Nirmal Jayasinghe

Usually I stay up in a festive mood till the new year’s dawn but last night was an exception. The resolutions got scrapped at around 10-1030pm I guess. I wanted to do an al night AJAX hackathon but was too sleepy for that as well. Swayed around being jolted about by fireworks, and finally hit the sack but was kept awake by late night wish SMSs, and crackers galore at midnight. The phones were overflowing by the morning.

Although boring, the new year seems great. School’s behind me which was ‘sort of’ a major pain, and I’ve have started ‘life’. This has been in a sense introduced a certain dullness as well. Not having a challenge up at every time, well it’s not something I’m used to. ‘Settling down’ is not a option with me, if it wasn’t school I always had my own challenging project going on. Now I feel out of steam, perhaps grad school will wake me up. That’s a hope.

This was my first proper festive day at office; we had a literal “food festival”, not helped by the least by R’s birthday. We started with earnest, but ran out of steam quickly; perhaps milkrice first was a bad idea. The birthday cake was too chocolaty, and we still have a half share left for tea. There was an excellent mixture of miscellaneous sweets and the like, but we couldn’t touch a lot, a whole box of chocolate cookies, and numerous more cakes remain. Riz said we’d be gorging down for weeks. Maybe.

Now I feel a bit sleepy, after gulping down Rover’s excellent tea. Work is excellent; the movie I’ve put to download is complete. Mmmm…

I’ll have to floss vigorously today.

A very happy new year to all!