Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Year It Was - 2010

The year when our little start-up transitioned out of IIT D.

The year when we got our fair share of media lime-light.

The year when our whole gang started getting married.. one by one.. for good :)

The year when i started reading a lot about management, marketing and sales (and not technology)

The year when i really started to think and sometimes think a lot... (became over-analytical, Khera didn't like it!!)

The year when i prepared myself for multiple transitions in work life and personal life and that had a lot to do with the thinking part...

The year when i met an amazing woman....

The year when i lost quite some weight and tried to become healthy...

The year when i quit smoking..yes!!!!

The year when i realized that i can have a way with women ;)

The year when i started wearing glasses and started wearing formals to work ;)

The year when i felt the pressure of leading a funded and thankfully growing start-up :)

The year of marriages and rokas..Sareen, Bhatia, Don, Shekhar, Mishra, Rishi .. very happy for all of them..

The year when a woman actually became so important that i re-started the whole ritual of getting drunk and calling her ;)

The year when i started taking a salary!!!! :)

The year when i started thinking about marriage ;)

The year when Blogging made a comeback!!

The year when we all friends made efforts to meet more often and drink more often ;)

The year when i actually acted very funny, local, bakait and filmy - like kissing a girl's hand on a railway platform ;)

The year when we as start-up started dreaming big, multi-million dollar fundings, star studded BOD, a professional CEO, BOD meetings in five-star hotels, the works..

The year when i sometimes went on a date, bang in the middle of workday.... that was really cool :)

The year when i started drinking coffee at overpriced coffee shops a lot.. and actually liked it a lot!!

The year when i went to some really awesome places in Delhi..

The year when i started smsing a lot.. more that a thousand ;)

The year when i started selling...enterprise sales, consumer sales .. blah blah blah.. bus baich hi raha hoon ;)

The year when i used the word 'love', 'pyaar'.. quite often and quite abundantly..

The year when i proposed marriage to someone and the proposal got shot down :D, :(

The year when i started loosing hair :(

The year when i started managing my time... sometimes fanatically so :(

The year when i went on frequent long walks with my dad and had some great conversations with my mom..

The year when my bank balance went above 1 lac.. in quite some time..

The year when i traveled quite a lot.. by my standards

The year when i really became comfortable with the idea of death.. and yes, started living!! :)

Ladies and Gentlemen, the year was 2010!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!!!!! :)