Well, I celebrated my 29th birthday, this 27th! Another year passes by…another year punctuated by the peaks, troughs and the ordinary…another year closer to the so called wrong side of 30! Infact the 29th year has been really good for me; there’s been a lot of stuff that we can look back upon with cherished memories.
This year will really rank significant in terms of our travel stories. We added Goa and Himalyas to our list. Goa trip is special as it was our first road trip in India..Himalayas trip is really close to the heart as it was one trip which really pushed us to the limit…it did reveal to us that we had CHARACTER:). Taking adventure one level further, there was water rafting at bheemeshwari; then there was Somnathpur and Talakkad – our second road trip; The only luxury trip that we afforded was to Coorg… that lots of places for one year.
Professionally, I have managed to stick to the current company for another year – a rare feat amongst my MBA class; there was a phase when it looked like I might get my US breakthrough, but then that had to wait. Then there’s the promotion that I didn’t have to fight for – another first for me; there were some challenging projects at work; change of supervising managers; and yes there have been some people whom I have gotten to better than others – Shruti, Vikram and Vivek.
Early on in the year, I and Sham had to spend couple of months apart – never easy. I – we – have finally come around to following a regular fitness plan, something which I failed miserably in the last year. We changed two houses (rented ones:() and came close to buying one; and ya, our Katha for our dear plot is almost coming through. The conundrum of having babies is getting only more complicated with each passing year what with our parents breathing down our necks. Then there was my visit to Allahabad – first since Mar 2005. Nothing has changed there – the heat still kills you and the power cuts still choke life! Parents came down to see us twice – once in December and the other in Jun-Jul.
On the friends scene – Poddar got married; Dharma/Priyanka and DD/PR came down to see us all; it felt really good to see them after a long time. Sunil will go down in the RECTENS history as the first father; Prakash and Kajal are back from the US after their year’s stint . . . and they’ve brought with them rectens’ second 2nd generation member..
Shantaram, Kite Runner, Shawshank Redemeption, Into the Wild, Pay It Forward, TZP, Aamir, A Wednesday and Dark Night will go down as the literary and cinematic highlights for the year for me
So all in all a great year that’s passed by. Plenty achieved and plenty planned for ahead. So, akin to the year passed by, we ushered my 30th year in with a big bash, courtesy Sham. She, along with Adarsh, put together a great party. The highlight being the Tirmamisu cake .. yummy! It was great get together with everyone turning up…and yups it been sometime since I cut three cakes on a birthday:)
There’s a lot to look forward to in the coming year…On the professional front, it would be PMP and . . . something which I am yet to decide upon. Entrepreneurship is also one important theme that we need to do something about. On the personal front, the key themes this year would be fitness, travel again (europe, maldives, andamans or another himalayan trek perhaps) and maybe babies – who knows.
Exciting times ahead . . . hopefully the 30th year will be even more to write home about!
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