Year in Review: Part V

And here is the final list of 2015 highlights - some things new and some things old:

~ It was established that I absolutely love weddings, especially our desi Bollywood-y ones
~ I printed and framed photos for my new home
~ Did a special photo shoot and created a photo book from it for a friend’s farewell
~ Attended networking events
~ Did a lot of walking
~ Desperately approached random people for help
~ Started living in constant fear
~ Felt jealous
~ Met a lot of new people
~ Crushed candies and rescued pets
~ Watched British stand-up comedy and didn’t get much of it
~ Lived through London’s pissing-off pissy rain
~ Again had an injury that nobody could decode and had several funny diagnosis for it
~ Completed seven years with my Canon
~ Completed nine years with my blog, Fuchsia

Year in Review: Part IV

Here's some more new experiences from 2015:

~ Started running
~ Slept more than I did in the last five years
~ Got married
~ Received a lot of gifts
~ Put together a coffee table book of my travel experiences
~ Got added to eight new permanent Whatsapp groups
~ Of course I put all my Whatsapp groups on mute
~ Saw graffiti in Berlin
~ Saw horses running in open fields
~ Watched a classic at an open air theatre
~ Bought clothes for friends’ new-born babies
~ Bought plants for home but most of them died
~ Then Priyam sent another plant on my birthday and it’s doing well so far
~ Lost my nani
~ Struggled on the career front like never before

Year in Review: Part III

OF NEW EXPERIENCES...

~ Watched the brilliance that was the musicals, Matilda and Wicked
~ Kissed under the glittering Eiffel Tower
~ Did salsa in a pub with more than a handful of onlookers
~ Became a Monopoly pro!
~ Experienced the autumn colours
~ Made my first real make-up buy
~ Bought a real winter jacket
~ Got active on Instagram
~ Watched cabaret in Paris
~ Stayed up all night to click the red moon
~ Sat on a tram
~ Had my first serious experience of jet lag
~ Spotted jelly fish
~ Started living with someone who ensures I always have fresh flowers at home

Year in Review - Part II

FOOD & DRINKS

~ Became a Sarvana Bhavan regular

~ Made dosas with coconut chutney and sambhar at home and they were GOOD!

~ Made papayas a regular component of my diet

~ Ate at a Georgian restaurant

~ Tried a new drink called Ginja

~ Also had Champagne IN Champagne

~ I fasted. 

~ I partied

~ Had a short phase of desi-style do-at-home corn cob addiction

~ Cooked for and hosted more than 15 people at home

~ Ate a lot of crepes

~ Attended many a gatherings of wine & cheese

~ I tried another new drink – the porn star martini!

~ Went cheese-tasting

~ Had an authentic Palestinian meal with a Palestinian family

~ Had the afternoon tea experience in true British style

2015

I usually do a recap of the year every December. But since I haven’t written much this year, this recap is really going to be about me trying hard to recall the details – big and small – before they fade with memory. 

Since it’s a long list and since the blog post number has been so low this year, I shall break the post into a few parts. 

Here goes the year in review, part I:

PLACES
~ I moved from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi to London

~ Stayed at a super luxury hotel and found it utterly underwhelming

~ Visited a lavender farm that looked and smelled like a dream 

~ Travelled first class 

~ Travelled low cost 

~ Got bumped up to Etihad's business class on my final flight out of Abu Dhabi

~ Got an unexpected five year Schengen visa

~ I visited Berlin 

~ Then I visited Paris

~ And then I went to Portugal

~ Visited a museum of natural history and saw the T.Rex! 

~ Visited the Guggenheim museum

~ Chose not to visit the Louvre 

~ Visited Cambridge

~ Booked tickets to Scotland but couldn’t go

~ Booked two trips for 2016

Part II to follow...