Saturday, June 02, 2018

Deoriatal Chandrashila Peak Trek 2018 - Travel summary in Shreyas's words - without edits ;)

Day 1 - 20/04/18


Me and my father left with for Rajiv Gandhi Airport ,Hyderbad at 4:00 AM .We left with Sudhir uncle ,his son -Ankit ,Valmick Uncle and Ravi Uncle [Valmick Uncle,Ravi Uncle And Sudhir Uncle are my father colleagues]. We left in a Mahindra Xylo. We reached the airport at 6:30 Am .We ate our Breakfast at the airport.Me and Ankit did not eat breakfast at the airport as we wanted to eat it during the flight. OUr flight was at 8:00 and the flight was to Delhi ,the Capital of India.We reached Dehli Airport at 11:00AM. We did not get out of the airport as we had a flight at 1:00PM to Deheradun ,the capital of Uttharanchal[Uttarakhand].We reached Dehradun Airport at 1:50 PM .After 10 minutes we got 2 airport taxis which took us to Rishikesh. after reaching Rishikesh ,it took 3KM to reach our hotel , Natraj.After checking in , we relaxed in our rooms, planned for the next day and changed our clothes.After that, we went to the hotel's restaurant called "clove" .We ate late lunch and it was already 4:00 .We visited the Ganga at 6:10 PM .We played in the Ganga for an hour.Ankit did not come in to the river because he was scared. It was the time for the Great Ganga Aarti.It took 30 minutes to finish the Aarti. We walked till the main road.On the main road we got a auto rikshaw to the hotel .We relaxed in our rooms for sometime. After that that we went to "clove" and ate dinner.We slept at 9:45 PM.


 Day 2 - 21/04/18


We woke up at 5:00 AM . We started pack up all the stuff we removed the day before.We went to "clove" and ate quick breakfast .A Bolero was waiting for us outside,which was from Chandrashila trek staff.We packed our stuff in the jeep's upper carrier.



Our goal was to reach the trek's base camp in the jeep .On the way we saw so many dried up rivers.We went through 5 hills.On the 6th hill was our Trek's base camp.We stopped once for the driver to eat his breakfast. Next to the restaurant was the river Ganga .While he was eating his breakfast, we went down a small road which lead us to the river.You can say that it is a small a trek!











We had to stop various times more because of construction of the roads.We reached Sari , our base camp of the trek at 6:00 PM.We were welcomed by our Trek leader.First we were told our rooms.After that, we were told to bring our lunch boxes and tea mugs to have tea and snacks at the meeting point.After tea and snacks we were given our health cards and took our oxymeter readings ,which holds our health records for our trek.It was free time till 8:00PM.At 8:15 we were served dinner.At 9:00 PM , we were told a few guidelines for the following day .We were also given sleeping liners for the next campsites.After the session was done it was 10:00 PM and we went to sleep.Before sleeping everybody introduced themselves:
Me
My Father
Valmick Uncle 
Ravi Uncle
Ankit 
Sudhir Uncle
Arya
Aadhya
Subranshu Uncle
Ajit uncle
Sanjiv Bhaiya
Jayganesh Uncle
Dipanshu Uncle 
Sneha Aunty 
Rupali Aunty
Nanditha Aunty
Kartika Aunty 
Shipa Aunty
Candy Aunty
Swati Aunty
Akanksha Aunty
Rajkanta Aunty
Our Trek staff was:
Satej Uncle{Trek Leader}
Anand Uncle {Trek Sweep Guide}
Pankaj Uncle {Trek Guide}

Day 3 - 22/04/18


We woke up at 6:00 AM .We got refreshed and went to the meeting point. Satej uncle took our BP readings only for today and our oxymeter readings.. Satej Uncle taught us how adjust the strap of the trek bags and also taught us how to use a trek pole. We were given Eco Bags to collect garbage and keep it in that. We left the for the next campsite, Deoriatal at 8:00 AM .It was a 8 KM of  ascends and descends.At the starting it was a full ascends with some stairs.












On the way we saw Bichu ghass , which is a plant that when touch it that part of your body starts to itch for 15 minutes or more.People in the Sari village make soups with that.To make the soup they first boil the leaves ,so they leave their itching essence.Then they make the soup with the boiled leaves.



To reach Deoriatal ,we had to go through a Forest.It was like an U turn to reach the Deoriatal.We reached Deoriatal at 12:55 PM.






