The Annual Recap.

1. What did you do in 2018 that you'd never done before?

- Got certified as an open water scuba diver.
- Won my first advertising award.

Leaving it at that for obvious reasons.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

No.
No.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

No.


4. Did anyone close to you die?

No.

5. What countries did you visit?

I am not a white person on their gap year so I didn't visit any other countries.  
Places? Goa and the Andamans. 

6. What would you like to have in 2019 that you lacked in 2018?

Energy.

7. What date from 2018 will remain etched upon your memory and why?

April and November/December. For being incredibly happy. 

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

That inner peace thing I've been ranting on about for ten years? That. 
Oh and getting my Aadhar card. It took more effort than studying for ISC. 

9. What was your biggest failure?

Being incapable of doing anything productive on the domestic front.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Two sprained ankles. 
One that resulted from drunk hopscotch (which should probably go on my failure list).

11. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

No one's.

12. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?

No one's.

13. Where did most of your money go?

Swiggy :( 

14. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Next year.
(Optimism.) 

15. What song will always remind you of 2018?

Saint Raymond's Movie in My Mind.

16. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?

I was happy last year.
I'm happier this year.

17. What do you wish you'd done more of?

Something, as opposed to nothing really.

18. What do you wish you'd done less of?

I wish I'd spent less money on that fucking Swiggy which I am banning myself from.

19. How will you be spending Christmas?

Christmas is over. I spent Christmas Eve alone with some wine and Christmas Day with my brother.
Both were nice. 

20. Did you fall in love in 2018?

Yes. 

(Whoa.)

21. How many one night stands?

None. 


22. What was your favourite TV programme?

The Peep Show and Luther. 

23. What was the best book you read?

The Diary Of A Nobody.

24. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Saint Raymond. 

25. What did you want and get?

A break from work.

26. What did you want and not get?

This is too private to talk about. 

27. What was your favourite film of this year?

It's an old film. 
Birdcage. 

28. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

I turned 27, had my first birthday away from home, with a few close friends in Bangalore.
It ended with a sprained ankle, but it was still great fun. 

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

Again, too private to talk about. 
(This blog was so much more interesting when I was a teenager wanting to share every fucking thing with the world.) 

30. What kept you sane?

Jimi's Beer Cafe. 

31. Who was the worst new person you met?

No one.

32. Who was the best new person you met?

Ditto.

33. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learnt in 2018.

Patience. 

34. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

Nine years and the answer is the same - no.