Irony because in my previous post I mentioned how fabulous the last year was and how I wished that the coming year would be as good (if not better.)
Have been away from blogging since the past 3 months, not because there wasn't much to talk about or there wasn't anything interesting worth Blogging!!
From getting my First Car (finally), to the Magazine I worked for since the past One and a Half years Shutting down suddenly, to the endless wait by the phone to get interview calls, to fights with everyone around. Its all being happening so quickly that I really don't know what I should ponder about and what should just be accepted and left the way it is.
Ok so here it goes 2 months in flash back mode-
9th January 2009- I love cars and have always wanted one since I was a kid..so I got my 1st car on the 9th of January..pushed the delivery date by 3 days coz of dads belief in number 9.. but the wait was worth it as I just don't seem to get enough of driving around in the city. But it also meant spending huge amounts of money on Petrol (which I still pay for.) I wouldn't trade it back for anything else in the world
21st January 2009- I turned 22 and the whole marriage talk from mum and dad was officially going to kill me, but apart from that it was quite a memorable birthday :)
Got a huge surprise in the night, have never cut 2 cakes in one single night (am so not a birthday person), morning started with a visit to the gurudwara and then the day was just fabulous with good food and great company. Got a very thoughtful gift and an expensive one too :P
Just was a little upset at not having got a call from my best friend until 2 p.m (generally she is the 1st one to call).
February 2009- Now this was probably the worst months of my life in a long time to come ( i hope.) The organisation just decided to shut down the Magazine one fine day and on one fine Monday morning we were told to look for other options as "we ain't going to come out with any issue henceforth." So we basically shut shop. The timing was so bad. Me and a colleague got a much awaited raise from February onwards which quite obviously a false promise made to us and wasn't lived up to. So we were stuck at a point where we just had to go but we didn't know where to go or what to do next. None of us saw it coming and the anger in all of us and the hatred was just inexplicable. How could they just wake up one Monday morning and tell us THIS IS IT.
Well I could go on and on about this and how badly the whole situation was handled, but guess I don't want to give it so much importance anymore.
Recession Recession Recession every news paper, every channel, every person had only this one word to talk about. Reading about companies shutting down, people being sacked, salaried being cut is a different story and experiencing all this at your 1st job is a new level altogether. I have realised that whenever we read something unpleasant in the newspapers we just take it for granted that something like this would never happen to me. I too had taken this recession shit really lightly and thought of it as a brilliant escape route for all the advertisers who didn't want to advertise. Little did I know that my life was going to take a 360 degree turn coz of this one Friggin word
The good thing that this whole situation bought with it was that I finally put up my resume online and started going for interviews which I had been planning in my mind since the past couple of months. So all in all February was the EVIL month :P
End of February bought with it a set of interviews some good some long and some just a cakewalk. I interviewed at 3 places out of which I had my eyes on this one particular job where I had a 2 hour long interview with the head of Marketing. The job was exactly what I was looking for, what I exactly wanted and thought would being out the best in me. Its been a month now since I gave that 2 hour long interview and 3 meetings later I still don't know if I got through :(
Nonetheless its been quite a roller coaster for me as I hadn't plan for it like this.
Now I too have my own recession story for my Kids :P
