1. Nightmare / Premonition
The message was stark and clear – I continue with this tomfoolery / monkeying / misbehaviour and all that impacts on iman and taqwa levels, and I am at the very end of the boundary of practicing muslims. The image of joining Friday prayers only for tasyahhud just before salam and just slightly better than the deceiving people at the back who are laughing, joking their way contrasts with the image of the thousands of muslims performing prayers with khusyu’ and devotion to Allah.
Point is to be fully absorbed in all my actions hereafter.
2. 4th consecutive defeat for
There are now calls for his head. Ridiculous! But there have been too many ridiculousness in the decision-making these past few years to suggest that it cannot happen. In my own opinion, Rafa should be given the space to work – he has proven he can overcome adversity, errors, poor decision-making and he has not shown tobe big enough not to admit his poor judgment. What better criteria can you place upon people attempting to compete with better-endowed rivals other than those above? Of course, this is also a results business, and if results cannot be sustainably be achieved, he should go. But there needs to be a calmer response to the situation, and perhaps the return of G&T will help to turn this around.
On the other hand, what this has shown is how much we have overachieved given the resources available, and it is a credit to Rafa that we are performers in the CL (as compared to Mourinho’s Inter, and Chelsea’s records over the past 5 years with equivalent or better resources, and I would think ManU’s CL win and runnerup in the past 5 years is comparable to Rafa’s record) It is in the league that he has fallen short, and unfortunately when expectations are higher this year following last season’s extremely strong finish, the transitory stage this year has pulled down results. To reiterate, Rafa needs time to turn things around, given Alonso’s departure and injuries to key personnel – and I include Aquilani in this as he IS the replacement for Alonso, given that he was the guy we purchased with the money from Alonso’s sale.
Failure to get a result against ManU will be painful – but if the performance resembles Lyon’s and
3. Insider trading at Galleon and McKinsey partner implicated
Following on from the impatient and amoral people theme, (although I had not included G&H in the
These are hedge funds, already an amoral speculative financial instrument with too much power for its own good coming from its ability to leverage other people’s money manifold. How can something speculative such as this be allowed to operate given its power to move markets isn’t an inherent strength, but rather, built on greed on profit-making. Hence, their trade is based upon using derivative instruments to manage risks, and the nature of the beast is that they will continue to speculate and bend rules to make money for their funders / investors. The surprise is that it has taken this long to implicate one in an insider trading scandal- and that too using wiretaps. That should leave the financial analysts / stockbrokers / fund managers who’s been doing for too long running scared.
If I sound a bit bitter about it, perhaps I am. Engineers, and those in the professional services dealing in the real economy has been getting a raw deal from these market-movers getting a slice out of the billions sloshing around through insanely unregulated ways. It’s about time, although I should add that the law will take its natural course and clear those who are innocent.
4. Work and technology
Speaking of tech, I should limit myself to Ind Biotech from here onwards. Otherwise, it’s just too large an elephant to swallow. But having said that, looking beyond my scope, I also seek to deepen my interest in RE, Education and Agriculture. And all these require a bit more than just passing remarks here and there – there should be real commitment and deep interest to sustain this. Hedghogs will also require that there is an execution emphasis for all these!
5. Leadership stresses and faultlines
Conflicts in my departmental meetings are rare given how monotonously monologue it has been – but it’s interesting when personal attacks are allowed in this meeting. At the same time, I feel that it is a bit shallow to attack people for not meeting, there is probably a bit more than that which meets the eye, and there are probably underlying circumstances which demand that changes will have to be made. I’m an optimist – I expect big changes to happen in the next 6 months. Or maybe, I should make that I’m suddenly depressed about things now!
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