A New Blogger In The New Year

New Year's here, finally we kicked 2008 out of our lives. Err..actually it kicked itself out (??)

Hold on now, we have a BREAKING NEWS..Another gaint step for mankind!! We required forty years after 1969 to take the second step?? :O

Scroll down to enter the new world.

Yes, and finally I have a blog of my own. Hope this one is indeed final, I have created and crapped away three such attempts in the past few years!!! It has been an ordeal in itself. Spent Six hours arriving at this idiotic blog name from a self created list of twenty odd ones. Thanks to a few friends of mine, onebyteofme.blogspot was vetoed out, albeit against my wishes, and this it how it ended - Harryfication, 'Inspired' by Californication!!

A Harryfied flash back of 2008 awaits you below:

OneByteOfMe:

Got the all important desired posting location. Pune seemed a decent enough place to spend one year of your life. Having done that, is it worth anything more? Probably not, but hey, my boss says he won't pay me the cashewnuts (oh! really?) he usually does, if I work from Mumbai. Duh! Live on!!

The nation:

ISRO's moon mission meant that this 'poor nation' is now the 6th country to launch its own space vehicle. For pessismists, we actually will be in profit once we carry out a few outsourced launches in future. Weird these westerners are, outsourcing everything to us, from simple phone calls to complex IVT and baby-making!!

2008's biggest success was the end of the nuclear isolation for India. The US-led initiative is a definite sign of power balance in the decades to follow. As MMS put it, "All Indians love you, Mr. Bush". My inside sources tell me that he had watched 'Dostana' the day before. Eeeew.. :D

*** Joke ***

/* Last heard on Jiyo TV, minutes after the Indian satellite launch, the Fakistani President, "We are a responsible nation now. We are sending a manned mission to the sun now." To which US Secy Of State has responded, "We are sure Fakistan would fulfil its promise. While we keep on waiting and waiting for it to do what it says, we throw a few more billion dollars at them." */

Yuck..so much for self-made OTS jokes..but if these two can laugh at my joke like idiots, so can you. :p

The economy:

Huh!! It's in doldrums to put it, the way it is. Shameless human greed was exposed and as it is so often the case, the mistakes of the super-rich will hit the super-poor the hardest.

Personally after all these years of 'learning the markets', (as if, such a thing exists), I took the plunge, and Ouchh!! Lehamann collapsed the day after. Bigger Ouchhes followed.

The nightmares:

While Mumbai is the first thing on everyones minds because of the nature of the attack, more people lost their lives in the other countless acts of violence we have witnessed. Unfortunately I really don't have a reason to say that this won't continue in 2009 unless we stand united aginst terrorism. So I say this - Till the next time, do what we do best and F the rest.

The joy:

Sports has the power to do the unthinkinable. To me, it makes humans appreciate humanity better, leaving aside all differences. Olympics 2008 was all that dreams are made of. Phelps and Bolt are now names etched in memory forever, more for their determination and courage than their actual achievements itself. Such is the joy of sports that it levitates you beyond the superficial demarcations of nationality, religion, color and sex. Pity, many people, especially girls miss out on all this. Anyways..

Here's wishing one and all a very Happy New Year!!

And hoping against hope that this tiny li'l endeavor lives on to survive 2009.

P.S. New Year Resolution Time:

I will reduce the insane number of images/glitteries in future blogs.