I know I am super late but I am going to go ahead and do it anyway,
Happy New Year 2013 everyone!
2012
Hope you all had a wonderful 2012. I myself had a few eye-opening experiences (personally and professionally) and was in a miserable situation for the most part of 2012 but I have no regrets. I’ve learnt a lot last year and I’m proud of it. Let me share my experiences in 2012 with you all:
January
- I got very sick and was bed ridden for 2 weeks. It was a depressing month.
February
- In an attempt to keep up one of my resolutions for 2012, I joined the gym. And you know how it goes in the first few months, right?
March
- I quit going to the gym (but I never stopped paying).
- In the later part of March, I crashed and burned.
April
- Gave my sister a surprise visit for her birthday and fell sick at her place. She ended up taking care of me. I bet she did get surprised, although I am not sure what surprised her more, my sickness or my visit.
May
- Went back to Bowling Green, KY, after 6 months for my friends’ graduation. Had a good time there.
June
- I have zero memory of what I did in June.
July
- Sis visited my place.
- Had fun exploring California.
- My friends (Anurag anna & Macha) came down to my place (from Bowling Green) and we had a great time.
- Bought a car.
August
- Just when I thought 2012 was getting better, my good friend, Anurag anna passed away in a car accident :(. It was shocking.
- I was heart broken and had to visit Bowling Green only to make myself feel even more worse.
September
- Jumped off a plane from an altitude of 18,000 ft. It was a great experience. I think it was the adrenaline rush that sort of reset my thoughts. It was memorable.
October
- Nothing interesting happened.
November
- Had an awesome Thanksgiving vacation with my friends in Florida.
- Successfully completed my first year at BillFloat.
- Came to know that an open source JavaScript plugin that I contributed to a while ago, was heavily used by the front-end development team for the “Obama For America” campaign.
December
- Got very busy at work. We released code 2-3 times a week in December.
- Had a great NYE party with friends in San Francisco!
Open Source
I did contribute to a few Open Source apps in 2012. This year however, I intend to contribute even more.
Resolutions
Last year’s resolutions:
- [✔] Be productive
- [✔] Donate money
- [✔] Complete what I started
- [✔] Be less selfish
- [-] Be cool
- [↓] Lose weight in a healthy way and work out at least 18 days a month. (The arrow pointing downwards indicates that I did the opposite by gaining weight. Oh and BTW my overall number of visits to the gym in 2012 was not even 18)
This year’s resolutions:
I only have one resolution for this year. Be more positive. These two blog posts, Chase Happiness and Lokaah Samastaah Sukhino Bhavantu, changed the way I think. They’re pretty impressive and have a fair amount of influence on me. I think you should definitely check them out.
I would like to conclude this post by saying, be more positive and be happy. Hope you all have a great year ahead!