We were welcomed with malta {oranges grown on the mountains}juice.We ate our lunch at 2:30PM.




Till 4:00PM it was free time.Some people relaxed in their tents,some packed up,some planned for the following day,children played next to lake of Deoriatal and took pictures of the lake.At 4:00PM we played games like Fire in the mountain,dishkau,memory game and 7 up. after finishing playing all the games,it was 7:00 PM.After that we went to  view point which was just next to the lake . 


We were served dinner.After finishing dinner Satej uncle informed us that who ever wants to listen to the story of Deoriatal please come to the dining tent. He also told that Pankaj Uncle was great story teller of North India and he was going tell the story of Deoriatal.
pole.

Day 4 - 23/04/18


Today we woke up at 5:00 AM.We got refreshed.Day 4 was the most challenging of all the days of the trek.At 5:30 AM we were served Black Tea.At 6:00 we took our oxymeter readings  At 6:30 AM we were served Breakfast.

We saw reflection of the mountains on the lake.

We saw mountains Jankoot,Chaukhamba,Meru and Sumeru .Satej Uncle told us to give our lunch boxes for packed lunch because it was 18KM trail today and we are going have our lunch in a very small spot Rohini Bugyal ,which was a campsite before some years.He told us that  Rohini Bugyal was beautiful meadow which once got littered so much. A forest officer saw this and stated that Rohini Bugyal cannot be a campsite from that day onwards. He also told that our next campsite which is Chopta . Chopta is at 8,800 ft , it is located in Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary and it is th last drive -able  place for various peaks.We left for Chopta at 8:00 AM.W went through 3 hills to reach Chopta.At the starting it was again a total of ascends.On the way Arya, Aadhya and Shilpa aunty could not make it so they were sent down to Deoriatal and they went to Chopta by a car.We again had to go through  a forest.On the way ,down a hill, we visited a river.We filled our empty bottles in the river.It had freezing cold natural water.



After the trail was done ,we landed in a part of Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary.We walked for 2KM in the sanctuary to the campsite.There was another small road which was deeply littered.It started to rain before 500 mt was left to campsite.Me and my father were left behind and were trying to open our ponchos .We ate our tea and snacks.We chose our tents , layered up and started to relax in our tents.At 8:00 PM we were served dinner.




Today was Sneha Aunty's birthday.Satej Uncle called the cook at Deoriatal said we want a cake.the cake came here and Pankaj Uncle did the calligraphy quickly in 30 minutes.We slept at 9:30 PM.

Day 5 - 24/04/18


We woke up at 5:00 AM.We were served black tea at 5:30 AM.We took our oxymeter readings at 6:00AM. Today was the last day of the trek.Our goal was to reach the summit(peak).We ate a very light breakfast because it was totally  of ascend .We left for the summit at 8:00 AM.On the way to the summit we saw so many mules and horses giving rides to people.



On the way we saw Tungnath temple, the World's highest Shiva Temple.Tungnath Temple is at 12,073 ft.We reached the summit 9:00 AM.We took pictures just as we arrived and shouted HOORAY!












After pankaj uncle reached the summit ,he started to tell us stories of the mountains.We had a 270 degrees view of the great snow capped mountains.At 10:30 AM.Me , Valmick Uncle,Subranshu Uncle,Dipanshu Uncle were leading the way.On the way Dipanshu Uncle got a cramp on his leg so he became a little slow.Everybody came 30 minutes later after we reached.We relaxed a little and at 5:00 we played games like treasure hunt,dishkau,memory game and virtual volleyball.After the games, we had tea and snacks.After tea and snacks we had given back our rental items and our health cards We got our certificates and a memorial and we also had a deep briefing session in which we share our personal experience about the trek.

After the deep briefing session we had dinner at 8:00 PM. We slept at 9:30 PM.

Day 6 - 25/04/18


Today two boleros and a tempo traveler came to pick us up.My group(Valmick uncle,Ravi uncle,Sudhir uncle,me,my father)got the same bolero as last time.While we were going through a forest we saw a langur jump on to reflector  pole and we saw another group of langurs doing a small circus of 1 minute.On the way we stopped to buy some namkeens and eat our lunch in the next stop.After lunch we visited a Sangam (meeting point of 2 rivers) of Alkananda River and Bhagirath River.



