Q:What makes a year very exciting?
Ans: When it flows like a movie.
Reader: Eh??
Let me take over the conversation to give you a background. Like every year I try to had few "Resolution" and acheiving them didnt make it a great year. Do you think you would love the movie if you just knew what the ending was all about. So this was a story of an year which had climax, surprises, twists and turns et al.
Had a few "to dos" in my list.
Start of the year I was still in Colg and the tempo was low. Tried to do things and it didnt work out. Some back fired. Life was below normal. Dont want the story to sound like "Pursuit of Happyness". But i do believe things are extra pitch dark when something good is to happen to you.
Landed up in a good job, after all the contemplation of settled life in Bangalore :P My whole idea was to stay in Mumbai for couple of years - good long 2 year vacation and go back to bangalore to settle.Things didnt seem all that perfect but the job gave me enough ( enough, more than enough - jitna kamao kum padhta hai yaar) liquid cash to pursue things i wanted to try out in life. And I was in the perfect place.. the city of life, that never slept ( paradise for an insomniac like me ) I was back in touch with old friends, lost touch with few good ones. But thats part and parcel of how life shapes up. Found more friends for life in the due course.
Planned every weekend with Secy to explore the City. I wanted to be as comfortable and aware of the city as I was about Bangalore. ( Aah the name of Bangalore makes me stop and take a deep breath )
Singing - training my voice: Recorded few good number and did see some great improvement in quality of my voice. Discovered pitches, irregularities and what suits me and what doesnt. Invented techniques like online recording across geographies. Tough to coordinate but not impossible. But got caught up in other things that i couldnt take beyond few months.
Just after I moved to my new place, I wanted to connect with old friends for whom i was busy during colg. I started inviting the ones in Mumbai for lunch. I had craze for cooking that time. Wanted to experiment on people :P Got a new Kitchen, no Rok Tok. No one to tell me how to do things and NO ONE TO TELL ME TO CLEAN UP THE MESS I HAVE CREATED. To cut long story short I had a white canvass to paint. So i had a whole kitchen to create magic for the tastebuds.
Water Fall rappling, Thanks to Parag. Yay :) experience. I realized there was an adreline junkie within me that was lying dormant in me.
Plays and Movies - Amey. His dose of life itself. If not anything I was back to being a pseudo movie buff and evergreen back up plan so that none of my weekends are out of action.
That further led to Vinni coming home for lunch and mentioning about the new club they were forming. He was so excited :) I never understood the craze that time. Not sure if i still do to the extent Bisons do. I apprehensively joined them for the first ride and the whole illusion of bikers cleared up for me. I made such amazing friends and it became my family in this city where i was looking for some anchor. But what made it great was the fact they were all nomads at heart with an ache for adventure. To be frank started off as an one time adventure and it was craze in them that brought me back for more. Also a spl acknowledgement for taking a person like me - who cant ride nor has any sense of it and making me part of this super cool brotherhood.
I always had this sense of not doing anything exciting or a purpose in life after colg, bcoz there was nothing more tangible to do. Yeah i get up, go to work, have fun, come back, sleep and not to mention eat food blah blah. But there are no deadlines or things that needs to be achieved. ( pls exclude marriage out of it) Then i saw the Jagriti Yatra reminder on our mailing list. Wanted to go for it because Gaurav spoke so high of it, not knowing what it was all about. I was not able to apply the last 2 years because of placements. I had a conversation with Parag and started off. I always need someone along with me to do things - call it weakness or helping that person out ;) But then it had many essays that needed time and effort. This activated my painpoints. The Lazy goose I am i didnt have enough drive to finish. I used to yap around saying I am applying for Jagriti yatra. "When would you finish it for heaven's sake". One fine day.. rather a gloomy dark night admist my vacation on 29th Nov at 2 AM, i was forced to attend a call I was totally not interested or motivated to. Putting the time to proper use I started filling up the form. I was so sleepy that I just knew I had written some abcd in each Question. I submitted. 30th Morning I get admit. I was thrilled.
More thrilled to fight for vacation and finally make it to the yatra. It was a life changing experience. ( please experience it for yourself. It cant be described in words)
I think i have written about the fear of the unknown - and the fear of the known like singing "Kannalane" from Bombay or Running. I hate running. It is not about physical exertion but the idea of running. I was of the ideology even if someone is coming to kill me i would just yield to it. I just remember once in 5th std i ran 100 mts race. Thats it and thats just it.
After i left Bangalore i didnt want to get involved with social work, else that would anchor me in Mumbai. But been part of few charity events here. So that completes the satisfaction level till the brim. It started as a normal year and towards the end I had done things that i never thought I would do ever in my life. These things were way off my radar. But feels great to have changed perspectives and to have met great people
Hope to have a great year ahead and wishing the same for you all.
