Welcome 2013!

01.01.2013

What was so great about this day? It was just the beginning of the New Year for almost everybody. But for me it was something more.  It was a hope to begin a new chapter of life. I hope to make my life better than before. Yes, I was expecting a change in my life, a change that could be most memorable.  Having expectations is good, being optimistic is good, but when too much, it’s foolishness. I know, I expect a lot, I learnt my lesson. It’s not that this is the first time. Its happened lot of times, but now, hopefully I won’t let this happen hereafter.

“We enter the world alone and we leave it alone and everything that happens in between we owe it to ourselves to find a little company. We need help, we need support, otherwise we are in it by ourselves. Strangers, cut off from each other, and we forget, just how connected we all are. So instead, we choose love, we choose life, and, for a moment, we feel just a little bit less alone.”

-          Unknown

Good bye 2012...

It’s 31.12.2012…. the New Years Eve!!! 

I usually don’t believe in astrology and horoscopes and all…. But still I have a horoscope android app on my phone... and this is what it says today...

Capricorn Dec 31 2012
“What are your plans for New Year's Eve, Capricorn? Whether you have something special planned or not, you need to take at least a moment to reflect on the past year, and to envision what you want for the year ahead. This will allow you to create a synergy between the past and the future, and to capitalize on all of the energized dreaming you've been doing about your life recently. You can materialize many if not all of the things you are hoping for. Just be sure you are in the right frame of mind.”

As far as my memory goes, 2012 dint start off very well for me. The pressure of just finishing my CA Final Exams, plus a couple of family tensions had not given me reason to smile till 18^th of January, when I was finally declared a Chartered Accountant. My happiness knew no bounds. I had loads and loads of people wishing me for my success!!! Was truly overwhelmed by the warm wishes. 

I knew, the time had come... for my career to begin… Lot of things that I had wished or maybe not... but I did achieve…  

A trip to Bombay… great set of new friends… happy and a satisfying job… Started playing golf… Started reading and completed my first ever book :P… continuing life as a student… Got into the noble profession of teaching … and to end the year, a great Birthday party to celebrate my success and my 25^th Birthday…. WOAH!!!! Wasn’t 2012 too lucky for me????? :) :)

Maybe not, the only unlucky part of me, is my heart… which is yet to find a companion for itself :P hopefully, 2013 should be the right time for it.

I took up the courage of writing again in mid 2012, but never continued the same. Today, I was almost about to leave work, to celebrate the New Years Eve, but thought, let me spend time on this blog. Thanks to my horoscope app.

I am ending the year with writing a blog....And hope to begin the next with writing one. Hope I am stable enough to write one tomorrow morning ;)  

"This blog, i hope, will allow me to create a synergy between the past and the future, and to capitalize on all of the energized dreaming I've been doing about my life recently."

 

This collage, was made by a dear friend.. who has tried to put the whole of my life in one Frame...  

In 2013, I hope to be a better of everything this picture has..

A better son, 

A better brother, 

A better friend,

A better dancer, 

A better golfer, 

A better teacher, 

and last but not the least..

A better blogger :D  

To all my blog followers, :P (like there are any) wish you a great year ahead and wish myself a year better than 2012…  Cheers!!!

Inspired!

28.03.2012 @ 10 AM I decide to start writing blogs...and i plan to read others blogs so that i get an idea of what to write, how to write.. the first blogger that comes to mind is Shruthi akka . So, i start reading her blogs , and i continue reading, and  i realise, its evening, and i still am reading her blogs, and the more i read the more addicted i get.. but then, its worth the addiction :)  Her blogs have been a source of inspiration for me.. Keep writing.. and i hope i start writing soon too.. 

A new journey… just begun…

26.03.2012

A new journey… just begun…

The day has come, when I start my first job as a Qualified Chartered Accountant. Had hardly slept the previous night in spite of knowing that I had to ride to Bangalore the next morning.

A sleepless night, having the thought of how the new office, people, atmosphere, work is going to be.

However the insufficient sleep did not affect my freshness, and I was as always, high in spirit.

9 30 is the office time, and first day I reach at 9 40… though I was worried about my first impression, I think it did not matter much since the partner (Mr.R) dint show signs of dismay.

Mr R as preparing papers for his day at the court was having a informal chat with me over a cup of coffee and introducing me to the staff of the office. Having been introduced, I was given a assignment of preparing notes for student s of Mr R. This was a part of my training since it had been 6 months I studied indirect taxes and I had never worked on the field during internship.

I was given a cubicle at a corner, from where I could see the entire office. As I sit in my chair, I just have a glance of the entire office, understanding where things are, how things move etc etc..

