Looking Back

#1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Graduated...started working...started blogging...started smoking...shifted to a new place...got hooked onto Holly classics...also many other random in-the-moment, off-the-cuff stuff which is too trivial to be mentioned or remembered.

#2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions for last year and did you make new ones for this year?
No resolutions...coz I hate to break promises, esp ones made to oneself:P

#3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

#4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes...grandfather.

#5. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
12th/13th of April (college farewell which started on the morn of the 12th and finished on the morn of the 13th)...24th of Sep (started first job)

#6. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Existing through it.

#7. What was your biggest failure?
Not living through it.

#8. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Minor skirmishes did visit.

#9. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Family...friends...new friends...mostly,everyone's.

#10. Whose behavior left you appalled or depressed?
Appalled---Some acquaintances @ S's sister's wedding nite.
Depressed---T.K @ various points throughout the year.

#11. Where did most of your money go?
Movies @ plexes, foodies @ restos:D

#12. What did you get really, really really excited about?
Blogging.

#13. What song will always remind you of 2008?
"I'm really gonna miss this place, I'm gonna miss my college days" n "Beete hue lamhon ki kasak saath to hogi"

#14. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
The pursuit of happyness is a never ending search.

#15. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Being happy definitely...writing stuff, reading stuff, watching movies as well.....and yes studying as well:D

#16. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Having expectations... and lazing around.

#17. How did you spend Christmas?
Sick in bed.

#18. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Yes...No...Maybe *clueless*

#19. How many one night stands?
Zilch.

#20. What was your favorite TV programme?
Comedy Circus.

#21. What was the best book you read?
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini.

#22. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Shehzad Roy.

#23. What did you want and get?
A new place...better internet connection.

#24. What did you want and not get?
Hazaaron khwahishein aisi ke har khwahish pe dum nikle
Bahut nikle mere armaan magar phir bhi kam nikle

#25. What was your favorite film of the year?
The Dark Knight...Oye Lucky Lucky Oye...Kung Fu Panda

#26. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
Nothing specific....woke up...lazed around...replied to wishes...became a 23 year old.

#27. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Brushing up my skills.

#28. What kept you sane?
Belief in the saying "what has to happen will happen"

#29. Who was the worst new person you met?
An alter ego which I had hoped did not exist in me.

#30. Who was the best new person you met?
R.M, S.G, P.K, S.H, S.S, M.P, A.C, S.L

#31. One valuable lesson you learned in 2008?
He has a plan set for everyone.

#32. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
"Phoolon ki tarah dil mein basaye hue rakhna
Yaadon ke charaaghon ko jalaaye hue rakhna
Lamba hai safar is mein kahin raat to hogi
Khwabon hi mein ho chahe mulaqaat to hogi"