Reflections

Thou dirge of the dying year,
To which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might

Sincerely hoping that none of you reads Shelley, trust me, you don't want to.....well..uh..yes..it's a beauty..but as if we've got our plates empty.

Moving on, as we travel another 365 days, I just happened to look back to judge the road. It's been more than a rocky terrain, more of the place where the Furious Five practice, hope you've watched Kung-Fu Panda, that was an oasis in a desert. Anyway, coming back to lookin' back, the going's been tough, there've been countless wounds, and deeper than ever.

The journey began on a happy note, I remember Sensex zoomed the first day, but since then, the trends have been bearish. Beginning in US, which had had more development than it could digest, spread faster than smell of shit. Many banks went outta business, and jobs were cut at phenomenal rates. You could tweak Metternich's statement, 'When US sneezes, the entire world catches cold'.......Than began Credit Crunch or Liquidity Crisis or the greatest economic poo after the Great Depression.

Things were no better at personal level. Depression was not confined to the economic platform. Trust me, we've seen better days, and loads better than this. Gloom's all over and life's on an edge. For all you know, today might've been your last day in office. God's cruel. All we had to cheer ourselves were oil prices, but the effect was reduced, thanks to Dollar strengthening against Rupee, a rise of 13 rupees, if I'm not mistaken, and I scarcely am, barring exams. It was panic, fear, and terror.

Yeah, terror....how could one forget. The outrageous attack on Mumbai. Well, the effects were quite the opposite....the slackening hold of the unity string across the country was taut again. Thackerey with his 'Marathi Manoos' was told to lick dust by the Mumbaikars. This guy had a heaven of an year. It was nice to see US jumping in for peacekeeping. With it's aid, India might just be able to set Paks right.

There was yet another terror, not on a large scale though, but I'd been trying and trying and you've got no idea how hard I was trying, screwing up BSNL, Rapidshare, WinRAR, Windows, Graphics Card, Sound Card, Splitters, Joiners, Archivers, Extensions, CDs, Orkut, People, Download Managers, Electricity, and my exams that I managed to set it right today. Actually I had been having problems with a game, Harry Potter and the Quidditch World Cup, to be frank.

Now I know you're all drooling and what not, but look at the brighter side. We've had a bad phase, and next year can't be worse, not unless US goes bankrupt, the odds of which are lesser than that of Mayawati being fair and transparent. We'd had the dark, it's time for dawn.'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' Call it hangovers of exams, and it's Ta Ta for now, wishing all the non-existing regular blog readers a hopefully very happy Christmas and an equally successful and glorious New Year.