2006 in a Nut shell

Imagine leaving a monkey alone in a cage along with many other fellow monkeys.Now, our monkey tries to talk with the fellow monkeys and get tired of talking . Now, our monkey gets restless and finds a new tree or branch and practices some new somersaults and flips.Eventually the monkey becomes restless again.Right now, 23 year old me is waiting for my flight from Frankfurt to Bangalore which is 2 hrs away and as you would have rightly guessed i am quite restless now. Instead of watching my restless fellow passengers and get more restless, i decided to do the following post.Since i am lucky right now to have a laptop, i am typing this post rather than writing this in a piece of paper.Had i not had this laptop, i would have used the paper option (ofcourse for writing you dirty minds !).

Anyway,here it goes...

~31st Dec 2005 ---> Hiking the whole day to reach Tadiandamol,coorg. Welcomed 2006 from top of the peak with friends.Amazing experience.

~Restarted badminton after a hiatus of almost 2 years.Joined ECA club.Badminton is almost a life changing event that happened this year.Now i am playing with people whom i played and lost against in South Indian University Sports meet 2003-2004. Now i have a great social life going on and i am enjoying my evenings more than ever.

~One thing i want to pen down which is almost a life changing event. Yours truly has become a model. Yess!! i walked the ramp for my division as a model.

~Feb 1st week --> Hikes were declared...Not so happy with the salary and work. Had lost sense of career direction and felt a strong urge to quit samsung.Didn't take a hasty decision and i called my boss for a discussion regarding my job.He was so happy that i actually consulted him to speak out my mind.This is second time such instance happened with me where i realized that bosses feel happy that their engineers are so honest and clear regarding their role and their priorities.Result of the meeting-->promise for change of work and immediate travel within one month.

~22nd Feb to 20th May --> Rome,Italy. 1st time in a plane. Boarded the international flight , ALONE...I know this is relative, but this was a big thing for me.Work load was crazy.Literally, I was bombarded with work.2 VP's and one Senior PM were in Rome for that project.Pressure cooker situation.I guess i handled that well.First time Samsung launched mobile phone with TV for the FIFA world cup 2006.We were 2 days behind LG to get such a phone into the market.Result --> LG sold 200,000 phones in those 2 days. Samsung had to be content with the stability and performance factor and world's 2nd DVBH phone tag.Then i realized the size and the magnitude of telecom market and how time really matters :)On the personal front, i made few friends in this trip.Made a lot of one day trips to many places in Italy. Also, this was the nascent stages to hone my culinary skills. I started cooking more because of the necessity factor and later on by interest.Now, i can proudly say that i am a decent cook (except that i sometimes forget that i am cooking and as a result the item gets burnt :-) ).

~After coming from Italy,i again came back to the routine of going to office in the mornings and badminton in the evenings.Life was peaceful and i was thoroughly enjoying my hirsuteness ;)

~August 15th to August 28th --> golden days of my life. Yeah literally. Had got my hair streaked.Golden streaks :-)Then came the dreadful day August 29th when i had to cut my hair.18 months effort being cut by the ruthless barber :-)

~Oct 7th to Dec 12th --> Rome, Italy. Dec 12th to Dec 25th --> Frankfurt, GermanyThen Came the month of october when i was asked to go to rome again.I Thanked my coin throwing efforts(http://nagiunveiled.blogspot.com/2006/10/coincidence-or-by-purpose.html) and grabbed the opportunity with both hands :-) This time work load was not so much. And this time i had a nice experience, i worked in an indian restaurant(Kohinoor) as a waiter cum accountant. Thanks to lucky bhai for that !! Spent 2 months in rome and while returning had a 2 week halt in Frankfurt base camp.Compared to rome, work load was heavy,timings were strict, no german chicks in office to ogle at. Now, i know i make the base camp sound like a concentration camp in WWII, but its kinda OK.

Now, i am sitting in FF airport typing all this stuff while waiting for my flight which is 2 hrs away.The seat next to me is still vacant(both literally and symbolically).
I know this post is kinda boring,but please bear with my yesterday's sleepless night.

So,long,
~GNR