Another year gone by, and here i am sitting and thinking about how it was, and how it should have been. Its really funny, that during entire 365 days, we never stop and think that how is life going. We all just keep on running around like crazy dogs, which run after every other car at night, just for fun or maybe out of habit! :P

I learnt a very important lesson this year - Connecting the dots! Shree Shree Steve Jobs once said - "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life"

I had a pretty bad fuck up during June/July. I had applied for the weekend executive MBA program from one of the most prestigious b-schools in India. And by God's grace, i cleared everything and paid my first installment of fees. The classes were to begin on July 1, 2010. So around 22 June, we had to go to the institute and submit our original work ex and educational certificates. I met a clerk there, who checked my certificates, and declared that i cant take admission into the program as my work ex was less than required! I was baffled! Baffled is a very tiny term, i was abso-fucking-lutely shocked!!

I just barely made through the mandatory work ex requirement of 3 years (Since i joined my first job on July 2, 2007 and they wanted 3 years work ex on June 30, 2010). But since i got relieved of my first job on a Thursday and joined my current job on Monday, the clerk believed i had a gap of 3 days, so that takes my work ex from 3 years down to 2 years and 362 days! Oh my fucking God! I learnt so so so much less than what a guy with 2 years and 365 days experience would have learnt!

You cant fight too much with these guys in government colleges? Can you? They never even admitted their own mistake that they should have never given me the admit card to sit in the exam in the first place!

Had i resigned one day later, and got relieved on a Friday, i would have made through their mandatory 3 years work ex requirements. (Govt offices dont count weekends as real days, unless accompanied by a working day!)

For about a whole month, i was fighting with the clerk and his higher officials for letting me into the course. I can't even imagine how many arguments and strategies i used to think every single night as that was kind of THE most important thing in my life at that point of time. I took a hard toil since applying for that program in February, giving the written exams, the GDs, the interviews and what not! Sigh!

But when i look back at the whole thing, i simply feel blessed that i didn't make it. For starters I am now not forced to waste all my weekends for the next three years, studying for a 'weekend executive MBA' degree which i never wanted! I just applied to it, because i wanted any stupid MBA degree as everyone around me had one or was in the process of getting one. Peer pressure makes you do real stupid things you see.

Also, if i had taken that course, i would have never got the opportunity to come to this tiny little snow filled country. Which i think is the most awesomest little thing happened to me this year, as i am almost heading the office here right now :)

So kids, I think for the most part, if you're really honest with yourself about what you want out of life, life gives it to you (Ted Mosby, The Architect)

With that note, i wish you all a Very Happy and a Prosperous New Year! May you all get what your heart really wishes for in the coming year. And i sign off from this blog till next year, as i head off to the mountains to see some more snow! :D

PS: This blog was getting too long, more updates about the year, if and when i get net connectivity on the mountains!