New Year. Old Blog. New Look.

First day of the New Year, and since I'm going to take the "resuscitate blog" thing seriously, I thought why not a makeover. After messing around with the Template Design quite a bit, I finally settled on this simple preset template.

Also notice the cool scrolling links on top, yeah, I know enough HTML to get me into trouble. But on a more serious note, those links point to the biggest event in any LIBA-ite's calendar. If you're a LIBA-ite, click! If not, click anyway!

I notice that [untitled]/[undecided] has finally caved in to the spirit of the times and carved his New Year resolutions in stone (...eerily similar to mine...), again. Go check it out on his spanking new website, The Road To Kingdom Come. A hilarious read.

@Will Write For Food : I'm back. Rejoice. Now, can we start thinking about our "Top Secret Project That I Mentioned A Couple Of Times And You Shot Down"? Again?

@El Misti let's do this together shall we? I shake up my blog, you shake up yours. My blog updates tracker shows "El Misti 1 year ago". Which is pretty hypocritical seeing as I carefully time my updates to prevent the same.

So, a new year, and we tell ourselves that it's a fresh, blank canvas all over again.

Funny, how silly and yet true that is.

Gotta Get This Up And Running...Again.

I've been thinking of putting something up here for a long time. An original creation. But sadly that department seems to have shut up shop. Or there's no room for it inside my head right now. Whichever it is, point is that I have written mostly zilch in a long time. If you discount the BS on the many answer papers, I have written exactly zilch.

There are no weird ideas floating around in my head. Which is kinda disturbing, because I never seemed to lack that Dali-ciousness. :(

And now, we've worked our way all the way down to the last week of the year. An eventful one. So I'm gonna go over it once more, and see how it's all balanced out. January was the month of hope. New Year starting out, and a lotta things on the To Do list. Most of which were the same reasons I quit my job for. Exam after exams after exam. Still not enough courage to chuck it all and follow some diaphanous dream. Still enough sense left in me not to chuck it all and follow some diaphanous dream.

February. CAT results come out, eventually. Punch in the gut. Now what? Got no answer to the question "So, what are you doing now?". Some questions of my own now. But still, there's the LIBA interview to look forward to.

March 26th is the LIBA interview, and on March 21st I manage to tear the ligaments in my left ankle. Hobbled on one leg to Chennai, and to LIBA for the interview. Horrible GD, great interview. Met my soon-to-be best friend at the GD. LIBA was the best one I had in my kitty till now, and I hoped I'd done enough.

April brought doubts, and questions, and more questions. Specifically, "Now what?". The "I knew it." look reserved for all those who fall because they strayed off the beaten track was beginning to make it's presence felt. Basketball-wise I was close to regaining peak form, now that the injury had healed. Creativity-wise, I was probably hitting an all time high. The Wacom Bamboo was my weapon of choice, and I was practically invincible. Somehow that seemed to give me the bare minimum self-confidence.

May and I was on the LIBA waitlist. With no more information, or hope of conversion. Desperate times, and Bank PO tests were beginning to look interesting. "Screw the dream, I need a job."

June 2nd. "Why was your phone switched off?! You had a call from LIBA! Call them back!". Damn! No balance. Run to town. Recharge. "Hello? Yeah, I got a call about a seat? Yes, I'm interested. Ok. On 7th. Thank you.". Improptu jig in the middle of the town. I'm telling you man, it felt like coming up for air. Whoosh. Pack up. Fly. Enter LIBA.

July. New life. New friends. Guitar Man, even though I was a rank amateur. Somehow managing to court controversy by everything I did. Or didn't. The people who mattered didn't care though, for a change. Thank God.

August. September. October. More of the same. Parties. Friends. Enemies. Patch-ups. Phone calls. Recharges. Recharges. Recharges. Surprises. Fights. Irrational ones. Rational ones.

November. I have Direction. Interviews. Screwing up GDs. Again. Renault-Nissan. But accidents still happen. "Trust" is a small word, but heaven knows how much it signifies. Guardian angels. Superman still can't fly. But that's no reason to stop being Superman, is it?

December. "Now!". The tension. The panic. And the smiles. It IS worth every drop of sweat, every twinge of pain, every throbbing headache, every tired yawn. The smiles are what make them all worth it. Blank a week before the exams. Last minute swotting. "Screw this, I'm gonna do this my way." Surprise, surprise, it works. Counterstrike. "Fire in the hole!". Still works. "O Holy Night". Everyone stops chattering. Goosebumps. "Merry Christmas y'all!". All I want for Christmas is to go home. Home. "So this is what you look like!". Serendipity. :)

And now, checklist time.

• Nope. Still can't dunk. Can barely run round the court.
• Haven't got a Bucket List yet. Dunno why.
• Oh hell yeah, I can play Wake Me Up When September Ends! :)
• No, it's so not cool to lose my cool. Strikeout!
• I sing out loud. Everyone in the vicinity of C-25 will vouch for this.
• No maniacal driving. Don't feel the need to get anywhere faster than I can.
• Orkut kaput!
• The receding hairline is being successfully countered by longer hair. :P
• Mission IMDB 250 is going strong!
• Writing more often is something I promise to promise to do. :P

That's a fairly good strike rate, I think. Onward ho. I'm thinking, "Roll With The Punches" should cover all resolutions for 2011.

I Promise...

...to not say "Twenty-Ten". Ever. It's "Two thousand ten".

...to be able to dunk again, by this time next year.

...to gruesomely deal with anybody who evangelizes to me again. It will be very unpleasant. Be warned.

...to write about the aforementioned evangelizing later this month.

...to write down a Bucket List, and then start working through it steadily. 'Cos, you never know.

...to learn how to play "Wake Me Up When September Ends" on the guitar before September ends.

...to lose my cool more often. It's very liberating.

...to sing out loud, instead of humming with the headphones on.

...to resist the urge to drive like a maniac.

...to stop using Orkut. It sucks.

...to not panic about my receding hairline, each time I look in the mirror.

...to work my way through the IMDB top 250 list.

...to get a REAL life. I heard they have everything on eBay.

...to write better stuff on this blog.

...to write better stuff.

...to write.

Promise.