Aug ... Dec

Phew, its already December. Less than a month for the year to end ! August to December is my favourite part of the year. For various reasons:

1. Mainly for all the Festivals - Ganesh Chaturthi, Janmastami, Dusherra, Durga Puja, Deepavali, Ramzan, culminating in Christmas and New Year's Eve
   
2. And so there are more oppurtunity to get the fairy-lights out and adorn the balcony.
   
3. All our family birthdays and anniversaries fall in this duration.
   
4. That gives us more reason for winter parties. Especially the ones organized in Gardens. Chilly evenings, shawls swish-swashing, crackling bon-fire, kids running around in colorful sweaters, ghazals in the air and steaming hot scrumptious dinner. Yum ...
   
5. Diwali movie releases like Veer Zaara, DDLJ, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and many other of my fav movies. This is the time to add to my library list.
   
6. And the Christmas movies. My fav being: Home Alone 1 & 2 and It's a Wonderful Life.
   
7. This is also the time to start a review of all things that happened this year. Personal, local, national. Best movies & songs of this year. Lot of ammunition for media to churn out their daily potboilers.
   

Its amazing, at the begining of the every year, I wait for August. And soon, its time to way goodbye to the entire year.