Saturday, July 21, 2007

Jargonalia...

The risk-weighted measure that could discount the pre-determined margins and limits of the holdings can be got as a return of the changes in the hedging activity where you have shorted (the) future (and longed the past?).

This discounting process coupled with the implementation of prudential measures for (capital) adequacy should be helpful in making good the downside risk to your holdings and belongings.



"Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side." - David Lehman

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Bulleh Shah...

Few lines (in Punjabi) by Bulleh Shah (Sufi saint):


Bulleya padh padh aalam faazal baniyo...
kade apne aap nu padheya ee nahin..

bhaj bhaj wadhdan e mandar masiti...
kade apne andar tu wadhiya hi nahin..

ainwey roj shataan naal ladhdan e
kade nabz apne naal ladhiya hi nahin..

Bulleh Shah.. asmaan udhdiyan phad da en..
jehda ghar baitha ohnu phadiya hi nahin.



Goes something like this (translated):

[He] Read a lot and became a scholar,
But never tried to read himself.

Goes to temples and mosques with full gusto,
But never tried to enter his own heart.

[He] Fights with the devil everyday,
Never tries to fight his own thoughts.

Tries to reach for things in the sky,
when [he] hasn't got hold of things at home.