I should admit that 2011 is turning to be a great business year for us . But wait. I can sense dame luck shining and smiling. Yes, I can seriously sense some mysterious power guiding me through my dreams. Initially, I didnt realise the stuff but when I look back…wow…this should definetly be luck..nothing much.just luck, stay cool vijay, you are just an ordinary, enjoying dame luck, nothing special ..signals my mind. Is that so ? okay,if so,how lucky I am ?

1. Young Entrepreneur award

2. Back to back articles on few leading dailies.

3. Few urgent victories

4. Few good sponsors for my next project

5. Sudden recognitions

and what not ?  But everyone should excuse me for terming this as luck and I seriously dont suspect their judgement..but its just a feel that has developed over the days.

Confidence, ideas, concepts …what happened to you Vijay ? might be the question…

Yes,true. But, when you are amidst of a sudden limelight, its better to analyse before you start believing..isnt it ?
I am very much cautious that nothing should add weight to my head :), similarly I always believe that nothing can stop a confident mind..so when somebody asks, how did you make it ? I just started replying, “i dont know, just luck” and I can see that they accept.

Now that I have decided to give a shot on ad film making, I can seriously feel that I need more of that luck to make it. I dont know how it would turn up. But, I am having a very strong feel that am on track, kicking and punching the air at the moment….good enough aint it ?

Now coming upto 2012 predictions

extremely sorry, am not in a mind set to predict anything this year and there are many reasons behind it which I will reveal on 2012..till then…keep rocking folks !

luv you all…

Had a gala time with my close friends on this new year and hope 2011 will give all of us joy mixed with surprises and fun.

Before I predict how am gonna handle 2011 both personally and in business, I should justify and rewind what I had predicted in 2010 and its results, so here it goes…

2010 Business Predictions ( Posted on Jan 13, 2010 in this same blog)

By the end of 2010,

1. S16 will introduce  some mind boggling courses in its Web and Graphic Designing School

Yes, done

2. S16 will launch the most exciting portal of Coimbatore in the Educational Sector

Failed

3.  S16 will be one of the Top 5 Creative Studios in Coimbatore

done, maybe 4th or 5th–my personal opinion

4. S16 will be a Debt free company

Almost !

5. Launch of my research project

Yes, Mangosaw - The name might be changed for various business reasons.

2010 Personal Predictions

1. I will have a new two wheeler

Done

2. I Will do an MBA

Failed

3. Will Direct a short film

Failed

4. Will surprise all my family members with my business growth

maybe but not sure

5. Should sleep more than 5 hours a day

done

Think I had performed fairy well balancing both my business and personal life.

Am still working on my targets for 2011 and will post it soon here.

Ciao, tke cre

Since July, life is taking me to a roller coaster ride where I have to bend, swirl, run but  hang-on just to get what I want and the happy news is that I got it …yes,S16 will expand its services in 2011 which might be an “expected one” to those who know us and a “surprise” to others…with new year around, I am already having a feel that 2011 will be my best year both in business and personal life,and have already alerted my team to get ready to experience the adventure …and s16nites will have one more reason to celebrate this 2011 i.e We will be completing 5 years of business in Coimbatore and the celebration plans have begun.

Well, thats all about the goood news and ofcourse there are few bad news as well and will say it soon here once I change those to great news..:)

okay, I’m here after 2 months to blog, so what’s really happening ?

Started a new venture named ” Spark16 Design Factory” , which will take care of branding, print & advertising activities. It’s an exclusive hub for brand consulting too. We now have few senior creative directors in the team which at time makes me nervous. The launch of Spark16 design factory went to well and we got excellent feedbacks and few good leads. Inbetween, I was invited to share my Entreprenurship journey in few colleges and I missed out one due to my bad health.

Doctor had strictly advised me to keep an eye on my diet and the timings. I’m struggling hard to maintain it. We are now planning to start our next exciting venture on Coming Aug 15th which will really be the biggest deadline based project that we have ever started. Thats all abt business…Personally, I am sad for my friend Kathir, who is struggling with his mom affected by diabetes.

Wish, His mom is back to normal soon. Have booked a new bike , attended a fashion show for the first time in my life, had a happy trip to kodaikanal, completed the script of my next short film…few shopping…started a facebook page and a group for S16 which is now having 180+ members and 130+ fans, I am amazed on the response we got., thanks to all of them.

24hrs a day isn’t working out

I always feel that I have plenty of time left for all my tasks and in the end I will be forced to sacrifice few . I hate following rules in books so if anyone have a neat and easy idea on ‘how to manage time effectively without dreaming’ , please help .

Will try to write more soon…eagerly waiting for Aug 2010, few more dreams gonna get into reality…

Right from my childhood, my father used to advice me to pusrue my dream, believe in subconscious and most importantly “passion and profession” should be the same if anyone want to succeed in life. Unfortunately, most of the time when he said, I didnt have passion for anything nor a profession. Till today, he keeps a check on my activities by asking : “Vijay, is your passion now your profession ? , are you happy? are you enjoying the job you do, if so no problem, if not, lemme know … ”

wow, wat an awesome character he is….today I can confidently say, Yes !, This is what I like..and most importantly, I do business in the domain I like…but the question here is, what to do If I have more than 1 passion ? or can there be more than 1 passion ? I want to be in the creative field , but even before that I wanted to be in films, scripts, direction etc ! Today, one of my passion is fulfilled but not complete…there is one more. How to puruse that when you are already enjoying the other? should I sacrifice one…? no way, I can’t. Then ? ????????????????? …..

