Things that I really did in 2011

Sometime back … actually way back in 2011, I wrote few things that I wanted to achieve/complete/accomplish in that year.

This post will be a small one and include the status on those things. So, without any further delay, here you go.

1) Want to take break from my work and visit Goa or Shimla or Rishikesh or Mussorie or Dalhousie or Ooty or Darjeeling (seems too desperate….hmmm) – Visited none of the above mentioned, but was able to go Nainital with my family and had a great time.

2) Want to do an exceptional/outstanding work from my client…bole to ekdum jhkaaas work. – Was able to manage my brands well. One of my seniors said “I’m a kind of person whom he can depend upon”. That’s one of the best thing you can hear in a professional world, isn’t it?

3) Want to handle more clients/brands. – Since it was getting difficult in my previous agency, I decided to move on and yes I’m handling different brands now.

4) For sometime also want to work in a different department in my company. – Now working in a different agency and new role, hope this will be taken care-off!

5) Want to drink Beer with my mum. – Hell yeaaah. This happened too with my brother and girl-friend was there!

6) Want to win a social media award. – Won IndiaSocial case-challenge award last year, although a runner-up, but was satisfying enough.

7) Want to have a different hairstyle. – With the current situation, I think there will be no hairstyle after sometime as I’ll lost all my hair.

8 ) Want to develop the habit of reading or at-least start writing a diary entry everyday. – Come on akhil, you can do it, not a difficult job. Yes, hope to accomplish this in this year.

9) Want to buy a car on my own. – Yup, its on priority. Coming soon!

10) Want to see my buddy in an advertising company or something that interests him. – This happened and even more satisfying for me when I heard it was because of me!

11) Last & most important – Change my facebook profile status to engaged (with the girl I love the most). – I didn’t changed my status to ‘engaged’, but straightaway to ‘married’.  Things went so fast, that I got married with the girl I loved the most. And yupp, I’m very HAPPY!

All-in-all, it was a good year for me!

‘Bomb’ay Bomb Blasts

Just 3 days back, we witnessed another set of bomb-blasts which marred the city of ‘Bomb’ay. These bomb-blasts occurred within 11 minutes at Zaveri Bazar, Kabutarkhana, and Opera House and the death-toll has now reached to 21. The bomb-blast occurred at Zaveri Bazar was the third one, the earlier two happened in 1993 and 2003.

Within few minutes, all the so-called dignitaries came out in public and showed their discontent and appealed to the public of Mumbai to remain calm & composed. Statements given out by:

Rahul Gandhi – He came out & said, Indian Govt. can’t stop all terrorist attacks and it has done a good job by preventing 99% of terror attacks due to vigilance and intelligence.

(I just want to ask…is it not the job of police or intelligence agencies to make India a terror free, to stop each & every terror-attack? Why is Govt. boasting that it has prevented 99% of the attacks? What if in future that 1%  of the terror attack kill thousands & thousands of people? Should Govt. be basking in the glory of preventing those 99% attacks or should it be taking theresponsibility of these attacks? Consider the case of America, not even a single terror-attack happened after 9/11. And, Americans just shot-dead the person responsible (Osama Bin-Laden) for those attacks outside America (in Pakistan), giving a strong message to other terrorists of the consequences of such attacks on their land. I’m not comparing us with Americans, but can’t we show some improvements? Can’t we set an example in front of the terrorists, however small it may be? In-short, I’m just asking my Policemen & Intelligence people to work efficiently & effectively without any corruption & bureaucracy. Am I asking too much?)

Manmohan Singh – He came out and condemned the blasts and the other statement that he gave was the terrorists behind these blasts will be punished severely.

(Consider the case of  Ajmal Kasab, the man behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He was found guilty of 80 offences, including murder, possessing explosives & waging war against the nation, which is punishable by the death penalty, but he is still enjoying the taste of Indian hospitality. What is that which is stopping us to hang him to death? Why his trial is still going on from the past 3 years as we all know what he did. Is it Indian Govt.’s laxity to deal with this issue or what? Osama Bin-Laden was brutally killed by Americans in Pakistan and here’s a terrorist in our own land which we are unable to bring him to death.)

There are some questions which needs to be answered by our Indian Govt. Is the Govt.’s role is only to come out after such attacks and form investigative teams which do nothing…or to be held accountable of such barbaric attacks?

This was just a small out-burst of what I felt about the statements made by these dignitaries. Feel free to share what you think.

Some photos of the barbaric attacks:

Image Courtesy – The Hindu Newspaper

IBM India Job Openings

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