Glucose biscuits and a cup of tea

Winter always brings about hunger pangs for me. This afternoon when the grumbling started in my stomach I asked for a cup of tea and got myself a packet of glucose biscuits to dip in the tea. It has been so long since I had that combination, a trip down memory lane was inevitable.

Ok I admit today being the day it is might have a lot to do with it also. A birthday always brings with it an equal share of nostalgia, introspection about the past and some mental mapping for the future.

20 years ago… My memories of being nine are very hazy. All I can remember is my house and the desire to grow up faster than I was.

10 years ago… Now that was a good year. Life was great. I was in my first year of college. It was also my first year in AIESEC. I had made great friends and was doing brilliantly in both places. I also had the cutest boyfriend around. What more could I want.

Today… It’s my 29th birthday!

I have no idea where the last few years have gone. Like most others I have allowed life to become routine. There are very few things that stand out in the mundane humdrum of everyday.

We have this strange Indian way of describing age. Instead of counting years past, we refer to the age as the year that has begun. This means it would be said that I have started my 30th year.

Oh My God!

The big ‘3’ ‘0’ and nothing to show for it. At least nothing that gives me a great sense of satisfaction.

In the recent past a few people I am close to all turned 30 and all of them had the same thing to say that I am saying. Trust me to jump the gun and start thinking about it all a year ahead of time.

The way I see it, I now have a year to get some things out of the way, until this day next year, when I will really have to make an account of my life.

I think I will make a list of 30 things to do before I turn 30! Make sense? Who cares as long as I get them done…

A few I can think of at the moment… (In no particular order, except the 1st one)

1. Get married (remember the cute boyfriend… he is now the cutest fiancé around)
2. Learn to play the guitar (this one I have always wanted to do)
3. Learn to master Indian cooking (and I mean the normal stuff)
4. Lose weight (clichéd I know, bit I really need to)
5. Buy a big diamond for myself (incentive to make an X amount of money)

I can’t think of anymore at the moment, but I will surely keep adding to the list. Watch this space as they say…

And now off to prepare for an evening with my nearest and dearest friends. Details will follow…

Happy Birthday to me!