Well, it doesn't feel good to not having written something in Jan. The same sickening feeling one would get to go to school on a Sunday or having a holiday on the first day of the week. On a second thought, it doesn't feel good to start the first blog of the year on a negative word :D
Lemme try and redo this then.
2012 February. THE month of the leap year. Till now, I must say, I've had a great time. First long drive by car. First music festival (in that scale) in India. [I'm not surprised I didn't write about Storm Festival yet, took me freaking 8 days to get out of that hangover]. First year anniversary of being an academician. Naah. Doesn't suit my image. Yet. :) [Not since I got rid of the pony]
With no apologies for not having written about Storm Festival, which I intend doing soon, by the way, I'll probably start rambling now about how the year passed and the like.
It feels great to have completed something. That said and done, I've never really maintained that I've completed learning something. Technically speaking, one can't finish learning, IMHO. Be it even 50 years of doing the same thing, there's still something that is unexplored. Like what the band and I, on separate instances discovered during composing songs. I mean, in the initial stages, I'd given up just because I thought its the same 7 notes that can be played around with, how much different can it be. Today, I like to think that I'm in a much better position. High hopes? This year would probably talk more about that.
Yet, the human mind and the human attitude gets a sense of triumph on completion of something. Say a loan. Say a research paper. Say a song. How radically different each of these are is what I immediately realized. Most people I guess would dread completing another year of their lives. I don't. I mean, how different will it be if not for the number of years. After all, its nicer to think that you are more experienced with age. Probably a typical thing one would say after coming to terms with it. :)
This one year of completion has made me realize that my topmost priorities - Research, Music and Workout, [If you are thinking if I even have a life, I very much do] though different, have the same effects when given a lot of time and dedication. Hell, anything in life will pay off once its done with proper dedication and effort. For example, the first time I travelled to college, I'd headache. Can't believe I've travelled for about 30,000 km just for work. Not counting the other trips. So these few lines served as just a space eliminator.
I must have summed up whatever happened, in a typical year ending December blog, have forgotten. But its very tempting to do it again, will resist the urge.
Made this list of things to be done in 2012, maybe with special interest to all dates before 21st December, but couldn't manage to write one blog a month. Really, if the doomsday happens at all, people won't even get fossils of my dedicated blog entries. Its time maybe I started engraving.
So lets see how much of my wish list is realized this year. Will surely keep the blog followers updated on that. Let me complete the negation with which I started this blog. That way, we'll have only a non negative entity floating around in the next blog. Why the hell didn't I start learning the guitar earlier in life? I mean by the time I discovered what I really relish, my mind runs faster than my fingers!
Lemme try and redo this then.
2012 February. THE month of the leap year. Till now, I must say, I've had a great time. First long drive by car. First music festival (in that scale) in India. [I'm not surprised I didn't write about Storm Festival yet, took me freaking 8 days to get out of that hangover]. First year anniversary of being an academician. Naah. Doesn't suit my image. Yet. :) [Not since I got rid of the pony]
With no apologies for not having written about Storm Festival, which I intend doing soon, by the way, I'll probably start rambling now about how the year passed and the like.
It feels great to have completed something. That said and done, I've never really maintained that I've completed learning something. Technically speaking, one can't finish learning, IMHO. Be it even 50 years of doing the same thing, there's still something that is unexplored. Like what the band and I, on separate instances discovered during composing songs. I mean, in the initial stages, I'd given up just because I thought its the same 7 notes that can be played around with, how much different can it be. Today, I like to think that I'm in a much better position. High hopes? This year would probably talk more about that.
Yet, the human mind and the human attitude gets a sense of triumph on completion of something. Say a loan. Say a research paper. Say a song. How radically different each of these are is what I immediately realized. Most people I guess would dread completing another year of their lives. I don't. I mean, how different will it be if not for the number of years. After all, its nicer to think that you are more experienced with age. Probably a typical thing one would say after coming to terms with it. :)
This one year of completion has made me realize that my topmost priorities - Research, Music and Workout, [If you are thinking if I even have a life, I very much do] though different, have the same effects when given a lot of time and dedication. Hell, anything in life will pay off once its done with proper dedication and effort. For example, the first time I travelled to college, I'd headache. Can't believe I've travelled for about 30,000 km just for work. Not counting the other trips. So these few lines served as just a space eliminator.
I must have summed up whatever happened, in a typical year ending December blog, have forgotten. But its very tempting to do it again, will resist the urge.
Made this list of things to be done in 2012, maybe with special interest to all dates before 21st December, but couldn't manage to write one blog a month. Really, if the doomsday happens at all, people won't even get fossils of my dedicated blog entries. Its time maybe I started engraving.
So lets see how much of my wish list is realized this year. Will surely keep the blog followers updated on that. Let me complete the negation with which I started this blog. That way, we'll have only a non negative entity floating around in the next blog. Why the hell didn't I start learning the guitar earlier in life? I mean by the time I discovered what I really relish, my mind runs faster than my fingers!