On the way we were attracted to malta and rodhendron juice pulps in a shop and got it.When got to Rishikesh,we first went to a river rafting club.We booked 3 tickets for my father,Ravi Uncle and Valmick uncle.After booking the tickets we left for the same hotel,Natraj.We checked in ,got our rooms , started relax and plan for tomorrow.After 1 hour we ate our dinner at "clove".We ate gulab jamun on the name of finishing the trek sucessfully.We slept at 10:00 PM.

Day 7 - 26/04/18


Valmick uncle,Ravi Uncle,My Father woke up at 6:30 AM and got ready for the raft.Me ,Ankit ,Sudhir Uncle stayed in the hotel and had breakfast.We saved sandwhichs for them .At 11:00 AM we left for Deheradun Airport.When we reached the airport,I realized that I forgot my mini bag the hotel's Jeep.



My father went back to the hotel and got the bag.We boarded a flight to Delhi at 6:30 PM.We reached Dehli at 8:15 PM .We ate our dinner at Dehli Airport.Meandmy father brought a gift for Krisha from Hamleys.We boarded a flight to Hyderabad at 10:00 PM.We reached Rajiv Gandhi Airport,Hyderabad at 1:10 AM.




 Then we got a Mahindra Xylo. PBEL city was the first stop.When we both reached home ,my mother was waiting outside with a water bottle. 

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Year-End Trip to my Native Place - Part I

Finally.....breaking the long silence. As this is my first post this year, I wish you a very happy and prosperous new year (Rest of 2009!). Better late than Never.

Combining five days leave with the year-end holidays I had a grand fortnight to enjoy. My plan was to spend few days at native place and the rest to tour. But there was a sudden demise of wife's grandfather and the touring part did not happen. But I had good time at the villages in the interior parts of Orissa.

I had not been to my relatives’ places after marriage and everybody was asking to visit them with family. This was the perfect time to cover those places.

We hired a car and covered some of the places in two days. Meeting those relatives after a long time was very exciting and they were also very happy with our surprise visit. We received a warm welcome at all the places.





Life in City and village are poles apart. People seem to be simpler and generous unlike city dwellers, who are sophisticated and mostly cunning ;). Comparing the lives would go on for pages but I would cut it short here itself. I will focus on the experience.

One thrilling incident happened to us during our visit to my cousin's village. Most of my native villages are in the hilly areas and are now affected by Naxals(Maoists). All the villages are surrounded forests and for kilometres together you would not find anyone on the road. Just at the entrance of my cousins village there is a small jungle, which is mostly populated by mango and tamarind trees. As the road is curvy the visibility is hardly 100 meters. While passing through it, our driver suddenly asked to see through the front glass. We saw a group of around 6 people armed with machine guns (may be AK47s) were standing on the road. Our driver was damn sure that they were Naxals and alerted us that he would speed past through them. There was very little time to understand and react to the situation. As we approached towards them, the gang started to point the gun towards the car and forcibly asking us to stop. This was a moment our heartbeat almost stopped. Actually our driver didn’t have any option but to stop!

We were just peeping through the windows as they surrounded the car. I saw there was a small tent onto our right, a mud water pot with glass on top and there was a cot. Within seconds, one of them started knocking the drivers window glass. The first question to our driver was the reason for speeding up, and asked that whether the guns were visible or not :)

Few seconds later, the same person asked me about my identity and our destination. He gave me full chance to speak up and then he asked, whose house we were visiting. As I told my uncle's name, the situation calmed a bit. One of the gangsters knew my uncle personally and it seems my uncle was his guru :O

Few moments later those guys introduced themselves as CRPF personnel and they came to village as they had some information. They did a routine checking inside the car, noted down our names and left us. We said thanks and didn’t even look back. It was a trembling experience for us.

Hmmm....enough for today. I will write on the next part of my trip in next post.

I am very happy to start writing again.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Golden Era of Doordarshan!

Few days back I saw the Maruti 800 TV commercial where cute punjabi kid rolling his toy car at all the possible places and finally complaining that "Papaji ki kara, petrol khatam hi nahi honda"!! I love this ad. This refreshed some of my childhood memories.

