Oeejay-san - The Harbinger of Hope

Meet Oeejay-san (O-E-J san) - our Japanese silent partner (he has no mouth - yet!). Hugo got it for us when he came for Mohit's wedding. Oeejay-san is a Daruma (dharma) doll. These dolls are traditional Japanese good luck charms. The dolls themselves have no hands or feet and are really quite cute. They just have white spheres instead of eyes. You are supposed to make one black eye when you make a wish and the other one when the wish is fulfilled.



Nikhil and I made a wish for our company and now our Oeejay-san (One-Eyed-Jack san) sits on Nikhil's grandmother's ledge reminding us about the wish.





In fact, you might say that Oeejay-san is the entire charter and scalability plan for 'Sapnay' rolled into one. The poor guy is not going to have a life or a mouth until we get our wishes! Hamaaree maange pooree karo - or else! :)





Poor Oeejay-san has to earn his body parts - our first customer gets him his smile - the first paying customer his dimples and the first time the company breaks even - Oeejay-san gets his second eye.

While he waits for his body parts, we have left him on the ledge, burdened by our wishes .... he really is quite cute and quite alone ...




Nikhil is the only one who dusts him once in a while. Me - I am just waiting to draw the damn body parts! lol!














Here's to Hugo - Oeejay-san and the Hope that it brings us!

Dashamlove

'Dashamlove' - literally means the decimal point - the distance between 0 and 1.

It signifies the importance of everything, irrespective of how miniscule it is and provides a means to represent it. It is also representative of the digital world - binary and yet with a universe separating the distance between 0 and 1.

This word was suggested by my मामू and it struck a chord. All alone in this city, pursuing my dreams - I often find myself pondering about important and insignificant things with equal enthusiasm. Solitude allows me the space to follow whims that I would never be able to get past my family and friends.

This blog records the trials, whims, dreams, self-motivational speeches ... eccentricities ... of a 'phoren-returned' entreprenuer in Mumbai.