Wrap Up

You don’t know what future holds but you know who holds the future. Go for it!!
– Read somewhere

TwentyTen is here and everybody is listing down all the thing which was worth mentioning on his or her blog. Every tv channel has come up with the worst and best of the year. So here I am, trying to remember what made me happy in 2009 and what was so pathetic about the year gone by. But I hardly remember things and to recollect best and worst of last 365 days is tough. Lets try!!

This has been the year where I got my blog some real readers. Not to mention the fact that I spammed their blogs so much with my comments so they had no other choice but to comment on my blog, and also we can overlook the fact that I did so much of self-promotion on my various social networking sites that it can even put rakhi sawant’s PR agency to shame. But it was wonderful year for my blog.

Not only I got a neck for writing (I know its debatable) posts but also discovered some fantastic blogs (from where I copy without giving them the credit) around the blogosphere. Its so wonderful to read about life of people whom you don’t know but you connect. You connect at human level and you feel for them.

Its been a not so bad year professionally. I got decent salary hike ( lets not talk about a colleague who left the company in march and has precisely double the salary if you compare with me ). I switched to different technology which was a welcome change. Lost some friends at workplace because they left for various reasons. Didn’t make many new friends though. Still no complains about 2009 per se.

At personal level there are many things which happened but right now my lips are sealed and twentyten should give me the right opportunity to discuss them here, hopefully!!!

Coming back to blog one of my post got selected by blogadda as tangy tuesday pick and it felt good. Although they mentioned the fact that they choose my post because it was probably one of the first review to be live about chetan bhagat’s latest book, Its ok yaar. Fame or bad fame all is well. On a random note this is my 40th post of the year and its moment of joy. You will understand the importance of this number if you have ever studied in a mumbai engineering college.

Some of the post I wanted to write but coudn’t make it :
-On Doordarshan for completing 50 years
-On gandhi jayanti
-On my Birthday
-On 3idiots review
-On ruchika’s case and few more…

Talking about resolution. I don’t believe in such things, never made any but will try to keep my birthday resolution of not losing my temper and always smile, lets see how it goes, may be i should watch India TV for mental relief and for healthier lungs. And on slightly offbeat and unrealistic thought may be I can get rid of that pouch and get 6 packs. Sounds good?

So this was about the year. And today, I will welcome the new year indoors or will just sleep it off. Whats your plan, what you did? Do share. And fill the poll coming up on next post.

Wishing you a wonderful and amazing New Year ladies and gentlemen :)

Bday, Marriage, Mom and Spams

You know whats worst than losing your GF to your best friend? Whats more ridicules than demotion at end of the year? Whats more disgusting than salman khan movies? Whats more stupid than watching big boss3? what is more painful than reading this blog? If your answer is NO then You have never used a rediffmail spam filter. And trust me you are very lucky. But as always life has been unfair to me and I do have account on rediff and Its spam filter sucks more than himeshzzz movies. After specifically putting N number of ids under spam and blocking them I still get mails from those ids again and again. I mean my 3 year nephew can write a better code to block spams than those at rediff. I wonder if rediff engineers are from mumbai university, quite possible I say. Its been more than 6 months . One of the sample spam mail

From : Dr Frank Saidu

Summary of mail : Someone is dead and he left his million dollar booty for me. And all I need to do is send 1/4th of amount to mr frank.

But all of you know I don’t have that kind of money so if anyone is interested in above offer can contact me. You send me that money and half of the sum is yours. No really. Its your last chance to be millionaire.

Well there are 3576 more mails ranging from ‘pleasure in bed’ to ‘fake sarah palin skin purses’ . Let me know guys if you are interested in any of these , shall forward those mails to you (just 5% commision I charge).

So you must be thinking I will continue this post with follow-up I had with rediff people and how I got all this fixed, But no I would rather end this post by telling you about the mysore dosa I had on sunday at D.P’s matunga.

Well after longest period I had a wonderful chat session with my mom on saturday and it was superb (If we just cut out the part where she criticized my dressing sense). It was fascinating to see sparks in her eyes when she told me some incident about her childhood, the determination when she narrated the tough time she had at various stages of her life. Its so surprising to know that I know so little about the woman in my life who knows everything about me, almost (lets not count those files on my hard drive and those night outs). Should have more such session with her, I guess.

Between last 2 post many things have happened that kept me away from this blog. My handsome old pal got married to a beautiful lady and I attended all the functions. It was amazing to marry off a friend. I literally lost him, But I am happy for the guy. I used to wonder how he liked movies like ‘dhoom’ and ‘kyu..ho gaya na’ but it all came down to me when he proposed to his lady love at ring ceremony and sang a song in his deep voice ( note : we used to call him bevda because of his voice only) It was filmy but so touching, I must admit. But it will take whole collection of yashraj films for a sadu like me to even utter those 3 letter. Now one of the side effect of getting a guy married in all-guy gang is you wont see him again on saturdays, at least for an year. Because after a year he will call us to meet on saturdays, wanna bet? other side effect is we no longer can call him bevda.*sigh*

More updates, I have completed 1/4th of a century on 13th of this month. Yes, I am officially old now. 25th b’day spent in some unusual manner which I shall reveal when it should be revealed. If you are still reading then you can wish me for wasting 25 years without a hitch.

Now I wanna make this a long post but I am already bored of all the stuff I have written and I assume even you are bored of reading these silly, casual and uninteresting stuff about me. So give your eyes some rest and shut the damm PC off.

Not wishing you a happy new year as I plan to come up with a post before new year. and ye merry X’mas.

Till den :D
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update : Edited some ‘your’ to ‘you are’, ‘days’ to ‘day’, ‘than’ to ‘then’ and vice versa, few more stuff. After reading the piece I realized How horrible it would have been for you guys :P. I am sure few more corrections pending :)