{"id":1947,"date":"2009-12-30T21:04:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2010-08-18T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T20:30:39","slug":"bye-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/bye-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; with personal fond memories. I graduated with a MBA degree, healthy and happy! 2009 brought many adventures with traveling and meeting new people with different backgrounds and culture. It was a fun year and hoping for similar adventures in 2010. Times flies. Today would also mark our 2nd blog anniversary in the blogging world. Thank you to all of our readers, friends and families for making Chatterbox, what it is and where it is now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">A<\/span>pologies for making this post a brief one as traveling can be a challenging episode to blog. With poor Internet connectivity as such. Before I bid adieu to 2009, some of my personal 2009 highlights were <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/happy-2009-resolutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">my new year resolutions<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/30\/any-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\">revisit<\/a>, 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/category\/travels\/\" target=\"_blank\">travelogues<\/a>, the birth our self-hosting url; kirantarun.com, our <a href=\"http:\/\/lens.kirantarun.com\" target=\"_blank\">photoblog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.kirantarun.com\" target=\"_blank\">testing our entrepreneurial skills by establishing an eshop<\/a> and of course, to be <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/orbbies-rockin-bloggers-and-tweeps\/\" target=\"_blank\">awarded with the Best Rockin Blog in Personal and Photography category by Orlando Sentinel. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not setting any new year resolutions for 2010, but would definitely revisit my 2009 goals once again. Over and out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a blessed, happy and wonderful New Year every one \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kirantarun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/newyear2010_Page_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1956\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/bye-2009\/newyear2010_page_0\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/newyear2010_Page_03.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"newyear2010_Page_0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/newyear2010_Page_03-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/newyear2010_Page_03.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1956\" title=\"newyear2010_Page_0\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kirantarun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/newyear2010_Page_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/newyear2010_Page_03.jpg 900w, https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/newyear2010_Page_03-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; with personal fond memories. I graduated with a MBA degree, healthy and happy! 2009 brought many adventures with traveling and meeting new people with different backgrounds and culture. It was a fun year and hoping for similar adventures in 2010. Times flies. Today would also mark our 2nd blog anniversary in the blogging world. 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