It's all coming back to me

Its all coming back to me
The way it was before
This pain is so intense
You can't feel it anymore

It becomes your second nature
It becomes a part of life
There no longer seem to exist
The meaning of suffering and strife

You know that they use you
You suffer each night and day
For the shoulder you always needed
The price you agreed to pay

It tears you from the inside
It cuts you down and deep
Buried under heaps of sorrow
You're denied of a peaceful sleep

Life's full of wasted old feelings
Put into prose and verse
But when the doomsday comes
Please get me a new hearse.

5 Stages of Drunkenness

Stage #1 -- Smart

This is when you suddenly become an expert on every subject. You know all and greatly wish to express this knowledge to anyone who will listen. At this stage you are also always right. And of course the person you are talking with is very wrong. You will talk for hours trying to convince someone that you are right. This makes for an interesting argument when both parties are "smart".

Stage #2 -- Handsome/Pretty

This is when you are convinced that you are the best looking person in the entire room and everyone is looking at you. You begin to wink at perfect strangers and ask them to dance because of course they had been admiring you the whole evening. You are the center of attention, and all eyes are directed at you because you are the most beautiful thing on the face of the earth.

Stage #3 -- Rich

This is when you suddenly become the richest person in the world. You can buy drinks for the entire bar and put it on your bill because you surely have an armored truck full of your money parked behind the bar. You can also make bets in this stage. Now of course you still know all, so you will always win all your bets.

Stage #4 -- Bulletproof

You can now pick fights with the people you have been betting money with because you cannot be hurt by anything. At this point you would go up to the boyfriend of the woman who had been admiring your beautiful self all evening and challenge him to a battle of wits for money.

Stage #5 -- Invisible

This is the final stage of drunkenness. At this point you can do absolutely anything because no one can see you. You can get up and dance on a table; you can strip down to your underwear, to impress the people who have been admiring you all evening, because the rest of the peoplein the room cannot see you. All your social inhibitions are gone. You can do anything, because no one will know.And you certainly won't remember !

I await you still.......

Blushing in the gay weather,
The flowers await the bee still.

Dressed in red and ready to go,
The girl awaits the boy still.

Thinking about him and cooking,
The mother awaits her child still.

Calling me again and again,
The success awaits me still.

There are even friends awaiting me,
And awaiting me is passion and thrill.

But I’ll let them waiting for ever,
Because in my heart I await you still.

Mr. Fixer

Nilesh Ganjwala isn’t a ‘fixer’ in a conventional sense. He doesn’t fix corporate deals, or cricket matches. And no, he doesn’t fix damaged water pipes or power lines either. His business card says he is CEO of Innergise Solutions, a business consulting company in the Worli sea face area of Mumbai. So, he fixes error-laden accounts books, tax problems, etc. Right?

Wrong. Ganjwala, a chartered accountant, actually fixes falling SMEs (small and medium enterprises), and brings them back from the brink of extinction. “Large companies have a smooth pattern with their numbers, which are never a challenge,” he says. “It is wonderful to work with small companies.”

BSVL ran up losses of Rs 9 crore in 1994. Thanks to Ganjwala, it was soon back in the black. In 2005-06, it notched up a net profit of Rs 6.47 crore. Ganjwala starts off by scrutinising a company’s financial statements. Once he detects some leaks, he makes factory visits to pin down their exact nature. Then follows the first big milestone. He says, “The first step to victory is to get the conservative entrepreneur to agree that he has gone wrong.” That isn’t easy. Typically, owners of small companies get emotional about changes, and take a lot of convincing. But the soft-spoken and reticent Ganjwala, who is extremely popular on the SME circuit, can be quite a toughie. “He doesn’t bluff,” says BSVL’s Daftary. Once the owner is convinced, Ganjwala channels resources (cash, loans, people) in the right direction.

As a 16-year-old, though, Ganjwala wanted to be a “financial expert who helped large firms go global”. But with time, he realised that he was “drawn to entrepreneurs with interesting ideas”. While he’s a numbers whiz, Ganjwala has shown the ability to go beyond numbers as well, to the extent of even providing strategic inputs. In 1984, Zenith, which made tin sheets and cans, was hit by a crippling labour strike. Then, “the larger OEMs moved into plastic cans for products such as paints, chocolates, oils and medicines,” says Alihussain S. Barodawala, director, Zenith Tins, in Mumbai. Within a year, the company ran up losses of Rs 35 crore. Ganjwala reduced Zenith’s workforce from 2,700 to 500 through a voluntary retirement scheme. After 15 years, it now makes a steady profit of Rs 6 crore-7 crore. In a way, his first challenge probably was the toughest. “It took them 20 years to come back. But I am glad I was with them all through,” he says.

Of course, he also has a life beyond reviving dying SMEs. Every four months, he takes off for 10 days either to England or Goa with his wife Rupa and daughter Niti. Even today, large corporates offer him global positions, but he is not interested. “It is the best time to be in the SME segment. Large firms are not growing more than 30 per cent, but SMEs are,” he says.

Now I am leaving it all behind............

Eyes are numb…
With tears dried…
Shows the way…
I must have howled and cried…
So now am leaving it all behind…

Trusted you…
Loved you…
Even after all this…
Waited for you…
But now am leaving it all behind…

All the memories…
All the pain…
I’ve lost everything…
Nothing to gain…
So now am leaving it all behind…

All you gave me was smiles…
Tears were very few…
But now I will have to go…
Won’t be able to live without you…
But now am leaving it all behind…

Your care…
your concern…
Your possessiveness…
your aggression…
Your hugs…
your kisses…
Your love & your memories…

Now am leaving it all behind…