Where Do I Get So Much Time?

This has been a quiet week. I haven't done much in the last 4 days, and I wish to spend today in a similar manner. But for some reason, I think I won't be able to do so. I love these times, and I hate them, too.

The Government has decided to impose a flat 1200 TK tax on mobile SIM cards, here in Bangladesh. This step had a drastic effect on all our plans, and all four privately owned cell phone operators have decided to go back to the drawing boards and observe the situation for a while. The cheapest SIM card of GP comes in two variants, EASY Prepaid and djuice. They were previously priced at Tk 300 per unit. But now they'll be priced as 1,500 taka. Most of our subscribers don't even spend 1,500 taka for a cell phone in 12 months!

Thus we are now waiting for things to unfold, and we, the product team people are now goofing off, and or blogging :D

Yeah, I am lazy, and I am always on the lookout for fakibaji opportunitities. But you know, this is fun. A bit immature, but fun. To hell with all the industrious people. Not too many of'em even thought about working 10 hours a day at 24.

Some lessons:

1. If you really want to find faults, you can find faults.

e.g. You can say that Bill Gates is a chor cause he stole stuff from Steve Jobs, you can say nvidia is bad, cause they bought 3dfx and buried them--but that's business.

2. It's very easy to intimidate people from a higher position.

e.g. You are the owner of a car, and he's a simple rickshaw puller. You can threaten him to "ek thappore shob daat fele dibo" without much problem.

Back to business...