• Getting done with the torture. Well... DSP would do good to bestow upon me a graceful forty. [ 26th Dec - 7th Jan ]
• I did something pretty wack on Dec 22nd.
• Preceded by my niece's birthday too. She turned one! (Dec 21st)
• In-turn, Preceded by an astro trip to H'Halli [ Dec 17th, was it? ]
• Working all through the period. That's a bit of a first. Atleast, I started with the cramming early enough to fit all the priorities in. I manage to flatter myself with my time-management skills. Only that my sleep schedules complain.
• BTW, Did I mention about the Hampi trip on the 8th of Dec? My Event-Management skills deserve some flattery too. I'd have devoured any that came my way. Really, it indeed was a huge sigh of relief that all the people managed it into the bus and out of it.
• This stupid fuck (intentional obscurity) has fiddled away with the finances. 'least he could 've told me about it. Well.. understandable, but nonetheless..very lame and unethical.
• This stupid fuck (more intentional obscurity) created a semi-furore by putting a mail to a group that he shouldn't have. I sometimes wonder if he's perspicaciously cunning or plain retarded. Anyway, I guess we did calm the equation down
• These stupid fucks really fiddled around with my Bombay-visit schedule. Screwed my happiness for a while. Still owe me 20k too. Rather disappointed that I could 've done away with a more constructive assignment (quite a bit of remuneration too, for that matter) had they been clear about.
• Doing OS, Philanthropic work for a while.
• This guy's work never ceases to get over. It's been on since last March! Honestly getting unproductive and annoying at times.. But then I love him far too much to give haath.
• Chronic Kammanahalli-Meetups.
• Elation over Modi-Victory. Flamewars with AR and AC.
• Benazir died. Rendered me honestly gloomy. But wtf? Will on the Party-chairmanship? God, the kid is 19. let him be in peace. Really.. these families do have something about them. I'm just glad that I'm not as accursed.
• The Coorg-KP trip mid-month. Best times in a while, except for the invertebrating weights and this stupid fuck (!) who threw up nearly one full day.
• Twenty Finally. Teen no more.
• New work at hand, by next week.
• Sweet victory at Perth.
• Life's hectic.

• Trek to Sathodi Waterfall, Karwar. Err.. make that, "Trip to Sathodi". We din't get to trek much. No big deal about the whole excercise. Except that it was the much needed weekend getaway. Kalinadi backwaters and the huge lagoon it formed rawked. Pretty scintillating sight.. especially when you 're wack enough to go there amidst torrential rain. The waterfall itself, sucked. It was dirty brown, muddy watter that seemed to be a la-Vrishabhavati-Puddle. Oh well.
• One behemothic project. Painful. Who says  porting SQL around is easy?. Campaign for abstraction layers please, everywhere around, for all Web Apps around. Oh BTW, that isn't even the hardest part. People and crappy CMSes. aarghh!
• Work on improvising ERP/CRM capabilities of this seemingly robust CakePHP app a friend of mine has come up with. Pretty interesting.
• Checking out vTiger. In the context mentioned above. Forks Forks Forks. Some turn out nice.
• Mandatory everyday-Drupal work. Many sites.
• New found craziness. Investing close to 30 hours on it the last couple of weeks. Pretty wack, even by my standards.
• Getting abused around. Even had a racial slur. Never refuse that advance payment.
• Dying urge to get away from it all.
• The usual depression: One much too similar to the post-2005-June era has crept back in. The defeatist attitude, The loathsome lethargy, The fatalistic take on things .. It's all back to haunt me.
• The career crisis rages on. I've got ideas more preposterous than ever before.
• The impotence to excel manifests in it all. God, what's gone haywire with me?
• On a brighter note, Comet 17/P Holmes has been amazing. Smudgy, Hazy blob that nobody can miss. Unless you mistake it for a little wisp of cloud.

It was long overdue.. Would've been great had it only come a couple of years earlier.
The new found happiness does not last too long.. Far from complacence, it's plain disappointment and ridicule at my own audacity to do something as preposterous as I have..Nonetheless, It's a path I've decided to trod on.. Will take on it no matter what.. Folks at my old abode may not be as cooperative as I'd like them to...but we'll see what happens.

Been a fiery busy 2 years..learning new things, more self delusions, greed, resentment in love life, new hopes et al.. Nonetheless, B'lore south feels so good :-)