top movies in 2005

25 movies i liked the most:

- the road home (chinese)
- 2046 (chinese)
- falian (korean)
- serenity (english)
- in the mood for love (chinese)
- chunking express (chinese)
- to live (chinese)
- christmas in august (korean)
- 7 g brindavan colony (telugu)
- saving face (english/chinese)
- indochine (french)
- before sunset (english)
- garden state (english)
- ashes of time (chinese)
- ran (japanese)
- sliding doors (english)
- baran (iranian)
- anand (telugu)
- the constant gardener (english)
- spanglish (english)
- oldboy (korean)
- swades (hindi)
- empire records (english)
- il mare (korean)
- twelve nights (korean)

top songs in 2005

25 english songs i heard/liked the most:

- wake me up when september ends by greenday
- boulevard of broken dreams by greenday
- carry me ohio by sun kil moon
- goodbye my lover by james blunt
- i wish i felt nothing by the wallflowers
- you're beautiful by james blunt
- hear you me by jimmy eat world
- woman king by iron and wine
- day after day by alan parson's project
- someday you will be loved by death cab for cutie
- consequence by the notwist
- lose you by pete yorn
- you and me by lifehouse
- everytime by britney spears
- in the dark by al stewart
- main theme from in the mood for love
- i've got a feeling by ivy
- the sound of settling by death cab for cutie
- you'll never find another love like mine by michael buble
- graduation song by vitamin c
- desperado by the eagles
- i believe in you by neil young
- a pillow of winds by pink floyd
- fearless by pink floyd
- they are night zombies!! they are neighbours!! they have come back from the dead!! aahhhh! by sufjan stevens


20 non-english songs i heard/liked the most:

- dekho na from swades by a r rahman
- kitni baatein from lakshya by shankar ehsaan loy
- meri zindagi from aur ek prem kahani by illayaraja
- dil ne kise apna kaha from dil ne jise apna kaha by a r rahman
- jeene ke ishaare from phir milenge by shankar ehsaan loy
- suttum vizhi from ghazni by harris jayaraj
- uyire en uyire from thotti jaya by harris jayaraj
- saanwariya saanwariya fromswades by a r rahman
- tum hi se from sunoh by lucky ali
- antha naal from anthu oru kanaa kaalam by illayaraja
- nuvvunte from arya by devi sri prasad
- om nahama from gitanjali by ilayaraja
- tera mera pyar from tera mera pyar by partners in rhyme
- yeh karam tanhaiyon ka silsila by ghulam ali
- ninne ninne chustu from grahnshana by harris jayaraj
- kannula baasula from 7g brindavan colony by yuvan shankar
- meri nazar from kabhi by josh
- tanhai mein basi from kabhi aisa lagta hai by lucky ali
- bombay city from kadhal samraajyam by yuvan shankar
- pudhu kadhal from pudhukottaiel iraundhu saravan by yuvan shankar

top albums in 2005

15 english albums i heard/liked the most:

- back to bedlam by james blunt
- woman king by iron and wine
- transatlanticism by death cab for cutie
- ghosts of the great highway by sun kil moon
- garden state soundtrack by various artists
- meddle by pink floyd
- american idiot by greenday
- musicforthemorningafter by pete yorn
- after the goldrush by neil young
- bringing down the horse by the wallflowers
- plans by death cab for cutie
- down colorful hill by red house painters
- i robot by alan parson's project
- mellon collie and the infinite sadness by smashing pumpkins
- 69 love songs by the magnetic fields


10 non-english albums i heard/liked the most:

- gharshana by harris jayaraj (telugu)
- 7 g brindavan colony by yuvan shankar raja (telugu)
- swades by a r rahman (hindi)
- super by sandeep chowta (telugu)
- twinkle twinkle little star by illayaraja (tamil)
- june r by sharath (tamil)
- anand by k m radhakrishnan (telugu)
- arya by devi sri prasad (telugu)
- ek aur prem kahani by illayaraja (hindi)
- kashmakash by alms for shanti (indipop)

looking back at 2005

things i did this year:

- completed 26 years on earth
- flew to states (again)
- moved to a new apartment (twice)
- went to washington dc, baltimore, boston, ithaca, new york city
- went on hikes (cascade mt, straton mt, buck mt)
- went on drives (new york, vermont, maine)
- bought apple powerbook, ipod shuffle
- got the hang of os x
- filled my itunes lib with tons of songs
- bought cell phone, nautica wrist watch
- bought bose multimedia speakers, a yamaha keyboard
- got back my old electric guitar from baltimore
- grew long hair (again)
- got my nys drivers license
- rented car couple of times and drove around
- drove to ithaca all alone
- did sahaj course in kingston
- went swimming (finally able to do breast stroke)
- played cricket and soccer (again)
- started a blog
- watched lots of movies from netflix
- took to watching chinese/korean movies
- did 6 courses
- had a reunion with undergrad hostel-mates in nyc
- got root canal treatment done
- learned karate
- got cleared as an engineer for university radio station
- did pooja during navaratri and on diwali
- met sri sri
- hosted radio shows on my own
- caught up with some old friends (esp school)
- chatted quite a lot online
- had a thanksgiving party at home
- bought just one cd [back to bedlam by james blunt]
- had alcohol (mike's hard lime)
- played paintball for the first time
- played poker for the first time
- smoked first cigarette pack (marlboro lights)
- wrote & submitted a paper
- flew on a 3-seater glider (fly-by)
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