What a Year !!!!!!!!

What.......a year it had been. It started of with me, B and AT enjoying the fireworks at the London eye on a chilled weather. The 14 minutes of spectacular fireworks. And for a fact not many might have noticed this, but the clock was put behind by 60 seconds at the midnight and we noticed that, at the Big Ben.
I went on to spend the first 4 months of the year in London and enjoyed the stay to the fullest, specially the Snow Fall. Playing all over the snow with  bare hands, making snow fall, also using the snow of the balcony as our natural freezer; it was simply amazing.

After coming back to Pune, I just had a gala time with colleagues and used to party ever now and then. There were many events, the birthdays, the promotions (yes, I was promoted in April) and all other for just no reason. Then came the Hyderabad trip, where we went to KD's place. This was the first time, I had gone out with my friends outside Pune.

Then, my Big B came here for his visa stampings during Diwali. I had my house warming at that time. But the stealer of his Pune visit was something else which I will be posting at some other time ;).

The year ended with me piercing my ear, it was a shocker for my mom. And on the last day, my collage friends made my day. It was just a perfect end for the year. I met with most them almost after 2 years.

Its been 1 year since I have started blogging and I am really happy with it, that I am still continuing it. I have also started reading after a gap of few years and I am really enjoying it. I have read many book this year and just finished with 'The Winner Stands Alone' yesterday (the review I would give in goodreads.com). I have also been listening to a lot of Malayalam and Tamil songs. I would definitely take this on to the next year as well. Also, I have came up with few resolutions and would hope to follow it.

All in all, this year had bought me a lot high in many ways but there were few downs as well, which I would like to forget it. But yeah, I have learned couple of things from those lows.
But I am really glad that I have managed to reconnect with few of my very very old friends and I am also happy that my bonding with many of my office friends have become more stronger. And it is my friends and my family which helps us to keep going.

So a Very Happy New Year to my Mom, dad and to my Big B. And the same to my friends B, RK, KD, MM, GTM, Sam, Mahi, Ronny, VM then to my School friends Raki, Sandy, Rip, Vic, Reems, Mallya and last but not the least to my engg gang Jay, Joshi, Yaddu, Pappu, Sammy, Karwa, Mickey and Amol.

My New Years Eve

Before I write anything about my experience of New year, first things should come first.

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

This new year's day a bit strange for me and I will always remember this throughout my life.Simply because this was the first time in all these 24 years I was away from my Mom.The worst part we all 4 from our family were at different locations, me in London, my bhai in US, dad in Pune and Mom in Kerala with Nanny.

I prefer celebrating the 31st December night with my Parents, we always have a good time on that day, watch TV, Mom will cook something special and many a times its always Biryani because I love it (yeah mom always cooks what I like, me n my bhai always fight on this)

Whereas this year I celebrated my new years eve in London.
Ghosh......I have never ever imagined in my life that I would be celebrating new year in London.
But yeah thats true I was at the London Eye watching the Fire Works.

Now the trip to London Eye starts.........

We left office at by 6:30 and went to our appartment which is a nice cozy one.And also checked at the BBC what would be the crowd like (it was expected to be aroundhalf a million wooowwww thats too much) and the temperatures expected (to be around 0 to -2).

We just made a quick ready to make rice had it, took extra precautions for the cold and left.
We got down at the Embarkment station and walked the way till we could find nice view of the London Eye.

Now the best part, because of the crowd and all we were not able to find our way, it was then we heard the chants of 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna', yeah I know its hard to believe but yes, they were people from ISKON chanting (the main guy who was chanting with the microphone was a GORA, yup an angreez) and going forward, so we also joined them chantted with them and reached the place from where we could see the whole London Eye.
The time was just 10 more 2 hours to go, with so much crowd pushing and going forward, we just made sure we are not gonna move.
For next 2 hours we just took few pics of the London Eye and did some gossiping.

At 11:59 the countdown started at all were yelling and screaming.....at 00:00 the fire works atarted and it was really good, I wont say it was fantastic n all,but was descent, it just lasted for 10 or 12 minutes, I was expecting some more to comebut when the people started pushing I realised that the fire works are over.

People started moving and all the road were blocked coz of crowd. But must say the way these people managed the crowd was amazing. By the look of the crowd I thought we will takeanother 2 hours to reach station but to my surprise we reached home back by 2:30

So overall it was a memoriable day but I missed my Mom and Dad a lot as I was not with them on the 31st eve for the first time. Whereas my bhai he never stays at home he will go and roam around with his friends and will come back on the next day or would ask to me to wait to open the doors for him at 3 or 4 in the morning.

This will always be one of the most memoriable night of my Life.