Ageing

Resolutions.....

Some Resolutions for the year ahead...It took me two full weeks to find out some meaningful resolutions for the year ahead..not that I was researching on it but was lazy...:)-Thought I would pen them down..( and also publish ..) so that I do not console myself with the excuse that only I knew of it..:)-
1. Read the complete bible once. There is online bible which has the chapters of Bible sorted out such that Bible can be read completely in 365 days
( http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/readingplans/index.php/today )
2. Learn and do Yoga: In fact, I went to join for the Yoga class here in office but it seems many had this in their New Year resolution and were faster than me to join. So they asked me to come and check in the beginning of next month... :(-
3. Read at least one book in a month and post the review of the same. Had this in my resolution of 2008 (though not the review part of it)..However could read (only) the below books.
· Jonathan Livingston Seagull- Richard Bach
· Dabbawallahs of Mumbai - K S Srinivas
· To Kill a Mocking bird - Harper Lee
. Tuesdays with Morrie -Mitch Albom
· The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
· A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini
· 'Thalamurakal' - O V Vijayan
· 'Jeevithamenna Albhutham'
· Riot- Shashi Tharoor
· Anthem - Ayn Rand
· We the Living - Ayn Rand
( And I became a fan of Ayn Rand's ideas of Individual Freedom )
4. Learn a new language (Either German or Japanese)
5. Have a timetable in life.. Though it may be difficult to have one for the entire day , schedule at least the sleeping hours. And follow it on all days including Saturdays and Sundays...:)-
6. Join for a postgraduate course off-Campus or online . No idea of how I would implement it. Let’s see.
7. On the professional side: Pass the OCP exams in SQL,PL/SQL ,Advanced SQL and PL/SQL...
8. Learn to "Forget and Forgive" more...and keep smiling..:)-
and to greet at least 100 of my friends on their B'days..

Happy New Year 2009…!!!!

Do Not Worry
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Jesus in Matthew 6:25-34

Happy New Year 2009 . . . . !!!