I notice that there are many posters stuck on the walls, one of them reading,” Love Yourself first, and only then you will Love others.”

I start getting various thoughts and I conclude that its high time I start following that saying, which I have never done till date….

The day then just goes on with me reading for my knowledge and for making the notes, chatting with my colleague next table knowing more about the office, thinking about whether is this really the place I want to work… do I deserve something better… and I just say to myself that, Chill, it’s just the first day at work, and I know i am gonna rock wherever I go!!!!!

The day almost getting to end, I receive a message from a dear friend, “Please tell your boss that you work for money, and if he needs loyalty, tell him to keep a dog….” I laughed at myself not agreeing to his funda… and wind up for the day… in hunt for a house in this fu****g costly city!!!

Feeling happy that I started writing!!

Ganapati bappa moriya! !!!!!

Yeah! U may already hear ppl shouting this! Ganesh Chaturti is very popular festival in India! Specially in maharashtra! I ve seen ppl celebrating ganeshchaturti in Mumbai as well as in Karnataka. This festival is more of a party than religious ! I ve seen ppl celebrating it like “Sarvajanik Ganapati” it means they worship lord ganesha’s idol in an area or a street so tat the public can come . its more like a temple for a few days. A group of ppl celebrate it in almost each and every street. Well, unfortunately I am a part of one such group. Wat they do is collect as much as funds possible from that locality and then spend it lavishly. The main aim is to get the biggest possible idol available! Wat crap man! I mean, wen we seriously want to worship, why not a small idol! Why a 12 to 15 feet tall one???? Its madness! Wat they aim is to get more fame than the group in the next road! Tats it! and its not their money too! Apart from all this, wat all happens in the night in that place is un imaginable! Name the stuff and u get it! be it sutta, daru and at last playing cards! Can u imagine! The festival is for 2 days, but they keep the idol for like many days. May be 3, 5, 7,9 or 11. and on the day of “visarjan”( it means submerging the idol in any river or any water source) they take out a huge procession! Full wit drums, dance, fireworks and wat not! Well, I m sorry to say this , but this is wat really happening! I hope what all I spoke is not controversial! Anyways, I don care! Democratic country we live in! freedom of speech everyone has! Jai Hind!!!

I would like to tell a few things about myself.
Well, I am a Chartered Accountant aspirant, and currently pursuing my internship. The word chartered accountancy itself makes people their eyes and mouth wide open! I seriously don’t know why! I think it is not at all difficult to be a CA. well this is what I feel. Dunno bout you. i still dunno when did I decide to take up this course. I’d jus finished my 12th wit 68 % and had joined a university college for graduation in commerce. I was like a useless piece, which had nothing in mind, except for loafing around, spending money unnecessarily thinking I don’t have to do anything except for sitting on my dads’ seat in his shop.

Once my classes of B.com started, I met new ppl in my class. When I spoke to them, I realized that life is just not what I was doing. Most of them were focused in life, ambitious. And I felt so ashamed of doing nothing. I was feeling so guilty, and that made me take up CA. To be frank I took up CA just for the sake of it! Just to achieve a lil fame like, “oh! Gaurav! U doing CA?? Tats great!!!” :-P I know that sounds sick! :-D
But that’s not the reason anymore! I am proud that I am into one of the best professional studies!

I discontinued the last blog I was writing as I wanted to tell something else. Today was the first day of my evening college. When I had applied for the college, I never knew what it would be like. I just wanted attendance and joined a local evening college, never even thought of attending it. But today as work got over early I made up my mind to go and attend the classes. I stepped into the college and looked for someone whom I could speak too. I found many ppl there busy with their own talk. Some laughing loudly, some shouting at top of their voices,a few ragging the juniors, some speakin over their phone and wat not! I just looked around for someone to ask wat time the classes were about to begin and he said scheduled time was 6 pm. I saw my watch and it was already 6:20. I then looked for the notice board of the college,which was in its worst possible state with a torn timetable stuck on it. Thankfully Monday’s (i.e. today’s) timetable was visible, and the scheduled time according to it was 5:40! Beat that! I searched for my class room and finally got into it! with everyone staring at me as though I was an alien (maybe I look like one :P) everyone looking at me and saying that, that classroom was final year b.com. I said, “I know” and the next question was “are u in final year?” when I said yeah! I dunno wat they were thinking, whether I looked too young or too old!! Anyways, I dint care, then, finally, the classes begun at 6:30 with one interesting subject law, but tat lecture made me think I shall never study law in my life ! and then a stats class! The best part u know wat??? There are no bells!!!!! Heheheheh, jab chahe aao, jab chache jao! Wow! Interesting college na????