2015 tag

1. What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before?
Coloured my hair red
Went to Amsterdam
Quit my job
Went to Goa
Joined a belly dancing class
Planned a bachelorette
Took a vacation with a friend
Shut my beloved blog

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
The Netherlands! (This is the first time I have an answer to this question, hence the exclamation mark)

6. What would you like to have in 2016 that you lacked in 2015?
Work-life balance

7. What date from 2015 will remain etched upon your memory?
July 31, my last working day in the previous job

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting up the nerve to quit the job
Enjoying the sabbatical
Winning the weight loss challenge

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not being able to get out of a dead-end non-relationship

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not particularly.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Tickets for my trips. Red highlights for my hair.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Mine. My parents’. A friend’s.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
My former boss’
My best friend’s

14. Where did most of your money go?
Vacations.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Amsterdam. Goa. The bachelorette. Coming back to Delhi.

16. What song/album will always remind you of 2015?
Lean On
Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home

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

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

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Putting off quitting the job. Worrying about my former boss’ opinions.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent Christmas eating the best bacon-wrapped chicken at Amalfi.

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Friends. The boy, in the latter half.

22. Did you fall in love in 2015?
No

23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None

24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Parks and Recreation
The Office
Californication
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (web series)

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?
Big Little Lies

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The soundtrack of Begin Again

28. What did you want and get?
To move out again.

29. What did you want and not get?
To figure out my dream job
The perfect figure
To do Vipassana

30. What were your favourite films of this year?
Inside Out
The Hundred-Foot Journey

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
25. Lunch with the family, coffee with a friend and dinner with another friend.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More drastic weight loss. A smoother process while quitting my job.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2015?
I’m-trying-to-lose-weight-and-nothing-comes-in-in-between-sizes.

34. What kept you sane?
A friend, mostly. Books. The many trips I took.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Channing Tatum
Arjun Kapoor

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The gender equality debate

37. Who did you miss?
Delhi

38. Who was the best new person you met?
A couple of girls at the bachelorette, I guess.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2015.
When your dream starts to look like a nightmare, it’s okay to want out.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
Who are we? Just a speck of dust within the galaxy/ Woe is me, if we're not careful turns into reality.