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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) -
What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
Continued my job for 2 years (of course that is an achievement when it is for first in 3 years of career)
Completed NetAmp application – an app to play music over network
Watched lot and lot of movies (I still can’t believe that I managed to watch 50 movies in 2 months!)
Visited Historical Monuments in Capital nearby
Met with old time mate (Happy)
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!
Did anyone close to you give birth?
Luckily NO.
Did anyone close to you die?
No.
What countries did you visit?
US
What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Remembrance (I think it isn’t about resolution)
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)
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Discovered Love
What was your biggest failure?
Umm…None.
Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes. Cough and Cold for quite long time during Cricket World Cup
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)
Whose behavior merited celebration?
Jo
Ritu
Puneet’s laughs
Pankaj’s company during celebrations
Nitesh Gupta for wonderful rides
My Brother
Archana for wonderful compliment
Happy
Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Three of mah colleagues
Where did most of your money go?
Laptops
External HDDs
Clothes
Movies
Coffee
Food
Discotheques
Shelter
What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Presently I am residing here in US of A as Hema called it out! I am here for official trip from my firm and had reached here on December 4. Right now staying somewhere in San Jose and working at nearby location in Sunnyvale. Lucky to have company of two mates here – Amit Gupta and Nitesh Gupta (Nits). We all are colleagues. Nits is here since Nov and I have reached here with Amit. We go to office together, almost staying together and cooking together too. I am liking this place because of its beautiful infra and VTS service. Moreover there are lot of people from other races here as they say that more than 40% people are Indians in this city and it is also known as Gandhi Nagar. It feels like mini India. People are quite friendly and one can easily get hooked up with the ones of their interest. I had my tryst with locals and I am feeling good being here after meeting with them.
Whole week I was busy in settling down at office and at the apartments. Things were so messed up at both places. For first time, I realized that even a girl can mess up an apartment too much to clean up properly. Eh.
This was the first weekend and went out to Mccarthy Ranch. There first went to Best Buy and looked at the electronics goods primarily. But I found that all those which I wanted were more cheaper when purchased online than from store provided you know where to look out over Internet. Then it was Wallmart to get other stuff for living. Interestingly I happened to meet and talk with 2 Indian guys (Harsh and Sri) at Best Buy and one at Wallmart (Srinivas) which was surprising for me provided my nature of… At the end of day, we had something going inside our stomachs (I am not able to recall the name of outlet) but I must say, it is very hard for a veggie to survive on fast-food here specially when you get to eat ultra-cold burgers and that too, not much tasty . India is much better in that way. Also, here McDonald’s doesn’t serve any vegetable items…huh. Also bus service is till 0830 only on weekend. So you better get into last bus otherwise you will be left thinking of almost no other alternative.
Weather here is quite cold and you can’t be out from home without any jacket even when it is a sunny day. And purchase of a jacket was the costliest part of my shopping . I chose Raiders to save myself from deadly cold outside. It was quite expensive shopping for me out of we 3 at the end of day but I had something to feel good for sleeping soundly. Nits is still busy with issues …poor guy. I don’t know when will he get to sleep.
I wanted to look at what are the songs going popular these days and I landed at Google Music Trends. Although it collects the data from GTalk users which counts only to about 2% of total number of MSN Messenger users but still it is interesting to see such trends. And there I found that India is one of those selected 10 countries in which you can see the country specific music trends.
I am putting lyrics of most popular songs because they are already my favorite songs these days -
Chasing Cars (Snow Patro)
We’ll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don’t need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don’t quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They’re not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life
Let’s waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
to remind me
to find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see
I don’t know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
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. India is much better in that way. Also, here 
. I chose 
…poor guy. I don’t know when will he get to sleep.