Before I could write anything, let me wish you and your family a very happy new year. As the year 2006 has ended, I would like to thank the special people who touched my life with their concern and made my life more meaningful. Special thanks to those thoughtful friends who have always supported me, may god continue to give abundent blessings to all my friends and well wishers.

Well, Let me write about todays experiments. All those whom I spoke to asked me one question in common - What is your new year resolution?. Appreciate the concern they are showing to know what I have planned. Though I don’t believe in this new year resolution concept, I managed to skip that somehow while conversing today. The reason is very simple, why should we wait till new year to make up our mind on what we need to focus on? Every day is a new day & every moment is a new experience! hence, every time you notice something wrong or bad in self, start overcoming through it immediately. Don’t I sound a little too classy here? well, I might. Thats how things work with me atleast.

Another question that found real difficult to answer today was, how did you celebrate your new year? - Few started to grin when I told the real act. This is what I did. Had a sound sleep yesterday, as usual went to bed around 22:30 hrs. Though my cell was beeping with message alert rings starting 00:00 hrs, I managed to sleep! Few friends started to call & wish me starting 00:00 hrs. Chakri was the first among them. I really don’t recall what I spoke to many of them coz of my deep sleep! :-P Folks, pardon me if I didn’t respond in the appropriate way. New year wish messages started flowing in. I was forced to stay awake for sometime because of these messages and calls. Then decided to put my cell on silent mode and got back to my sleep! Got up as usual, finished the routine stuff. Went to ‘Varasiddhi Vinayaka’ temple nearby home & later to Banashankari temple. The temple visit is nothing new for me on the eve of a new year, has been on the go since my childhood. Had breakfast at my sisters place. Rest of the day spent talking to relatives/friends over the phone and met few of them.

That was my first day of 2007. What could be a better way to start an year with sound sleep and then carrying the freshness momentum for rest of the day and consequently through out the year? I know most of you don’t like/belive with my thoughts.. Ofcourse, why should you? After all what the life without differences…

Tags: 2007

It has been an exciting and eventful year so far! Certainly it has added a number of milestones in making life more challenging than ever. Some daring steps in both personal as well as professional fronts… As the year end approaches, its time to retrospect again on what was good, bad & ugly.

Let me start with the good things. All seem to be very much stable in the new home that we moved to last year around this time. We are absolutely on the right track towards achieving personal goals. A wonderful support from parents with their guidance in some of the important decisions I have taken in the due course. I can’t ask for anything better than this wonderful support from my parents. In the month of feb, made up my mind to quit my current employer at that time. It was hard for me to move out of Dell after such a long tenure, but thats what life is all about. Joined Aztec to work for their client Yahoo!. As I had expertise on Internationalization & localization concepts, thought my knowledge would be better utilized in an organization like Yahoo & thus joined the same in the very first week of March.

During this period, I had to go through the biggest ever shock in my personal life because of some crazy people. It took almost 6+ months for me to come out of that. This event can be categorized for both bad & ugliest events in my life so far. I shall write about this some other time. However, the focus in profession was well maintained & started to leave my foot prints at Yahoo. Met lot of new managers including Raghav, Rathi, Gigi, PSR… and new collegues Maha, KK, Ravi, Ankur… the list goes on. Everyone has an impressive personality in their own way. Foot prints started looking bigger with well utilized opportunities everytime. Showcase, Ethnic day, hackday & Year end party are some of those opportunities to name. Made myself available for some of the community involvement activities through Aztec’s Akshara Foundation & YEFI’s Parikrama to help underprivileged kids. I wish to spend more time in these activities going forward.

Another memorable event of this year is to have a web site of my own! Yes, i got the domain registed in my name for the very first time & started building the site. Unfortunately, the site is not yet complete. I need to finish this at the earliest. Also, planning to post articles on my blog on a regular basis unlike in the past. Coming to physical fitness activities, I have been in an ON and OFF mode in giving correct proportion of time. I should start planning better & should make it a part of my daily routine. Well, thats all about the year 2006 highlights. Looking forward for another great year with a humorous recap of some of the things in a very special way as below…
In 2006 I have

[ ] broken a promise
[x] made a new friend
[x] fell in love
[x] fell out of love
[ ] done something you swore never to do
[x] lied
[ ] stole
[ ] went behind your parents back
[x] cried over a broken heart
[x] disappointed someone close
[x] hidden a secret
[x] pretended to be happy
[ ] got arrested
[ ] kissed in the rain
[x] slept under the stars
[ ] gotten in a fight
[ ] kept your new years resolution
[ ] forgot your new years resolution
[x] met someone who changed my life
[ ] met one of your idols
[x] changed outlook on life
[x] sat home all day doing nothing
[ ] pretended to be sick
[ ] left the country
[x] almost died
[ ] drank myself retarded
[x] lost someone close to me
[x] been to the hospital
[x] gotten closer to someone
[ ] streaked
[x] cried over someone
[ ] broken up with a gf or bf
[ ] given up something important to me
[x] talked on the phone for longer than before
[x] learned something new about myself
[ ] tried something I normally wouldnt try and liked it
[x] made a change in my life
[x] made a total fool of myelf
[x] met great people
[x] found few true friends in life

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