So another year passed by. And like we often say as we get older — ‘quickly’.

I remem­ber writ­ing this same post last year. The thing about blogs is that you can actu­ally look back year on year and check what you were think­ing at that point of time. For some­one with a bad mem­ory like me, it helps a lot. I actu­ally have new year posts dat­ing back to quite a few years. So why break the tra­di­tion, I thought.

Some­times I made res­o­lu­tions, some­times I didn’t. Over the years, I’ve real­ized the futil­ity of this exer­cise. Bet­ter to make a wish list through the year and keep re-visiting it. These annual things just don’t work!

But I always do intro­spect. Mostly because the rest of the time, I’m usu­ally in tran­sit between var­i­ous activ­i­ties, places or peo­ple and don’t get much time to do it. But in the New Year, one must indulge in some “think­ing”. And I haven’t come up with much. Except the fact that I have to become more finan­cially sta­ble in the New Year. Heh. Lord help me.

So the year gone by. A lot of things hap­pened, a lot didn’t. As expected. Life has to throw up its fair share of surprises.

I didn’t read as much as I would have liked.

I did write quite a bit though. Both on this blog and for dif­fer­ent magazines.

Met a nice bunch of women in 2008. Inci­den­tally, we all seem to be at the same point in our lives so it’s been easy to relate to each other. And great fun too.

Ran 3 half marathons : now who would have thought that was pos­si­ble? A full marathon per­haps is not too far away now. But, but… time will tell about that.

Cycled through Goa — 300 odd kms over 5 days. Now that was quite an experience.

I trav­elled all over South India adding many more places to my vis­ited list. Much of it has not been writ­ten about, but hope­fully will be soon.

I am try­ing to launch a new web­site, hope­fully that too will hap­pen in the new year.

What­ever doesn’t get done by today (and that’s a lot), gets post­poned to 2009. And the nice part is that it gives me another 365 days.

A lot of plans are being hatched : that’s another nice thing : there’s no end to the plans one can have!

So there.

That was 2008.

And on that note — have fun, party, eat, light a can­dle, do a disco dance, cud­dle up with your better/bitter halves (or your pets in the absence of the halves :-) — and wel­come the year on a high note!

Here’s Kit Kit and me wish­ing all of you a rock­ing and fantab­u­lous New Year.