2011 – the year that was!

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at January 15, 2012 and filed under: Existential

It is later than that time of the year but I am a procrastinator.

A week into the new year, I am trying to put 2011 in perspective. And turns out I did not do a bunch of the things I had set out to do. On the whole, a not-so-great year.

Did not complete my Spanish lessons, let the blog go to rot (yeah, this one!), took a lot of photographs but hardly printed any… The list goes on. The most galling aspect of 2011 though was the lack of work-life balance (too much work) and the one-dimensional nature of socialising (dinners, drinks, parties). The latter, especially, makes for a very boring ‘life’ in the work-life equation.

There were some high points – watched a test match in Mumbai, in which SRT almost did the unthinkable, and traveled a bit. Of the travels, the highlight was the time spent at Koh Phi Phi, reached after almost 7 hours of travel from Bangkok. Phi Phi (‘Koh’ means ‘island’ in the local language) is a tranquil blue-water island in the middle of the West Andaman Sea, with great food and marine life. Good ’twas.

So much for 2011. What does the new year hold in store? Although a very hypothetical question, it is still an interesting one. As Winston Churchill said ‘The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.’.

Here are some of the things I will do in 2012.
1. Travel around India, around local and musical events. Do more travel-blogging, put up pictures more regularly. Spend 4-5 hours each week on keeping this site updated.
2. Spend more time with family and friends. In more productive ways.
3. Pay more attention to my health. Being on the other side of 30, need to start doing that. :)
4. Read more books. Take the 52-book challenge, and see what comes of it.
5. Be more positive. Change situations rather than complain.

There it is. Now that I have blurted it all out, will get to work on keeping these promises to myself.

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