Business Tips

The death of Michael Jackson definitely was one of the best sources to make money for many retailers. Sure enough, Amazon.com is one of them. Probably it would be one of the contact drivers in their call centers around the globe. Of course, people give more value to heroes especially when they passed away.

Amazon.com, one of the biggest online retailers displayed a brief note about Michael Jackson at the right top corner of their web site, which really attracted the minds of many customers. How much profit would they make? In other words, how much would they lose if they had not displayed it? Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com may even want to sing this song –

Mi te tana vanduaina tinreng lo thleng hi
Kei misual ber tan malsawmna

Out of my curiosity, I just checked out their music sales rank and I could not believe my eyes. Fifteen of MJ’s albums were on the top list within a single day. Amazon.com really make use of MJ's death to market his albums.

This is much more interesting. It’s not about MJ; it’s not about death either. Once, some employees from our organization raised their concern about the outrageous price of food in our cafeteria. After the management looked into the issue, one of the caters reduced the price of meals to Rs 28 from Rs 30.

However, they simply said that they don't have change and promised to return Rs 2 on the next day. This happened in most of their sales. Who on earth would think of getting back this small amount? They still earn the same amount they used to before the price of an item was reduced. Should anyone raise a complain, they'd simply point at their menu and say, "Hey! Can't you see this? It's Rs 28 not 30 idiot!"

This gives me a new idea and thought it would be helpful in future if I’d like to engage myself in business. As such, I used to get a lot of better ideas but as for me, I’m not sure of which would go in line with this kind of tricks!

I get knocked down

I'm not sure if this is due to the damn freaky hot climate but the only thing I know is I really want to get out of this shit. Gone are the days when I used to be active as someone and even blew things out of the water!



Huis..laziness took over my mind, my body and my everything. Perhaps not my mind because sometimes I used to think about doing something useful. Much to my dismay, these are only dreams because I could not take efforts to achieve what I had in my mind. This really makes me weak and leaves me in despair. I know they're quite simple for most of the people though, to me it's as hard as breaking the bones. I really wish to:-

1. Get up early in the morning, say around 6.00 am and get ready for work by 7.30 am.
2. Coming back from work, wash my clothes and clean the house promptly.
3. Come out with different ideas of cooking and prepare a nice dinner everyday.
4. Read some novels in my free time and learn good things from there.
5. Pray with full commitment and read the Bible everyday.
6. Be a man who really is worth to depend on.

Given the circumstances, I feel like I have been pushed to the innermost place of this world and being knocked down somewhere in the corner. I'm on my way getting back on the right track and hopefully this won't take much time. This is my Prayer!

Vandaloor Zoo

I'm not in a mood to write these days but to simply fill in the spaces, let me bring in a couple of pictures I've taken from Vandaloor Zoo, Chennai. After riding more than 20 kilometers from Chennai, a very hot place, burning like a hell was waiting for us with these animals in there.

We are engaged!

As in one of the songs by Firehouse, I've finally made up my mind choosing someone to tie the knot with. We started as a friend and then end up with this.

Well, now we're one step closer to say "I Do".

It was on April 17, 2009 that I gave her a ring, as every engaged person is supposed to. Haha..it was funny to ask if she's willing to marry me for her entire life despite how close we are to each other. With all my efforts, I asked her and she said, "Yes" :)





If things work out as we planned, we will be having an engagement party on June 12, in celebration to her birthday as well. We would love to invite everyone
to join us on this very special day.

With that being said, it appears somebody might as well write in here. Being a novel freak and a constant reader, I believe she'll be able to make out a couple of nice stories and thoughts.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Naupan Lai: Hming Vanga Buaina

Tunlai in Mizo tawng ziah dan dik leh dik lo tih vel post te ka chhiar a. Tlem in min ti tim ve deuh. Ka ziak pawp pawp a nga, a diklo a awm pawn min hau su.


Kan Tet Lai: Hmarveng Biakin Kawt ah Ka Unaute Nen Thla Kan La

Kan naupan lai chuan Saidan ah kan inkhawm thin. Sikul pawh kha Saidan sikul atang khan pawl li ka pass a nia. Saidan chu kan ngaihdan chuan thing tak a ni ringawt. Kha tih hunlai kha chuan concrete bulding hi Saidan ah khan a la awm lo in ka hria. Rangva in nei te kha chu hausa tak an ni mai.

Chuan ka mizo hming hi ka zahpui thin a. Sikul ah leh Biakin ah hian ka ziak tel ngai lo. Ka first name chuah hi ka ziak a, a tih mizo nan a hma ah Lal ka belh kher zel. Laldavid-a kha ka hming pum a ni mai pawl li kan nih thleng khan. Chuan Saidan kohhran atangin Hmarveng ah kan pem a, tlem in boruak hip pawh a changkang deuh. Hmarveng kha chu member pawh an lo tam zawk a, zai te pawh a nuam tham.

Presbyterian pawh kan inti ngai lo a. Eng Kohhran nge i nih min tih kha chuan Mission kan ti tawp zel. Tunah hian naupang ho hian an la ti thin a ngem le?

Sawi leh ta thin ila, ka mizo hming ka duh loh thin zia kha aw. Saidan ah kha chuan buaina ka tawk hran lo. Laldavid-a kha ka ni mai a. Tuman tunge i mizo hming min ti ngai lo. Mahse pawl li kan han exam dawn a, board exam a ni si. Buaina ka tawk ta! Kan zirtirtu Pu Chawnga'n office ah min ko a. "Mizo hming i neih a ngai" a ti a. Ka thin chu a sa but but a. Ka sawi ngam bawk si lo ka hming pum kha. Ka ngawi reng a. Pu Chawnga vek chuan-

"Eng hnam nge in nih?"

