I was already preparing a detailed 2008 review to publish it here when Poonam had tagged me for this meme. This tag would, perhaps, be a prelude to whatever I am going to write in my next post. And for the same reason, I had to deliberately omit a couple of questions from the original meme to avoid repetitions. I am not tagging anyone in specific, but it would be great if some of you could take it up yourself .
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Spent a lot of time with myself !
2. Did you keep up your 2008 resolutions, and will you make more for 2009?
I had taken 3 resolutions –
Avoid aerated drinks for a year.
Purchase a plot / apartment.
Reduce my anger.
And I could keep up only the first one. The rest are carried forward to this year along with the resolution of attending a music class.
3. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Peace of mind.
4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
It was raining babies in 2008. LOL.
My brother was blessed with a baby girl and so was my best friend Anitha.
To name a few of my other friends who had kids - Mathew, Sudha, Madhu, Mithun.
5. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why:
Feb 9th ; When I met my God - A.R.Rahman.
6. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Initiated a peace protest in Chennai.
Participated till the 8th round of a song based TV show - Raagamalika
7. What was your biggest failure?
In being misunderstood by my family and the closest of friends.
8. Did you suffer illness or injury?
A ligament tear in April and a conjunctivitis that left my cornea damaged during Sep - Oct.
9. What was the best thing you bought?
My Provogue floaters !
10. Where did most of your money go?
As usual, to Airtel !!!
11.What song will always remind you of 2008?
Shakti Kodu - Baba (2002 – Tamil) and Maaeri – Euphoria (2000 – Hindi); the songs that got me through the audition of Raagamalika.
12.What do you wish you’d done more of?
Take care of my health.
13. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Going out of the way to help others !
14. How would you sum up your 2008 in one word?
Fantabulous.
15. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
My forefathers !
16. What was the best book you read?
LG TV Manual (Whaat ?? that was in the form of a book!!)
17. What was your favorite TV program?
Raagamalika (this was expected, wasn’t it?)
18. What was your greatest musical discovery?
If practiced well, I could render a semi classical song too.
19. What was your favorite film of this year?
Thirakadha (Malayalam)
Subramaniapuram (Tamil)
A Wednesday (Hindi)
KungFu Panda (English)
20. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you ?
The first time when I turned 27 (lol!), I was at work and no one even knew about it.
21. What kept you sane?
Blogging and Music
22. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Always A.R.R.
23. Whom did you miss?
My brother.
24. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
When you are in deep shit, zip your mouth !
Never get yourself involved in a lot of activities at the same time.
Prioritize the people in your life before they end up sitting on your head and start counting fleas !
36 comments:
Excellent stuff. Gonna take up this one. Our movie list almost matches, I would pick Thalappaavu over Thirakatha though.
nice,i was at ARR's concert too.. :) nice that you met him...hmm..will ask my grandmom,if she watched ragamalika and if she remembers you :P
The last answer was spot on!! :) all the best for fulfilling all ur resolutions
In my opinion, ou managed to fulfil mst difficult of resolutions, stay away from aerated drinks. :)
Best of luck with your plans of buying an apartment, this year is right time to do it as property prices have fallen. :)
That was a tough tag to come up with...! I've to think if i can do justice to this one b4 doing it! all the best for 2009
dude! :)
You have become a wise man in one year! :)
Great going!
hehehe....
i remember u taking a half yearly resolution of reading book,ana all u ended up ws wth dt tv manual.
not having cold drinks....n u hd glucose while rest of ur frnds wr drinking...hehehe
n i remember everythng abt d AR rehman concert,n how u fell down n hw u suffered after dt....hehehe
u donate money to airtel...how many times have i told u to take reliance...itz free, n d best for people like u
illness n injury...
hehehe
as far as i remember thr ws nt a single month whn u didnt run to d doc....
leg,teeth,eye..etc etc
hehehehe
"new revel ur new year resolutions till d year end of d year or else people will not let u keep it".....right ;)
hehehehe
"never revel ur new year resolutions till d year end of d year or else people will not let u keep it".....right ;)
A Very Happy New Year Boy!!! M Back..
Wish you a very Happy New Year Vimmuuu, hope you keep all your resolutions this year!
Good to know that the year that was went largely well!
Hopefully, the one that is works in much better ways than one! Hope ur health improves and stays so. Hope that the cloud of misunderstandings that you were subject to, finally wear off! Hope that your endeavour to buy a home comes true!
Wishes & Regards
R
lol @ Airtel :D
Cool tag...
wish u all the best for achieving ur resolutions this year.
Raining Babies in 2008 ..LOL
woha!! U read LG tv manual atleast :D
Being misunderstood by the dearest ones is the worst of all things that can happen ,nah?
hope such a thing for never ever happen in ur life again
n i thought you would take up veritheyoru bharya instead ;)
Hmmm..finally the first tag of 2009 is officially out in v lokam and i simply loved the answer to the last question.Seems like 2008 was a nice year for u interms of the achievements and recognitions which have come forth for ur talent in music and am sure u r going to get better in 2009! Best wishes for 2009!!Not to forget u meant some important people in ur life in 2008;)am i not right!!!V lokam reached landmarks also in a short span of time...
