Today is Marriage Anniversary of one dearest friend who got lost with time and I could never meet him again. This day every year, I recall him because he still holds a very close place in my heart. Someone who was always there for me and helped whenever I was in need.

Had never thought in happy times that we will be bereaved like this and we would never be able to meet again. Still I keep keep hoping that someday in future I will meet him and will be able to tell him how much I missed him.

Happy Marriage Anniversary Bhajee

To Preetkamal Singh Brar, The Friend

I am trying to continue the trend started by me when 2006 was ending. To summarize the things in the way that you can recall them later, more easily than ever.

Here is the first series of that kind (you can also find same list for last year) -

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
   1. Continued my job for 2 years (of course that is an achievement when it is for first in 3 years of career)
   2. Completed NetAmp application - an app to play music over network
   3. Found my love
   4. Traveled abroad / US (Writing from there only)
   5. Visited Disneyland and Universal Studios
   6. Watched lot and lot of movies (I still can’t believe that I managed to watch 50 movies in 2 months!)
   7. Visited Historical Monuments in Capital nearby
   8. Met with old time mate (Happy)
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

   Oh yes I kept it. I don’t have habit of leaving impossible things like that. If it couldn’t be done in 2006, it was kept in 2007. Hey Krishna, are you listening? Of course, making another one for year 2008 and this time, again it is next to impossible for a person like me!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

   Luckily NO.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

   No.

5. What countries did you visit?

   US

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

   Remembrance (I think it isn’t about resolution)

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory?

   27/07/2007, 04/12/2007 and 13/12/2007 (all sum up to mah lucky number as I have realized just now)

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

   Discovered Love

9. What was your biggest failure?

   Umm…None.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

    Yes. Cough and Cold for quite long time during Cricket World Cup

11. What was the best thing you bought?

    I never buy things rather I present them to myself - 2 GFs / Laptops (dv9502 and dv6500t CTO NB) and 2 External HDDs (160 GB LACIE and 1 TB Western Digital)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
    1. Jo
    2. Ritu
    3. Puneet’s laughs
    4. Pankaj’s company during celebrations
    5. Nitesh Gupta for wonderful rides
    6. My Brother
    7. Archana for wonderful compliment
    8. Happy
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

    Three of mah colleagues

14. Where did most of your money go?
    1. Laptops
    2. External HDDs
    3. Clothes
    4. Movies
    5. Coffee
    6. Food
    7. Discotheques
    8. Shelter
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
    1. Love

Q: What do you do when you are completely running out of money and you need it the most plus you know that it is last week of month?

 

Ans: Wait, work like hell and patiently look forward towards getting salary.

I had never thought that I will ever be posting such stuff over here but when situations are matching, it is better to talk about them. I had come across similar note in year 2001 - my first year in graduation and I discovered a notepad lying over age-old Windows desktop machine which went like -

Handa - Rs. 2xx

Pankaj - Rs. 7xx

Bhatia - Rs. 5xx

Amandeep - Rs. 8xx

 

Money coming - Rs. 2xxx.

Remaining - (- 50)

 

Of course, one of gang of our final year guys, as appeared from names.

This is the time when to be the most optimistic when you need it the most.

Boys will be Boys…Sometimes it appears to be soooooooo true!!

The CashEdge cap. It is specifically released for the CashEdge Cricket team members.

Proud to be a CashEdge Cricket Team player. We won the first match while wearing this cap against Simcom.

And on the other side, Prabh/Prabhjot Singh (our dear Sardar ji) has started a poll for the best sport-person of our batch - the batch of B.Tech. 2004, DCSE, Punjabi University (or Punjabi Junibrashty as Pankaj Dev spells it !)

I watched Matrix one more time on this weekend. If not hundreds of times, I have watched this sequel (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions) for at-least tens of times. If you love technology, action, thrill, romance and what not, you believe that Artificial Intelligence can do wonders, this is the The Sequel to watch out. First time, I had watched The Matrix during graduation when in next semester, we were going to learn AI. After that, it became my favorite movie specially when the fiction seems quite possible and realistic to you. If you get bored of watching your favorite movie again and again, watch it in other language you know and you will know many new things especially when it is quite complex movie. This time I watched it in Hindi - all three parts (thanks to bro. Yes I was at my hometown on this weekend) and I discovered lot of new things which I didn’t know before. I would like to watch this movie in all the 4 languages that I know. Every time, I watch this movie, I find few more interesting facts which I couldn’t understand previously, somethings which I never knew before, just like I discover new meanings when I re-read some old issue of Digit (:)) or Gita, Koran or Bible (well that doesn’t mean at all that I am quite religious specially when I don’t go to any religious place. I read these scriptures for self-improvement.) I always wished such movie to be created in Bollywood than just copying it.

Free your mind

Here is a transition that I went through few weeks ago and I swear, it was too difficult to have this experience!

And if you still have some time that you can spend on reading similar interesting stuff, Mandar has made a quite “interesting post” (The Love Shtory) for first time in ages over his blog .

How does it feel when you get a mail from your favorite University lecturer from where you completed your graduation about 3 years ago? Specially when you come to know that you are part of he address book of that great personality. It happened to me.

And I have no words to express my feelings. I got remembered those classes, bunks and the legend who was hard enough to his students & always guided them in right way.

I also felt while remembering those days that I can also right a book like “Five Point Someone” at this stage…so don’t wonder if you get to hear another name like that from yours truly in near future!

So I was talking about one of my very favorite teachers during my graduation - Dr. Rajesh Kumar Bawa. I wouldn’t go into his educational background but he is Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT, Kanpur and really a great ideal brainy teacher a student can dream of. He had just joined univ the year our batch had started and ours was first batch he has started teaching. He was a source of inspiration to most of us and was ever-ready to guide us. Although his tests were really a big challenge to us and rarely anyone crossed the threshold set by him. He had taught us Mathematics, Data Structures, Graphics and few other subjects of my interests . And he was great motivator. I still remember that he was the only faculty member present at the venue of Robot Competition during TechDisha 2003 @ Punjabi University when our team was participating and it stood 2^nd in it. He was one of the inspiration behind performing so well. His mysterious smile remained always an unsolved puzzle to us .

Few things make me always nostalgic - Family, Old memories, Teachers, Mates, Managers and Colleagues .