Welcoming 2007

Well Saddam Hussein is dead so what is next for 2007? May be there will

be very few asking this questions as they start to celebrate New Year

tomorrow. I never ever thought that I will comment upon politics on our

blog. But I think I break that rule today.

Everyone taking stock of year that is almost over. I personally do not

like the week “from Christmas to New Year”, I do not have a solid reason

for the same. I just do not find a reason from my inner soul to

celebrate the same.

Starting from Y2K something or other has happened and dampened my

parting spirit. I will like to list them here.

• 1999/Y2K was special as I was on alert being an I.T guy.

• 2001/2002 I realized the hard reality of lay-off as my close

  co-workers were asked to go. Always these layoff happens in the last

  week of December ?

• 2002/2003 More co-workers joined the old group and my work location

  was getting closed. 31st December was their last day at work, holy

  crap what next for New Year?

• 2003/2004 Nothing special – hanged out for 30 minutes or so on

  Champ-Elysees in Paris. Lots of confused, drunken, yelling people

  around. Later in the night it got worst. 26th December Earthquake in

  Iran, lots and lots of people died.

• 2004/2005 – Pamela was in India; hanged out with Murali – who was

  not in a happy mode either, a cold winter night in Paris. What a

  nightmare Tsunami in South-East Asia struck on 26th December.

• 2005/2006 – Best of the last few years spent in center of Vedanta

  Ramakrishna,Paris with other people. Nothing much happened around

  the globe. It was spiritual and enlightening.

• 2006/2007 – Well alone again; And the news of Saddam did dampened my

  mood to write the post. I am not a fan of him but I do not support

  death penalty.

As I write this post - I would like to remind you of those 10 Trillion

dollars budget surplus America (USA) was supposed to have is long

forgotten debate in NPR (national public radio). I did have my $300 tax

refund for Year 2002. But I think world was happier place before.I

sometime think this is my craziness to care about all these. But with so

many death and destruction what did Mr. Bush achieved????

I wish I could question to those who in their ignorance, arrogance,

religious (including gun, gas) voted for him twice to make this world a

better place. A common American must understand his or her voting power

as world super power and true democracy of the world. Probably this part

of advice they dislike most and proved it :S

Well enough said, the blame goes to other politicians and nations as

well as they did not oppose at all about what is going in Iraq. May be

the responsibilities lies with us as well as individually I did nothing

to make world a better place. I hope there is an end to the blood-shed

in Middle-East - it might spread all across the region in 2007.

Well Happy New Year. Sorry for being cynical.