The year 2010 - for me

Here goes the Personal Highlights of 2010 for me!

• The year started for me, with a much awaited approval to work on a new collaborative project, and even had one review completed successfully in the later part of the year
• Got to work on another interesting but an important proposal, that saw its light at the end of the year
• Registered a domain name, for one of the products that we were working on - a first for me
• Submitted my PhD Thesis Report (I really realized the pain of writing a doctoral thesis!, and how relieving it was, after the submission!)
• Submitted two annual reports at the same time (felt like climbing a mountain!)
• Two members of my team - Dnyanesh Pawar and Vikram Kumar quit, to pursue better careers
• Got interested in writing and deploying an application in Google App Engine
• Got a good number of opportunities to develop my 'emcee' skills! - an area that was absolutely new to me!
• Learnt more about ISO, as I was nominated as the QMS manager! and managed to get through one surveillance audit! Also faced audit of a different kind - for the first time, in the later part of the year!
• Regained my interests in PKI technology as I had to get closely involved in a related project
• Learned and handled certain new courses
• Had to do lot of works that I was not previously familiar or comfortable with
• Had some disappointments too: Efforts relating to get into a specific activity (which would have been a honor), failed and a product deployment did not materialize
• Named our second daughter as Aishwarya
• Got our first daughter admitted to a nearby school
• Traveled to a number of places, thanks to a project & for other personal commitments: Trivandrum, Calicut, Cochin, Alleypey, Delhi, Mysore (Palace, Chamundi Hills, Brindavan gardens, Ranganathaswamy temple, and Tipu sultan fort), Visakhapatnam (also visited Simhachalam) , Planetarium at Bangalore (seeing for the first time in Bangalore, despite being here for a long time!) are the places that I happened to visit this year!.
• Overall, the year was good & memorable, for the important milestones that I happened to pass through, and for taking up opportunities & works that I was not familiar with!