Thursday Challenge : Best of 2010

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The Theme this week is

BEST of 2010 (Your favorite or best photo of 2010)

And I have simply decided to both  

The best picture according to me is this… I think it has featured on the blog before too but I love the balance of white and red in it and I think it has come up pretty well

and my most favourite picture of the year without a doubt is this…. Ojas with his great grandpa… with my nanu

The Word Collage

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I saw this at Swaram’s today and loved the idea 😀 so here it is my blog’s very own word collage or rather sentence collage

Purpose :

The idea of this meme is to create a sort of collage of your blog over the past year. What you need to do is take the first line of each month’s first post over the past year, and see what it tells you about your blogging year.

January

with another round of NaBloPoMo

February

A day which starts with aaloo parantha made by mom, followed by a little shopping and going about in Delhi and ends with Rajma Chawal for dinner…

March

and I from allepy, I speak Mallayali but I am just like u…

April

Aaah so I was given the cherry award by Ritu and Tiku… both women I love… though both of them got an award from IHM in the same post which can’t really be passed and I haven’t got hmppfff….

May

In the midst of tharoor controversy let me get some traffic on blog by doing a review of his book  (Ok now its died down but its just shows that how long has this one been in my drafts… sigh)

June

For more ABC’s visit the ABC Wednesday homepage

july

Oh IHM we love you for this brilliant tag…. and it was passed to me by IHM as well as Ritu

August

PS: This is a scheduled post so if I havent replied ur comments till now or for the curious souls not did the Goa update  I will be back soon  hopefully

September

I love Apple pie actually I love all baked fruit desserts and specially baked apples… a fruit which I really don’t enjoy eating too much just like that but bake it and bingo a brilliant dessert…

October

Yes yes I think by this time all of u know, that I am off to delhi for sometime…. a short visit about 10 days in the middle of CW, hoping to catch a game there too… lets see if I am lucky

Novemeber

When I read this tag at Shilpa’s I knew I had to do it…. love books, love tags and I havent done one for so long now, but I was confused which one to do the original one or her version. I finally decided to take the best from both and do it

December

A challenge on books  I was totally kicked about it when I read it at Smitha’s and decided to sign up on the earliest but some friends were quicker  Yeah I think by now you all now that I am talking about South Asian Challenge

Ads I loved

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Typically you would normally find me talking about the ads I hate in fact that is how I started writing this post but than I though let me do something different instead 😀 So here are the ads I loved in 2010

This is my latest love and whats not there to love, what creativity

Some shadow play some more happiness and there is Imran Khan too 😉

Teenagers who look like u and me would have once upon a time… phew a relief 😀

This is what is needed isn’t it?

Brilliant Brilliant concept and brilliant execution… this one will truly make u say “What an idea sirji 😉 “

How cute is this one

Come on tell me what are urs?

Edited to Add : stupid of me to forget the most fav ad of the year… the blackberry boys

http://www.youtube.com/v/pgUK0VmcXA4?fs=1&hl=en_US

PS: Like an idiot I had thought I had scheduled this post but turns out I hadnt

Resolutions 2010 – A Review

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Its time to do the most important review of the year, the resolutions review 🙂

• First one was lose weight and I have failed miserably there, I think out of the 15kg that I wanted to lose I have gone down just a mere 3 kgs… I can give many reasons, the neck, the knee, the BP etc etc but the fact is that I havent been able to make it 😦
• Read Read and Read: I had set myself a target of 35 books and I am proud that I read 62 books this year 🙂 make me happy
• Start something of my own or get back to job : I did try and start something on my own and realised that I am not made for it, I did start freelancing too so I guess this would be a tick too 🙂
• Manage Finances : yes we both made ourselves very proud here, only loan left is the home loan and we are managing everything else very well too 😀 I guess it took beating last year because of the single income and now with a little freelancing money its beginning to look better and I hoping to get back to work soon too
• Learn to deal more patiently with Ojas : I would say partly succeed, I am much more patient with him than I was before… much more… I still lose my temper sometime but I guess one cant be a saint right
• Get my messy house in order : haa I think I will give up on this one…. I cant keep a house in order thats just not me, its one activity I give least priority to somehow in my list of things to do… Dont know why but I guess I am like that

so in total of 4/6 not bad I would say though the biggest and the most important point 1 should have been met 😦 but this year for sure

Music which I loved

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Music makes life sweeter isnt it? So lets talk about your favorite music of 2010… for me like in movies Ishqiya rocked in music too… I love all the tracks or the movie and many many days they have been playing on loop in this part of the town 🙂

Love love all of them whether its the softness and the love in Dil tou bacha hai ji

or the very folky very peppy Ibn-E-Batuta

or the one that displays the sheer magic of rekha bhardwaj… Badi Dheere Jali

Every song of ishiqya is a masterpiece

The other song that I loved in this year was Gal Mitthi Mithie Bol from the movie I hated Aisha, I cant wait for my cousin’s wedding in Feb where I will be dancing away to it 🙂

I can remember many more but I will leave it to you come on lest make the page musical, go on add your favourite songs of 2010 in comments… tell me which ones make you go hmmmm, which ones made you dance and which ones touched your heart 🙂

2010 in movies

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Its that time of the year again when we recap the year, I love december just love it… so from today till the end of the december I will spread out my yearly recap… starting ofcourse with Movies

Best of Hindi 2010

It wasnt a very great year for Hindi movies, was it? I mean there were many movies but very few that I would say I loved. And picking favourite was relatively easy 🙂 Got be Ishqiya… I loved every bit of the movie. It had my favourite star cast, Naseer, Vidya and the most rocking Arshad. I love the way the characters were so strong in the movie… loved the music

Worst of Hindi 2010

The fight is tough here no? So many of them 😛 I would have given it to Anjaana Anjaani which I had to tolerate in a theater had I not seen Aisha….sad that it was a movie I was looking forward to, sad that it has a cast that I mostly love, sadder that it was based on a book I love… such a waste of everything… There was nothing nothing nothing at all in the movie apart from styling…

Best of English 2010

Without a blink The Hurt Locker, I know I know you people in america land will say it was released in 2008 but it came to India only this year so for me it is this years movie :P. I loved it, it moved me beyond I can explain. There were days I would dream about the war situation and likes. Brilliant Brilliant movie

One which would surely go down in the list of best war movies…

 

 

Worst of English 2010

Again a book I loved and a movie I hated – Eat Pray Love. I think I should finally stop watching movies based on books. Just stop.. I hate the movie and Julia Roberts was a part of it… what a waste

 

So this was most loved and hated, go on tell me what are yours?