2008: The Year that Was

Good movies watched: Match Point, Luck by Chance, Oye Lucky Oye Oye, Taare Zameen Par (that was in 2008, yeah?), Atonement, Memento (:">), The Prestige, The Other Boleyn Girl, Ratatouille, Kung Fu Panda, Dark Knight, Fight Club, Dream Girls, A Few Good Men, Kadachit, Juno, Jaane Tu ya Jaane Na

Mediocres: Corporate, Save the Last Dance 1, Take the Lead, Raising Helen, Shaurya, Om Shanti Om, Fashion, When Harry Met Sally, Lake House

Shitty Movies Watched: Death at a Funeral (the bunch of us actually walked out), Ghajini, Chandini Chowk to China and uncountably many more which I nonetheless watched. I might be suffering from a mild case of masochism.

That's a lotta movies!

Books: Freedom at Midnight (awesome, awesome, awesome: I'm cheating though.. I finished it in 2009), My Name is Red (Sorry guys, I got around to reading it now :">), A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Inheritance of Loss (Overrated), The Hungry Tide, Vanishing Acts (Jodi Picoult), The Scapegoat (Daphne du Maurier)

Grad Schools Applied to: I forgot to keep count.

Pieces of Music discovered and rediscovered: Oh, so many! Mostly all due to Sue. Thanks :)

New houses designed and decorated: One!! Finally :)

Awesome Haircuts: Two

Kgs Lost: This was the year in which I stopped counting. And that is a milestone.

New Dance Pieces learnt: Four (Pushpanjali, Ganeshkautuam, Jatiswaram, Shabdam, and a little bit of Alaripu. I skipped two batches, and am friends with girls almost half my age. :) )

Countries Visited: Two - Singapore and Malaysia. wonderful, wonderful experiences. Add many more wonderfuls.

Friends met and bridges rebuilt: Delhi visit, Spica and M in S'pore, Hima in Bombay and her visit here. This has been a remarkably remarkable year from the that point of view. :)

Lessons Learnt: Work hard and don't give up. Don't trust people and trust yourself. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. But you can make intelligent guesses.