Living in Lanka…… just like that !!
After many weeks and no. of kicks at my backside, I am finally sat here trying to collect my thoughts for this latest blog entry…..
Amazing, I never thought that some people actually read my blog…. till such time that I stopped posting anything on it….. under the impression that no body actually wants to read this stuff…. There are all kinds of different people out there and nothing wrong in someone liking my blog….. even though I find it difficult to understand !!??
Another good learning point is that I must not make so many observations on the road…. not a good driving habit !!
Last few weeks have been interesting….. the global financial market has had a meltdown…. something truly beyond belief and once in a life experience…. imagine turning up to office on a monday morning to realise that the company has filed for bankruptcy and will not be able to pay you !! This actually happened and that too at Lehman… one of the top notch investment houses….. Someone actually said, this could be worse than the impact of 9/11, for economic health of the world…. When we are old (if I ever get to that alive) I can imagine myself telling young people stories about the great collapse of financial markets in early 2000s and how we coped up with it…… like people narrate their stories of WWII or the great depression etc….
Now cut to our local markets. I have seen a no. of statements / stories in the media that we are not affected by the global crisis. We are fine and doing better than expected. Inflation has actually shown a downward trend and this will be the way in future.
I am no finance geek, but surely we can’t be untouched by what is happening around the globe. Maybe we do not have a Lehman brothers branch here….. but we have companies laying off in the past months. Approx. 1000 people have been retrenched in the past few months in local market. We are dependent on the western markets for our exports, we are dependent on remittances from overseas, we are dependent on investment from overseas….. so how can we be not affected at all.
The cost of money has gone up steadily, liquidity has got tighter, fresh investments seem to be stagnating, a no. of industries are finding it increasingly difficult to meet targets. . . . . . . which in my view is all signs of financial stress.
But then I am no finance geek…. so maybe I am not looking at it correctly…. and we are doing fine….
Now cut to another scene….. we are preparing for a drama competition this weekend… and everyone is very excited about it. I am going to go and watch some of the acts… and am a big fan of our theatre artists, cause they are bloody good. Mood is upbeat (excluding mine) at work and I have had more treats in these last few weeks than ever before in such a short period. I generally see more smiles around and people definitely more positive than I feel mostly……
So, me ask myself, where is Lehman brother in this picture….. to hell with it if wall street had blood all over it and a few trillion dollars got wiped off the face of the green earth……
Our spirit cannot be dampened. That is the bottomline. We are fine and happy…. enjoying ourselves and preparing for our weekend act.
Come to think of it, this is where we make a difference…… in our lives, during our weekends, on our theatre stages….. not at the wall street !!
So why the rhetoric…….. virtual ??? Shut up and help out with the drama competition on Saturday.
All the best teams…..!!
u have a knack for penning words, take it from a very critical person