@ Rockus :
Welcome to V-Lokam.
Please do. It will be a pleasure reading your version. I couldnt watch Thalappavu, it didnt have a show here in Chennai. Infact, I'd seen very few mal movies this year.
See ya around.
@ Vishesh :
Which concert was it? the one which was held in feb or the one in Apr? Well, I was there for both of them. Woah ! your grandmom watches Raagamalika? Please do ask her.
@ Vinod :
Thanks man.
@ Poonam :
LOL, thats what even some of my friends say too !
The rates have come down, but so are the chances of getting a bank loan. Its all a vicious circle blogmate !
@ Harsha :
The one which Poonam attempted had 38 questions. You should try that !
Thanks man.
@ Varun :
LOL, thanks man. I need to frame that comment alone of yours. No one has said something like that ever !
@ Soneeta :
Three consecutive comments. Now, thats a record here !LOL.
The TV manual was very interesting. It even had a page in different languages ! Try it, you will be addicted too.
You remember every post of mine ,dont you? Well, my resolution was only with Aerated drinks and not with cold drinks !
Shhhhhh about the ARR concert :D
Yeah! Yeah ! Im planning to go for a Reliance now, and as if I had a choice ;)
Oh, yeah, I forgot about the root canal !LOL.
Well, people who take new year resolutions should have will power ;)
@ Oxy :
Oxy boyyyy...where were you ? We all missed you and your sarcassm ! Nice to see you back ! Happy new year budddyyyy!
@ Smita 2 :
Thanks Smita. Wish you the same too. Btw, any resolutions ???
@ Rakesh 2 :
Thanks Rakesh for all the nice words. That was really sweet of you. Wish you a terrific year too.
@ Smita :
Sadist...LOL.
Why dont you take up the tag? Oh no, you already have a lot of tags to finish! When Smita? When??
@ Reema :
Thanks a lot Reema and wish you the same too.
@ Rekha 2 :
Welcome to V-Lokam.
Theres another Rekha here, so thats the reaons behind the '2'.
Thanks a lot for the nice words. Thats sweet of you to drop in here for the first time and wish for me that way.
Btw, how did you do about my obsession with Jayaram ??
@ Reets :
Yup, 2008 was one of the best years for me and I hope I have a similar 2009 too. It is all the year where I have come across some of the best people in my life. My next post would be on that too. and yeah, V-Lokam is here because of encouragers like you. Thanks a lot Reeta for all the nice words; Iam honored !
looks like you had a full 2008... wish you best for the two resolutions which were unfulfilled in 2008.
:)
isnt it tuff to zip ur mouth when you are in deep shit? i find it difficult :)
lol@ airtel making more money thru u :P
This was interesting.
I gave up aerated drinks the same way!
Not suprised you like ARR (I am a fan too) ... that song was fantastic, but from some of the comments I gathered - you are expected to do still better!!!
:)
Hope your carried forward resolutions are kept this year. With best wishes - IHM.
hohohoooooooooo...no need to give number to rekhas ...Its just me the same old rekha or allirekha...
nyways thanks for welcoming me again ;) ..ROFL !!!
Vimal Saare!!! You are mahaan saare!!
Happy New Year da!!!! ;-)
gr8 list man,,
and meeting ARR, read the post..have commented thr...
that one thing makes this year so special fr you..
and a cool movie list..same as rockus:D
@ Sakhi :
Yup, Thanks and wish you the same.
@ Praddy :
It isnt difficult. I guess, you have never been in deep shit then. LOL.
and yeah, they have been making money from me ever since they have started their service.
@ IHM :
Thanks a lot and wish you the same. Your aerated drinks resolution was for one year or for the lifetime ? and thanks for the wishes, I will surely improve on the songs front, but which song are you referring to?
@ Allirekha :
Damn! A welcome note went just like that.
I saw a couple of latest posts in that link and thats the reason for me to think it was a new blogger. So you have another blog and none of us knew !
@ Aparna / Calvin :
Thanks, but whats with the malayalam ? LOL.
@ Praveen :
Welcome to V-Lokam.
The meet sure did. The biggest achievement in my life I would say.
Vimmuuu I meant your first bisexual song :)
And aerated drinks given up for life- it's easy because I don't miss them. I think they should carry a warning like cigarettes do!
hey i loved the book one..and the last one about prioritizing we are planning to put it up as a caption on our bay ;P
wow u did a better job ;)...
seems like u spend a lota time to urself last year :)
@ IHM :
oh yeah, that song. I need to work on my female vocals, I guess. LOL.
Yeah, you're right, a warning should help, instead of those dumb cricketers on that now !
@ Verbivorehere :
Wow, Im going to patent it !!
@ Remya :
Yup, I did and had a lot of fun too !!
Arre you should first select the house and apply for laons. YOu ahve to start soemwhere. I am sure you will ahve bank loan. Call me before applying home loan, I do plan to write a post about my experience, but keeep forgetting it. You will get that bank loan, but first select the house yuo want to buy and that fits your budget.
New year resolutions! Never tried to make any. :) And even I have to buy an apartment. Lets see how it works out.
And you met A.R.R?? Wow!!!!
The best part of the tag was that u dint tag me :P
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