1. What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before?
Went to a concert
Saw a BTS member in person
Did an almost three-week trip through Europe
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make
more for next year?
No, but yes
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
Portugal
Spain
France
Singapore
6. What would you like to have in 2024 that you lacked in 2023?
A better everyday life
7. What date from 2023 will remain etched upon your memory?
January 15, my brother’s wedding
June 17, the D-Day concert
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Reading seven books after reading 0 for the last few years
Showing up at this job every day and becoming good at parts of
it
Making the Europe trip happen
Joining a couple of groups to meet more people in Mumbai
9. What was your biggest failure?
Quitting the dance classes and not finding a replacement
Somehow falling back into old patterns with an ex for a few
months
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Tickets – concert, Europe
A mouse for work
A bright yellow dress
A pair of flats from Singapore
My new nose pin
My sunglasses
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Mine
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Also mine
14. Where did most of your money go?
Trips, rent, Zomato
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The concert!!!!!
My brother’s wedding
Europe
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2023?
I will fucking delete this question from next year
17.Compared to this time last year, are you:
Happier or sadder? Same
Thinner or fatter? Fatter
Richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Workout
Sleep on time
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Talk to my ex
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it at a friend’s place drinking hot chocolate and
watching The Holiday
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Friends
22. Did you fall in love in 2023?
No
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Class of 07
Shrinking
Single Drunk Female
Platonic
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last
year?
Don't think so
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
Yellowface
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
We shouldn’t be asking this question in the age of reels
28. What did you want and get?
To go on a big, once-in-a-lifetime trip with a friend
For my outfits to look the way they looked in my head at my brother’s
wedding
29. What did you want and not get?
To stick to a healthy routine
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
Fair Play
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
33. Went out to a very fancy restaurant the night before and spent
the day with a friend looking for a pair of sunglasses.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more
satisfying?
If I did not have to commute so much every week for work in the
Mumbai traffic
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in
2023?
Dresses, dresses, and more dresses
34. What kept you sane?
My friends and things to look forward to
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Jimin and RM
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
This is not even a valid question at this point, everything is
on fire
37. Who did you miss?
My friends, my brother
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Reconnected with K
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2023.
Being an adult =/= living like an adult
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
I can never answer this.
