After seeing couple of Vlogs by Mallu Traveler and his stay in isolation ward at Kannur, I bounced on this video on how to make vattu from Pineapple. At first I thought he was mad to share such a video, but then I came to know that he is not in Kerala or India to comply with our rules. Ha ha
Why we still have our Archaic Akbari Rules?
Last December and one before that, there was a news about the raid in houses by Exisce department. They seized homemade wine made by few people, who wanted to make for their home use and few others who wanted to make and sell wine during Christmas time. The news of the seizure was a dampener for many people who were planning to make a bottle or so for this season.
The sad thing is the way, Excises department portray such wine making households as thought it was a big illegal business. They use the Abkari Act to bring such a person along the same lines of illicit brewing people.
What a stupid way of interpreting laws? As usual, I have think we are still have the third-world attitude and there’s no way but to accept the law of the land.
In this context, I was happy to see how one of our mallu brother has showed how to make homemade brew at his home in Europe.
Which is your drink as per your Zodiac Sign?
Recently I saw a Whatsapp forward which listed the type of drink for each sun sign. In that, moonshine is for Scorpio. And, today when I saw this brew making video by a mallu I got the motivation to share it on my blog.
I guess most of us have a tendency to break the rule, especially when we think the rule is bit skewed. Probably, that’s one reason why I was elated to share it.
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I love all things about marketing, small biz idea, and meetups. This blog is just a platform to share my thoughts and network with people like you.
Corona Virus Triggered Ideas
In times of epidemic, like the one sweeping across the world, there are many things our mind wishes for. For instance, I saw a forward which predicted that such a virus will spread in the world in 2020, affect lungs and after sometime, it will disappear without any apparent reason. Btw, I still believe some miracle or some natural phenomena will make the virus loose its potency.
Have you too wished for a positive news – maybe a new drug which will insulate Corona virus or the incoming summer will stall the progress of the virus?
Instant Corona Virus Detection
Another thing I had fancied is a medical gadget which can instantly predict if the person has viral infection or not. This gadget I had envisioned looks like a hand held device which could be pointed to a person or a space. This device has a 5 inch screen which will show a infra-red type image on the screen. The neon color area on the screen would mean the presence of Corona Virus on person or a surface.
I had seen something close to it on Medical Files or Detective on Discovery Channel. This device is used in crime detection, where the detectives can spot unseen traces of blood. So, if such a device do exist so what about using some rays to spot out minutest of such virus on a surface.
Probably Medical Gadget for Future
In some years, we will have all sorts of devices which can easily detect all kinds of diseases with a quick scan. May be, each home will have a device which will be connected to the hospital and help to evaluate the state of health or any traces of tumor or virus in the system.
You Are Here for a Reason
“To be or not to be is not the question; the vital question is how to be and how not to be.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel:
Import Old Blogs to Fresh One
At last, all the bits and pieces of blogs that I have been writing over the years has been merged to this blog. Whew!
After this new merger, this blog is going to a powerhouse for all my personal branding, and networking efforts. At least, that’s what I think about it.
Now, I should be having over 1000 blog posts on this blog – most of which are one liners or with just a picture. Also, most blogs are not fit to read or shared. I hope to delete them or add more meat to it so that it has some value for the visitor. However, visiting all these posts is not easy and it’s going to a long effort.
FRESH START
One of the key topics shared on this blog would be around small business ideas, start-up plans, life, lonely life, meetups, networking, and also about events around my life. Hopefully, I’ll trim the excess flab in my writing and make it succinct – a task which by no means is easy.
Ideas around Getting Rich
Few lines said, phrases that struck me from the podcast https://copyblogger.com/ramit-sethi/
Is that really where you want to spend your time? I’m not so sure.
( Where to focus your time?)
Focus on those $30,000 questions, it is so much more powerful than getting mired in the weeds, mired in the details of these $3 questions.
( Most often we spend our time dealing with little savings that we miss the big question)
And if the answer is the few, like a few pennies here and there, maybe it’s not worth spending time on.
Incremental growth ( Which area do you want to grow? Progress, step-by-step, drip-by-drip as said by Seth Godin)
Mental mastery
There’s finding a dream job and then mental mastery. So I love that stuff, but I would just caution people, don’t try to do it too quickly. We made that mistake and was crippling, so focus on the things that are working and try to do a little bit more of those.
