After a topsy turvy day and quite a night of shopping all I want to do is eat my veggies and hit the sack, but I am determined to give the due respect year 2009 deserves the only way I know how..... Recollect & Ponder.....
First, Second & Third Quarter
Just as much as I wanted to land my ass in the beautiful, yet lonely islands of Maldives, I got my semi-permanent residency (inconsistent, unsecure, employer dependent) in the land of sand & camels. It was a tough fist quarter trying to juggle exams and work, but I made it, though I flunked the exams in style. Do I regret it??? Not One Bit !!!!
I don’t remember much other than work, shopping, dining out and a messy relationship which wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place. An uneventful, bland and boring year one would say. Nonsense !! I would say...........The people I’ve met, the places I’ve been and the things I’ve seen during these 9 months has managed to entirely change the way I would have got about life otherwise.
September
September was a purring month.....Found something I’ve been looking for almost all my life (though I haven’t a clue what to make of it) & got a lil more money in my hands (coz the good employer decided to throw a hike my way).
October/ November
Shifted to the much awaited new office in Sharjah which has an amazing view, though work was hazy. I had finished a good quarter century and was stepping in to November crunching evil number 26 (of course its just a number). Stayed away from work for a day due to an all time low for the first time in three years while in camel land. It felt terrible just as much as it felt good. It was good to feel a little, to love and live a little.
I was definitely floating away on cloud No. 9, but the only problem was that cloud No. 9 was floating a little too close to the ground. I had to always watch out for bumps and jerks and I was tired of doing so. All the huffing and puffing I could have done wasn’t going to lift the cloud any higher rather it would have jolly well got me sitting on the ground instead of on the cloud. I had two options, to hop on to cloud No. 10 and see where it took me, or to sit on cloud No. 9 and patiently wait until it kick started it’s journey towards Neverland, which I damn well knew it would and the latter was exactly what I did. I don’t regret to this date the choice I had made.
December
A few days before, during my much valued jog, I couldn’t help pondering about the best things this year had offered me.
1. Three amazing friends I would hold dear for life. Never having been blessed with female friends, it felt good to finally have some.
2. Light at the end of the tunnel.
3. An amazing job, which I had fallen head over heals in love with.
There are some people who you meet on the way who you would be detached to but yet be attached to in a strange way. There is one such individual who randomly walked in to the office and inspired me in his own little way, just when I needed it the most. I was living a dangerous lifestyle with no breakfast and a heavy dinner with very little exercise for over 6 years. He talked me in to a healthy lifestyle almost over night, which was shocking even to me. With a solid breakfast, plenty veggies for dinner, fruits as a substitute for chocolates, zilch aerated beverages and a jogging routine I feel like a million dollars.
After a glass of wine and vodka I am tipsy enough to say that I am dying to suck year 2010 through a straw. I can feel it in my veins that it is going to be more than just a swell year.
