Things I seem to have forgotten.

Last week I was on the NY subway, returning home from school when I got thinking. I was reading Raymond Khoury's The Sign (Not that it has anything to do with the post), when I tried to remember the route to my friend Vipul's house in Chennai(HOME!). How and why this thought popped into my head, I don't know. It was just something random. Out of the blue. And the worst part of it was, I couldn't remember the way.

Over 4 years of college, I must have gone to Vipul's house at least a thousand times. Easily. It was my second most visited friend's house after Abhinay's probably. I know the route to Abhinay's. I should. It was 3 houses away from my own. I thought, fairly hard about how I used to get to Vipul's on my bike. ZILCH. No idea. Nelson Manickam road and then left ? Right ? I was lost. I knew the street and how the house looked, but how on earth did I get there ?

Something weirder and least expected also happened. I forgot our (my friends and I) usual order at Paramount(a restaurant near home). The usual order that we used to order atleast 3 times a week for a year and a half before I left. Parotta and ? ? Was it butter chicken or was it chicken tikka masala ? This probably hurt me than the other.

Is it that I have been away for so long that I'm forgetting things. Possibly things that I have took for granted that I would remember always. Or have I been so disconnected that they just slipped my mind. Ever since then I've been thinking about routes to places I used to frequent, places I used to frequent, etc. I just hope that when I finally go home for a visit, stuff like this doesn't happen and I won't feel that I missed much.

P.S - In the end, I did remember both and so much more

Atu

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The start of a new year.

It's 2011 ! 2010 has passed so quickly. I love it when that happens. It means the year was so eventful that it just went by. Was 2010 eventful for me ? Hell yes. So much happened. Made many new friends. Built so many relationships. Saw many places. Partied hard. Studied even harder. Grew up and started taking responsibilities.

I loved the year. It feels like I started at rock bottom and ended it on top of everything. Just writing that feels amazing. I am looking forward to 2011 with all it's glory. Heck, if the world's ending in 2012, let's all make 2011 worth it. Make the most of it.

Things I want to do this year:

These aren't resolutions. I feel labeling them as resolutions is just bad. Because everyone knows people hardly ever keep up resolutions. These are just things to be done. Whether I do it in January or December 31st doesn't really matter. They aren't in any particular order.

1. Read more books. I've started reading again since May. Read about anything and everything under the sun.

2. Keep my room clean. I might have my own place halfway through the year. Have got to start keeping stuff in their right places.

3. Reconnect with people I haven't spoken to or chatted with in a long time. Old friends stay with you forever.

4. Start working out. It's about time.

5. Eat healthy. Eat properly. No more caffeine diets.

6. End Grad School on a high. Nothing but the best will do.

7. Watch good movies. Not the dumb comedies that I've been watching lately.

8. Start being more responsible with money. After all, it doesn't grow on trees.

9. Stop spending so much time on my laptop. There are better things to be done.

10. Update The Blog more regularly.

That's good enough to start with. I hope I can keep up these things.

2011 is going to be amazing. I know it. It started out amazingly. It's going to be amazing.