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.