1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?
Been an extra for a movie, bathed an elephant, baked them brownies, pulled a blog through for seventeen months (and counting).

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No, to both.

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

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What places did you visit?
Chilika, Gokharkuda-Rishikulya.
Sankarpur.
Trichy, Gunaseelam, Thanjavur, Tiruvanakaaval, Tiruvannamalai, Gingee.
Santiniketan.
Bangalore.
Coorg.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
A new city to call home.

7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Memory's malfunctioning, can't pick a winner.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Keeping up.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Keeping back.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Flu, flu, always the cursed flu.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Biciclette! That stuffed lizard from the haat at Santiniketan, but it was technically bought by Sambit.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
I don't know. I don't go in for monitoring.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and/or depressed?
Mothers fathers sisters brothers lovers babies whatever.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Travel, books, cycle, furniture, clothes. I had money of my own this year and I spent it all over the place.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
All the travel. I also learnt to cook some fancy shit this year, so that got me excited.

16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Paradise Circus - Massive Attack
My Roots - Shaa'ir + Func
Tighten Up - The Black Keys
How Can I Get Your Groove - TAAQ
Banshee Beat - Animal Collective (this was on the 2007 list too, I think)
Telephone - Pomplamoose

17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
About the same.

18. Thinner or fatter?
Same only.

19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Studying.

20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Being lazy.

21. How will you be spending Christmas?
Christmas eve, went to Denzong's with Sujaan, then to college where I met Senjuti, then Shweta's. Everything was all Just Baked types. There was a bonfire that turned noxious occasionally. Then we watched The Powerpuff Girls and some horrible movie called The Punisher till everyone passed out. On Christmas day I slept through the afternoon and had dinner with momma and poppa.

22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
No.

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favourite TV programme?
30 Rock.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No. All is full of love.

26. What was the best book you read?
All the NaM stuff: Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Lampedusa's The Leopard. Apart from that, le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. But my absolute favourite was The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Black Keys, Little Joy, Vashti Bunyan.

28. What did you want and get?
Job, monies.

29. What did you want and not get?
LOVE! ABSOLUTION! SELF-ACTUALISATION! MORE TIME!

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Ishqiya sans the last twenty minutes. Most of the films I watched this year weren't really from 2010. But to stay true to the question, I last watched Scott Pilgrim Vs The World and The Kids Are All Right and loved both, so those.

Edit: I forgot Robot. Deserves top place, hands down.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Two-One. Was woken up at midnight and handed cheesecake. Walked around in the rain all morning. Can't recall what I did afterwards. Eat-drink-read something.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More excitement on a day-to-day basis.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Indifferent.
(Ha, that's actually an answer.)

34. What kept you sane?
Lots of things. 2010's been the sanest year of college so far.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
My attention span (or lack thereof) and TV-watching habits (or lack thereof) make answers to questions like this painful.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The only one I can recall everyone following uniformly is Ayodhya. The Commonwealth Games phase was overkill without being overkill, if you get my drift.

37. Who did you miss?
One needs distance to facilitate missing.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Dunno.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
The best is yet to come.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
There isn't one that I can think of right now.