long lost family...

Beginning this blog for nth time...its high time I write something and go about to end it eventually...have had umpteen number of botched attempts at writing ONE complete blog...but never materialized...but that was till today :) Specially with so many things happening in life, this was bound to happen sooner than later... So here I am, beginning what I hope will be a long lasting affair with blogging (since I haven't had much success with affairs) And this is a recollection of whatever happened in January :) I should've started earlier....the beginning of the year was an opportune moment...but that was when I began with this new thing, keeping track of the cash I spent... have been keeping accounts for some time now...but was restricted to monitoring only by bank account and re-distributing it into various heads....but this time around I wanted it to be an even more detailed analysis!! so here goes another sheet into the template....showing the way the cash was spent too... The end result, a good enough excel sheet that enables me analyze my pending patterns!! Also helps me remember what I’ve lent to whom! One resolution done (oh.. I didn't tell you it was one of my resolution :) ) All of a sudden out of nowhere I have developed this pain in the left leg...strange it is! It occurs only when I am sitting!! Horrible pain..makes me feel like wanting to cut my leg off!! Imagine the pain being so horrible that I think about cutting the left leg!! My shooting leg in football!! (For those who don’t know....Football is religion for me) showed it to a doctor and he came up with this problem in the back..something related to the spinal vertebrae rubbing against each other....and recommended me to undergo a MRI scan (Magnetic Resonance Imaging something like that) but that gave me an opportunity to go home for a second opinion!! A welcome break away from work. At home I was told that one of my cousins was getting married...had lost all touch with their family ages back....and what turns out to be better news...they were all in Mumbai! On reaching back Mumbai I got in touch and that is when the floodgates opened!! I was getting calls from all the people of the LOST family...(would you believe that I go a call while running the marathon!! and YES, I did run the full Standard Chartered Mumbai marathon, 2009)I found out that I had a set of 5 cousins and their families in Mumbai itself!! Then began the journey!! Going to everybody's house...and getting acquainted with everyone. One good that came out of all this was the fact that I came to know a lot about my mother....whom I had little memory off...was 7 when she passed away. Then came the engagement and the wedding, where I caught up with the rest of the family, and suddenly I was mama, chacha, sala and devar!! (all uncles in English...how ridiculous!! you cant differentiate between relations!!) On the work front it has been a pretty bad month. banking seems no longer is as lucrative a job as it was an year back. Lunch table discussions were about who is gonna be kept and who getting fired. And finally one day the list arrived. I could smell fear in the air. A bloody ruthless firing, 10 mins to leave the office, accesses withdrawn before the hour was over and done with it. No time to say final byes (Should I say Dasavidaniyan?) The biggest achievement for the month was the Marathon!! was aiming at a sub 4 hour time, but got big time cramps between 32-34 kms mark and lost 20 mins in the process. February has come with little promise. We got our shares of the already cut short bonuses, not even enough to buy a laptop! but yeas good reason enough to celebrate at Sheesha :) was joined by a couple of friends and the walk that followed the dinner on bandra bandstand will well be remembered for the laughter that followed all the discussions! Time to pack up....heading back home...more laterz... PS: the end was a bit abrupt...wasn’t it??