One Year

On July 7th, I finished my first year in bangalore.

After a peg of whisky, if I look back at it, it has been a strange one year. Lot of good things happened, lot of not so good things (i really do not like saying bad things ... coz as I have found out over last few years, things can get really worse) and lot of things which I don't know if they were good or not. I can always call them as experiences which helped me grow as a person but I am sure I would have grown up alright even without them. I worked for and left one company and lived in and left one house. One of my roomie got married and the other I have lost touch with. The first five months were not too great professionaly, although I still cannot understand why. They were kinda good personally though. I made some good friends and I am still in touch with some of them.

The last seven months or so have been good professionally and not bad personally. I made fewer friends and started living alone. Living alone certainly has been a growing experience (no pun intended). It was kind of hard initially considering that I had just switched my job at that time and touch with someone I depended a lot upon. It took me sometime before getting used to the fact that I will have to have dinner alone. Coming from a place like IIT where hostel life rocks in its own way, it can be quite some time before you come to terms with living alone. Atleast that was how it turned out for me. On the positive side, I picked up on my reading and became less(er) dependent on people.

I did buy a lot of household stuff over the last one year and a common joke amongst my friends is that I am preparing for marriage. Well I am not. Not as such of course :) I bought a digital camera arnd january and that has turned out to be one of the best decisions of last one year. I just love clicking away with it and capturing beautiful objects. Atleast I make an effort and sometimes it does turn out allright. I went through a lot of mood swings in last one year. From the lows to highs, I keep seeing it all every now and then. Something that I love from the last one year will be

*. Radio city (night 9-12)
*. The weather in bangalore
*. Some good friends I made
*. The bottles of Royal challenge that I finished.
*. The confidence of being able to finish some work before a deadline
*. Some trips to places around bangalore
*. The lobby meetup in chennai
*. Posting pictures on flickr
*. Lunch @ Indijoe

Lot of things that I do not like so much, but there is no point listing them here ... Most of them are not really bad as such but may be they are just not what I expect them to be.

I get there is so much to write about this year, but I think this should be enough to remind me of this year; which is the real purpose of this blog .... and yes this has been one year where i think i blogged every month without a break ...