 I will be getting my new laptop this month. S16’s first ever promo video is ready. S16’s theme song is just as good as I wished. My team is really doing a wonderful job. Overflowing orders is breaking my mind . Our new brouchure for this season has satisfied many in the first look and feel. Few more portals is yet to be launched which is under production. I could see a happy energy slowly occupying my labs and as a team we are all fighting to retain this spirit.

As I write this post my inner mind takes me back to 2005 and I could see a very energetic ME passing out from the college with an incomplete degree and dreams to enter into the media. I could see Chennai, Mylapore where I stayed in my aunt’s house.  I was there to search a job. Then many pleasant and unpleasant things happened which taught me several lessons in both business and personal life. There were days when I had felt that its “ALL OVER”, there were days when my eyes opposed to close in the fear of doing business but inspite of all these twists, I followed my instincts. Not all instincts were successful but those which were good made the real difference.

In 2008, S16 was written off. We suffered a huge loss due to several reasons. But today, things are different, everyone around us know this. So, whats really happening ? I asked few of them and here are their replies.

Parents: “According to your horoscope, 2010 to 13 will be a good time for you “

Friends: ” The more you stay in business, the more you win, its all about persistence”

Relatives: ” Still wondering why didnt you get a good job ? “

Well-Wishers: “It’s because of your hard work and creativity”

Different answers from different people but my mind says that ” you are here since you love to be here” and I support that. What do you think ?  its not because of horoscope, maybe because of persistence, doubt whether I work hard and true that I didnt try for a good job , but one thing for sure is that, I like to be in business. I like freedom. I am like that…and thats y I am here.

The particular reason to write this post is …I have got one more new instinct today on which I will be working very soon and If S16 ever goes to the next stage in another 6 months or so…that will be because if this instinct which flashed just few minutes back.

Ciao.

So, yet another Interesting year arrives just to remind us all that we have very limited time to live , achieve and to have fun. So, Ijust want to make some early predictions on my agenda this year. So I am gonna make 5 interesting predictions on two aspects of my life. Business and Personal. Let me see how it shapes up.

2010 Business Predictions

By the end of 2010,

1. S16 will introduce  some mind boggling courses in its Web and Graphic Designing School

2. S16 will laucnch the most exciting portal of Coimbatore in the Educational Sector

3.  S16 will be one of the Top 5 Creative Studios in Coimbatore

4. S16 well be a Debt free company

5. Launch of my research project

 

2010 Personal Predictions

1. I will have a new two wheeler

2. I Will do an MBA

3. Will Direct a short film

4. Will surprise all my family members with my business growth

5. Should sleep more than 5 hours a day

 

Chalo..lets c how it goes

Tomorrow is Monday…oh…Appointments, project works, client meets…got bit sick of it and now I am just relaxing in my home , trying to visualise my future , as an advt film maker…as a film director..as an actor..oh ..wow..feels so good. But, where am I now ? Being an entrepreneur for the past 4 years has defntly given me lot of confidence and courage to take my dreams higher. Yes, I dream everyday, I visualise…and for the past 1 month I am getting a new sense of feel that the time has come to move on to my next stage. People around me have started looking me in a different perespective. My secret workouts are paying  off…My Company is roaring with new projects and I have atlast got a grip of a decent creative team who can also work in my absence. So..My next move…. ??????????????????????????????????????? will update shortly.

There has been several discussions, arguments in every web designing firm between the design team and the development especially if a project win accolades. Who is the best ? web designers or the web developers? I have been trying to figure this out for a long time but unfortunately If I reveal what I think, there will be more issues but still I wanna have a hot argument. Let me split my mind into two and lets have a mind outflow.

Developer’s mind :  

I perfectly feel that 70% of the credit in an online project goes to  web developers as they are incharge of bringing out the real business functionality. Design plays only in the first impression and even after that, if the website is not going to bring results, whats the use ?  Web developers are incharge of the logics,  think business and there is no point of comparing web developers with web designers. Moreover, web developers are the people who are being put into deadlines, pressure, all those blah blah blah…just compare all the major portals, all the successfull websites, apps, widgets..where does design come here…its all code..code and only code ! so here we are ..the mighty Web Developers !

Web Designer’s mind:

he he he…here we are, the crazy people on earth.  Just think who is ever going to look a website if it is well designed?  We share 90% of a website’s success by making visitors stay on the website and we try hard to win the first impression which is the base of any successful venture. Are we sharing only 30% ? looks weird. We decide the colours, captions, navigation, even we share the burden of developers in designing the forms, aesthetics everything…and the web developers just code at the back-end. Can you ever imagine a online project without web designers ? We are incharge  of advertising, presentations and only if the brand wins, people are gonna look at what the product does…can web developers imagine a monochrome world ? Colours has to be there!  1+2 = 3 is same everywhere and thats it. But here it is not so..we have millions of colours to play with..we have to squeeze our brain..so web developers…you guys are just following our start ..thats it

 

Oh my GOD…both my minds are having a tough battle but still…who wins your vote and why ? can anyone give a perfect answer …?????????????????????

Today I am excited for a crazy reason that I have decided to sleep by 11.30 PM. Its been soooo long that I slept so early, I sleep only by 2 or 4 early morning and will be at my office by 9. But today, I felt extremely tired and moreover there were some power fluctuation in my office forcing me to stop all work and wind off. When I came to my house, it looked very different and awkward and I had a feeling that I am wasting my precious time. When I looked at the clock it was 11.30 and I am extremely happy today that I will be sleeping more than 7 hours and will be  fresh and relaxed tomorrow morning.  Ciao