So its the end of another year and the beginning of another year. The FB Wall is inundated with new year wishes and so is the Twitter timeline. The best and the worst list of the year gone by have been published and re-published. The thinkers of our times have put their heads together and given us a lot of food for thought about the year that was and the year that should be or will be. The sum total of this introductory paragraph of my blog is that even I will not be left behind...even I got a couple of cents to spare.
2K11 for me as far as India goes was the year of the 'World Cup victory', 'Anna', 'Rising fuel prices', 'Silent Manmohan', 'Pawar Slap', 'Anna', 'Silent Manmohan', 'weakening rupee' or if you would appreciate my position 'strengthening dollar' and finally the mockery of democracy at the very pantheon of Indian democracy.
At the personal level, 2K11 was marked with intellectual bankruptcy on Blogger. I could manage only a couple of posts all year. I did really make up for it by vociferously micro-blogging on Twitter but then 140 characters is really child's play, so I won't go much into it anyways!!!
2K11 got me geographically relocated and addicted to Wi-Fi ,3G and 4G and the numerous vices which come with it. The Amazon Kindle proved to the best buy of the year for me with my Motorola Atrix 4G coming a close second. The dump of free Kindle ebooks (989 in number) which I got from my colleague should be termed as the best surprise of 2K11. With so many books at my disposal I am sure I have finally got a lifetime of something with me. The Foundation series remains the best 7'o-logy of the year!!!
I was introduced to the Art of Cooking if not Living and in the last 6 months I have pretty much mastered the art of Baigan Bharta and a few Aalo delicacies. Poha and bread upma are like a walk in the park!!!
Over the course of this year I gained a couple of inches around my waistline not to mention the few extra pounds which I recently added. But then I have got a New Year resolution to take care especially of that :P
After India's World Cup win the only thing which I am waiting to see/follow is Sachin's 100th 100 after that I don't think cricket will remain the same for me. Anyways in Yankee land I have pretty much started following American Football with New England Patriots as my favorite team. Baseball still bores me and NBA has to many games to keep track off (even after the lock down :( ). Arsenal still continues to get my respect and love and the way we ended the year on 4th has only instilled more confidence in me about the current team and not to mention the ever present Professor.
That was 2K11. 2K12 holds a lot of promises (as most of them already said in their FB statuses and tweets). Let me not enumerate them for then they might just lose their charm.
For now all I can say is that I will be blogging regularly in 2K12 and yes HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!. But I am sure that you have heard the latter quite a lot until now :)
P.S : Under the one book per week plan, I am still at Hunger Games - I