what wud u do..or rather just feel....when your wildest & sweetest dreams come alive altogether.....just in one calendar over a period of 12 amazing months....well, call it the best year of your life, wouldn't you?........well that sums up the emotional blabber that is to come up in the successive paragraphs.....still interested?...read on then...
..for starters...I wanted it all.......i wanted to be a geek..yet be an artist....a huge patron of arts and then someone who can conceive and beat up uber cool machines......i wanted to travel....see places.....spread fun and frolic....i wanted a job....i wanted money....i wanted to be outright lazy and be spoiled silly....and to better it all up, i wanted love!.........
.....and I got it all!
this amazing year began with me working on some super cool machinery concepts that went on to bag national scale awards sponsored by DST, Govt. of India....this was the first ever proper team work experience I had been through with four of my dearest friends constituting two teams, some truly indulgent creative design, fun with the fabrication work and the package summed up by a memorable trip to bangalore and back.....one interesting thing was the sundry attitude of this trip......only to be backed by a beautiful OST called Vinaithaandi Varuvaaya. which also takes up a very significant adherence to my heart for some reasons,which I shall divulge further in this post....
.........the same note followed up when I saw myself build a ropeway in our very own University campus.....I would be left ungrateful if I forgot to mention a big thanku note to all my friends who put in their brains, a better part of their physical efforts and psychologically backed me up in realizing everything......the clincher in the deal was that we bagged an award for outstanding performance that we merely missed out a couple of years ago while being part of the same team, albeit in roles of lesser significance....this was also the first ever experience of myself 'managing' a team with subordinates......
.........next up was an effort that failed hugely in 2009 only to reap better benefits in 2010.....about 1500 applications mailed over to numerous universities in different countries finally bagged me an opportunity to Intern with an uber cool machine tool firm, Mori Seiki, from central Japan. Some serious effort to obtain a passport and visa later,..... I was off to Japan and serious technical work, some great acquaintances, an uber cool purist lifestyle, and lots of travelling ensued......It was not long before I found myself visiting places I dreamt of, seeing cars I drooled about, and clicking pictures that were wallpaper material. .......multiple visits to Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo are things that I cherish even today....Japan taught me new lessons in humility, discipline, sincerity, workmanship and a purist approach to life.....I left with serious respect for the people I met there....and with a Lamborghini sighting being the cherry on a voluptuous and delicious cake!.....till date I'm completely grateful to the amazingly philanthropic folks at Mori Seiki who have entertained me, taught me, treated me to some sublime experiences & in general, uplifted me professionally, philosophically and personally....
........landing back in India and going back to college, I found myself in a radically different perspective, literally too, as this was the final year in college....professionally, folks were more serious with projects at hand and several companies looking for prosepctive new recruits hounding the campus with alluring offers....folks were more emotional as this was one last year of beautiful experiences with friends and juniors during the sublime four year period that college was.......and to top it all, I was more than jubilant and rejuvenated with my experiences of the recent past and had a very positive outlook on life.....I chalked out professional plans...worked them out well.....and extracted what all private time I had for some quality time with friends and everybody beloved.....photography, photoshop, a lot of art and science(my first ever car project was in the making), a class in Salsa, my first solo singing stint with a Coldplay track at the cult fest & my first theater outing in a comedy where I got to play a dame(albeit with terrible make-up) are truly brilliant memories.....the better experiences of them all were all those times when I toiled hard to coordinate company reps and helped a lot of my friends get recruited through campus recruitment activities.....I shouldn't even faintly forget to add that even I got recruited to Telcon, a Tata-Hitachi JV which provides construction equipment solutions with a very alluring offer....I'm currently working for them, with plans of building a career in Automotive Research strongly on way......
..for starters...I wanted it all.......i wanted to be a geek..yet be an artist....a huge patron of arts and then someone who can conceive and beat up uber cool machines......i wanted to travel....see places.....spread fun and frolic....i wanted a job....i wanted money....i wanted to be outright lazy and be spoiled silly....and to better it all up, i wanted love!.........
.....and I got it all!
this amazing year began with me working on some super cool machinery concepts that went on to bag national scale awards sponsored by DST, Govt. of India....this was the first ever proper team work experience I had been through with four of my dearest friends constituting two teams, some truly indulgent creative design, fun with the fabrication work and the package summed up by a memorable trip to bangalore and back.....one interesting thing was the sundry attitude of this trip......only to be backed by a beautiful OST called Vinaithaandi Varuvaaya. which also takes up a very significant adherence to my heart for some reasons,which I shall divulge further in this post....
