About Human Beings and Money

Money...the mere utterance of the word sends shivers, signals, fright etc. But why? Are we slaves to money? From the moment we're born we cost money to our parents and till we die we earn money or I could just say till we are economically viable to earn money, before we start to depend on our savings, kids...etc

So in our ever pursuit to create money to buy a house, buy a nice car, go holidays, we tend to forget ourselves a lot and subconsciously compete with friends, celebrities, other peeps.
But experience has taught me that there is a downside to this.

What if someday something happens for you to loose your job, or bad investment which brings you down to a negative cash flow or I'd rather say nothing. What will happen then? What happens to the the half a million dollar house mortgage repayment, and your car repayments etc.

At that instant, the only thing you will be left with will be your loved ones who were there with you initially when you had nothing and will be there for you to lend you something money cannot buy....Support and Love. I guess in our ever lasting search for money in the Rat Race, we should never forget whats important to us as a human being. Money comes and goes, we did not come into this world with it and neither are we going to leave this world with it. Being unattached to money really helps.

So why the stress? I'd rather help the needy by giving it to them, at least I would have made their day and the world we live in would have been a better place.

What is Life?

This is the question that probably goes through everybodys mind at some point in time. It has cropped up to me albeit lately and honestly I don't know the answer to this.

We go through life from the moment we are born right up to where we are right now filled with mysteries, fun, laughter, tears, misery, love, despair, sadness, joy, anxiety....the list goes on. At some point of time we feel like giving up saying that its too hard to continue and sometimes we have moments where we enjoy without thinking about any consequences. Is that the meaning of life?

My dad used to say that there are 3 phases in a mans life i.e. childhood, bachelor days and married life. Simply said its true as such that its categorized in such a way. I guess time catches up and before you know it you could have passed any one of the stages and be moving on to the next.

The question is are we prepared? I suppose we could only answer it through our actions. Remember actions speaks louder than words.

Maybe the answer to what is life is LIFE itself.......hmmmm

Easter as it may be

Alas, It's the Holy Week again,

I will be away from my family members back home for the first time during Easter and would be spending it with a couple of friends in Kalbari. It's something different and for me, a definite good break away from work, which had been thrown at me like there's no tommorrow.

A time to reflect I'd say and hope for peace and justice to prevail anywhere in the world. I hope I do get lots of Easter eggs this time around !

The Rantings of a Chemical Engineer

So happen that the oil prices have past the US110 mark or so over the past few days, so what's in it for peeps like us in the business of producing it. Simply said more work but most people would raise their eyebrow when you say that you are working in the oil and gas industry. Cash cow ? Nah, no even close.

Well, from the looks of it we are no different from the people in other industries, the higher the oil prices get the more work we get and it doesn't get any better than that. In fact I would foresee the world using gas as as an alternative energy before it dwindles in a couple of years and bio stuff (biodiesel etc) becomes popular. But when that happens, it will not be the end for us in the Oil and Gas industry as we are Chemical Engineers and as such we could easily adapt to a change of the product per se.

In other words, we would never run out of a job...