Retrospective

My special day went and I didn't get time to write about how I changed from last year.

Let me talk about the books that I read in this year. They were -

• Harry Potter - I read first 3 parts; 4th of which is still half read. I'm sure I'm not going to complete my resolution of completing all the books before movie of the 7th part comes. :D
• The best book that I read - Many Lives Many Masters
• The fastest ever read book which I completed in 12 hours - Sidney Sheldon's Tell me your Dreams
• One more book which I read fast - Two States by Chetan Bhagat. It proved the refreshing book for me.
• The book which brought interest of reading/studying/knowing history - Hitler's small book. Life and Times of Hitler
• The Power of Creative Intelligence - My second book by Tony Buzan.
• Who will cry when you die by Robin Sharma - I have been reading it since last year. Whenever I felt like killing myself (:D), I read this book. In last few months, I haven't touched the book. Does that tell me that I've improved? :)
• Diary of a young girl - Anne Frank - One more history-interest provoking book. I have bought History book of CBSE board of 9th standard. I want to read history in English now. My choice might not be good. There must be other better books. But I didn't find anyone suggesting me a nice book to start reading history. So I myself chose one of the simplest options. I started writing a history blog too, which doesn't have much yet.

There must be few more books - I probably don't remember. Or there might be nothing. The books which I started reading and left in the middle or in the start itself -
• Sachin Tendulkar by Vaibhav Purandare (Prashant took it from me and wholeheartedly I gave him :D) I haven't touched it, after he returned it. :(
• "Destination unreachable", "We need to talk about Kevin", "Scorpia", "Not a Penny more Not a penny less", "Shantaram" are the ones which I started and left in few pages only. Bad, Pranali. :( I have done injustice with them; perhaps with myself. So good books and I'm not getting time to read them.
• Technical reading was good. I still need to read much more. Also I got a nice chance to read things in more detail. I enjoyed whatever I read.

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Nice things that happened -
1) first time, my family went for some picnic. It was nice.
2) I bought a nice bicycle and did 2-3 long rides which is not enough though. All experiences were good. One was when I rode to IIT. The second was when I was going towards DY Patil stadium. I couldn't ride that far, but it was good. I vomitted on the road. That was amazing. :D
3) Following managers up, I achieved getting good work. Since last year my luck/work is going well.
4) We watched IPL final live.
5) My parents have gone to US and they are enjoying it. I'm staying without them for so long. :)
6) I think I have improved on my childish talking.

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Besides all this, I don't have anything except about my work. I finally got settled in my project. I'm enjoying working here. People around me are fine. Instead of only cracking jokes on each other like others do, we discuss about various topics - history, current affairs, languages and their differences, Nature of people based on sunsign (which I started believing now specially the Leo, Aries, Virgo cases), movies, books, Agile methodology etc during lunch.
I came incontinuous contact with many non-indians. Knowing about/observing them was an interesting thing.

I liked few people or more of an inspiration that I got from them.

• One of them was Moshe. I found one of very few non-Indians working late hours plus doing social work was he.
• The other was Alex whom I troubled like anything. And he still kept his temper cool. I liked the way he used to take my name in his Israeli accent. :)
• Recently spent some time we spent with Dave - an Aries. Amazing person. He has tried all those Indian things which I even am not aware of. He came here for 3 months and he went to many places. He also wore Sherwani in a wedding. He eats spicier than I and most of us can eat. He loves Pani puri, Veg Kolhapuri. Having all these qualities, he also has a great technical knowledge and nice ways to present it. Few years back, he lost more than 40 kgs by walking for 4 hours a day in 6 months. He shared very nice experiences with us. I don't know who told him that I read books and he gifted me few books on my birthday. Then I compared him with all Aries who I have met/observed, they all are inspiring people. I think now I can recognize if I meet some Aries person. Priyanshu, Sharan, Megha - all are inspiring. I also had read in some spam (:D) that Leos and Aries can be good friends. I couldn't spend long time with all Aries that I know. But they are good friends.

Khalid Hosseini's quote -

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."


Doesn't this relate to this? I wonder if I'll get so mature; at least once? once?

A Thousand Splendid Suns

I'm reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns". It's not complete yet. But I'd like to write something about it.

I have completed 2 parts of it where first part focussed on a character named Mariam who was an unwanted child. Her life was of small restricted world and of sacrifice. She was short of all love that a child gets. And what she assumed to be the love was the betrayal. Her marriage to an old person threatens first, then relaxes and then again goes weird.

The second part talks about Laila, her childhood, her independent world, her friendship, her freedom of education for which the only reason was her educated parents and her maturity when she rejects her boyfriend's proposal.. It also talks about Afganistan's political situation of those times. Interference of Laila's mother into political discussions was little surprising but it showed that there was education freedom for at least some girls. It was a relief to see that there was no exception to "Exceptions' here too.

Now next part seems to have the climax where Laila and Mariam both are focussed. I'll post about it once read.

Enjoying reading and writing after long time.. :)

books

Books teach you a lot, books show you different world, books give you knowledge, books keep you being human, books make you understands thoughts in depth, books are friends, books can replace anything. To me, books also tell that I'm not the only person who did those foolish mistakes and that is so relaxing... :) I believe I'm an ordinary human who is no inferior to the world around me.

Trial 1

Ok. Let's try something now... I really doubt if I'll post it.

I have been little busy last few months; I agree. I spend more time in office work than anything else. Because of rains I couldn't ride my cycle for last 3-4 months. I read hardly anything that I can write in this blog. I read technical things, but I didn't blog even that. In last 6-7 months if I have read any book completely then that is Diary of Anne Frank. (I don't remember I read any other book completely.) I held many books in hand, read few pages of it, then found myself involved in something, after completing which, I had lost interest in the book. I hardly watched any movies. From all above it seems I have been behaving like a boring person. But I don't even agree that. I don't remember of losing smile on my face for long time. In fact I was always cheerful at least at an extent that people can notice it.

Lost? Where?

I don't find topics to write blog. If I find some I fall short of content. If I write something I feel no confidence to post it. I keep them in drafts. What's happening to me?

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