We’ve really dialed down on is this minimum viable audience
Copywriting called Call to Action.
Finding a profitable idea, testing it, doing it rapidly.
Starting a business from behind their computer. NO, get face-to-face learning experience.
People are lonely behind the screen
What would you do if you could quadruple your spending?”
No Parking Bike Towing in Bangalore
Lifting Bike on to the Deck 
Hauling bikes from No Parking Zones
Just clicked this scene near Tippasandra. It’s a common sight and two wheeler drivers knows how these fellas scoop and lift scooters and bike parked in no-parking area. However, the sad thing is that there are no proper signage to inform bike riders about parking spaces.
I have once parked my scooter on Cambridge Layout. After some time the dobi fella came running to my house to tell that my scooter has been picked by the cops. When I ran outsie, all I could see was the sight of my scooter riding on top of the mini-lorry which was converted into a tow-away vechile.
Did you have similar experience?
This kind of tension is not there in Trivandrum. I can park next to the road side and go to shop or go around without fear of vehicle being taken away by cops. But I guess, it won’t be long before our cops in Trivandrum adopt this kind of traffic law-enforcement strategy.
Her Trivandrum Post Share
Another quote downloaded from the Fb group – Her Trivandrum. These posts are shared here so that it’s easy to revisit and rethink of these lines at another time. I hope you will find it useful too.
The essence of the lines are about judging people from the physical appearance or forming a opinion after a brief interaction. Though I have made repeated formed wrong judgement, I still can’t help the basic instinct of judging people.
Why Do We Judge even though we know it’s not always correct?
Why do we still look to make the first impression?
How can we become non-judgmental?
Experience Trophies
Looking back at life, what are the moments you can instantly think of? Is it the meeting with that person, sticky situation at work place, failures along the way, hard-work that was not counted, getting ignored by someone or by all, or the time you felt you were left out from the list, etc.
Unlike my generation ( baby boomers), kids in their 20’s now are seeking experience over other things. I guess, it’s more of a pragmatic way of looking at life – heaping moments to think and opportunities for learning by exposing into different circumstances.
What do you say about experience?
What will you trade for an opportunity to experience something?
Work from Home? How to Find Real Great Jobs to Work from home?
Work from home
Earn 25K from home
Typing Jobs from Home
These are many such posters struck on trees, lamp posts and on walls. My guess is that you might have seen it, but do you know anyone who have called these numbers for information? If yes, did it help them? Was it genuine?
I had once, got a booklet and a CD as part of the job. As soon as I typed, I knew that it’s not for me. I still haven’t got a clue what such jobs will bring to the doer?
Demand for Part-time Jobs on the Rise
How will you find a credible Jobs which you can do from home?
I know for sure that thousands of people must be looking to turn spare time to an activity to make an extra income. This is one question most people who have free time must be thinking? But, the big question is this? How to find one or how to start one?
Here are my suggestions on starting a small biz by yourself?
1. If you are good with writing, then look for content writing jobs.
2. Start a boutique from home
3. Good with cooking. Start a idli selling unit.
4. Become a home baker or teach baking to people in your society or locality
5. Teach urbanites on how to grow vegetables in their balcony
6. Start home tutoring for school students
7. Teach language classes
8. Start a kindergarden from your home
9. Do painting and sell it through FB
10. Start a creative training store like Bloom and Grow
11. Open a stitching centre from home.
12. Start a networking biz
13. Open a bike or car workshop
14. Sell organic vegetables
15. Organize a Sunday market
16. Sell fresh virgin coconut oil
17 . Open a upholstery store
18 Sell cloth bag with simple mural painting
19. Teach Ukulele
20. Be a franchisee consultant ( Build knowledge on different types of fanchisee business and help people to open franchisee biz
21. Be a sex education specialist or sexologist
22. Teach people how to start organic farming
23. Train people on acquaponics
24. Take baby siting during spare time
25. Train people on hospice care
26. Sell lemon juice ( 101 varieties of lemon juice, plus fruit juices)
27. Open a great Indian Tea Stall ( Sell tea powder, leaf etc)
Trees Bloom in Bangalore
Come this time of the year, springily shades of pink, yellow and blue blooms in Bangalore. Took this picture while returning home after having a coffee at Udipi Park Veg restaurant at Domlur.
Flossy Ideas, Meetups and Views 