It's that time of the year!

Phew, it came and went. Yesterday was my birthday. I grew an year older and became more mature and seen some more of the world. Had one more year of my share of happiness, sadness, agony, ecstasy, expectation, despairment, thoughts and what not. More things went away and some things came along. More things were archived in my head and some things became just part of memories; good or bad is something I will think of later.
It's really amazing that the feeling starts building up few days before and when the day actually comes, you feel great. Something happens on the day, which can't be explained, which makes you happy and keeps you tuned up the whole day. Towards the end of the day you start getting a sinking feeling that it's soon gonna be over.
Yesterday, the day started off well. I got few calls from my friends and family and then scraps were pouring in throughout the day. Had to come to office so nothing much happened in the day. Late evening, Manish and Pooja hosted a small party at their apartment and rest of the folks came over to preside the cake cutting :) So towards the end of the day, it turned up quite well. I felt good coz earlier in the day, It was just another day for me with nothing much happening. Nevertheless, in the end it was all good with cake and red wine (my fav).
This was followed up by watching Olympics. Two great events were lined up. 200 m IM for men, where Michael Phelps was gunning for his 6th gold and then there was Woman's All around gymnastics final where USA was having two hot favorites in Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson. Believe me, watching Phelps in action is a treat in itself. The guy is really like a torpedo in water. He starts smoothly and slowly and by the time he has to turn back he is the fastest. He starts building a lead as soon as he starts his second lap and by the time he crosses the half-mark of the penultimate lap, he maintains a full body length distance from his next closest opponent. He made another WR yesterday and won the Gold Medal in that event.
At National Indoor stadium, US was going to test it's luck with Nastia and Shawn. Both of them started pretty well. Shawn faltered a bit at the uneven bars and was low on points. But on vault she was splendid. Nastia on the other hand was great at uneven bars but the judges were not much appeased in giving her points. But then she was absolutely amazing at balance beam with a perfect execution. Both of them scored equal points on floor where they dominated the rest opponents. In the end, Nastia edged past Shawn by a mere 0.6. But the US national anthem played in the National Indoor Stadium at last. Nastia bagged Gold and Shawn had to do with Silver. It was really an amazing performance to watch. I must mention Ksenia Semenova of Russia who was so beautiful at uneven bars and deserved the highest points in that event but somehow the judges disagreed and gave Yilin Yang (China) most points, despite not so impressive performance. Anyways, end is all that matters.
So, this is how this birthday of mine went by. Tried to call somebody as promised but wasn't able to talk. Later I thought that maybe I was not supposed to call and talk. Was kind of a signal.