To do..........

With the wake of 2009 my list of new year resolutions is taking some shape. Thought of putting down some of my initial to do things for 2009.

1. To read more and more books
2. To reduce my weight drastically
3. To do a great job at my work
4. To regularly go to the Gym and swim more
5. To visit more forts
6. To save money and buy a telescope (since 2009 is the International Astronomy Year)
7. To save money and more money

365 days gone by....

The year 2008 is nearing an end with barley a few hours remaining thought of summarizing the list of things that i did in this year. With just 4 months into a new company a new city started my new years eve rather alone in my room. Took a parcel of chines food from a road side joint went home had it and went off to sleep. Not such a pleasant start to my new year. Following which in the new year did some good work in the test case executions for one of the project for which i was allocated. On 26th Jan2008 went for a picnic to the fort Raigad. This was the first trip with my new set of friends from Persistent. Had great fun. This marked the beginning of the "fort" year for me. (My friends coined a term fort lover).

Towards the end of Feb i moved into a new career track within Persistent i.e. Business Development. There was one major relief here and that was "I will not have to code here". It was here that I thought apne so called MBA degree ka kuch to use karu. With full enthusiasm started working on proposals and presentations. This is very much continuing till date.

And to keep my motivations high i received a SPOT award from Persistent.

There was one great thing happening in 2008 and that was we were going for trips to many places. And mostly in every trip atleast one fort was covered as part of our visit. We went to Raigad ,sinhgad, Korigad, Murud Janjira, Korlia, Chopora.

It's better in GOA

3 nights and 4 days of non stop fun and masti. Living across the beaches of Goa. A lifestyle that just pulls you towards it. The break that we got from our daily schedules during these days was just too good. Away from every office work, the sales calls, the proposals, presentations client visits this vacation brought a great amount of relaxation in our minds.

The beach sports, the swim in the waters in the middle of the sea with dolphins was just too good of an experience. We also took the banana ride which was by far the best water ride that we had. For the first time in my life i saw dolphins. Then we went to this Chopara Fort (the place where Dil Chahata Hai was shot) How can a trip happen without me going to a fort. :)

Every day we use to call up my sis Jui, ask her roads and places to go and we use to start our journey. The best part was that we drove over 1600 KM in 4 days. Driving was always a pleasure. Its a new year resolution that I have made to come to Goa atleast once a year from now on. And since I had come to Goa for the first time for a vacation the thrill was very different this time around.

Book Review: that thing called LOVE

A good mix of possible love stories around the city of Mumbai. The book starts of very well but as the story nears its end one feels that it is getting complicated unnecessarily. The end in fact could have been better. Only one possible big mismatch is the sub title of the book "the Mumbai rains". Frankly speaking the rain gods do not have a significant role to play except a couple of drizzles and a shower here and there.

The story flows well but sees some characters bothering for no reason in between. Its mostly revolving around Mayank, Revathi, and Pranav that's it. Others I feel are extras.

All and all a decent read but you would not miss much even if you don't read it.

India on Top

It was yet another day packed with some great cricketing shots played by the batting mastero Sachin Tendulkar and the rocking Yuvraj Singh. On the fifth and the final day it was a do or die situation for England where they had to take about 9 wickets to clinch the test match. The visitors could only manage to grab a couple of wickets and India won the match convincingly with 6 wickets to spare. The best part of all was the sparkling knock of 103 by Sachin and an equally brillant play of 85 by Yuvraj. The duo guided India to a convincing win over England.

Its just a matter of time before India emerges as the number one team in the game of cricket.

Three full days of fear...

The world famous terrorist attacks that rocked the city of Mumbai brought a never before feel of tension and fear. For all the people that were very closely affected by the attacks were the people trapped and the defense and personnel's who were fighting those terrorists. Among these hundreds of fighters one was my Father, who is with the Mumbai Police.

Every minute that was passing was a tensed moment. We were glued to our TV sets watching the whole drama. Very less communication was possible with him since he was on the field. Only when we got to know that these terrorists were killed that we took a breather of relief. Things were quite tensed even then since no one knew or could predict how much more ammunition was stored, or if any terrorist was waiting there for the security people to come and then he would launch an attack. But fortunately nothing of that sort happened.

And dad returned home after 4 days of facing the terror.

We all are proud of you dad......