2009 by far has been the best year of my life so far (http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2010/03/2009on-road-and-off-it.html) and 2013 for sure comes a close second! It started with a high & quite literally too…we did a SkyDive together in Dubai in February and ended the year with another high…of waiting for our baby to arrive! Even though these 2 highs can’t be compared in the literal sense but surely the levels of excitement were almost equal! And through the entire year we had so many memorable experiences that the excitement and enjoyment levels never went down! Thanks to God, Bandita and my job here in Kuwait we managed to finish another fantastic year and hope 2014 takes the same route if not a better one! It has already started brilliantly with arrival of our son – Abhay into this world! Talk about auspicious & memorable starts!
I made some new friends, watched so many movies (an insane number for some), read loads of books, travelled to 3 new countries, visited India thrice, ran the first competitive race of my life (so what it was just 10 kms long?), explored & sampled many new cuisines and made some amazing new recipes!
Here are some of the moments from 2013…
Sky Dive
We went to Dubai
Campus Hiring
In 2013 I made 4
International Trips for Campus Hiring events across various Institutes! Amazing
learning experiences, meeting new people, exploring new cities and recruiting
the best talent for my organization!
- The First one was in March 2013 when I went to IIM Calcutta to hire Finance & IT Candidates for my organization! And it was a real special one indeed…my first trip to any IIM and that too for recruiting! Recruited 2 awesome candidates who are now very good friends too! Met my College & MBA Senior Abhijit Paul after 11 years! Also met 2 of my closest friends from my MBA Batch – my roomie Aditya Shah and my Bengali Dada – Soumik Roy Choudhury after many years! Met their families as well and had a whale of time with them reminiscing the good old days of Goa! And it wasn’t over like this! Met my school friend Ruchika Katyal after 15 long years! I hadn’t met her after we passed out from school in 1998 and it was so amazing meeting her after all these years! The Kolkata Trip was a grand success for so many reasons….hope I can make a similar trip again!
- In March 2013 itself went for the CA Campus Event in Delhi and then again in September 2013 for another such event…recruited 7 fresh Chartered Accountants from these 2 events! And also had a great time with friends and family during these 2 Delhi/Gurgaon Trips! Full utilization of time and money you see!
- And then the Lebanon Trip to hire Finance Graduates from American University of Beirut! Which was another awesome trip in itself and for so many different reasons…it is a beautiful country with lip smacking food and yeah gorgeous ladies too! The only sad part was that it was just a 3 days trip; would love to make a longer trip with Bandita and Abhay before we leave Kuwait for good in the future…
Abhay
We got one of the
most amazing news of our lives back in May 2013 that we were expecting our
first child! It was such an awesome feeling and one for which I had been
waiting for a very long time! Even though I wanted a Baby Girl and had
finalized Ananya as her name but then all dreams don’t come true or do they? We
had a wonderful time all throughout Bandita’s pregnancy – researching, reading,
shopping and making all those Hospital Trips! Abhay finally arrived on Saturday
11th January 2014 into this world! And our lives have become even
more beautiful now!
Here is the BlogPost I wrote when Abhay reached his first milestone!
http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2014/02/abhay-jha-is-1-month-new.html
Here is the BlogPost I wrote when Abhay reached his first milestone!
http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2014/02/abhay-jha-is-1-month-new.html
MTV India Coke Studio
This year’s CS was simply amazing and much better than the 2012 season! I closely followed all the episodes and downloaded all the music too! The season kicked off with the ever-so-magical AR Rahman and kept getting better with the episodes featuring Ram Sampath, Clinton Cerejo, Salim-Sulaiman, Papon, Amit Trivedi, Hitesh Sonik and ending with a multi-Producer episode (which was by far the weakest amongst all episodes from this season).
The season was filled with amazing songs laced with fantastic lyrics and was so tough picking the favourites! But still my Top 5 (in no particular order):
The season was filled with amazing songs laced with fantastic lyrics and was so tough picking the favourites! But still my Top 5 (in no particular order):
Pir Jalani - Clinton Cerejo & Mangey 'Manga' Khan (Barmer Boys)
Bismillah - Salim Sulaiman, Kailesh Kher & Munawar Masoom
This was definitely one of the best highlight of 2013! Our 8-days long Cyprus Trip…had a wonderful time in this amazing country…everything about Cyprus was brilliant – the people, food, terrain, roads, infrastructure and the weather! Wrote a BlogPost about our trip as well…here it goes…
Q8Run
Food
Food is one of the most important parts of my life and this year I added some more masala to it by experimenting with cooking and trying lots of new recipes! All thanks to the inspiration from the FB Food Pages I am a part of – Chef at Large & Sikandalous Cuisine being the 2 most important amongst them! As always Bandita was my partner-in-rhyme in all these rendezvous while assisting me in the kitchen and sampling those risky-first time recipes the first! Once I became a bit more comfortable I started inviting friends to my place too for meals to let them enjoy my cooking extravaganzas!
My favourite Recipes of 2013 and their BlogPosts:
UP ke Dahi ke Aloo...Che Style: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/05/up-ke-dahi-ke-alooche-style.html
Mutton Curry...Che Style: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/05/mutton-curryche-style.html
Pallipalayam Chicken: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/09/pallipalayam-chicken.html
Kabuli Chana Biryani: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/11/kabuli-chana-biryani.html
Methi Matar Malai Murgh: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/11/methi-matar-malai-murgh.html
Books
Movies
Total Movies Watched: 340
Hindi : 39
Non-Hindi : 301
In the Theaters : 40
At Home : 300
Yeah we watched 340 movies together! I am sure many of you would call us mad and yes we are mad indeed! What’s life without madness! Both of us love this crazy life indeed!
Favourite Hindi Movie : Fukrey
Favourite English Movie : Django Unchained
Favourite Non-English/Hindi Movie : The Past
Some of the Movie BlogPosts from 2013:
Captain Phillips ||| My Review: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/11/captain-phillips-my-review.html
World Cinema Moviethon - July 2013:
http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/08/world-cinema-moviethon-july-2013.html
Lootera...My Review: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/07/looteramy-review.html
My 2013 Oscar Selections: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-2013-oscar-selections.html
Django Unchained ||| My Review: http://cheguevaraontheroad.blogspot.com/2013/01/django-unchained-my-review.html
No Bike Ride
Last but not the
least, the only dampener from this otherwise brilliant year! I wasn’t able to
go on a single Bike Ride this year and this was the saddest part of my 2013
experience…all those India trips were very short and I could not manage anytime
to plan a bike ride for myself! Hopefully this doesn’t repeat in 2014 and I can
go on atleast one Bike Ride…
With that hope I
end this note and as always am hopeful that 2014 is going to be another
kick-ass year for me! And this would be a very different one for me! I won’t be
watching so many movies; I won’t be reading so many books and sadly won’t be
able to travel to so many new places…due to various reasons & most
important of them being Abhay! But be rest assured that I am gonna have a blast
throughout and enjoy each day as it comes!
Thanks to God, my family - Mummy, Papa, Bhai, Bhabhi and my 2 lifelines - Nandini & Samyukta, Bandita, all my friends and Kuwait for making 2013 one of the best years of my life! who says "thirteen" is an unlucky number!
Till the time we
meet again…
Cheers to
life…
Till then ride
safe and have safe sex…
Hasta la
Victoria Siempre…
Jai BoP…
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