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when i bought toilet soap this time, i noticed a very interesting practice of the manufacturer to achieve price increase without explicit intimation or knowledge of customers. dove produced in march 08 cost rs.30. for 75 gm cake and in jan 2009 90 gm cake is offered in a three pack for rs.120. if you had expected a reduced price in a value pack of three you are in for a surprise. the price increase works out like this: rs. 30 for 75 gms works out to rs. 120 for 300 gms i.e. for four cakes and now after 9 months you end up paying rs.120 for three 90 gm cake i.e. for 270 gms. this ruse of the manufacturers works very well esp when the customers are brought up on value pack concept of three/four packs which lasts for a longtime with you say two to three months. the product virtually lasts in the market for close to six months including the pipeline, after which you mentally accept a price change. incidentally, the three 90 gm pack also offers rs.8 discount i.e. 128 to 120 to boot. this ...

what is the new year going to bring to us? some delayed effects of the global recession or what? there is a general agreement on the understanding that india will not be affected so much by the global recession. this could be an understatement or underplaying the effect. anyhow, whatever happens should give us the strength to weather such financial storms better in the future. in the short term, HR consultants are saying that 2009 will see a rise and stabilisation of the recruitment process. so students who are graduating now can look forward to a reasonable salary and stable job.they should learn to accept lower salaries and stay on in their jobs for longer periods.

today mumbai mirror reminded all of us our duties in remembering the martyrs of 26/11 by writing about shri tukaram omble who died with his boots on while grappling with the only alive terrorist qasab thus ensuring that his colleagues captured the terrorist. but there was more talk about all others who were killed by the terrorists and there were very few mentions about tukaram. is this to match with his attitude on duty which was highlighted in the Mumbai mirror article?

a friend of mine sent me this sms the other day biggest mystery of maths... 1000s of yrs hav passed ... millions of theorems derived... crores of formulas derived.... but still...."X" is unknown!! i thought i should give him a suitable reply when i thought for a while i realised that i also need to send a xmas greeting to this friend and connected both the needs my reply sms was this i thought 2k yrs ago X was shown by God to be his son Jesus. merry x mas. the connect was X being used to replace christ in christmas. how's that!!! a friend of mine Mr.Kak gave me the reference of wikipedia to the origin of use of X for christmas. from wikipedia i understand that X stands for chi the greek letter starting in christmas. i think i was over enthusiastic in blowing my own trumpet.