.........the same note followed up when I saw myself build a ropeway in our very own University campus.....I would be left ungrateful if I forgot to mention a big thanku note to all my friends who put in their brains, a better part of their physical efforts and psychologically backed me up in realizing everything......the clincher in the deal was that we bagged an award for outstanding performance that we merely missed out a couple of years ago while being part of the same team, albeit in roles of lesser significance....this was also the first ever experience of myself 'managing' a team with subordinates......
.........next up was an effort that failed hugely in 2009 only to reap better benefits in 2010.....about 1500 applications mailed over to numerous universities in different countries finally bagged me an opportunity to Intern with an uber cool machine tool firm, Mori Seiki, from central Japan. Some serious effort to obtain a passport and visa later,..... I was off to Japan and serious technical work, some great acquaintances, an uber cool purist lifestyle, and lots of travelling ensued......It was not long before I found myself visiting places I dreamt of, seeing cars I drooled about, and clicking pictures that were wallpaper material. .......multiple visits to Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo are things that I cherish even today....Japan taught me new lessons in humility, discipline, sincerity, workmanship and a purist approach to life.....I left with serious respect for the people I met there....and with a Lamborghini sighting being the cherry on a voluptuous and delicious cake!.....till date I'm completely grateful to the amazingly philanthropic folks at Mori Seiki who have entertained me, taught me, treated me to some sublime experiences & in general, uplifted me professionally, philosophically and personally....
........landing back in India and going back to college, I found myself in a radically different perspective, literally too, as this was the final year in college....professionally, folks were more serious with projects at hand and several companies looking for prosepctive new recruits hounding the campus with alluring offers....folks were more emotional as this was one last year of beautiful experiences with friends and juniors during the sublime four year period that college was.......and to top it all, I was more than jubilant and rejuvenated with my experiences of the recent past and had a very positive outlook on life.....I chalked out professional plans...worked them out well.....and extracted what all private time I had for some quality time with friends and everybody beloved.....photography, photoshop, a lot of art and science(my first ever car project was in the making), a class in Salsa, my first solo singing stint with a Coldplay track at the cult fest & my first theater outing in a comedy where I got to play a dame(albeit with terrible make-up) are truly brilliant memories.....the better experiences of them all were all those times when I toiled hard to coordinate company reps and helped a lot of my friends get recruited through campus recruitment activities.....I shouldn't even faintly forget to add that even I got recruited to Telcon, a Tata-Hitachi JV which provides construction equipment solutions with a very alluring offer....I'm currently working for them, with plans of building a career in Automotive Research strongly on way......
...........of all the above blabbering, a slight reference to the VTV OST brings me back to the best thing that happened to me in 2010.....I seriously disclaim in paraphrasement of the folks who made VTV or YMC(my story's gonna have a happy ending, touchwood!) that my life is in no way related to the movie and is just a plain coincidence, a sheer one at that! .......well, it so happened that the angel that I had dreamt of, that I had hoped I could hold hands with and share love, that I had written a noteworthy love note to once.....got properly convinced about me, got in touch with me..... and after quite some hesitation from either end during which time, we behaved like 'friends'......we happened to confess our feelings for each other....and today, we are emotionally closer to each other than I could have ever imagined possible....I'm in gratitude to her for her reflection of my feelings, sometimes to extents I may not possibly deserve, and can only say, my hand shall always hold hers with all the care I can bestow, in times of turmoil, trouble and joy, as they come.......
.........2010 only needed a classy ending and that it sure received with the December being a solemn tribute to what has already been an amazing year.....I was home after a long time & I was with the angel for the first time.....spending some sublime quality time with my folks & taking the angel into my arms....what more could I have asked for!
..........Today, after what it might seem to be ages in the blogging realms, (laziness always rules, pun intended), I sit in quaint yet solemn reflection of all that has left a cherishable mark on my life in that year 2010......I can only thank the forces responsible for all of it no less.....with the lessons that it taught me, I chug along, only to garner experiences of better brilliance......as they say, Life goes on...its how happy & memorable that you make it that counts.....Grazie.....Arigatou....GodSpeed!
uber cool retrospect.....
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