The Year That Was

Looking back...ohh this is one thing I am good at :)
This year had been the year of changes...good ones and really bad ones all in all the year that bought the end of my bohemian life, the life where I was playing house, cooking, cleaning and shopping for my own apartment, cramming my shelves with my book collection, filling my hard disks with all the movies that I wanted to see. If you read the last line there is no mention of any animate object, so you can see I have been living the first half of the past year obsessed with inanimate things around me with the bare minimum social contact.

Then came the big bang, the big opportunity to change all the bad things and make my life all better!! Yeah so you can see now I am all happy and just peachy with the new one roomed dorm, with the awesome (read god-awful) crowd around me without a moment’s peace of mind, trying to fit my sleeping cycle around the never ending projects and getting drunk friends back to their rooms to name a few things that I love.

Snide remarks aside, this year has been very good to me. I finally moved from Chennai after bickering for almost 2 years, started my journey to Globeland, found my place in this hell hole and definitely here to stay for one more year. I have made some really good decisions and I am happy about it (read ecstatic) and but still I miss Chennai and dear S my shopping/drinking/bakar/anything-everything partner.

Hope the next year would get me out of this rut that I have created for myself. Let me make one good list
1. Stop reading CRAP
2. Stop the one bad habit that I have
3. Study-cram!
4. Watch more movies :)
5. More posts
6. Make up my mind faster about things
7. Travel more

Okie that’s the first draft, let’s see what more I can add to this list...

For the current mood of year-end blues the correct song would be Brighter Discontent - Submarines
Got a brand new roof above my head
All the empty boxes thrown away
I rearranged the place
A hundred times today
But the ordering of objects
Couldn't hide what's missing

All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be home again
All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be alone again


Got myself a bottle of red wine
Got a night of nothing else to do
I think I might know
What I really want
But is a brighter discontent
The best that I could hope to find?

Got a big black television set
Now I can watch just what I want
But I'm here staring up
At pictures on the wall
And where are you,
You're still stuck inside them all

All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be home again
All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be alone again

But love is not these belongings
That surround me
Though there's meaning
In the memories they hold
A breaking heart in an empty apartment
Was the loudest sound I never heard

Got a desk I'll write myself a note
Pretending that it came from you
On hotel stationary
From the time we first met
Whatever I can do cause
I won't throw my hands up yet

All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be home again
All these things should make me happy
Make me happy to be alone again

But love is not these belongings
That surround you
Though there's meaning
In the memories they hold
A breaking heart in an empty apartment
Was the loudest sound I never heard

Well I'll be find if
I dont look around me now
Too much for what's gone
If only I can wait here just a little while
And let time pass in my room