Year 2010 reviewed

Reviewing 2010:

I know 2010 has been nice to me and it’s so plain. Still there are few nice things I want to recollect and pain things I have to review.

Departing to India beginning of this year:

No doubt, I had struggle staying in US last year. But when I decided to go back, my mind turned fresh and balanced (neither excited nor sad), going back to my home pacified visa issues and struggle. My flight kind of landed me into trouble during transit, but with fresh and balanced mind, I found this trouble nothing.

Completing stamping:

My plan after visiting India is to complete stamping and decide on my next steps. If I am successful in stamping, I already got a job to take up after 3 months. Stamping went successful and I hard coded my mind “I have a job waiting in 3 months and all I have to do is enjoy my stay at home”.

Good times with kids:

I never spent so much time with kids anytime in my life. Once I visited India, I stayed with my brother’s family in Pune. Here is my nephew (4) and niece (2). I watched all their comics along with them, I use to pick them from school sometimes, and I use to take them out sometimes, take my nephew to movies some times. We have been to Mumbai twice to watch t20 match. I remember the fun my nephew had when we watched a cricket match in an amphitheater. He loved cheer leaders there ;).

Special mention to a situation, where my nephew was hurt because of me. When he was unbearably mischievous during lunch, I had to handle him hard out of frustration and he fell down from couch (I didn’t see him sitting at the corner). His hand was hurt for at least 2-3 weeks and he missed his dance programs and stuff at annual day celebrations. I felt myself sick for being hard (though part of it was mistake, you cannot bring back his annual day celebrations).

D-time:

3 months are over. Now I am in Kadapa, having discussions with “I” company. I got an offer to join Chennai location (after 3 months of simple and long interview process). Now they tell me” we don’t do visa transfers”. It is all a mess now. I spoke to “M” people and worked out with “S” and I booked tickets next day. There was nothing much I could do here. Late night long distance calls concerned mom and Dad a little as I keep too many things in dark some times.

Seattle En route Houston:

I took Emirates. I decided to pay more, spend more time in flight and avoid BA. I reached Houston, met my employer and took pot full of Chivas Regal. Hang over after long time and in 6 hours flight to Seattle. Everything was much comfortable than earlier this time.

Casino’s and crazy stuff:

I won 600 on my first visit to Casino (poker). Thus, I loved it. I didn’t believe in beginners luck and thought it’s my poker talent. You have to pay for wrong analysis and I did the same in coming weeks. I don’t want to talk about crazy things which happened later. These incidents only kicked my inner impression on” being dark” (when you start making relation with non-human stuff, you are to be reviewed immediately).

Activities and self-analysis:

Finally I ended with me, myself with more activities. I stepped into gym, hiking, climbing, snow-shoeing etc. these are lot of activities to keep you occupied. But there are various occasions where my weak nesses took over me. My poor self-marketing skills, my lack of continuous focus, my curiosity (taking poor decisions later) surfaced back and slapped me saying “you have few gaps to be filled to be complete”.

I give this year 3.5/5 for being soft and plain to me.