Once we went to our uncle’s house on summer holidays. We were very surprised and happy to see their newly bought TV! We stayed there for 2 weeks. In this time my sister and me were completely addicted to Idiot Box (at least for us it was magic box!). We had already started pestering our mother for getting a TV at our home. Those days we never used to ask our father for anything we wanted, it used to go through our mother. I don’t know it was out of fear to mere respect; we used to behave as very good kids in our father’s presence :). The parenting used to be different in those days as compared to today. Coming back to TV..,,

I was in 6th standard when my father finally brought a TV to our home; I guess it was one of the happiest moments in my life. It was a thrill setting up the antenna on the roof, rotating its directions to get the best signal, and shouting from the roof to check whether the picture is clear!! Once the picture is clear people never used to respond back to you, they think it might go bad again. So they want you to stay there and be ready to rotate it again!!!

Sunday used to be very special! We used to get ready by 7:30 AM to watch Rangoli with Hemamalini. After that my father and me used to go for buying vegetables and meat. By 9 AM my sister and me used to fix our chairs in front of TV. Whether it is Mahabharat, Street hawk, Hum panchi ek dal ke, Phir wahi talash, Mungerilal ke haseen sapne, Wagle ki duniya, Byomkesh bakshi, He-man or regional language movie in the afternoon (language did not matter to us we used to see all!!), Urdu news, news for hearing impaired in the afternoon, job news (I did not know why we used to watch this also ;)), Bharat ek Khoj and never to miss Surabhi. Of course we were trying no to miss the commercials. We used to rhyme along with the commercials!! Some of the commercials we used to like more than the serial itself!! Some of the best ads were
Lifebouy, Fevicol, Clinic plus, Maruti 800, Lizzat papad, Rasna, Cinkara, Ajanta clock, Parle G, Vicco tumeric, Hajmola, Crack-jack etc.

The serials like Byomkesh Bakshi and Tehkikaat were gem of detective serials. I still remember some of the episodes! Dekh bhai dekh was one of my favourite comedy serials. Another one is Flop show. I still remember one episode, where Jaspal bhatti taking his wife for a drive around the city on his official (sarkari) vehicle. Guess what vehicle it was; it was road roller!! Jaspal bhatti was very happy because he is fulfilling his childhood wish of taking his wife for drive one sarkari vehicle! Apart from this there was Charlie chaplin, three stooges and Laurel & Hardy to create the laugh riot!
There was one puppet serial called potli baba ki, with nice short stories. Sci-fi serials like Sigma and Street hawk. I didn’t know that George Clooney was the Man on the Machine!! Duck tales, Mickey Mouse, and Tale spin were the treat for cartoon lovers. Zamana badal gaya hai was a serial which used to show the generation gap related issues in the closely knitted traditional family. Office-office was catering to show the corruption in the Govt offices. Surabhi; we never missed it! We wrote numerous letters to Surabhi with our answers to the questions asked, unluckily not even a single time our letter was not picked through lucky dip! It used to show nook and corner of India and its historical details. Siddharth Kak and Renuka Sahane were the perfect hosts and the background music was superb. I do not find the serials of this quality today. If at all you like some serial you will be bugged up with ads and the recap and the preview of next episode will take enough time to see the real content only for some 10 minutes! Some of the comedy shows are running only on vulgar dialogues! If you use decent lines then your “punches” will not work and you are out of the show! The some of jokes are like old wine in new bottle. Todays one of the biggest hit are the reality shows. If I start talking about them, it will be a big thread in itself. I do not know how much the reality present in these shows, they all look fabricated to me.

Coming to ads, there was not even a single indecent ad. Ads were cute and message was clear. Today you turn on the TV and watch ads; out of three at least one you will get one indecent or mindless ad. I saw one ad regarding future mail using the in.com mailbox. Here the user is setting a mid night time to send a mail to his Boss. But I don’t understand from when companies started using private mail Ids for official purposes! Another ad is by some thermo wear played by Boman Irani. It is just unimaginable and I do not know why an actor of Boman Irani’s calibre signing these (Honey, its all about Money!). I am not bashing all the ads of today; there are some good ones also.

In past there were some good initiatives for national integrity like Mile sur mera tumhara. We never used to miss this; especially when Oriya and Telugu people tell their dialogue in respective languages. We also used to sing along complete song. Lately, I saw this being played at the Bangalore cantonment station.

A lot has been changed. We were very happy with the single available channel and its limited programs. Good old days were golden days where complete family could watch the programs without any hesitation. Today there are at least 100 channels a person can watch; they are categorized like entertainment, news (some of the channels of this category should be moved to entertainment!), sports, life style, music etc. But still nobody is satisfied, most of us keep changing the channels and keep cribbing that there is nothing interesting!! Sometimes we even forget what we were watching 15 minutes ago. Is it the content or the mindset that is making us to change the channels? Anyway it is today’s lifestyle and we get upgraded to it!

