Yesterday’s team outing was a time to reflect and a time to mourn the end of an era...it was, I feel, the final touch that went into closing of the project (my very first one), the one on which I have worked for over a year now...
Even though the project ended a fortnight ago, the finality of it did not strike me till yesterday's get together...
You might think me an emotional nut for mourning the close of a project like mourning a person but putting it simply, my project and the people I have come to know thanks to it, have become dear to me in a very special way
I know I am going to miss my team the most; they are more like my family now then anything else
They have come through for me and guided me through ups and downs like I would have never expected when I joined the team as a fresher (thanks guys!!)
The invaluable lessons (on the professional and personal front) I have learnt from each and every member in the team will always stay with me
I am seriously going to miss the team outings, the fun we had everyday (I have never laughed so much in my life) and our very own snack bar [;)]...
What I am not going to miss are the CEO meetings we had every Wednesday… I think my parents will be the happiest of all to hear that I won’t be torturing them with my apprehensions about how the meeting for that particular Wednesday would go...
It was about bidding adieu to our project manager...he is such a great person...I will miss him and the support he provided to the group (the back bone of our team)...
I can safely say I have grown tremendously as a person the past year...
But I guess change is a part of life and I have to accept it for better or for worse...
and I am happy in a way that its time to move on to greener pastures and I am excited about the prospects the new project is bringing along with it...though for now I don’t have much to write about on the happy front of the transition, hopefully I will come out of this phase of my life having learned something priceless..

Even as I join the ‘club’ of bloggers, I wonder if my getting into blogging is such a good idea....
As has been with most 'hobbies' (or shall I call them passing fads), I have taken up at some point in my life, I don’t know if blogging will stop being a challenge to me after the initial days of excitement?
But after procrastinating for about two weeks, I have decided to take the plunge...and I look forward to rendering my thoughts to a wider audience (besides my friends)...
And I presume it would be a great challenge writing online... for one thing I have to worry about my spellings ,which I haven’t had to do since my last English exam in the 12th std [but then there was no Microsoft Word for my English exam :)] and I will have to continuously come up with a wide variety of topics to talk about, so I don’t bore my readers to death...Anyway I am praying for divine intervention (God, give me a bit of luck please!!), so, I can keep this interest of mine going for a long time and I hope people read my blogs...I know for one, my friends would have to definitely read them (my .22 is always on the ready, if you guys don’t)..