Another year passed by...

A good saturday..getting up late cos i slept at five in the morning..getting up to a call from a friend telling Dravid is on 96 made me just forget sleep and rush to the tv and getting mesmerized by his strokes had breakfast and lazily lying on the bed watching 2 absorbing test matches..finally i washed my vehicle, had shave and got ready finally at 4..went to brand factory and did a bit of shopping..hogged and came back..watched half of Jaane tu.. movie with parents..love this time i spend with my parents..i wish i could stay and be more with my parents..ah now i just look back at the year 2008..not sure about an adjective the year..good,bad and ugly..seen it all..Given an option i wouldn't wish for this kind of an year..Now let me just hit some chip on my memory and jot down all major happenings month wise..

January...First month of the year..month to begin new things and make resoultions..nah..i don't believe in all this..every day is good to start something new or make some good resolution..was excited cos i would be completing my first year at work on january 11..oh ya Dravid's bday..little did i know that i wouldn't be completing my second year in the same company..nothing really exciting happened considering that my closest buddies are busy with their own life..anyway month just passed by with me enjoying work fixing some bugs and doing some chota mota enhancements..

February..month of love..again crap..there shouldn't be a month or day or time for love..it should be always there..ok stopping the non sense here..i donno why but i suddenly wanted to learn php just cos my manger told that i could be working on some php project..little did i know that php would land me in my present job..made my conscious efforts to study php but enthu lasted for 3 days :-) but i did make significant progress atleast i could code something in php..then one of our colleagues was getting married so i had to fill in for him and had to do QA on his behalf..it was fun..it was real fun finding bugs and fighting it out with the developers..celebrated couple of my friend's birthdays..some treats still pending..too bad this year has been..very few treats or outings..

March...this month alwyas reminds of 10th exams and India vs Australia,Kolkata tesr..anyway the php project did come and the cleint i was interacting was a genius in open source technologies..he did give me some gyaan about open source and all..seriously a gem of a guy..project went good with good amount of help from my good old friend..by this time i was feeling confident of being able to do any kind of work..couple of friends actually gave a treat but i don't even remember where and when..strange..

April..yay yay..birthday month..Its believed that people in this month are actually extra intelligent and make fool out of others..must be true!!!
bday was good but that is when i started hearing rumours about Epsilon India being shut down and all..but me being an eternal optimist or something i wasn't ready to hear all that..i guess it was me and one more guy who always kept some positive energy around among all freshers..A very important event took place..the girl whom i love(d) the most got married and damn i wasn't invited also..let it be..may she have a wonderful life..may be she will name her kid sanjay or sanjana..hopes!!!!

May..nothing great happened except character set enhancement and rumours on Epsilon being closed down..we had been to a nice camp called 'Doddamakli'..had a very relaxing holiday..wish to go on such holidays..all wishes won't come true..

June..i got into a project which involved html,css,photoshop(tool which i havent learnt completely yet)..it was too much stress man..used to work from morning 11 to 2 and sometimes 3..this is the time when my team lead taught me a lot of tricks and those have helped me a lot..the perfection he seeks..hmm..admirable..
One more friend celebrated his bday without a treat..Oh Ya two of my friends got engaged and to each other..

July..project continued and nothing else happened as there was no time.. news got confirmed that Epsilon India was certainly going to close down..ok..time to prepare resume and attended 3 interviews..first one was total crap at cricinfo..totally unprofessional..second one was screwing..after the interview i just felt like going back to school..third one interview only didn't take place cos the consultant had messed it up and they were not using technolgies i had know..but can be called a dream company for me..i just wished i would get a job there someday..the feeling went away when i joined Injoos :-)..my team lead got a job and couple of other guys closed in their offers..i was getting panicky until i found this nice consultant who is still a friend to me ..she scheduled 7 interviews in a week and i attended 3 and got into the first company..and cleared one more as well..was more than happy..so it was time to bid good bye to all my colleagues with whom i had fun for one and half years..

August..one by one colleagues were leaving and that was my last month at the company too..so all we used to do was go to office at 12.. have lunch at 1..tea at 3..roam around comm street at 4 and head back home at 8..was good fun until last week i was stuck up at some project..in fact last 2 days were screwing..underwent a minor surgery mid of the month..

September..i joined Injoos with my friend who has been with me since my first pu..its strange but true we have landed up in the same pu college..engg college..first comapany and second comapany also same..sometimes its nice to have someone whom u know from a long time around..atleast someone has been stuck with me for this long donno if it is by choice or by chance:-)..but he is good company speaks non stop,full of energy and excitement..most ppl say its difficult to stay with him but i have always felt comfortable and ahppy being with him cos he is simple,straight forward..oh oh ok no testimonials here...orkut is the place for that..new workplace but its just too good..love everything from office palce to food and cool drinks there..more importantly people over there..everyone are passionate about work and that is what makes a good and successful workplace..i woud anyday argue that hardwork with passion always bears sweet fruits atleast after my engineering i strongly believe in this..so got too engrossed in work and i love it..i released my first code as well just wondered if i had joined some big company how long it would have taken for me to submit my first code..

October..month of marriages..my friends got married and to each other :-)..my brothers got married but not to each other..so thre marriages all in all..i lost my grandpa..this was the first death i saw and it has had a very huge imapct on my life..i loved my grandpa a lot..he was an introvert but he always had storeis about his life to tell me..i don't think anyone else knows so much about him as i know..i probably am the only grand child of him who has been fortunate to get chocolates and stuff from him..past three years the things he used to do was sleep or fight with me but most of the times for fun..at the age of 88 his sharpness of words was unmatched for..i was fortnate to have grown up with my parents and grandparents so i have been brought up with lot of pampering and the best of 2 generations..i am what i am cos of them..all i can say is he is no more with us and wish that he would be happy whereever he is..great loss..

novemeber..all my grandpa's ceremonies were taking place..i would say that more than losing a person doing and following all rituals and procedures hurt more..
Release kept happening at work..one of my friends got engaged..

Decemeber..Injoos getting ready for beta release..am excited and happy..had an opportunity to design our corporate website and it was like a dream come true as i always wanted to develop a site all on my own..i loved it and felt real happy when i got good ratings from my ex team lead and a good friend..the comments from my friend was overwhelming.. he certainly deserves a mango juice for it..going to Tirupati..the next best place to home in this world for me..Coming back and expecting a better year..

Would call this year a losing year for me..
Lost my first job(i was not kicked out i resigned before company shut down)
Lost my grandpa..
Dravid had a bad year..has probably lost his position in ODI forever..
Kumble retired..so lost some spice in cricket..
Lost lots of fun cos friends are busy..supporting this with statistics on an average we used to have about 6 treats but this reduced to one this year..
we are 3 friends who have been meeting each other on an average of 7 times a month to once in 2 months..smses or calls have reduced to single digits this year..not sure what else to say..

Have a happy new year..