2020

1. What did you do in 2020 that you’d never done before?

Started a newsletter

Led a team of 27 people

Finally gave up on a decade-long relationship

Survived COVID

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?

Thankfully, no

5. What countries did you visit?

Lol, none

6. What would you like to have in 2021 that you lacked in 2020?

A job that doesn't make me want to die

7. What date from 2020 will remain etched upon your memory?

January 26, 2020 - the day my life became hell at work 

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Surviving the lockdown completely by myself for 3 months

Managing to keep my job and properly lead my team 

Telling my mother in no uncertain terms that I do not want a husband or child ever 

Not abandoning the newsletter 

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not demanding a raise at work

And then not quitting once things got very, very bad

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Got COVID in November 

11. What was the best thing you bought?

A jumpsuit! 

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?

My family's and some very dear friends' 

My team's

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?

Some of my extended family's

My boss'

14. Where did most of your money go?

Online shopping for really random things

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

My birthday party

The newsletter

16. What song/album will always remind you of 2020?

Trying to get the Ghunghroo step right at various birthday parties 

17.Compared to this time last year, are you:

1. Happier or sadder? Happier

2. Thinner or fatter? Fatter

3. Richer or poorer? Richer

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

Read

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Work

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

I spent it having lunch with a dear friend in an actual cafe  

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?

Colleagues 

22. Did you fall in love in 2020?

No

23. How many one night stands in this last year?

None

24. What was your favourite TV programme?

It's Okay To Not Be Okay

Single Parents

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?

Gravity is the Thing

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Nothing, really.

28. What did you want and get?

To keep my job

29. What did you want and not get?

A little breathing room at my job

To be able to go back to my normal life

30. What were your favourite films of this year?

Thappad

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

30. I had a party at home with my friends!

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

Apart from the obvious, a raise

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2020?

I wore nothing but pyjamas April onwards 

34. What kept you sane?

My family. The fact that my parents, my brother and I were living in the same house again after 10 years.

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

Same answer as last year - Pretty much every Korean actor whose show I watched

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

I don't think I can - or should - choose one.  

37. Who did you miss?

My friends. My Gurgaon life.

38. Who was the best new person you met?

E

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2020.

You should be prepared for anything, even the apocalypse. 

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?

I can never answer this.