Been thinking of updating the blog for quite some time now. What was once intended to be a weekly or at least monthly blogging endeavour has evolved into a biannual affair. Nevertheless, this year has been one of introspection, giving me plenty of opportunities to think things through, and even start coping with certain experiences. Healthy mechanisms or unhealthy ones, the important thing is we are coping. Last week, we sold off our Maruti 800. It is as old as I am and was my parents' first joint purchase (except for me of course). Everyone in the entire extended family has been on hundreds of road trips in this thing. 800 was the first car in the family, and has witnessed everything - it has seen me grow up, my cousins grow up, even my aunts growing up, getting married and starting families. We all cherished it even though the entire dashboard stopped working around ten years ago and the engine began to have troubles to the point where we often had to embarrass...