Saturday, January 4, 2020

Mandates :)

1. What did you do in 2019 that you’ve never done before?
Took refuge from social media for good 6months
Asked for rather questionable stuff from random Pahari questionable looking men
Played guide to Maa
Travelled to the highest motorable road in the world
Spoke infront of HUGE audience and felt the happiest ever
Became EC member of Stagecoach TM
Learnt Ukulele
Learnt Cooking proper meals
Went for semi blind dates

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions and will you make more for next year?
Mentally fitter, so yes resolution kept.
2020, resolution, maybe to judge less and trust more!


3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No


4. Did anyone close to you die?
Amma


5. What countries did you visit?
None. But had an excellent travel year. List?
Kolkata, Pune, Satara, Kolkata, Delhi, Bhuntar, Kasol, Tosh, Pondicherry, Kumbakonam, Ladakh, Cochi, Allepey, Pune, Kolkata, Mumbai, Raipur, Bhilai, Yerkaud, Kolkata, Bankura, Shantiniketan


6. What would you like to have in 2020 that you lacked in 2019?
Let's not jinx it


7. What date from 2019 will remain etched upon your memory?
Not sure on the date, but Wells Fargo Talks finale, clearly!


8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finishing 4 levels of Pathways,
Convincing a hall full of people on stories.


9. What was your biggest failure?
None


10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Left eye and right toe, quite the constants!


11. What was the best thing you bought?
Diamonds for Maa


12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Zilch


13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Same old


14. Where did most of your money go?
Deposit money, brokerage


15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Toastmasters


16. What song/album will always remind you of 2019?
Khush toh hai na


17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
1. Happier or sadder? Happier
2. Thinner or fatter? Fatter
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer


18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Dreaming


19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Stalking


20. How did you spend Christmas?
Drive through mustard fields of Graam Bangla, had dullops of Gur and mishti, later travelled with A to Bolpur and heard Bauls in endless trance


21. Who did you spend most of the time on the phone with?
Maa. I spent very less time on phone though last year.


22. Did you fall in love in 2018?
No.


23. How many one night stands in this last year?
Oh.


24. What was your favorite Tv programme?
Grey's Anatomy


25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No


26. What was the best book(s) you read?
None read. Still trying to find time to finish Norwegian Woods.


27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Bharat Chauhan


28. What did you want and get?
Got things that I'm grateful for and did not wish for really.


29. What did you want and did not get?
Same old.


30. What were your favorite films?
Uri


31. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
Did not go home. Went to office, did not let people know it's my birthday. Did not do a lot of things. Bangalore folks were too kind though


32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Oh.


33. What would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2019?
L sized clothes -_-


34. What kept you sane?
Wells Fargo!


35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Christina Yang


36. What political issue stirred you the most?
NRC. Still does.


37. Who did you miss?
A and B (writing the initials for the lack of balls really)


38. Who was the best new person you met?
Alpana (technically I met her in 2018 but this year, in a much better way)


39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2019?
Nada, none!


40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
तेरे अपने ही तुझको जलयंगे कुच्छ दिन रोएंगे फिर भुल जयंगे