2023

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.

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