{"id":87,"date":"2004-01-02T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T06:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/?p=557"},"modified":"2004-01-02T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T06:25:41","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/02\/thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is cheesy, but the blogosphere is full of cheese as it is. So, for the new year, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m thankful for- in no particular order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am thankful that I started talking to my batchmates again.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that I went through with two very major projects this year- CAT preparation and the Mod Quiz- without losing interest or quitting.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that my dad isn&#8217;t as tense about business as he was halfway through 2003.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that the summer of 2003 was mild, the monsoon of 2003 was well behaved, and that the winter of 2003 wasn&#8217;t foggy.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that Shiv and Kunal have been accepted to Stanford and Harvard, that Manasvini is likely getting a job, that Rukhein has got a job at Salomon Smith Barney, that Ishaan has got an internship where he will- as Bhaiyya puts it- build bigger and better mammaries, that Mridu, Mallika, and Rabani have great jobs, and that Baldy, Ishaan, Asim, Meenakshi and many other people- too numerous to mention- are enjoying their stay at college so much.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for the Matrix movies.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for the Theory of Computation and the existence of language.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that I no longer feel a sense of deprivation when I see other people with girlfriends.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that I made new friends this year.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for the British sense of humour, British accents and British swear words.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for comic books.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2003\/08\/01\/bookshops-revisited\/\">Biblio<\/a> membership plan.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.net\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> gives me books for free.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for good food, including methi malai matar, catfish and salmon, cornflakes with chocolate chip cookies, chocolate that is not American, and Nutyumz.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that aadisht.net has such an awesome PageRank at Google.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2003\/04\/18\/dimples\/\">dimples<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for my new MP3 player, and for good music.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that the Fillet on British swear words led to a cartoonist contacting me, which led to me supplying Punjabi swear words for a British comic strip.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that Delhi is becoming so much better to live in, and that India nowadays is like what England must have been when the Industrial Revolution kicked off.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that I can finally drive, and that my driver&#8217;s license allows me to buy my own cellular connection.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that I got to spend New Year&#8217;s Eve with seniors I admire and respect, some of whom I was seeing after more than five years.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that those same seniors seem not to have changed at all.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; that this list ends here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cheesy, but the blogosphere is full of cheese as it is. 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