There are many old serial videos available on net. Following links will refresh your memories about old popular ads. You will see many stars of today acted as kids in these ads, which just went unnoticed.

http://abhisays.com/india/old-doordarshan-tv-ads-part-1.html

http://abhisays.com/india/old-doordarshan-tv-ads-part-2.html

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Spell Googly - I



Check the spelling of Stroke :))

Friday, December 05, 2008

Fortune Teller at Orkut........

When I log in to orkut, I check the segment "Today's Fortune"...this is what was my fortune for today..

Today's fortune: The guy who reads your fortune was fired. Until we hire a new guy, go visit a friend's album

:O
Firing and firing everywhere :))

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Amchi Mumbai bleeds again


I woke up at 7’O clock on Thursday morning and picked up the paper to find the headlines “Terror rips apart Mumbai”. I was shocked to see this news and immediately turned on the TV to see the coverage on news channel. I kept on watching the channels for 2 hours and whole matter slowly started sinking in.
[Pic Courtesy: Rediff India]
I could not believe what I was watching. There were incidents of blasts in recent past but open firing on public is some thing new kind of terror. Of course these things were happening in J&K but not in other places. The attack was simultaneously conducted at many high profile places. There was also information that terrorists reached the hospitals where the injured people were being treated. As per today more than 180 people are dead and above 300 are injured. India also lost 2 NSG commandos, 1 Top ATS cop, 1 encounter speacialist, and 1 ACP of Maharastra police. Apart from human lives we also lost the Taj Heritage charm and the belief of foreigners regarding safety in India. This will surely affect the Indian tourism for a long time.

The prolonged operations to flush out terrorists happened at three places, Hotel Taj, Hotel Trident/Oberoi and Nariman House. It took almost 60 hours to neutralize the terrorists and secure these places from them.

I think terrorists plan was to cause terror and damage the image of India. They have succeeded to quite an extent in their plan.

I have few points to discuss related to our forces, intelligent and media.

Intelligence:

But how all this happened? Where is our intelligence bureau? The amount of ammunition the terrorists had brought for the operation is much more than enough to keep the Indian forces busy for two days. Is it this easy to bring ammunition of this scale to India and start operation? Authorities started giving justification that the terrorists came by the sea. But if this is a hole in the system then anticipate the possibilities and take some actions. This cannot be a lame excuse.

Local people should also support the intelligence bureau with the information. There was news that these guys came and stayed in Nariman House for past few days and made this house as base for all the operations. Local people also report that these guys have ordered for huge amounts of dry fruits, around 100kgs of meat and other food items. If there was no celebration and gathering then why would someone order this much? This information could be given to IB for some interrogation. But most of us see and forget the unusual things happen in our neighborhood. And there is one more dilemma even if I report the incident what action police will take. It could also happen that the person who reports more interrogated than the real culprits! This is where our whole system has flaw.

Media:

Thanks to our TV news channels I was getting the live update and of course the terrorists were also viewing the same update!! They had satellite smart phones and they were in touch with their mastermind. There was no issue for the getting the update about the action our security guards were taking to neutralize them!

Free media doesn’t mean broadcast whatever it wants. Media should act responsibly, not just to fight for viewer rating. When forces requested media not to show the live images, some channels stopped showing the live coverage but some still didn’t. The channels that stopped the live coverage started telling that they also could also show the live coverage but they were not doing it as the forces requested it. I just felt this statement as media is doing favor on the government! They should be made aware of the state of media in communist countries.

Another funny thing what I saw was terrorists called India TV and talked to them for 10 minutes. Without much listening to these guys’ questions he just kept on blabbering some nonsense. When reporter asked that what was the demand, they didn’t have anything in mind. Terrorists were discussing with each other. They tried to tell that they are from Hyderabad but they accent which they were using was Pakistani.

Government:

Just now I heard deputy CM saying that the plan was to kill 5000 people. But due to swift action from our police and Special Forces the toll is minimized. They have captured huge amount of RDX and live bombs.

Is it some kind of consolation? Or just to subside the casualties that have already happened?

Thank God, terrorist could not bring the amount of ammunition that they planned for; they lost some part in the Sea.

