1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Kept a new year's resolution. I am just worship material and nothing else.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Refer above. And I might. But keeping them would entail dying of superiority.

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

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What places did you visit?
Lucknow, Rishap, Bombay.

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Purpose, decisiveness, more money of my own.

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I can't ever remember dates. But Porcupine Tree, yes, because.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Surviving.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Impulsiveness. (Getting pickpocketed?)

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not unless you take bowel movement into consideration.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Some books, I guess. And toys with little bulbs inside them that glow in the dark.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
This would imply I expect people to be beautiful all the time, bhakk.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and/or depressed?
Me?

14. Where did most of your money go?
Travel, books.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Lots of little things everyday. I just don't show it =)

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Duniya, Dev D.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Happier but more impatient.

18. Thinner or fatter?
Fatter, I think.

19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Reading. Thinking about things in a non- lopsided manner. Travelling.

20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Smoking, procrastinating, tolerating.

21. How will you be spending Christmas?
It is two minutes to Christmas. I'm in my room with BB King on.

22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
No idea.

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Watched nothing all year except House MD during a brief phase.

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

26. What was the best book you read?
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon. Maybe John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces too, but haven't finished it yet.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Miracles of Modern Science, The Decemberists, Beck, Blackstratblues.

28. What did you want and get?
A hill holiday, peace.

29. What did you want and not get?
A job that pays, more peace.

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Gulaal. Inglourious Basterds. Up!

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Received good gifts and bad news. Was twenty.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less irritation, more peace, more travelling, a bicycle, a job.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
What? I wore what I liked, as always.

34. What kept you sane?
Three Mukherjees. But they're not whats but whos, so I'll say music. I discovered a lot of good music this year.

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

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Haha, for the sake of earlier times, Copenhagen =D

37. Who did you miss?
No one specifically. Just carrying over from last year.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Hatt. I don't know.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
If it buzzes, swat it.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Won't.