Ans: When it flows like a movie.
Reader: Eh??
Let me take over the conversation to give you a background. Like every year I try to had few "Resolution" and acheiving them didnt make it a great year. Do you think you would love the movie if you just knew what the ending was all about. So this was a story of an year which had climax, surprises, twists and turns et al.
Had a few "to dos" in my list.
Start of the year I was still in Colg and the tempo was low. Tried to do things and it didnt work out. Some back fired. Life was below normal. Dont want the story to sound like "Pursuit of Happyness". But i do believe things are extra pitch dark when something good is to happen to you.
Landed up in a good job, after all the contemplation of settled life in Bangalore :P My whole idea was to stay in Mumbai for couple of years - good long 2 year vacation and go back to bangalore to settle.Things didnt seem all that perfect but the job gave me enough ( enough, more than enough - jitna kamao kum padhta hai yaar) liquid cash to pursue things i wanted to try out in life. And I was in the perfect place.. the city of life, that never slept ( paradise for an insomniac like me ) I was back in touch with old friends, lost touch with few good ones. But thats part and parcel of how life shapes up. Found more friends for life in the due course.
Planned every weekend with Secy to explore the City. I wanted to be as comfortable and aware of the city as I was about Bangalore. ( Aah the name of Bangalore makes me stop and take a deep breath )
Singing - training my voice: Recorded few good number and did see some great improvement in quality of my voice. Discovered pitches, irregularities and what suits me and what doesnt. Invented techniques like online recording across geographies. Tough to coordinate but not impossible. But got caught up in other things that i couldnt take beyond few months.
Just after I moved to my new place, I wanted to connect with old friends for whom i was busy during colg. I started inviting the ones in Mumbai for lunch. I had craze for cooking that time. Wanted to experiment on people :P Got a new Kitchen, no Rok Tok. No one to tell me how to do things and NO ONE TO TELL ME TO CLEAN UP THE MESS I HAVE CREATED. To cut long story short I had a white canvass to paint. So i had a whole kitchen to create magic for the tastebuds.
Water Fall rappling, Thanks to Parag. Yay :) experience. I realized there was an adreline junkie within me that was lying dormant in me.
Plays and Movies - Amey. His dose of life itself. If not anything I was back to being a pseudo movie buff and evergreen back up plan so that none of my weekends are out of action.
That further led to Vinni coming home for lunch and mentioning about the new club they were forming. He was so excited :) I never understood the craze that time. Not sure if i still do to the extent Bisons do. I apprehensively joined them for the first ride and the whole illusion of bikers cleared up for me. I made such amazing friends and it became my family in this city where i was looking for some anchor. But what made it great was the fact they were all nomads at heart with an ache for adventure. To be frank started off as an one time adventure and it was craze in them that brought me back for more. Also a spl acknowledgement for taking a person like me - who cant ride nor has any sense of it and making me part of this super cool brotherhood.
I always had this sense of not doing anything exciting or a purpose in life after colg, bcoz there was nothing more tangible to do. Yeah i get up, go to work, have fun, come back, sleep and not to mention eat food blah blah. But there are no deadlines or things that needs to be achieved. ( pls exclude marriage out of it) Then i saw the Jagriti Yatra reminder on our mailing list. Wanted to go for it because Gaurav spoke so high of it, not knowing what it was all about. I was not able to apply the last 2 years because of placements. I had a conversation with Parag and started off. I always need someone along with me to do things - call it weakness or helping that person out ;) But then it had many essays that needed time and effort. This activated my painpoints. The Lazy goose I am i didnt have enough drive to finish. I used to yap around saying I am applying for Jagriti yatra. "When would you finish it for heaven's sake". One fine day.. rather a gloomy dark night admist my vacation on 29th Nov at 2 AM, i was forced to attend a call I was totally not interested or motivated to. Putting the time to proper use I started filling up the form. I was so sleepy that I just knew I had written some abcd in each Question. I submitted. 30th Morning I get admit. I was thrilled.
More thrilled to fight for vacation and finally make it to the yatra. It was a life changing experience. ( please experience it for yourself. It cant be described in words)
I think i have written about the fear of the unknown - and the fear of the known like singing "Kannalane" from Bombay or Running. I hate running. It is not about physical exertion but the idea of running. I was of the ideology even if someone is coming to kill me i would just yield to it. I just remember once in 5th std i ran 100 mts race. Thats it and thats just it.
After i left Bangalore i didnt want to get involved with social work, else that would anchor me in Mumbai. But been part of few charity events here. So that completes the satisfaction level till the brim. It started as a normal year and towards the end I had done things that i never thought I would do ever in my life. These things were way off my radar. But feels great to have changed perspectives and to have met great people
Hope to have a great year ahead and wishing the same for you all.
