1. What did you do in 2016 that you’d never done before?
Got a tattoo
Went paragliding
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?
No
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
None
6. What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016?
Discipline
7. What date from 2016 will remain etched upon your memory?
Nothing in particular
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting that tattoo, not chickening out of paragliding
9. What was your biggest failure?
Everything else
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not particularly
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Tattoo
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My brother’s
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Mine
14. Where did most of your money go?
Food
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Tattoo
My brother moving to Delhi
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2016?
Nothing in particular
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
1. Happier or sadder? Sadder
2. Thinner or fatter? Fatter
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Impulse control
Vacations
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Give in to temptation
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it at home, sleeping.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Friends
22. Did you fall in love in 2016?
No
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Veep
The Good Wife
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Yes
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
You by Caroline Kepnes
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing in particular
28. What did you want and get?
Tattoo
29. What did you want and not get?
Everything else
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
I can’t remember. Dhoni? Dangal? Not sure.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
26. Took four of my closest friends out to lunch. Went to dinner with another friend.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not gaining back the weight I lost in 2015
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2016?
Red lipstick saves the day
34. What kept you sane?
My brother. Books. TV
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
No one in particular
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The gender equality debate
Demonetisation
37. Who did you miss?
Home
38. Who was the best new person you met?
S, from work
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2016.
Growing up is not optional.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
Can’t remember anything immediately.
Got a tattoo
Went paragliding
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?
No
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
None
6. What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016?
Discipline
7. What date from 2016 will remain etched upon your memory?
Nothing in particular
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting that tattoo, not chickening out of paragliding
9. What was your biggest failure?
Everything else
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not particularly
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Tattoo
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My brother’s
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Mine
14. Where did most of your money go?
Food
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Tattoo
My brother moving to Delhi
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2016?
Nothing in particular
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
1. Happier or sadder? Sadder
2. Thinner or fatter? Fatter
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Impulse control
Vacations
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Give in to temptation
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it at home, sleeping.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Friends
22. Did you fall in love in 2016?
No
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Veep
The Good Wife
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Yes
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
You by Caroline Kepnes
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing in particular
28. What did you want and get?
Tattoo
29. What did you want and not get?
Everything else
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
I can’t remember. Dhoni? Dangal? Not sure.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
26. Took four of my closest friends out to lunch. Went to dinner with another friend.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not gaining back the weight I lost in 2015
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2016?
Red lipstick saves the day
34. What kept you sane?
My brother. Books. TV
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
No one in particular
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The gender equality debate
Demonetisation
37. Who did you miss?
Home
38. Who was the best new person you met?
S, from work
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2016.
Growing up is not optional.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
Can’t remember anything immediately.
