonder if there is any indian company other then Reva working on something like this as tata’s are too busy working on their 1 lakh Rs wonder car which I am very very anxious too see.

    (image is linked from cnet site see the above linked article for more details about the car)

     

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