Since I have not written much in this journal this year there is no nicely hyperlinked entry summarizing my life of past 365 days in a paragraph.
So nothing remarkable happened in 2004? hmmm… not sure except that it was the best year ever for SANIsoft.
I guess a new year resolution is indeed needed – “I will write at least twice a week in this journal” even if it is something as trivial as us getting a 29“ Sony WEGA or Nagpur now suffers 3 hours of load shedding despite the region producing 70% of the state’s requirement or Coppermine hitting 1 million downloads at SF.
How did we spend the eve?
Well nothing was planned as usual and we were going to sleep early to wake up fresh and energetic for the new year.
While coming back from Aasim’s tabla class Swati saw a group of local engineering college students on the road. Nothing unexpected as they are the ones who are reputed to party around the most, however this bunch was different they were all dressed in white standing silently in a neat line by the road side with placard and posters urging people to donate for the tsunami victims, they were alone so we decided to join them I took a couple of pictures, while Swati organised more posters with their help asking people to join the line if they felt the same, not surprisingly many did. Soon one of their professors who happened to pass by joined them, an air force pilot who was on holiday, other students for different colleges, sportsmen, lawyers, shopkeepers!!
Swati called up a couple of friends who in turn called up the press…
We returned when Aasim was no longer able to stand.
A happy, peaceful and safe new year to all of you