First post this year:
An incoherent post about me. Seriously. The only thing I am thinking right now is to flip my finger to the whole world and think about me. I have thought about me the same way exactly an year back. After that, this blog kind of tapered out. I think that is mainly due to the advent of facebook. I find facebook more easy to share information than on blogs. More over, most of the time, what I am thinking about could not be put as a blog post. Mostly they are one liners. Another thing to note is that blogging takes some of your effort, and facebooking is easy. I am not into micro blogging (twitter) and thus facebook is my only option. I have kept orkut just as a remembrance nowadays and I am a bit strict on whom to add as a friend in facebook.
Enough of ranting, coming to this post’s main topic, 2010, similar to 2009 can be remembered only for my running. I finished a 50K this year, and ran 21K in a respectable 2 hrs and 40 odd minutes. Other than that, 2010 is again an year to forget or an year with nothing to forget. There is a high probability that I might get married before the end of 2011. May be, I will think nicely about my bachelor days with no worries and full comforts when I am listening to the non stop rants of some girl.
Again after reading my previous post for 2009, I feel that my reading has also not improved much in 2010. I have not yet finished war and peace. I still don’t feel like an year has passed since I read Brothers Karamazov!! It is still fresh in my memory.
Again 2010 is an year when a decade has passed.
I can not believe that at 2000, I was a 12th standard student, who was sitting in the upper berth of the train not believing that he has just got a ECE seat in one of the best colleges in Tamil Nadu. 6 years later, I was again an unbelieving young man who was on his maiden voyage to IIT Delhi in his first ever air travel. Even though that resulted in a disaster with 2 of the 3 professors in the interview panel when I said I will apply Fourier transform on a discreet sine wave (It is supposed to be Fourier Series), I did got a seat in IIT Guwahati to do my masters.
The two years in IIT Guwahati changed my way of thinking. It made me believe in myself and that I have something in me. It did build my confidence, which was seen as arrogance and over confidence by many. It gave me awesome friends whom I am still having touch with. Now in 2010, I am still hanging out with the guys I made as friends 10 years back. I am still talking with my childhood friends. I have not lost contact with people who matter most. The decade has been indeed wonderful. It has transformed an young boy into a fairly successful adult.
I remember how 2000 started for me. I was in a church listening to a boring sermon, wondering that, at the same time, the whole world is celebrating the birth of a millennium. Now I am confident how I am going to start 2010. In the same way in a church. Even though the decade has withered away the reverence of God in me, let me hope that the coming decade will be as fruitful as the decade before me ![]()
Most probably, before the end of the coming decade, I will be married and hopefully a father. So for a first time after many years, I am starting a new year with optimism, and after many years, I will be starting my new year in a church ![]()
Time for making resolution:
My resolution for 2010 is to write a post similar to this one at the end of 2010 to speak about how the year was. Its title should be “2011 for an year it is
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2010 for an year it is
Posted by Joe on December 31, 2010
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