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Fellow Contemporaries Come this August 2008, I will be completing 25 years. Each year has been unique in its own way. Never have I tried to put forth what happened the year before. Anyway since I was running out of a blog topic, I took up this. This is my Odyssey of 2007. It wasn't an adventurous voyage but it had all the nub of it.
If I have to prioritize on activities/things in 2007, well it will be this - " I got into a maximum number of acquaintance with people, umpteen number of friends,I got very close into. Partners in crime, Wild Wild West Friends, Surya-Deva Friend type, Agninachathiram types, anbe sivam kinds ... lots and lots, new friends become closer and closer , people of different ages, the fellows I knew closer,nathari pasanga each one is in one different corner now, though there were away from my day to day reach, we knew that the bonding always grow stronger." This has to be it. This tops the list. Rest follows....
This is one year, where I really wanted to dig all those lost passions of mine and revive themselves up, but I didn't want to force myself though, wanted to test myself whether I still have some left inside me. Pass :)
Long Long ago, so long ago, when I was below 10, my father asked me to learn flute. I am not sure what was in my mind. I replied back "Karnatic music, NO WAY, and that too flute, who will keep that in mouth, it looks pain-full,, bye bye I am going to play outside ". Period. If only my father insisted me that day,things would have been different. Whenever I switch on TV channel, I see very small children singingsa sa pa ga , it was all Greek and Latin for me, and I thought they are some weird kids from alien world ... 'what the heck was that all about' and said a big NO to my father. However as the years went by, though I had an aversion towards learning music, hearing them to my ears was something different. Years passed by, now I have 2 guitars with me, though I don't know to play them both :D, I got the affinity towards learning or playing music. And the affinity towards them happened in the year 2007 and result - Music Grade 1 Theory 99% :D. I know its just theory, but still. I had to discontinue my classes since I had to travel officially, once I am back to my place, I will again go and bang Mr.Suresh's door. ( Well he was my guitar teacher btw )
My father then said, so what other activities you want to get into, I was always fond of drawing things on walls, but fearing my mom's scoldings I stopped drawing in our living room, but terrace and the stairs which lead to it, were of courserHouser Full with my show. I said I want to learn drawing, painting etc etc, he then hooked me onto some drawing class, it was damn interesting but I am not able to recollect as to exactly what happened that I left them after some time of time. The interest came back again when i started reading Calvin and Hobbes in office to kill time, and more when I started drawing Calvin's on my desk, andYeh Dil Mange More... I went and bought a book and now it is loaded with sketches :D
One fine day when I was in college during my 5th semesters, I came back from college and I was very tired that I slept, I woke up at around 7 PM and I was haunted with a very bad headache, I didn't give much importance to it, took some medicines and slept through the night, the next day I had to skip college,coz it got worse, and it had to stay on top of me the full day, I couldn't help myself but stay put with it, came the next morning sun still the situation hasn't improved any further, I decided to meet a doctor, he gave me some pain killers and the evening was lot better, as far as I can remember this is how it all started. And this so called friend of mine stayed with me for Damn 6 years troubling me Read here. All of a sudden, it took me some time to realise that the head ache wasn't troubling me no more. In fact, I never realised that the ache is actually gone, since it almost became a part and parcel of my life, after some point I gave a damn about it, I learned to live through it. But then the past 3 months or so, I should say its Gone,Poyindii...I knew how much I have troubled my friends coz of my headache,visited multiple doctors in multiple cities all giving me the same weird answer " You are as good as me, wheres the problem ??? " Hear it everybody, you all Read it correct. Its gone.
