For the first time...

As 2010 slowly grinds to a halt and the last minute of the last hour prepare to bid farewell to the year gone by.
Was mulling over the year gone by...

Realized there were quite a few things i landed up doing for the first time or realizing for the first time.Here are the ones i can remember.

1. Good friends and great conversation cant compare to any of the riches of the world.
2. Truly appreciated the power of words.
3. Took to the brush after a good10 years!!loving it!
4. Have had one too many midnight conversations in the last year than i've had in my 26yrs!!Loved every minute of it!!Tx to all my nocturnal friends!!
5. Didn't let the numbers do the talking.
6. Binged on junk food for 5 days straight,only to learn too much of a good thing loses its flavor after a while.
7. Got 2 tattoos on the same day!!Yaaayy
8. Health is wealth,no fun when your at the doc every other day
9. Connected with beautiful strangers,unabashed,unafraid and enlightened!
10. Laughed so hard felt my gut pop out...
11. Lived,learnt and loved
12. Found a deeper connect in the places you'd least expect
13. Solitude is a gift we don't gift ourselves often enough.
14. Loved the feeling of freezing in cold on a terrace top with the cold wind and a warm thought for company.
15. Family gives you the time and space when you need it the most.
16. Set up a tent on an unfamiliar beach!
17. Fought the hardest than i've ever fought for what i believe!
18. Am living part of the dream already...till dreams evolve.
19. Tried my foot at a fish spa,if you haven't had a million fish exfoliating your feet you haven't really been tickled.
20. Trusted my thoughts without a second thought
21. Have learnt the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
22. Cheques don't always make you happy.
23. Took the longest bath i've ever taken a good 2 hours!!
24. Life is a whole bunch of wild,fun projects...a self proclaimed Project Addict!!
25. Mad conversation must be entertained!!
26. Celebrated Astra's birthday with an ice-cream cake!!Finally a cake she likes more than me!
27. Used more post-its and scribble pads in this year than i've done before
28. Reconnected with so many old friends and laughed about the years gone by and dreamed silly dreams of the years to come!!
29. Realized its OK to say NO when you don't believe
30. Hung upside down!
31. Bought an expensive watch i will probably never wear
32. Have indulged the unknown,with arms wide open and butterflies in my belly
33. Found a friend in the words of Allanis!
34. Ate biryani and nachos for breakfast!
35. Painted my room purple!!
36. Got left behind in a train :-( not as scary when your 26,but nevertheless my first!
37. Ate rassam pani puri!!hahahaa wasn't as bad as it sounds!
38. Gave away something that shouldn't have been given away in the first place,only to find something i wouldn't have found without giving that away.
39. Perspective is what makes you the person you are.
40. Learing to experience life...