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22 December 2012 Recharge [CREATE]: What did you do to recharge your batteries in 2012? I am waiting to recharge my batteries in 2013. My batteries are on hibernation mode for this last week of this wretched year. 23 December 2012 Communicate [LISTEN]: Describe a conversation that you had this year. Why was it memorable? Oh boy!! Where do I start? Which conversation do I take? Lots of them. With lots of people. Rethinking priorities. Reshuffling wants and needs. There are lots of conversations that are very very memorable to m and just from this last year. I will choose one at random here. The one from August 2012 where I caught up with one of my oldest buddies Vaishnavi. :) We have been the best of buddies since 1996-’97 and there have been phases where we have drifted apart and not been in touch for months together. But all it takes is one phone call to get us back in sync. You know it’s a friendship for life when you can just start off from where you left it, as ea...

Do you think I am talking about cricket? No I am not. “My girlfriend has boundary issues man – I don’t think this is going to work.” The voice came over the telephone – cell phone, if you will. It was a winter morning, and I was curled up in a blanket, a cat on my toes and a great book in hand. However, duty bound by the tenuous bonds of friendship, I was being forced to listen to the travails of one of my friends. What was the problem? Boundary issues- as I said. What exactly, were these boundaries that she was crossing, I ventured to ask. Now this couple live with each other – a recent decision, they had moved into a small flat, much to the consternation of their parents – but that is a different story all together. “She takes my towel man!” (Why does he call me man?) “She insists on wearing my tee-shirts, eats the eggs I have bought without replacing them and uses my towel. She insists on using my tawa. She shares my cigarettes. Not only that she insists on com...

12 December 2012 Toss [GROW]: 2012 was the last time for ________________ For a lot of things. For feeling sorry about myself. For feeling like a failure. For feeling guilty that I did not listen to my gut for a long time. For feeling pissed off at things that I cannot control. For being morose, moody and dispassionate about things that I used to feel passionate about. 13 December 2012 Associate [LISTEN]: What blog/book/article spoke to you the most in 2012? This might seem very trivial when you read it. I came across IHM’s blog sometime early this year. I don’t follow a lot of articles on her blog simply for lack of interest. However I found a link to this blog on hers. I liked the style of writing. I enjoyed reading that because it was very similar to how I would think. I found out that the blog belonged to her daughter – Tejaswee . And I came across a very very sweet pic of hers . One where the photographer had caught the sun glinting off her eyes and she ha...

There’s a guy walking towards me. Do I look straight and walk? Do I look down and walk? Is my dress too tight? Is my dress too loose? Am I revealing too much? Am I covered enough? If I look up at him and walk, will he take that to be an advance? Is my facial expression impassive enough? How does he see me as? What does he see me as? There’s a guy in the train who is standing next to me. Do I look at him? Do I look elsewhere and conspicuously not look at him? Am I standing properly? Am I sitting properly? Is there enough distance between us as demanded by “society”? There’s a guy I just got introduced to.   If I am friendly, will he think I am interested in him? If I am aloof will he think I am spurning him? Is he okay with my opinion on the topic that we are discussing? Is that a sore point if I don’t agree with him? If I do agree with him, will he think I am easy? If I am liberal with my opinions does that make him look at me as open-minded about everything? If I...

Continuing on the weverb prompts…  Here’s the next 5. 06 December 2012 Cook [LIVE]: What was your best recipe/dish of the year? Share it! If I had to choose a dish that I could never go wrong with, it’s got to be Arabbiatta Penne pasta. Boil a packet of Penne pasta in water with a bit of salt and some oil so that the pasta does not stick together. Drain it well and keep it aside. Chop some onions, mince some garlic, sauté them in oil for a bit until it roses the raw flavor, pour in the tomato puree, add some chili powder and some salt and mix it all up well. Add the pasta when it starts boiling and mix it up well without breaking the pasta. Top it up with some mozzarella cheese and serve it hot. YUM!!! 07 December 2012 ENLIVEN [GROW]: Was there a book or article that inspired you to make a change in your life this year? What was the source and what did you change? Honestly, I know it is going to sound like a cliché, but I am not the type of person to be ...

It’s time for a new beginning…!! :-) :-) Yes the fact that it’s December has me up in high spirits… nothing to do with the holiday season really... More to do with the year ending which I have been going on and on and on to all and sundry and most of them are as sick of the year as much as I keep drilling it into them!!! And I noticed that I have been ranting quite a bit about it, thankfully before someone else pointed it out… and so, here’s to the end of the rant and the beginning of the reflections. There’s this new thing going around the blogosphere – Weverb12 – which is basically a prompt for each day of December making you reflect on the year that’s passed by… or so I think!! I don’t know... Either ways it’s a prompt and it makes people shake that bloggers block (especially me!) and then go and make sure their blog’s alive and kicking!! And in a good way! Not in a ranting and raving sort of way!! I missed the first 4 days so I am putting it all up here. Also I don’t ...

“2012 !!! Seriously enough already !!! You have been pretty lousy so far and its only getting worse !! Kindly get the hell outta here !!!!” This was my FB status a while back!! And I mean it!! I also noticed that it’s not just me who feels this way considering the response to the same :-P 2012 has been one of the lousiest years I have ever seen. If I ever wanted to make a list saying “top lousiest years in my life” 2012 would be top of that list … Seriously! I am sick of this year. I am sick of counting the weeks, days, hours left to get this damn year out of my life!!! And it would precisely be the icing on the cake if this was the year the world was doomed to end! Think of it! 2012 – Out with a bang! Poof! And the World ENDS!!!! I wouldn’t put it past this year to do just that! Honestly! Oh yeah! You might ask me…. have there only been bad moments and not one single good one that you can think of... Well… I say, when the bad and the frustrating moments outweigh...