Life Reloaded!!!

Actually these weren't actual resolutions for the year , these were my " personal KRAs ". Usually, I don't make any resolutions at the start of the year, however my boss had asked me and Pradumn to prepare KRAs at personal as well as professional level. I think I was able to fulfill all of the KRAs at work. Even at personal level, I was able to achieve most of the goals I had set for 2012.  One of them was visiting more places during the year. Of course, I wasn't able to go anywhere outside Maharashtra for a trip, but I did manage few official tours to Bangalore, Delhi and Chennai. There were lot of opportunities though, with many of classmates from NITIE getting married. There were many trips in Maharashtra, even though I missed the big Konkan Picnic initially in January (I was in Bangalore). Still we covered all three famous hill stations - Lonavala , Matheran , Mahabaleshwar . In between. there was a visit to Pune as well. Towards the end of the year, we ...

I was returning from my usual night walks after dinner, when I realized that the Sinhal classes at the corner still has the same banners it had in 2003. It says from Sinhal class, Pooja Garg was the HSC topper in 2003 and Yashodhan Kanoriya as ICSE topper in 2001, both my classmates in D. G. Ruparel College . Brought back some old memories :)

I am really bored with the book "The Ascent of Money" (Sorry bro!). I have already ordered the books - " Who let the Dork out " and " The Critical Chain ". I should be able to start with Dork III by tomorrow as it is shipping from Flipkart's Bhivandi warehouse!

Last week I had gone for another trip with my school friends. This time the places was Karde and Dapoli . One thing different this time though, was the traveling. Earlier, we used to travel in a hired vehicle or public transport like Train or Bus. This time it was our very own +Dnyanesh who had brought his Wagon R. The day before the picnic I did a big flip-flop by telling +Viraj and  +Aditya that I was not going to come. But eventually I did give in to Viraj's valid arguments and decided to join them.  We left early in the morning, thinking that we would take around 7-8 hours to reach Karde , although we reached there before 2PM. The house where we were staying was at an awesome location with a sea view from the window. We could hear the waves in the night very clearly in our rooms. The food was also great (both veg for the lunch as well as fish for the dinner). Meantime, we went to Harne port which is famous for its fish market. Well, I had never been to a fish mar...

It has been pathetic 3 weeks for Indian cricket. Till the second day of second week, nobody would have thought India was going to lose the series like that. Problem isn't losing, it is the way we lost the 2 tests. Before the series, the kind of tactics we used, by denying England any spin practice during the practice games, were all waste when think of them now. What was worse is the way our batsmen handled English spinners. How can English spinners take 19 wickets in a test against India in India? Unimaginable to me!!  Hoping for better series against the Aussies!!! But, with India losing the series (again), it will be NO more HT for a week (again) :(

While checking the reviews of "Catch 22" on Goodreads, I found that the term "Catch 22" was first coined by Joseph Heller in this book. Never realized it :( Catch 22 on Wiki

Whooh! Finally completed this book. I bought this book after Shekhar's suggestion in September this year. But when I started reading this book, I simply could not connect to the crazy bunch of officers taking part in the World War II. I had to read chapter by chapter everyday - a chapter a day. I really wasn't able to understand what kind of satire it was. To give you an idea how much slow I was at the start - it took me 2 months to read first 300 pages and 1 week to read next 260. It is only when the squadron loses Clevinger during one of bombings, did I realize that this isn't the usual stuff. Previous to this book, I had read "Vyakti ani Valli" , where there are various funny descriptions of people in life. Even though there is no direct similarities between the two, the sudden change of tone from humor to seriousness is common between them.  There were times when you think everything is going funny and suddenly a tragedy happens. As the story reaches climax...

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