Saturday, March 08, 2008

My dear Blog

Dear Blog,
Hows your health? I am sorry to have visited you so late. Life was more volatile than Indian markets in past couple of months. There were so many things going on at this time. If everything goes in a pleasant way, what would be the difference between heaven and here? I believe there is some difference. Past two months involved managing cash-flows from 'N' friends' accounts to mine, gearing a friend for his interviews, obviously other than work life. Started investing in markets, though am still unsure whether made investment at good times.
Job is going pretty fine with annual performance management over. Got feedback from the peers, stakeholders and manager; Liked the feedback since it didn't surprise me. Though the salary hike and bonus figures disappointed a bit, but given the work-culture, knowledge-gain graph, and the people around, money is not the biggest issue.
A friend had applied in a company of financial services sector, and I was busy in gearing him for the interviews. He did well by reaching to the last round. Udham Singh said, "Somethings are not meant to come your way. In that case, you'll come across some other things." I'm sure the experience would have taught him a lot of things, and that'll help in his future endeavours.
A female close friend of mine, got angry with me over a petty issue. I teased her on some point which made her say, "I won't talk to you in all my life." It made me sad and a bit of angry too. Sad because she's a close friend and angry as in how can one not talk for whole life over some issue. The issue was alive for a month, before it got settled last week, Thank God.

Hey Blog,
I'll be travelling to UK for a couple of weeks starting from sometime next week. Good news for you for you'll probably get a entry or two more. I was supposed to leave this sunday had my VISA arrived. I am assuming now there are no issues with my application. This'll be a pure business visit and it'll be highly busy. I'll see you after coming back. Take care of your health. Regards,
Ashok Kumar Bhardwaj