Life post trust

On the 20th of September, Sujoy Banerjee, my friend of 5 years, business associate, and the man I considered close as a brother, ran away after committing financial and identity fraud on many of his neighbors, and other people in the local market. 

He has not been found yet, but reports confirming his location keep coming from various parts of the country. I thought I was contributing to making the life of a person, whereas he took me for just another fool.

Now that he is gone, leaving a debt of 1.7 lakh rupees on my head, I still feel lighter. Atleast I don't have any moral dilemma of quitting on my business partner. Now I can create a much sharper program, in which people get paid when their work gets done.

I have not been attending classes for over a month, and that can jeopardise the whole operation for the 3-year diploma. But I will pick up on it, though there will be missed assignments and other issues.

I am under deep debt for the next 7 months at least, then the situation will start to improve. By the October of 2016, it should become manageable again, but till then everything is going to be very constrained.

Time Capsule: Sunday, June 21, 2015

It's the middle of the year, and so far it has been one of the best years in recent memory.

Life is not too complicated, and despite major failures, nothing seems to be fatally problematic.

1. On the personal end, I am single, alone, sometimes desperate like a vampire that hasn't had the taste of blood in years, but mostly stable. I LOVE the idea of entertaining another girl, but this time, it has to be for good. I can't take another abrupt ending. So I stay away from girls till such time as I don't see a girl as the fitting candidate.

2. I am still aloof from most people in my extended family, but a lot of things have definitely changed between me and them. They have definitely started to respect me more, as they predicted me to be useless, but I make decent amounts of money in what I do.

3. It's my tenth month in the company I joined last year, which is where I started my career in support services. Things are going great here, my relation with my boss is great, and this means I can base my future on this job.

4. The future consists of raising the startup I registered in April 2015, and the 3-year diploma in Fashion Technology I am going to start since July.

5. On the business end, our attempt at raising a second store didn't survive, courtesy bad luck and bad management. Doesn't matter, my investment is still safe. This time the loss will be on Bunty. In fact, I have quit taking big losses since at least 2 years now, as I am already running a loss of a good 4-5 lakh. No Mas amigo, no mas.

The way forward is to focus on my e-commerce business. Currently I have 5 platforms coming up: 1. My home site www.silhouettefashion.co.in for boutique style and mid to high fashion stuff, 2. Amazon.in, 3. Flipkart.com, 4. PayTM and 5. Womaneeya

What I want to setup is a regular design house/export house style facility to create all types of clothing for working women. I also booked the domain www.sfnd.in for another store for Hosiery type of casual stuff like Leggings, Jeggings, Jeans, T-shirts and other stuff for a younger, bubblier audience.

In the next 5 years, if everything goes fine and it all works out, I will have enough money, power, clout and reach to bring down every nose that rose in my face.

At that point, I would like to go for further diversification. I will separate the media division of the company from the rest of it, and develop it as a full fledged studio to develop content for print and digital media, which will include videos for online distribution channels, Video games, TV shows, Movies as well as advertising when required. Also, I will venture into high tech agriculture and food processing. Those are faraway dreams for now though.

In my general theory of the struggle of life, there are 4 stages of life: 1. Survive, 2. Thrive 3. Dominate, 4. Rule. I currently see myself at the second stage, and unstoppable for the foreseeable future.

The emerging shape of my life and the resulting worldview.

This blog has been lying dead for over a year now... that is a sad fact. But that also means this post is going to capture a year's worth of history! That is a sizable challenge for me, who can't even remember if I took breakfast or not at 11:00 am in the morning! Let's see what I can capture, and for Pete's sake hope that I am accurate!

The year 2014 was the 25th year of my life. By the ancient books of Hindu culture, it is my last year as a 'boy', and as I attain the age of 25, I will be a fully grown man. It means no one will forgive my silly mistakes, calling me a child, but rather look down upon me as a dumb guy. It will also mean that my presentation will be taken seriously.

The year started off well, with a job that brought in a considerable paycheck, doing technical sales at a well known company. However, I faced moral dilemma at this job as the promises made by me were not to be kept by the company, making me a liar and a cheat. I finally quit the job when I was forced to work the morning shift which I don't do, on the 10th of May.
I sat down to relax for a few days , then started looking for another job, which I found in the form of customer service for Barclays at BSS. Something when horribly wrong with my paperwork over there, and I had to leave on the 1st of August from there. They didn't even pay my salary for July. Those were tough times.

I looked and looked, but did not find a company to my liking, and at the end of August, went on to rejoin Convergys, the first large company I had worked with.

On the other side, in 2014 I invested in inventory at my friend Bunty's new store, but that went into loss, mostly, as the audience wanted stuff that was cheaper than what we were offering. Anyhow we still have the prints and are going to fabricate them into various garments for girls, and put them up on an online store.

I am still working on getting my e-commerce business started, but let's see how it works out, as I am still to see any real profits, but am working on getting it all more and more organised as I learn more about business.