Great new beggining to a new year

Jan 1, 2003

When I was a student I used to make a mistake in the month of jan. On the top of the work assignment sheets where I marked the date i used to get the year wrong. Even after graduating to the electronic format I still made the same mistake.

So before anything else a very happy new year to all you guys.

I spent the first few moments of the new year in a very unique way. I was in office. Almost all the guys were off to their hometown or had taken leave. But poor me with my boss and three others were still in office the early hours of Jan 1 year 2003.

We are a group of 29 guys and right now we operate from the HCL eserve premises. So our parent company took pity on us and send us a mega cake weighing 3 kilos for 5 guys. Under normal circumstances that would have been okay but sadly i was on a diet. Despite that we 5 ended up gobling half of the whole thing, credit mostly due to you know who.

Then with almost half of that remaining I had a flash of an idea. Inspired by me we had a holi party with chocolate and vanilla cream. I am sure we dont need cold cream for another week. To add to it we also had coke to add to the holi spirit.

With faces completely brown and white we went to the bathroom but the temperature of the water forced us to have some extra fun. So we went on a display of our creamy faces to the rest of eserve.

Someone told me that if you do something today you end up doing a lot of that for the rest of the year. Now if that is true then I am going to do a lot of work and have a lot of fun and you guys are going to get a lot of mails :)
Take care and have a wonderful new year,
Shijo

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