21 !!

Striking out one more year from my not-so-illustrious life, birthdays (or rather the 25th hour of your birthday) are often reserved for retrospection. If you actually draw up a list of the people who wished you last year to the ones who wished you this time around, you get an inkling of how you have fared in the lives of others. And of course for those, i expected would call me up but never did ... i guess i let them down at some point of time . Unless of course they were monstrously busy or just didn't have strong enough memories or well-programmed reminders ... in all the above cases, the only way to redeem yourselves is by sending me a present from wherever you are on the face of this planet ;-)

So .. 21 !! Now i can officially lose my bachelor's degree ( and i have my mom's permission to do so as well ;-) ) but need a bride ...hmmm . But seriously , this is the best time to recap the year gone by .. if only for my benefit :)

• Had an academic high last semester and probably an academic low this time around.
• Wonderful Chennai trip last winter
• The most eventful summer ... definitely the most profound influence on my mindscape in the last few years
• A little re-arrangement of priorities : Grades are not the ultimate objective of life. You must enjoy what you are doing(something that i didn't in the last semester) . Must do all the mundane coding assignments MYSELF.
• The most torturous couple of months (September-end to November-end) made me almost want to quit studies. In fact did so before the last two exams .. and hence will get an A in OS :((. However, i think the experience helped me in becoming a better man.
• Realized where my heart is. And I think its in the right place ...

About the year ahead .. definitely one of the most important years academically .. because by this time next year i would have completed applying to all the universities .. so whatever extraordinary (:P) thing i have to do , has to be done within the next 11 months or so. Too less time, too much work :((

So i guess i will just bail out.

Hey !! I am 21 now. Got to be more responsible than that. So will start working right now. At almost 1 in the morning with a dozen mosquitoes continuously coaxing me to go to bed. Testing times ahead....