I would like to maintain my style of posting about a recap of events that happened in the last year, as my first post of the year - a sort of autobiography. So, here it is:
- It's difficult to start learning something new, especially as basic as a skill like driving, and that too when people less than half your age, already have mastered it. Nevertheless, with a firm mind, I started with a two-wheeler, and within a month, mastered it (simply means, you keep driving in chaotic traffic, and try to find way, even within a very narrow space!). Then came the bigger one - Learning to drive a manual transmission car (with gears!), in real traffic and that too in curvy and slope roads, (ofcourse after getting trained from a professional driving school)
- Had the experience of being pulled into a project and being pushed out of a project purely for non-technical reasons! - Though I had to admit that, I was wishing for it to happen.
- Met reasonable success in a project that involved overcoming huge administrative challenges, and happy as it brought a sense of satisfaction after a lot frustration and will be a very important milestone in the history of the organization that I am working with.
- Yet another project of mine, relating to academic networking saw some reasonable success; However all the above projects require continuous follow up to sustain the success!
- Started to do some serious study on DNS, that I had kept in my wish list for a long time.
- My mentor and boss, for almost a decade, moved to another location of the organization. This lead to series of changes, but at the end, you learn to accept the changes.
- Had a busy time authoring proposals in areas related to Information Security, the domain that I had been involved with for the past few years
- Got a feel of Hybrid PC or Convertibles - (Laptop with detachable screen, and screen can act as a tab), but soon realized that these products are immature and not going to suit someone who spends considerable time in front of the PC.
- Had the experience of learning and working with good number of interns this year
- Had the experience of running around the government offices to apply and collect few essential documents!
- Travel: As usual made trips to New Delhi, Tirumala, Madurai, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Chennai
