So, it’s time for my end-of-year post again.
I’m typing this on the 17th of December, because
I have exams from tomorrow and I’ll be pretty busy for the next couple of days.
So, there’s a lot of exciting stuff going to happen during the last two to
three days of this year, and obviously they are not included in this one right now,
I’ll probably add what happens after the seventeenth at the end of the post,
when it goes live. Anyways, keeping up with the tradition, I’m not going to
press the backspace key, except for the times I need to correct my typos.
Started the year with an eight-hour long CS game at Jinesh’s
place. That was pretty awesome, we kept playing fy_showdown for like eight
freaking hours! Too bad you couldn’t be there, Sanket. And obviously, I was
pretty tired the rest of the day. I don’t remember much about January, except
my cousin got married and I had a bit of fun with my cousins who came to attend
the wedding. Oh, and we had a picnic in January if I’m not wrong. That was
pretty fun. Oh, and I had another cousin’s wedding in January too. The food was
awesome!
February had lots of studying and a farewell, which was fun
too. No, not the studying part. I don’t remember much from February, probably
because of boards.
March was the same. Board exams finally got over on the 23rd,
but entrance exams began in April.
So, April. I had a month to prepare for my JEE Mains after
my boards, unlike most of the people who opted for the offline test, who had
exactly half the number of days I had. But, I was like yeah, okay, I’ll start
studying one of the days. Then came the 7th, when I realized I don’t
know enough shit about Mathematics. That’s when I started studying a bit
seriously. Anyways, my JEE Main was done on the 23rd and I had my
eye-operation on 24th. Or 25th. I don’t remember. But
anyways, Iron Man 3 was getting released on the 26th, and I couldn’t
watch it on the first day like I was hoping to ever since the dates came out. I
could watch it after a week of my eye-operation and it’s awesome that my
friends waited for me to be able to watch the movie so that we could watch it
together. The movie was awesome, but the Mandarin twist was ehhh. I read an article a couple of days ago which
justified the twist, but it still kills me that Tony destroyed all the suits
and got the Arc Reactor removed.
I watched the movie in May, so we’re already there. I was
prepping for two (actually three) more examinations that I was supposed to give
that month in Mumbai along with Jinesh and Sagar. May also gave us results of
most of the exams. That shit was pretty depressing. We started filling out
forms for different colleges and stuff.
One particular trip that I’ll always remember is the one
Jinesh and I made to fill out one form in Mumbai. We found out that we’ll have
to go to Mumbai at around 11am and we left for Mumbai at 3pm. Reached the next
morning, and it was raining cats and dogs over there. It was awesome! It’s
super awesome roaming in Mumbai with your best friend when it’s raining
heavily, until your phone gets wet mysteriously and the display stops working.
We left Mumbai the same evening and were back home the next day. That was one
heck of a trip, man!
So, anyways, back to stuff. Jinesh was going to Manipal,
Sagar was going to LPU, Sanket was going to Marwadi and me? I just wanted to
leave this country. But that didn’t happen, and I went to Marwadi for two weeks
and then I got Baroda during the first week of August.
Mom and dad dropped me off at the place I was staying at as
a paying guest. 5 minutes after they left, I realized that I’m all alone in a
new city. Well not technically new, because I had my eye operations in Baroda
itself and have visited it a couple of times for the follow-ups. So anyways, I
still wanted to go to Ahmedabad, but then the admission council decided to go
nuts and made the fourth reshulffing round offline. Screw you for that, ACPC!
>_<
I was missing home like crazy. I’ve been on lots of trips
without my parents, but I never felt homesick. Why was I feeling homesick now,
I asked myself. After all, this is what I wanted, wasn’t it? No.
Got a chance to go back home during Rakshabandhan, all hail
mass bunks! ^_^
So college starts from there and it’s half exciting and half
boring. Nothing interesting to talk about there.
And yeah, I coded a website, http://umanggalaiya.in this
year. It looked awesome at the time and now I’m getting bored of the layout.
I’ll update the site pretty soon. It will be a whole different thing when you
read my 2014 year-end post. Praanshu helped me make the site look a bit more
appealing, thanks for that!
I forgot to mention about a trip I made with Jinesh, Sanket
and Sagar, which was pretty awesome as you’d expect. Rain made it better. It
was dope, can’t wait for the next one.
I meet Sanket every time I’m home, I met Sagar during the
Diwali break, and I’m gonna meet Jinesh as soon as I get home.
So yeah, Diwali. What month was it during this year?
November. I skipped over some months, because there wasn’t anything interesting
that happened during that time. November was pretty awesome, mainly because I
got to be home for some days and got to meet many of my close friends during
the break.
Got to visit home on my birthday, and stayed there for a
week. Came back here and it didn’t take a day to make me want to go back. I’m
going home after 9 days, so that’s awesome!
Anyways, that’s the end of this year until the 17th
of December.
I learnt a lot of things this year. There was a time I lost
every bit of confidence I had and it took me a hell lot of time and efforts to
get all of it back and get back to being awesome. I made new friends and made
up with some I lost last year. Things can’t get any better right now. Except exams (._. )
I used to be the most impatient guy I knew and it’s kind of
hard to believe that I’m not extremely impatient person anymore. I can’t say I’m
completely patient, but I’m a lot patient than I was. Guess that’s one of the
things being away from home has taught me. I’ll make a post about all the stuff
that’s changed some time later, but soon. I’m also planning a post about
Keratoconus.
So anyways, that should be it for this time. I’m considering
blogging regularly, but if I don’t, you can always stay connected with me on my
social networks. I’m 18 now, so Facebook allows you to Follow me, so do that if
you’re not on my friend list. Follow me on twitter too, the links will be down
below. Have a great year! J
I’m like a bottle of
wine, getting awesomer with time.
Update: I'll be updating what happened after the 17th, quite a lot of fun.
Where did you want to go? you said out of India.
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