Other political parties:

This is time for solidarity than blaming government for each and every step it is taking. As there is polling happening in some states, surely these politicians will highlight this event to attract votes.

This whole thing should be made communal issue. That will create internal agitations which may be one of the terrorist intentions.

Police force:
Intelligence tells that it had informed Mumbai police that there would be some attacks carried out on Taj and Oberoi. Then why was no action taken there?

We need to note that when terrorists’ use advanced automated machine guns how do we expect our police constables to fight them with the traditional gun, which needs to be reloaded for every shot. If they try to engage the terrorist in firing, this would just be mere suicidal attempt. This could be the reason why we lost lives of our policemen.

Police force also should ensure they constantly maintain their physical fitness. For these kinds of operations they are expected to move and run as swiftly as the terrorists do. Terrorists get a rigorous training but what about police force (not NSG/ATS or any special task force). I guess the training provided to them is like install software and forget. There will be not updates available!


At the end of 60 hrs NSG/ATS/Police force has secured all the three places by killing altogether 9 terrorists and capturing one. My hearty salutes to these brave men who came to flush these hiding terrorists and save lives of innocent people. We will always be indebted to these guys who come and secure our lives by putting their life at risk.

Anyway I accept that, it is easier for me to sit and write blogs about this incident than face this personally. They people who were directly or indirectly attached to this whole incident only know how tough it is.

But I think there should be some action taken at least after this incident or else it will be forgotten like incidents. People tend to forget the mayhem after few days and life runs as usual until another incident happens. This short-term memory is very dangerous. Take example of US, after 9/11 there is not even a single attack on US. It is not that terrorists planning anything there, US intelligence foils all the bids for attack. We need such an intelligence team rather than highly trained police flooded everywhere. Normal life will not continue if you increase the security guards at every possible target. This will make the whole country as a terrified state!

We need to answer the root cause and we have to take stern actions at this level. The toughest steps have to be taken to clean up their bases. We also need a solid borders. There should be strong people identification and location system. We need to educate people to act responsibly. Now and then army/navy/STF cannot come to rescue, we need to strengthen our police force regularly to ensure they are capable enough to fight these terrorists. We also need advanced technologies to help our STF combat fast.

I also know these all things will not happen overnight but they should be initiated and followed. Someday we will see our system becoming more resilient to all these terrorists activities. Hope some Government implements all these and the opposing parties support this!!!

Jai Hind.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

How to impress VCs (Venture Capitalists)?

I recently watched a video on TED talks site. It is a presentation given by David S Rose, who is a serial entrepreneur. The talk is about how to impress a VC with your presentation so that he right away invests in your business! This is a very good presentation with a lot of information useful to people who are trying to sell their idea. In this talk first he tells about the qualities a VC looks in you and your business. Second part is regarding how to impress VC with the presentation skills.

When someone presents his/her business proposition to VC for funds, normally one gets only few minutes to explain the business and the people involved in it. In this short period he needs to show how fruitful is the idea, what is the experience he has, how competitive is the product and most of all how passionate he is about his project. Basically David has listed 10 points, which a VC looks in the business.

1. Integrity
2. Passion
3. Experience
4. Knowledge
5. Skill
6. Leadership
7. Commitment
8. Vision
9. Realism
10. Coachability

Passion with skill is the basic formula for success. Passion is the desire, zeal and enthusiasm for one’s work. Passion brings sense of ownership. If one is not passionate about what he might not be doing it with interest. Experience is very helpful for business; even if he has failed earlier the experience will help not to make the mistakes again. Skill and knowledge about the business is bare necessity when a new venture is started. Knowledge includes the technical know how about business. Skills will include technical, marketing and management skills. Leadership is the ability to motivate the team from making the idea to concrete product. Commitment is one of the essential characteristics that VC looks in you. Passion brings commitment to your business. Commitment is creating own obligations to make the business successful. Vision caters to the long-term goals of the business. Realism, one needs to realistic in his goals. Coachability is the quality expected by VC, where you are open to learn from his experience!

In any business (not just to show the presentation to VC and get money!) one need to have the passion, knowledge, skill, commitment, vision and realistic goals to succeed.

I really liked the short presentation given by David S Rose. He is an angel investor in New York. You can get more information about his venture in the following sites
1. http://www.newyorkangels.com/default.html
2. http://www.rose.vc/

The presentation can be found on the TED website
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_s_rose_on_pitching_to_vcs.html