The Year 2009

New-year has always been the time to reflect upon the year gone by - the time when lazy people like me just want to sit back in the veranda, relax in the serene beauty of my home town and take a trip down the memory lane. With 2010 dawning upon us, I thought it is high time I pen down the defining events in one of the most happening years of my life, the year 2009.

The year 2009 began on a happy note with my sister deciding to step into a new phase of her life - she had met the love of her life and had decided to get married on the 5th of march 2009. With so little time left for preparations, everybody in the family was in their running shoes always. I still remember our shopping spree in bangalore for her engagement saree, shopping in Chandni Chowk for uncountable sets of clothes for relatives and friends and the innumerable runs to the sabzi-mandi in wee hours of morning to get anything and everything the halwai demanded.

The day after the wedding, I recieved a call from my manager. There was this opportunity to go to a client site in US for a period of 3 months and with everything in place there was no reason to decline it. Thus 2009 got marked as the year when I had my first "foreign trip":-) Those two and a half months in US (march - may) were a blend of joy and boredom - Joy of being in a new place with new people and completely new lifestyle and boredom for lack of company over some of the weekends. This was the time when I visited a lot of new places , tried out some new cuisines but most importantly the time when I made new friends and reinstated old friendships. Can never forget those endless chats with friends back home which kept me sane over those weekends when I had literally nothing to do. Will also always remember the bread and butter of my life over those three months : garden salad sandwich and enchiladas for lunch and khichdi and readymade paranthas for dinner :-)

While the first half of the year was full of masti and fun , the second half was predominantly occupied by introspection - ........ (Will put up the complete post in a few months..)

Time since then has flown fast. Here I am writing this post just 10 minutes before the clock is about to strike 12, the end of a year that brought with it so many goodies sprinkled with a few lows here n there. But that's what we call life and that is how the year 2009 was for me.