2004 An Year In Retrospective
Years come and years go and here I am entering a new Iteration.And as always I face this question "What did 2004 offer me ? ,or rather more importantly what did I have to offer the year 2K4 ? " and my response will be nothing ,a plain nothing.Everything went well all through the year. There were no surprises-neither pleasant nor nasty-in store.Overall it was a great year for me on my public front but on the private front there were only a few sparks of life to the end of the year.
One thing I missed this year was reading novels.No there wasn't any shortage of appetite for books , but it was due to lack of opportunity to get my hands on any book that remotely resembles a novel.The days of reading 5 novels a week were long gone and I desperately long for that golden period to come back. I have read some good novels but there is this quantity thing that still rattles me.It was so bad that I was forced to buy a novel inorder to quench the thirst.This is one aspect that I would like to rectify. I would plead each and every person worth his/her salt ( i mean who reads a book)and I will never quit till I taste the manna.
One of the worst thing and best thing to happen this year was getting connected to the virtual world .Where strangers become friends and friends become friendlier. I was hooked on to the net from the moment I got this Broadband connection ( by Indian standards, though I wish it can become faster).It was like giving the keys of the candy box to a child.In real words I was "netted".So much that at one time I spent my waking hours on the net and my preparation to my semester exams started and ended on the net.Net is a treasure trove of information and the sheer amount of info is mind boggling.In Google I trust and it is still my first and final resort , I cannot imagine life without Google.I started blogging at the end of the year and I hope to do it in '05 too.Moreover I can listen to free music .Music of all the new movies right before me ,it's like icing on the cake.I get to have the cake and eat it too.
Another thing is that I have brought this work station that I have grown to love ,though initially I had this loyalty issue with my old PC .But the lure of a 17" monitor and P4 power coupled with Xp were too good to resist and I had to ditch my old Pc for this new one.
On the quizzing front I fared better than ever before.I Won the college general and technical quiz competitions and a few other competitions not worth mentioning.Quizzing gives me a high which no other thing or activity can ever provide to me ( Reading Novels takes me to greater heights though).The sheer sense of beating the opposition to pulp and answering using only the sense of deduction and sixth sense makes it even more exhilarating.Quizzing really empowers me . It gives me the omnipotent feeling that all the people in the whole damn world crave for. To know that you are incharge of the situation and nothing can go wrong on your watch gives that added bit of edge to the game.
It was another year of study for me . I am eagerly waiting for this final sem to be crossed and get rid of this Indian system of education.I got decent grades on the academic front . My GRE scores were ok though I wish I could have got more for I feel the scores I got don't reflect my potential.Gods seem to have smiled at me when I missed the interview call of Sierra only to be placed at DSL.The package is decent and was better than Sierra . DSL offers the most among all the SoftWare companies that have visited the campus.But I still feel that I didn't deserve it for I got it without much effort.
The year ended on a great note. I was up close and personal with nature and I fell in love with her the moment I laid my eyes on her at the sunkissed beaches of Vizag and fog filled mountains of Araku. It was like paradise revisited.After the Tsunami I respect nature even more because of its beauty and ferocity ,knowing what it is capable of doing.I have a brief idea as to what I would do in future, it would be to retreat to a serene , beautiful and bounteous place like Araku or the water front and be in close touch with the elements.I would own a coffee estate or a steppe farm in the mountains and would come down to greet the waves in the winter and retreat to the mountains in summer.This will be a life I always yearned for.I would cherish the memories of this trip for the rest of my living life.
So with this in mind I say adios to '04 .
One thing I missed this year was reading novels.No there wasn't any shortage of appetite for books , but it was due to lack of opportunity to get my hands on any book that remotely resembles a novel.The days of reading 5 novels a week were long gone and I desperately long for that golden period to come back. I have read some good novels but there is this quantity thing that still rattles me.It was so bad that I was forced to buy a novel inorder to quench the thirst.This is one aspect that I would like to rectify. I would plead each and every person worth his/her salt ( i mean who reads a book)and I will never quit till I taste the manna.
One of the worst thing and best thing to happen this year was getting connected to the virtual world .Where strangers become friends and friends become friendlier. I was hooked on to the net from the moment I got this Broadband connection ( by Indian standards, though I wish it can become faster).It was like giving the keys of the candy box to a child.In real words I was "netted".So much that at one time I spent my waking hours on the net and my preparation to my semester exams started and ended on the net.Net is a treasure trove of information and the sheer amount of info is mind boggling.In Google I trust and it is still my first and final resort , I cannot imagine life without Google.I started blogging at the end of the year and I hope to do it in '05 too.Moreover I can listen to free music .Music of all the new movies right before me ,it's like icing on the cake.I get to have the cake and eat it too.
Another thing is that I have brought this work station that I have grown to love ,though initially I had this loyalty issue with my old PC .But the lure of a 17" monitor and P4 power coupled with Xp were too good to resist and I had to ditch my old Pc for this new one.
On the quizzing front I fared better than ever before.I Won the college general and technical quiz competitions and a few other competitions not worth mentioning.Quizzing gives me a high which no other thing or activity can ever provide to me ( Reading Novels takes me to greater heights though).The sheer sense of beating the opposition to pulp and answering using only the sense of deduction and sixth sense makes it even more exhilarating.Quizzing really empowers me . It gives me the omnipotent feeling that all the people in the whole damn world crave for. To know that you are incharge of the situation and nothing can go wrong on your watch gives that added bit of edge to the game.
It was another year of study for me . I am eagerly waiting for this final sem to be crossed and get rid of this Indian system of education.I got decent grades on the academic front . My GRE scores were ok though I wish I could have got more for I feel the scores I got don't reflect my potential.Gods seem to have smiled at me when I missed the interview call of Sierra only to be placed at DSL.The package is decent and was better than Sierra . DSL offers the most among all the SoftWare companies that have visited the campus.But I still feel that I didn't deserve it for I got it without much effort.
The year ended on a great note. I was up close and personal with nature and I fell in love with her the moment I laid my eyes on her at the sunkissed beaches of Vizag and fog filled mountains of Araku. It was like paradise revisited.After the Tsunami I respect nature even more because of its beauty and ferocity ,knowing what it is capable of doing.I have a brief idea as to what I would do in future, it would be to retreat to a serene , beautiful and bounteous place like Araku or the water front and be in close touch with the elements.I would own a coffee estate or a steppe farm in the mountains and would come down to greet the waves in the winter and retreat to the mountains in summer.This will be a life I always yearned for.I would cherish the memories of this trip for the rest of my living life.
So with this in mind I say adios to '04 .
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