2008, that was!....don't know what!

If i were asked to give a title to my personal diary of year 2008, then probably I would give it the name 'The unending game of false promises and hopes', and yes I mean it. This year I have achieved new heights in not meeting the promises that I had impostered myself to commit to, and that too with a religious attitude and a gracious face. I have either mastered the skill of faking my words to sound like a promise or else I am becoming as shameless as a politician resigning with the logic of 'moral responsibility' after the crisis is met and the losses are accomplished. 

I mean all what I am saying!

A glimpse of some of the unmet promises would go like this........

- someone in the office asked me to give a knowledge transfer on whatever I was working on , and then was supposed to move on to some other project. A smooth transition was expected from me, and consciously speaking it was more of my moral obligation to do so. I promised to deliver, but then remained busy (more in the self-acclaimed manner) and never did it. Later I got to know that the guy had to go through all those malicious lines of codes I had written to reach closer to what I wanted to convey there in those lines, and that too without any supporting documents (Now thats very much understandable.....if I am lazy enough not to give KT, then how could I have prepared any document for what I was doing all those months!). 

- Jan,Feb, and March were months when I was busy with campus recruitment. Here, on each college campus I made some short-notes based on my experience and the interaction with the students and I was all determined to come up with a full text of the entire campus story. I even worked on the same for few weeks, and after that I don't know what took away all my enthusiasm and distracted me to an extent that even after so many months the whole file remains to be in the same state in my cabinet.

- I was supposed to train some of the trainees for their better adaptability into the software environment, by mentoring them in both the core as well the soft skills. But by the time they were away from my mentoring they had very well adapted and became skilled enough in bunking the office with ease, browsing all day at office, made our cubicles sound like one of those engineering class-rooms where the teacher is yet to enter, college lingo was back into the work space, non-smokers tasted how cigarette feels like and smokers turned into frequent smokers, guys who had had a hype about drinking started developing some constant taste and started to become biased towards the hallowed old-monk-rum; and the 'core-skills' remained the same, as I always told them 'learn only when you need to work else the effort might get wasted', and they chose to stick to this golden rule and hence their technical skills remained as good as hello.c  or fibonacci.c ! and when the term ended they were asked to give feedback about me and their whole experience, and one of them wrote exactly this line in the feedback form - 'We enjoyed more than our college days' { this was meant to be a respectful comment, thats what I got to know from them later!!!!!! }   

- Sept was the month when Kiran actually asked me to teach him all about the Viterbi Algorithm and how does it actually function in the decoders and its C code implementation, I knew this was tough for me to do, more because I myself know that how stressful it was for me when I had started with it, but despite all the reality and my inability to do so I did shamefully promise that I will not only explain him everything but also provide him with self-made slides and reference material for future reference. Alas! after waiting for three good months he himself has started to make efforts to understand what Viterbi saab wanted to do through his 'life-time achievement' algorithm in the wireless mode of communication. (Good for Kiran, his life and time is saved now!)

- my nephew and niece wanted gifts from their their techy uncle (thats me!) on their respective birthdays, well they were eying and hoping on some techno games or toys I could offer them. And they did inform me about their expectation much before the deadline of their birthdays, but me a proved jerk by now, has made their wait longer at least by an year :(

- Garg expects me to look more like a human being, if not smart and handsome. And I promised her to deliver her the same at least twice, each week. But at the very temptation of looking like Mangal Pandey I let that mustache grow and let my hair curl along its length for months and months. All to be undone at the very moment Garg sees me in the making of 'Mangal Pandey - The Rising' getup :(

- all relatives have promised me to reimburse my telephone and restaurant bills, if only I call them in time and with some regularity (as I have always promised them). But then I am probably waiting for something else to come under the reimbursement umbrella - The Drinks and Ciggarette bills too! Although this couldn't happen in 2008, I guess 2009 would have a bigger reimbursement offer! Hope so!

Slightly ironical, but yes this needs to mentioned here, all my friends would not have much to complain against me, at least this year, I think they have seen me changing me, for sure. Yes, trust me, I am trying my best to become a team player of your definitions (the definition differs from the group to group, and I have many groups to offer my loyalty as a friend, and I currently I am adapting to the philosophy of - Largest common factor). 

Hope I have not disappointed most of your expectation levels!

And before I finish writing this post - Wish you all a very happy new year, hope 

you all make a genuine promise in the year to come, unlike me!