Last Sunday of 2013

I haven't really done much this week apart from going out for Christmas lunch.

I've been spreading the word that I may start a mini department store to my online group. Andrew mentioned that flipping scooters in India might be profitable.

My cousin Enric Bayer got married today so I went for his wedding. Out of 20+ cousins, there are only three boys with the Bayer surname.

Quitting Derivatives Trading

I started financial trading in Indian markets in April 2011. Last week, I decided to quit trading derivatives as positive returns seemed to be permanently elusive.

It'd be nice if I could start a fund with the 4-5 stocks that seem to be long term earners. Had derivatives trading been successful, I'd have liked to be able to seed fund start ups (Kochi's start up village makes it easy to find new start ups.)

I'm now looking for a job. The search query that I'm using is "business analyst." I'd like to use the term information architect but the jobs connected to that title are few and far between in India and most queries end up leading to the term technical architect.

I'm also looking at starting up a small sports shop or maybe a small department store.

Blog every Sunday?

I've rebooted my blog multiple times.

I'll try to blog every weekend now.

Apart from going back to an older version of my trading system, I haven't really done much this week. I tried to get Christmas pudding yesterday but wasn't too successful.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I offered to help out with information architecture of sites for free for start ups in the #startups channel on freenode irc servers. Dave of http://fledglings.com took me up on that offer and I gave a few navigation and interface tips for their child care tracking app.

I'm still trying to sink into the fact that I found out that I have Scandinavian ancestry from my mom's side in 2010. That makes me a German Scandinavian Portuguese Malayalee/Keralan  Indian.

Here's Jessica Simpson (who probably has Scandinavian ancestry since she has a European surname that ends with the letter n although the Simpson name was formed in Scotland) most famous song 'With You' which I recently re-discovered today: