Sampling Life!: Another Year Ends…

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

…as usual. This time the number was 2024.

Let us recap my “predictions” for 2024 from last year’s post and see what all came true!

January: For the first time in a decade, my Superpartner and I did not go to a new city to celebrate our wedding anniversary. TRUE
February: Sino-Taiwan war started finally! FALSE
March: Our grand tour of Rajasthan started. FALSE
April: The grand tour continued since the war had jeopardized our plans to visit Taiwan. FALSE
May: Back to Bengaluru for a new academic session. TRUE
June: Puerto Rico became 51^st state of USA. FALSE
July: I finally published a paper that I’d been working on for the last two years! FALSE
August: Rishi Sunak attacked. FALSE
September: John Oliver dies. FALSE
October: Nobel Prizes announced. TRUE
November: World population decimated due to Rovid-24. FALSE
December: This blog ends due to obvious reasons. FALSE

So almost nothing came true! But Ian Hislop was involved in a couple of incidents this year…

Anyway, let us make this list a tradition and I review 2025 on a pro-rata basis:

January: D. Trump did something sensible which made America great again.
February: Coldest temperatures ever recorded in Rajasthan.
March: My daughter for the first time found an exam hard and scored bad.
April: I spent the entire month enjoying winter in Rajasthan instead of visiting Taiwan.
May: Back to Bengaluru for a new academic session in the hottest month of the year.
June: UK’s economy collapsed despite K. Starmer’s best efforts.
July: I finally published a paper that I’d been working on for the last three years!
August: Paul Merton attacked and WW III started in earnest.
September: John Oliver died and WW III at its peak.
October: Nobel Prizes not announced due to WW III.
November: World population decimated due to WW III.
December: This blog ends due to obvious reasons.

Sampling Life!