A look back at 2012

Last year, I'd written a 2011 year in review, thought that was a nice way to recap the year. Continuing the same trend, here's how 2012 went by

* Welcomed the New Year in a coffee estate/homestay in Chikmagalur with Ashwin, Daaku & Prasad. * Made a quick trip to Mumbai & Vasai with Ashwin and finally met some awesome twitter folks - b50, Anaggh, Nakul, Jayesh, slacker, Preshit, Failgunner and lots more. Malcolm welcomed us to Vasai with an epic awesomesauce lunch and a trip around Vasai. Aalaap gets drunk and results in skipping the Pune/Doolally visit that we had planned * Ditched the iPhone again, went back to Android and bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 * Became a Guinness World Record holder, albeit with my email leaking out to whole lot of people. * Diablo III finally gets released, after a 12-year wait. And I played it. A lot. * Made a trip back to Chikmagalur to the coffee estate/homestay that we had gone to during New Years' - this time during the start of monsoon season. The weather was out of this world. * Got a chance to be an interviewer which was pretty cool. * Became part of Barcamp Bangalore organizing team - though I was more or less handling the word-of-mouth marketing part, it was hell loads of fun. Tweeted the hell out of it. Gave a small talk on automated data backup too 🙂 * Kunti, Bibhas, Rishabh come down to Bangalore. Had great fun meeting up and hanging out with them. Some pics from Kunti, Bibhas & Rishabh. * As if to take revenge for me dumping the iPhone 3GS, its battery expanded and exploded wildly. * Plan a trip to Pune for NH7 weekender. Ditch Weekender plans and meetup with slacker & Mikhail at Hyatt. Get serenaded. Twice. Gadgets /Software bought/acquired/reviewed

* Nokia N9(though I admit, I never got to write the review, such a shame. Great device, great OS - just DOA) * Sennheiser CX680i sports in-ear earphones (review) * Llama (review) * System Mechanic 10.8 (review) * Norton 360 (review) * Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook (review) * Alienware X51 (review) * Sharkoon X-tatic 5.1 headphones (won) * Logitech Optical Mouse G400 (purchased) * Klipsch S4a (bought) * Samsung Galaxy S2 (bought) * Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB hard disk (bought)

So, that's about it for 2012, I guess. Happy New Year all & here's wishing the upcoming year is as awesome as it was last year.