4 Years back, when I went to trivandram for my cousins marriage, I was surrounded by floating numbers on screen with all those green and red arrows pointing no where and add to this surrounded by 4 of my family members talking about all those screwed up numbers. That time I was keeping myself mum and a year passed, All i did was to subscribe to Economic times instead of Indian Express, starting to earn money,I wanted to figure it out how to spend it or play with it. continuous subscription to various financial services, daily trades, I was literally playing with money, seeing them as mere numbers of-course no points/gifts for guessing, I ended up losing money. It took me some time to mature out of these things, it was fancy initially to me, then as time passed, I slowly started to stop all those financial destruction's when it comes to stock markets. For the first time, I stopped trading and started to invest this year and looked upon Warren Buffet Principles. Trying to mature myself as an investor. As I am writing this, Indian markets are witnessing its biggest fall ever in Indian History :P
This is that year where I saw Zillion movies, not considering genres not considering the opinion, hit or bad,I just saw them all, reasons varying from to kill time, pass time, Forget time. Folks said that I am wasting time like I have 48 hours a day, yes I did, I agree but then I didn't find anything better to while away what I was going through. But then in the course of time I say, there are some films which are worth watching. 'Worth every second of the frame'.We learn through experiences, not everybody is blessed with tested times to prove himself. Some films can give you those visually, they can give you hope. It all started with me wanting to finish the IMDB top 250 list, I am not even half way through it :))
This section is a tag follow up - Photography from Maruthu - though I am no adept in it. LOL, others around me might say I am more interested in front of a camera posing rather than taking them. Whatever, behind or front, I have always liked it. This interest got into me when there was a weekly article in the Tamil dailyDinaMani every Sunday on how to take photos, the article comes every Sunday and I read every one of that, this I am saying some 10 years back, though I understood nothing out of it, but I still read every line of it. Back then, I didn't have a camera and the statusquo remainded till last year, when all of a sudden my friend have this digi cam :D Okka Mokka, anniki aramichathu.. I haven't stopped till date clicking. Yes I did open a flickr account like anybody else though it might not have pics to open ur eyes wide, well I always look back to these photos as the ones that I experimented with all those options in that camera. This is the flickr account link btw. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaganrules .And Maruthu, none of my friends are into photography other than you, so hence this will be an open tag from my end, lucky if someone picks it up. The camera that I was presented with was Cannon Power shot IS and given to me by :) Chandru :D My Fav Photo is this though I didn't click this.
Cooking.. Potato Evalo Poke Pannanum LOL ,but now I know how much should I. It all started with that experience of mine and today if left alone, I cant cook a great tasty meal and I cant cook for the next room person as well, but sure I can cook to survive myself and make my stomach full with something in the kitchen. All these years my mother has lot many times tried to pull me into the kitchen, apart from to take the money under the sheets that she has kept, I have never entered into it not even to eat. Food comes into my bed. Times have changed.Atlast ennaiyum arasaiyal vathi aakitanga. I too learned cooking. :D
Last but not the least, I have to wait one year to travel. On site this is every software engineer dream. It was a dream for folks in general, now it has evolved as a demand. Every body demands to goonsite and so did I. And for this I have to wait 11 months. And now here I am, stuck in a place not knowing what to do, how to do, when to do, where to go. But after coming here from my friend I learnt one vital point. Time is Finite.Kasu Enniki Pona Nalaiku Varum. aana Time Pona Varathu. Time Lost is time Lost, hence do things which you want to do and love to do. At 70 years, at death bed, we shouldn't feel cha we should have done that.
This is my 124th post, would have been if this is coincidentally 125. watever, I never imagined that I will be able to blog for 3 years.
So Katha Appadi Mudiyuthu, there are some minor and also major things that I have skipped here. Like in a exam, we are sometimes left with no choice but to skip those difficult problems, those multiple choice questions, we just try our luck but it end up turning negative. But still we sometimes end getting 85 percentile, we never aimed for 100% and nor we make an attempt to fail purposely, we give our best, when we expect somewhere in 60's, the teacherssurprises us with 85-90. So was the year 2007 was to me. There were difficult moments, there were things which I think I shouldn't have given an attempt, but overall if one asks me, 2007 just rocked.
Life is a Bliss.
