The year that was...

The year is drawing to a close and I thought why not do an appraisal of how it went. Ideally i should have waited for another two days to write this piece but then..chalta hai... So 2006...When i look back at it, there is nothing that makes me happy ..either on a personal or a professional front...though there have been some plus points peppered randomly but even those i think were only a handful...Nevertheless, whats the point in feeling fucked and brooding..lets look at the things that went well/learnings and be happy...

• Firmed my belief that people who are your own are the people that matter...and even if u fight/disagree/abuse each other..they are the only ones u can rely on at the direst of situation and I am happy to have such friends..Touchwood...
• Learned the importance of humility...there is a shit under your own control..so dont think yourself as the master of your destiny..or having the reigns of your life in your hand...
• To succeed all you need is good stuff between your ears...brains and luck...and u need them both...more so the latter..so that explains assholes who are better off than you...and accept that...
• Resumed writing...albiet stupid blogs like this...after a hiatus of close to a decade...
• Resumed reading...
• Made one serious attempt at kicking the butt...
• Shed the albatross of the perception of a very average guy in my ex-organization.(i think so...may be wrong)..with one Business Development and one project...Thank God, there is something called recency effect and if i have to take some reference from them, they will forget my initial stint there..
• Managed to appear very intelligent in a job interview and get a 30% pay hike:)
• Increased the circumference of my waist by an inch...a cool 3.5% improvement

And I think thats abt it...definitely not good enough...but then theres something called law of averages and I am looking forward to it manifesting itself in my life in 2007...

Cheers..