"Hmar Varte"

"Chuti chu David Varte tiin kan ziak mai ang i hming hi."

Hmingpum ziah ai chuan a zia deuh in ka hria a. Ka lung chu a awi zan chuang lo.

Hmar nih hi kan duh lo thei lutuk a. A chhan chu kan hmuh phak a Hmar ho kha kei ni ai a bal leh berh ve leh chhawng kha an nia. Kan zak deuh thin a. Kan hnam pawh hi ka nu in min hrilh tirh chuan ka duh lo a. Mahse, i duh e maw duh lo e maw, i nih tho tho a ngai a lawm a ti miau sia. Phur lo zet in Hmar Varte chu kan nih ve tak kha!

Pawl nga kan han nia. Saidan sikul ah kal reng theih tawh hek loh. Buaina hlir buaina hlir. Kan zirtirtu te khan ka hming ang kha an lo la hmu ngai si lo. Hming an han lam a, kan buai leh deuh nak thin. A tir lam phei kha chuan kan pawl a mi te ho kha ka hre hlawm vak bawk si lo a. Zahthlak duh haih haih thin teh mai a nia!

Nikhat chu Pu Ralliantawna'n, "Mizo hming i nei lo a mi?" tiin min han zawt leh a. Chutah ka bul a thu Zothantluanga chuan ring leng lawng hian ka mizo hming chu an sawi mai ah! Ka thin a sa up up a, ka thlan a tla zawih zawih bawk a. Kha mi ni khan Zothantluanga kha ka va han ngei tak e aw.....!! Ngam ila chuan tlai ban ah a bek ah arsa ka pe hrim hrim!

Chuan ka hming chu an han siam tha ta a. Tun thleng hian ka la pu hlen ve ta zel a ni.

Reading Mizo

Reading isn't really my passion yet I still remember myself reading a Mizo Newspaper (Aizawl Thupuan to be exact) while traveling in a local train on the way to my college. It was almost a decade ago. A Tamilian Guy sitting right beside me looked over the page I was on, as if he understood what's written there. Later, he asked me if I was reading a Spanish Newspaper.

"No," I answered.

"What language then?" He continued.

I said it's a Mizo Newspaper and he continued to ask me what the Mizo was. Finally, I reached my destination and got down from the train before he asked me who my girlfriend was and how I met her.

A couple of weeks back, I took my fiancee to airport and I was outside reading a Mizo Novel while she was in there. Thih Sak Pawh Ka Ngam by Darrokima, which is about their childhood back in seventies I believe. Every night, I used to have my fiancee read this book for me and I was on the page, which she was about to continue for the next night.

I really enjoyed these lines-

Sikul a han thlen chuan lalzira'n a lo pan vat a:

"Rema, tukinah i insil em?"

"Teuh nang, ka hmai chu ka phih."

"Lal a lo kal dawn a, Pu Thanga'n fai a en dawn an ti."

"Fai en ni a ni awzawng lo."

"Nilo mah se, Lal a lo kal dawn vangin a en dawn an ti vek a lawm."

"Ho e, hmai ka phih tho a."

"Rokhuma pawh insil tur in a haw leh a..."

"Haw peih tawh awzawng lo!"

"Pawilo, min hrem na lutuk vak chuang lo ang ti raw...?"

I even like this conversation much more -

"EE chu eng nge?"

"Ka hre bik lo. An thu lutuk an ti. Fakmawia pa chuan Aizawl leh Sialsuk inkar ah EE chu a thu ber a ti. An hausa rap a la ti zui mawle!!"

"SDO ai chuan an hausak bik ka ring miah lo."

"Teuh lo mai! Fakmawia pa chuan SDO hian pawisa thingrem khat nei ta sela, EE chuan thingrem thum vel an nei ang a ti mawle!"

While I was on these conversation, a man next to my bench asked me if I was reading a Korean Novel. I just said Nope and left the place before he asked me what the actual content of the book was.

Frets on Fire

Fifa game used to be my all time favorite, but now it's far less than positive. I don't even remember the last time I played Fifa game. I'm no longer a big fan of it.

Seriously, I'm now addicted to Frets on Fire, more or less similar to Guitar Hero. I once tried to install Guitar Hero but was not successful due to my impatience to wait until I completely download a 4GB game. Recently, I got this tiny one called Frets on Fire, which is not much different to that of the Guitar Hero.



The tutorial is really funny. It gives you only 6 keys given that you're really suck and prompted you to sell your keyboard at E-Bay rather than being a sucker.

Funny thing is what's there in the picture. Playing the keyboard like a guitar is very funny but interesting. All you need is F1 to F5 keys and Enter. F1 to F5 keys are Frets 1 to 5 and Enter is your Guitar pick.

It's much easier to pick the guitar (keyboard) when you bring it up side down and play it like a real guitar as shown in the above picture. I find it difficult to press the F5 key though, when the play is really fast. A team work may also do the trick sometimes.



There are 5 guitar strings and all you need to do is pressing the corresponding F Keys along with enter to pluck the string. When you correctly press the fret and pluck the string, you will see a light glowing in the guitar string.



It's much more interesting when you have a bunch of songs loaded into the game. I prefer guitar solo rather than these normal songs since I can sweep my guitar all day long. I'm much better in playing my keyboard rather than a real guitar.



As a beginner, it is quite tough to play fast music like hard rock, really fast plucking and tapping. I always prefer slow and steady songs such as the above one.

If you would like to try it out, click HERE to download it.

You will need to manually upload songs for the game. You'll find a bunch in Torrentz.