360˚ of my 2010

The year 2010 has been a very vibrant, challenging and meaningful for me. Here I try to log some important moments of them.

January:

• Starting the New Year at home with parents & sister; went to temple to seek blessings and lot of wishes to accomplish in the just born New Year.
• This is my maiden visit to home in 2 years, after I moved to Germany for my higher education. Went as a student now back home as a fresh graduate.
• Pongal celebrations were at its best. Still missing our ancestor’s (grandfather’s) agriculture land where we host a big fest and celebrations with our farm employees.
• My Mummy’s birthday and she is getting younger :-)
• Escaped Germany’s intense winter

February:

• Back in Germany. COLD, COLDER, COLDEST… 
• Same old Freising town, Harinath, a wonderful friend, is my host for a few days.  
• Back in same old apartment
• Full time unemployed – I call it as full time job hunter

March:

• Deeply concentrating on my job hunt
• Refreshing subjects and previous projects 
•  Love this late night telephone calls with Friends all over the globe.
• Plan B – to get back to Bangalore and find a job. 
• Couple of interviews calls and a lot of rejections as well.
• Working in weekends to cover my bills.

April:

•  Had a wonderful break in Vienna, Austria
• Couple of travels through Germany for interviews
• Loads of ripen apples in my Garden – no time to pick and eat
• Finally got the news, I got a JOB
• Employment legal formalities begins
• Signs of summer

May:

•  New job, new city, new hopes and new challenges.
• Karlsruhe, the first city where I lived during my initial Germany days.
• Tough time finding an apartment.
• No internet at home

June:

• Lot of sun – fighting Karlsruhe’s heat with my newly bought table fan.
• Even hotter at work – I am sitting on a hot plate – No idea what is my new job all about.
• Learning new technologies and several communications protocols.
• Weekend in London with Charu, akka & mama.
• First visit to South west France – Poitiers, France.
• Love this 330 KMPH French TGV trains – when will India have such trains, sigh!
• Learning and playing my first song in my newly bought guitar.

July:

• Several Business trips to France. Like this French work culture.
• My boss is very cool; he acknowledged my work by waiving the probationary period.
•  Flying to India for the second time this year.
• My sister is getting engaged – happy for her – love her a lot.
• Awesome trip to Tirumala, Tirupati with JP – enjoyed driving my car all the way.
• We had a wonderful dharshan – lord Balaji taught us the law of redefined PATIENCE.

August:

• Terribly busy at work
• Happy birthday DADDY, you mean a lot.
• Couple of business trips to France.
• Envy my colleagues – most of them are on vacation.
• Missing the overseas telephone calls and very less people around me. Feeling lonely.

September:

• Again in France for official meetings and presentations.
•  French trains are on strike, stuck in Strasbourg :-(
• I hate the passport control in French-German border, can’t afford to lose my early morning sleep.
•  I understand my work better now. Getting more productive.
• Equally I understand the complexity of my TODO tasks – an endless ever-growing list of activities.
• Summer is concluding

October:

• Just completed my 26^th revolution around the Sun. Loads of wishes from family & friends.
• Colored trees all around and loads of dead leaves.
• Walk ways are now the grave yards for these beautiful yellowish maple leaves.
•  Business trips to France and Netherlands.
• Amsterdam is colorful and Schiphol is crowded.
• Weekend with Charu in London.
• Stuck in Baden, Ryanair flies to all the junk airports of Germany.
• 20€ is missing from my wallet, just back from Enthiran movie.
•   Finally cleared my European driver’s license theory exam
•  Off to India for 2 weeks.

November:

• In India, for my sister’s marriage.
• Sweat poured off - Loads of work at home, preparations for the marriage.
• India teaches me enormous Patience and tolerance. I am strictly in “India Mode”
• New Delhi’s new terminal taught me a very good lesson; I will never fly Air India again. I lost track of the word punctuality. Nevertheless kept myself cool and was never angry.
• Back in Germany – winter intensified. Leafless trees around.
• Drenched in the year’s first snow.
• Another Business trip to Poitiers, France – wondering how I will manage 2 weeks with Gestural language.

December:

• My refrigerator is warmer than the outside temperature.
• Heavier snowfall and slippery pathways.
• Still in France, amidst bad weather. Working from 8am to 8pm.
• Official Christmas dinner.
•  I am lucky to board my flight as scheduled amid bad weather conditions. 
• Witnessed the New Year celebrations near Big Ben, London amidst heavy commotion.

-> Wishing you all a wonderful New Year 2011 <-