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!!!!!!! :)







5 comments:

Meenakshi'sMusings said...
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Unknown said...

nice..
great reflections...
u'd feel greater when after years and years you'd still come back and read and remember vividly all of this and smile.. :) ;)

Rishabh Srivastava said...

Sitting in my comfortable couch. Going through this post, what I realize is 'May my year had gone like this.'
There are many things which I would like to adopt as practice (not all though) just like blogger said ..'i really started to think and sometimes think a lot...' 'i prepared myself for multiple transitions in work life and personal life..' and also 'i met an amazing woman..' ' i used the word love, pyaar..' 'we all friends made efforts to meet more often ..'

I wihsed all that stated could have happened in my last year too. But I didn't die and I could still make it happen in Y11.
I analyze and see I didn't took chances, didn't think bigger, never planned more than the month I was working in and waiting for salary to be credited. I lived in a safe harbor and sitting clasped expected on fate too much (it is not bad to be like that)
I think its time to move forward, learn from friends, start to trust on myself, meet my friends often and make Year 11 to shine greater than all the previous years.

Thanks Bhimania putting it up.

Divij Kumar said...

Nice one dude ...

To add ...

The year when a poet was re-born,
The year when MJ's got a gang to brag about :)

And I can't help it but,

The year when India became the top test team :D

Looking forward to next part,
The year that 2011 would be :)
...
The year when 'passive' becomes 'active' (you know what i mean!)
The year when the other half of the wingmates, finds their better halves
The year when a new-born is born :)
...

Alok J Shukla said...

Bhaiya ji aapko to gyan prapt ho gaya...