An unusually Extraordinary year

2012's definitely been a turning point in my life like no other year ever. It’s brought about an inner strength to the fore, a self-awareness & with it, a penchant for life.

   

Reminiscing the past year of 2012 for me starts from December 2011.

Dec 2011 – M&M’s

Mom, my kiddo & myself @ Malaysia, Melbourne; My sister, my brother in law-Manoj; Melbourne Cricket Ground - M.S. Dhoni & mates - awesome dream come true; My reunion with Baileys; My new love- Frangelico; My hangover from an awesome New year impromptu party.

Jan 2012 – A Giant leap into New Activities

Australian Tennis Open – Roger Federer-his twins & Rafael Nadal-his wedgies-Never in a million years possible dream come true!!; Sydney - Disney musical show, the Harry Porter Exhibition, getting stranded @ Sydney for a night; Sangrias; reunited with water at the Malaysian rest rooms; Back Home; My baby Astronaut – enacting Neil Armstrong – 2^nd place.

February 2012 – Pink is my Obsession
My Birthday, therefore my month of Madness – cut my hair really short, coloured my hair...Fluorescent Pink.

March 2012 – Tears & Grit

Adwaith's annual Day!! 

Bid farewell to once in a life time great set of colleagues/friends; throw ball practice in full flow – awesome new coach, Throw ball match day – Pink hair – Pink Uniform, No 14 Jersey!! Won Third place & NO injuries L !!

April 2012 – Stage Fright

Part time co-hosted a Quiz show – where I myself got the 1^st Online quiz prize, which duly went unnoticed J Was cutely dressed too.

May 2012 – A Burger full of Goodies

Homemade Fancy dress competition – startin with a pea pod idea – ended up creatin a Hamburger costume & got 100% support from my (a self surprised) mother. All thanx to blogs after blogs for makin it worth the 3^rd prize he got!!

June 2012 – Teerth Yatra

India – Trivandrum – NO Baileys at the airport!! Me & my cousin brother, Mom & her brother, Adwaith & his cousin sister – big time bonding; Nagercoil – Anju, Kavitha, Kahlua & Mathews cake – wacky combination!! Chennai – Bigger time bondin with Shoppers Stop, Lifestyle & of course the Boys. Reunited with Baileys!!

July 2012 – Words, Prayers & Broken bones

Words spoken best swept & left under the blanket; an Angelic stranger who took the smallest nuances of everyday life & snow balled it into something more meaningful with even simpler equivalents; Learnt the value & meanin of self-confidence!! Adwaith’s very 1^st movie in theater – Madagascar 3; Mom slipped, twisted & broke her unbreakable Tibia bone and was in cast for 3 full months;

August 2012 – Knots & Walks
Rakhis were tied & promptly removed!! Onasadhya was delicious!! Adwaith made footprints to welcome Lord Krishna!! School reopened!!

September 2012 – Off key notes & Banana leaves
Adwaith literally rapped Queen's We Will Rock you full speed for his singing competition!!

October 2012 – My life - Under the Sea & in the Ruins
Li'l sharky boy turned 5!! More creative ideas flowed - mom outdid herself on the delicacies & myself on the cake design!! Anju's awesomely sketched 5!!

 Greece trip with famly friends - aunts & uncles - Bloody mary-apetizers, wines as starters & Baileys - rest ofcourse :) Didnt try Ouzo & didnt take snaps of food!! have to go back!!

Left leg - knee cap started hurtin in weird way!!

November 2012 – Earth shattering Ultimatum & fireworks

Felt earthquake for the very 1st time!! Peace reigned with a delivered ultimatum!! Mad shoppin!! Dashed hopes of learnin French!

December 2012 – Fever, Fire, Frustration & Finale
Fulfilled my resolution to see most of the world before 12-12-12 & survived the scare too!!

     Dubai, Egypt (Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Corfu & Edfu), Frankfurt, Malaysia, Melbourne, Sydney, Greece – Done!!

             Hanging up my travellin boots & shoppin shoes for a while!!

But.... Ye Dil Mange more!!

Travelling is more fun than Arriving!!

I have always been a semi superstitious person. So, it’s a given that I would have believed the myth of the world ending on 9-9-99. I remember being so freaked out about it that Kavitha’s mom invited me over, thinkin that company might help appease my fears.

Anyway, 13 years later, with 12-12-12 looming around, I am none the less wiser!!

But this time, instead of just panicking & awaiting the day, I thought I’d go down with some awesome adventures to my name. (I had once packed all my stuff into a drawer in 1998 incase of war & it wasnt much). & thus begins my explorations.

Which was what my last sane post was about – planning a Nile cruise around Egypt.

First trip was Dubai in Oct’2009.

Then, I did go to Egypt in February 2010, where I met my burkha clad best friend.

In April 2010, an official trip took us to Frankfurt with 3 female colleagues + 10 male colleagues.

In February 2011, my son accompanied me on my 30^th birthday madness to Dubai.

December 2011-Jan’12, we went to Melbourne via Malaysia. Got stranded in Sydney for a day.

& now, I have just returned from a Greece trip during the last week of October 2012.

So, if I were to die – I’d say Wohooo….

Around the same time that I was initially panicking about the 12-12-12 myth, my company big shots were thinkin along those lines, only they replaced the world with the company. So we got a new boss – whose arrival put a full stop to my blogging with a pile load of work, but along with a bucketful of fun.

Every time Kavitha would tell me to post something on the blog, I’d go online & change the template…then feel sad, cz I used to know how to customize it so well. Anyway, this template isn’t me, but it won’t give anybody a headache either.