Hurrah!!!

After long months of anticipation and frustration, finally the Channel's test signal is there for all to see...and for us to watch and convince ourselves that after all its not some sort nightmare....

Anyways moving away from that momentary high which was shared by more than hundreds across a few states lets get down to business...

Another year passed us by and we are all smarter and wiser for the experience gained and we move on to greener or maybe graying pastures with the hope that all things shall turn out for the better....

I ushered the New Year in sitting in a chai place...listening to absolute knuckleheads singing alongside a karaoke machine...while some others cheered them on.....for the sheer bravado with which people exhibit their failings, made me sit back and smile in wonder as my fiance looked out at the crowds that thronged the place ready to jump up and punch the sky the moment it struck midnight....

We had just finished watching King Kong...an absolute waste of money and imagination...and were killing time, not wanting to spend the moment in an auto stuck in a jam while the moment passed us by....for one it was far above the wasteful experience we had the last year...when we remained rooted to the same spot on the road for more than 2 hours waiting for the car in front to make one slight movement....

The hullabaloo around New Year's eve has not ceased to amaze me...Is it the happiness at having locked away certain bad moments in some recess of your memory and the excitement at what is in store in the days ahead that has us partying away wildly into the night, or some other absolute feeling at having existed and successfully too on this planet for one more year given us the reason and the energy to party madly and energetically....of course one can always concoct up some sort of answer...but then the truth is somewhere out there...only no one has bothered to look at it the way it should be....

I have moved onto another year and now looking back there are lot of things I sure am going to bury in the darkest recess of my brain..but the point being there were some turnaround moments when I wanted to scream at the highest my lungs would allow and celebrate those inane oddities that have made my 26th year of existence even minimally memorable....