I am having a bad time during my year end vacation. I have planned to visit my sister in New York and Harrisburg, PA. I was all excited to go around Time Square, Empire-state Building, Central Park and the New Year bash. I was little more excited for this holidays as i am meeting my both sisters, my parents and its the new year’s party.
The moment we landed in New York, before even we could see the city, we lost my backpack. My backpack always contained the most valuable things in my life…… the laptop. This laptop contained all my research effort from past 3 years of time and all my personal photos. As one might expect, the laptop was a very very dear one for me. The backpack also contained my Canon camera, my wife’s purse, few of my important documents, etc… We were so stunned and disturbed about this occasion that it took 3 days for us to come out of this. We did complain to the Airport police and also made numerous calls to the airport. I lost it on December 20th and today is December 31st and i have not received any encouraging messages from them. Its a monetary loss of 2000$ and more of a sentimental value.
This incident definitely taught us few things, which we would never forget in our life.
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Miracles do happen
We never ever expected that we will loose our backpack.
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Things do happen. How ever careful you are, sometimes fate rules YOU.
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Move On. Bad things do happen and its necessary to move on. You can build almost everything as long as you are alive.
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Tomorrow is a New day. However bad or worse is today, tomorrow WILL be a better day. You need to believe in this.
And yes…..i am moving on……
All good things comes to an end and so is Year 2007. This year has been quite different with various good and bad experiences.
I have started the year with a great excitement for my marriage and the first 3 months went in marriage preparations, marriage and travel to Fremont, CA. The other 3 months have been quite busy with the personal life and my professional life, where we – at a silicon valley startup – did a great job of the WEB 2.0 platform delivery. My self and my wife did visit quite a few places in Califronia and all the time favorite being the California Freeway 1. Places like Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel-By-The-Sea, Big Sur, San-Luis-Obispo, Mistery Spot, Seattle-WA, Dellas-TX, New York and Harrisburg-PA were some of the places we have visited. In my personal life we did miss my parents, who are in india now. But we need to abide by what we choose. In anycase they are here to visit my sisters and myself, so its not all that bad.
2007 Highlights :
I am lookinf forward to new year with a lot of positive energy in inspirations. The year 2007 did teach me lot of lessons in life and i am all thrilled to move forward.
Wish everyone a great new year and happy time.
We have just comeback from the MysteryHouse. This is near Santa Cruz and from Fremont, it took 45 minutes. The drive is little rugged with lots of turns and narrow roads. Its better to drive with a experienced driver so that you wont end up as a Mystery . Weather its scientifically proven or even if its a illusion, its definitely worth a visit and the 5$ that you pay for the entrance fee. They have guided tours and the guides really do a good job there. They also give you some time to take pictures.
Couple of points that i liked there were…
- On the plain surface the visual hight of your body changes
- When you walk the uphill and downhill, your feet experiences funny inclinations
- A small room there has some funny inclinations and climbing the ladder without support is amazing
- The force that you feel while you swing the lead ball, makes you believe that there is some anti force
- The “Scientist” experiment that they conduct there is a good visual illusion and great fun
In the end its a good trip for 4 hours from the eastbay and enjoyable. Good Luck.
