2009

I turned 25

Slumdogged the Oscars

Obama happened and got a Nobel peace prize and he still got to send troops to Afghanistan... talk about CHANGE!

Copenhagen

Six friends got married- two of them were my ex’s

Tiger Woods finally proved to be human, let’s face it, sportsmen get a lot of good a**, case in point-Nehra, so I don’t blame him

Section 377

Didn’t confess for a year and the list now covers everything short of murder, contemplating to do that soon.

Michael Jackson went out with a whimper, but people made millions out of it. Guess, he is more valuable when dead

India’s first nuclear submarine INS Arihant was commissioned; incidentally we also had a small nuclear accident.

Did something meaningful for Christmas

The biggest show on earth- the Indian elections went off with not much of a hitch, it also proved the theory of collective intelligence

No more LTTE

YSR flew to his death

Most of Africa, South America, Iraq and Afghanistan occasionally went up in flames

Bored a lot of people to death by talking too much

Satyam proved to the world that we too can pull big scams

Did the cardinal mistake of helping others, which always seemed to bite me from behind

Tata dreamed big with Jag and small with Nano

Gatecrashing entered into the petite Indian vocabulary with the White House incident

The economy was boring

One whole year without a girlfriend since 2001-it was actually good

Liquor consumption grew by 16% in Kerala (our humble contribution to the country’s revenues)

Jenson Button and Brawn GP won F1, an underdog victory!

Nursed my pet dog to life

Bought a new dog, named it Cody, he clearly doesn’t like it though, pees every time you call him that.

The Indian test team ranked first, let’s hope it stays there long enough

Swiss banks started to spill their beans, wonder who all got a cold sweat after hearing that

Compromised on a lot of things, mainly education

Demand for two states in Andhra and all the other states followed suit, in other Andhra news governor N D Tiwari was caught with his pants down, literally!

Mayawati’s fetish for statues redefined heights of ego

Recession killed my brother’s business and his spirit but still drives an Audi though

Shoe throwing has been officially accepted in press circles as taking a stand.

Made a good friend but huge distances now separate us

Maserati Granturismo and Ferrari 458 Italia

25 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the affected are still to receive the basic right of having safe drinking water- the ugly face of capitalism

One hell of an year, ain't it?