Archive for 'Musings'
PSR
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Praetor.
What do the C’s do when they retire? The CEOs, COOs, CTOs, CIOs, CFOs, CSOs, CMOs and their other brethren missed out here. If the C is worth his or her salt, approaching retirement the C will already have done fairly well for himself or herself. Kids put through the best universities, even married off [...]
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What Age is This?
Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by Praetor.
Bill Shakespeare was a man with deep insights into the human mind and by extension, human beha-viour. In As You Like It, he proposes that a man’s life can be divided into seven ages. “All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his [...]
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The CSR Song
Posted on 25. Jul, 2009 by Praetor.
(to be sung to the tune of Mrs. Robinson) And here’s to you big cor-po-ra-tion Bourses love you more and more Wo wo wo God bless you big cor-po-ra-tion Try to do some good night and day Hey hey hey, hey hey hey We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files We’d like to keep a watch on what [...]
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Waste Not, Want Not?
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Praetor.
About 353,000 babies are born every single day in the world. About 146,000 people die each day globally. So in round numbers, the world population is growing by about 200,000 people every day or a million every 5 days. Given that the Planet’s natural resources are limited, common sense dictates that waste should be avoided [...]
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Breaking News
Posted on 15. Apr, 2009 by Praetor.
That’s it; I have had all I can stomach with television channels and their insane predilection with airing every other piece of news as ‘breaking news’. There ought to be a law on what can and what cannot be classified as breaking news. I mean these channels break news faster than a patisserie chef can [...]
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Any Takers?
Posted on 09. Feb, 2009 by Praetor.
My view on CSR is rather self-centric. What is in it for me? Are all the millions the corporate sector is pouring into CSR programming making my life better? Do companies understand how my life can get better? I don’t think so. Because if they did, I wouldn’t be stressed and hyper-ventilating all the time [...]
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Whose Water Is It Anyway?
Posted on 13. Oct, 2008 by Praetor.
I heard this crazy idea for water harvesting, which on reflection did not seem that crazy after all. If one is able to collect all the water flow from all the airconditioners operating night and day in a large city like Karachi, how many MGD water can one generate? Yours truly was an instant convert [...]
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Do More
Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by Praetor.
“Government of the people, for the people, by the people,” so spoke Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States in 1863. All very well and it works for many. But the reference to Lincoln here is not to launch into a political discourse on the merits and shortcomings of popular democracy. It is [...]
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Future Food
Posted on 18. May, 2008 by Praetor.
Ever wondered why Creation allocated only 29 percent of Earth’s surface to land and 79 percent to water? Or why this huge water mass was made saline? Tough questions; unless you believe in Divine Wisdom and can think beyond yourself and your progeny as far as the future of this planet [...]
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A Second Life
Posted on 16. Mar, 2008 by Praetor.
If one was to be given a second life with all the experience of the first at one’s disposal upon re-birth, would one live differently? And if so, how differently? There would perhaps be a handful of people who will say that they would live the second life no differently. Fortunate beings who had it [...]
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Do You Speak My Language?
Posted on 10. Jan, 2008 by Praetor.
There was a time when some corporate executives in any organisation would manage to get by in their jobs year after year and get promotions too, all with very little effort or real work being done. They had perfected an art called LBDN: Look Busy Do Nothing. Cluttered desks, sleeves rolled up and tie loosened, [...]
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