Hmmm....
The earth dutifully finished another round of its infinitesimal jog around the sun. Being present on the completion of 21 such rounds and witnessing the crazy celebrations for the change of the calendar, I try to look back the logs of 365 pages for 2007. Learnt a lot, suffered seriously sometimes, got into lot of dilemmas, made new friends and importantly gained few kgs. My breaking up in the quarters of 2007 is as follows.
Q1: Learnt basketball (not the pro way) just a few shoots (here and there) with 3 pointers and under baskets. Thanks to this game, I daily left my desk by 6 and was not a over enthusiastic IT employee. Started blogging; learnt a bit of the blogsphere, tortured the languages, went crazy. But found that blogging is really fruitful time pass. Got my degree and became and Engineer officially, but think I haven't justified my 4 years of college study. It seemed that I studied just to survive. May be that’s the aim of the education I suppose. Made a visit to Mumbai, the commercial capital of India. Met my school mates (just a guy and a gal). Slightly fainted in the buzzing crowd, visited the landmarks and made a point not to marry a Mumbaikar. The books: The Company of Women (Kush Singh), The Detective (Hailey), JackDaws (Ken Follet). Was an enjoyable quarter.
Q2: Started getting sucked into office work, continued playing basketball, blogging. Out of peer pressure completed Sun Java Certification in Java Programming (used the question bank of course). Read The Hobbit and the epic Lord of the Rings and was really impressed by Tolkein. Such a large world inside a small brain. Few colleagues (friends actually) departed. This was the most laminar quarter.
Q3: This quarter started with the maddening release of the last part of the Harry Potter Series and buying of my first camera mobile (Sony K550i). Waited around 6 hours, chased bicycles and vans awaiting my copy of the book. Finished the story with the known end. I could have saved Rs.600 if I had waited few days more for the e book(silly me!). Faced my first appraisal at work with pretty ease. Started worrying about my relatively faster years. Half heartedly decided to write CAT (the most advertised and hyped exam in INDIA) and joined a test series. Faced problems at work due to my punctual exit at office. Completed 22 units of life and oracle introduction exam on the successive days. Began to build a hope and castles in air with CAT in mind (though suffered in the test series). Books: Bourne Identity (a real thriller), Bourne Ultimatum. Really the most decisive quarter.
Q4: Problems due to my punctuality at office persisted. Wrote the Common Admission Test on the D day as they call. After checking the answer keys, my hope still continued to flicker. Applied for many B schools (they rob us with the application fees). Forgot all about friends, blogging, time pass etc. Finished the Bourne Series. Watched a lot of DVDs. Started reading books at greater frequency. The highlighting point was the initiative of morning jog to reduce the nascent expanding belly. A quarter of performance.
The earth dutifully finished another round of its infinitesimal jog around the sun. Being present on the completion of 21 such rounds and witnessing the crazy celebrations for the change of the calendar, I try to look back the logs of 365 pages for 2007. Learnt a lot, suffered seriously sometimes, got into lot of dilemmas, made new friends and importantly gained few kgs. My breaking up in the quarters of 2007 is as follows.
Q1: Learnt basketball (not the pro way) just a few shoots (here and there) with 3 pointers and under baskets. Thanks to this game, I daily left my desk by 6 and was not a over enthusiastic IT employee. Started blogging; learnt a bit of the blogsphere, tortured the languages, went crazy. But found that blogging is really fruitful time pass. Got my degree and became and Engineer officially, but think I haven't justified my 4 years of college study. It seemed that I studied just to survive. May be that’s the aim of the education I suppose. Made a visit to Mumbai, the commercial capital of India. Met my school mates (just a guy and a gal). Slightly fainted in the buzzing crowd, visited the landmarks and made a point not to marry a Mumbaikar. The books: The Company of Women (Kush Singh), The Detective (Hailey), JackDaws (Ken Follet). Was an enjoyable quarter.
Q2: Started getting sucked into office work, continued playing basketball, blogging. Out of peer pressure completed Sun Java Certification in Java Programming (used the question bank of course). Read The Hobbit and the epic Lord of the Rings and was really impressed by Tolkein. Such a large world inside a small brain. Few colleagues (friends actually) departed. This was the most laminar quarter.
Q3: This quarter started with the maddening release of the last part of the Harry Potter Series and buying of my first camera mobile (Sony K550i). Waited around 6 hours, chased bicycles and vans awaiting my copy of the book. Finished the story with the known end. I could have saved Rs.600 if I had waited few days more for the e book(silly me!). Faced my first appraisal at work with pretty ease. Started worrying about my relatively faster years. Half heartedly decided to write CAT (the most advertised and hyped exam in INDIA) and joined a test series. Faced problems at work due to my punctual exit at office. Completed 22 units of life and oracle introduction exam on the successive days. Began to build a hope and castles in air with CAT in mind (though suffered in the test series). Books: Bourne Identity (a real thriller), Bourne Ultimatum. Really the most decisive quarter.
Q4: Problems due to my punctuality at office persisted. Wrote the Common Admission Test on the D day as they call. After checking the answer keys, my hope still continued to flicker. Applied for many B schools (they rob us with the application fees). Forgot all about friends, blogging, time pass etc. Finished the Bourne Series. Watched a lot of DVDs. Started reading books at greater frequency. The highlighting point was the initiative of morning jog to reduce the nascent expanding belly. A quarter of performance.
