yeah, i started all pumped up 'warning' you to be careful about what you may end up reading out here...basically trying to create an atmosphere. and for what, a bloody lull...i kept procrastinating and procrastinating (that's almost three years !!!). now that i have finally put fingers to the keyboard i think the best way to start would be to see where i have come from that day to today.
let me remember...December 2006...i was working in Mumbai. having just appeared for CAT after i had realised that my coming back from Leeds to 'prepare' for CAT was futile. i should have stayed there longer (and earned a few more quids) and just appeared for CAT without any 'preparation'. come to think of it, i actually might have scored more :P
let me remember...December 2006...i was working in Mumbai. having just appeared for CAT after i had realised that my coming back from Leeds to 'prepare' for CAT was futile. i should have stayed there longer (and earned a few more quids) and just appeared for CAT without any 'preparation'. come to think of it, i actually might have scored more :P
Professionally... i was working in an IT company, wanted to do an MBA at any cost to change my sector (or so i told to my bosses who tried to convince me to stay on in the organisation). and guess what, i am back in IT. Once in IT always in IT or was it just the simple fact that the placement season for us was in the middle of the economic turmoil. Damn the western economies, the ripples of what they caused were felt in our college, in the quality of companies that visited my mediocre college. I don't know whether it was this or the (relative) comfort of work in this sector...that i got attracted (once again, the first time was while opting for my engineering branch) to IT. So, basically I have an MBA (err...PGDM actually) degree (err...diploma actually), working in IT industry as a manager. Let's see what's in store for me and how much i like the ride.
Personally... I have grown a lot (not in stature)... around my waist. Have thinned around my head. I have mellowed down a lot from what i used to be..confronting, short tempered. Not to mean that i am not any of those now but it's gone down. Probably, this is called ageing. I have moved from Mumbai to Chennai, parents have moved from Mumbai to Lucknow and so technically i am not a Mumbaikar anymore. This part hurts more than any other, even more than the waist which is fighting a constant battle with my trouser. Oh and yes, i have met the one i would like to spend my life with and it's a wonderful feeling even though her parents have their concerns regarding my age, my hair line and my waist line (what's left). I would be lying if i said i didn't miss being a member of the Horny Bachelors' Club :-). V, the president of the club, would smirk on reading this. He has just one other member (A) to preside over; over the years 2 other significant members (V and K) have had to surrender their memberships for reasons similar to mine.
Footballistically... after having won FA cup in 2005, Arsenal reached the finals of the champions league in May 2006 and failed to deliver a trophy that has long eluded us gunners. I would not call it a successful season by any means as we barely qualified for European action in 2006-07, the season still was one which gave hope. We moved into our new home 'The Emirates' and as expected we took time to settle down and as we were we got a jolt with the news of the departure of TH-4 Va Va Voom in the summer of 2007. Somebody had to step up in 2007-08 to fill the void, and guess what, the WHOLE TEAM DID... and it gave us a memorable 3/4th of a season at the top of the league till the horrific incident at Birmingham City where Eduardo almost lost his foot. We lost the title on the fateful day- first the horrific leg break and then the breaking down of the WG-10 at the end of the match at the other end of the field (whilst the penalty was being converted). 2008-09 was a very average season, notwithstanding the champions league exit which was nothing short of a thrashing then was the FA cup exit at the hands of our London rivals and to this day i can not fathom why the PRofessor decided not to play our best player then- the little Russian, AA-23. So even though the season ended with us in the top 4 it was still very much of an underachieving season (or a team building season if you would). So, it has been 4 long years, after summer of 2005, without any silverware to show for in the trophy cabinet. Let's hope by the summer of 2010 we do have to loosen the hinges of that cabinet to allow some movement. As for 2009-10, which i will be watching on my Sun DTH, the season is just 2 match old (plus another 2 for us to qualify for champions league) and it's premature to comment on our chances just yet. Whatever the chances, yours truely will still back his beloved Gunners till the end. Go gunners!
Footballistically... after having won FA cup in 2005, Arsenal reached the finals of the champions league in May 2006 and failed to deliver a trophy that has long eluded us gunners. I would not call it a successful season by any means as we barely qualified for European action in 2006-07, the season still was one which gave hope. We moved into our new home 'The Emirates' and as expected we took time to settle down and as we were we got a jolt with the news of the departure of TH-4 Va Va Voom in the summer of 2007. Somebody had to step up in 2007-08 to fill the void, and guess what, the WHOLE TEAM DID... and it gave us a memorable 3/4th of a season at the top of the league till the horrific incident at Birmingham City where Eduardo almost lost his foot. We lost the title on the fateful day- first the horrific leg break and then the breaking down of the WG-10 at the end of the match at the other end of the field (whilst the penalty was being converted). 2008-09 was a very average season, notwithstanding the champions league exit which was nothing short of a thrashing then was the FA cup exit at the hands of our London rivals and to this day i can not fathom why the PRofessor decided not to play our best player then- the little Russian, AA-23. So even though the season ended with us in the top 4 it was still very much of an underachieving season (or a team building season if you would). So, it has been 4 long years, after summer of 2005, without any silverware to show for in the trophy cabinet. Let's hope by the summer of 2010 we do have to loosen the hinges of that cabinet to allow some movement. As for 2009-10, which i will be watching on my Sun DTH, the season is just 2 match old (plus another 2 for us to qualify for champions league) and it's premature to comment on our chances just yet. Whatever the chances, yours truely will still back his beloved Gunners till the end. Go gunners!
3 comments:
Very well written...Abs awesome, amazing, i love ur clarity of thoughts, seldom seen such poetry in someones thots :-P ...Can I have beer now ?!! :-D.. And O'course lest I forget...Best of the luck to ur Gooners!!...C ya Sat ;-)
Haha.. Danger u rock!!
ur always welcome in the HBC.. and yeah, I did have a smirk on my face. :-)
Keep blogging dude... and see ya in the CL finals..
Looks like you paid most of the guys to praise you, else there is no way I am going to believe any of that.. the story so far is interesting :) esp the HBC thing, how true is that in your case!
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