Welcoming 2006 with a Cheer

Dear World!

Have a splendid New Year...Here are my wishes for this New Year for each one of us...

"Choose to love-rather than hate.
Choose to smile-rather than frown.
Choose to build-rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere-rather than quit.
Choose to praise-rather than gossip.
Choose to heal-rather than wound.
Choose to give-rather than take.
Choose to act-rather than delay.
Choose to forgive-rather than curse.
Choose to pray-rather than despair."

Keep it coming!

Wish me also to make a successful start in my writing career and my business and have peace of mind and happiness, good health and some decent savings, more time to travel and write
...;) Nothing more, nothing less...

Love,
GS

Vote for the Indian of 2005

NDTV has come up with a poll asking viewers to vote for "Indian of 2005", from a group of 13 personalities who have made waves of sorts in 2005. Featured in it are Sonia, Sania, our PM, Dravid, Big B etc...One among them is Manjunath! What a great thing...I rushed to my mobile and sent an SMS immediately voting for him...than anyone else, he is the one who deserves it...If you are not aware of who he was and why he should deserve, please refer to this dedicated blog on Manjunath that would tell the whole story.

So, pick up your mobile and type 'India Manjunath' (i.e India space Manjunath, without quotes) and send it to 6388 and fetch him atleast the posthumous reward for his undying integrity.

Cheers!

Year-end Laments

The time of the year when you wanna escape from life has come for me...yes the exams...I dread them...well, what can you expect from someone who has had nearly a decade of gap after graduation? Early wakings, hot teas, and short naps...these were the trend while I was in school and college...mom used to do all the service without any laments...but here I am doing all the day job and household chores and trying to find an hour to study among the 24 generously available to me...some time management here and there can just help me though...I hope I get thru all my papers (7 of them), if not get a distinction, so that I can head to my second half of my second year gracefully...Guys, wish me good luck...! Till then this blog may survive with meagre one-liners... :-> Take care! Ciao

Time to call the shots...

I am fed up of working almost a decade now...and I know I would breakdown if I don't have a good sabbatical soon. It is clear to me that I am at my career crossroads...I hate to come to work everyday, clock in 8 hours nonstop and do something that doesn't matter to me...all I know is I have done enough justice to the studies that my parents provided and have benefitted many folds from it. Now it is time to call the shots and go for what I actually want to do...Setup a new business with an unfailing USP? A journalist? Playback singer? A painter? A theater person? I have lot of options before me...After all we need to use to gifts God has given us and make the most of it in our lifetime isn't it? Then why making a switch from an established career to a vocation of arts is so hard? Probably because of the uncertainty that is involved in doing so...I spoke about this with my husband and he seems to agree with it but he is asking me to have my job for another year that would bring our loans to a stable mode...Can't blame him either - letting me do what I want immediately would be simply impossible due to several liabilities we have at present...Hence I have proposed him a transition period that he has agreed to...by mid of next year, I would be ready to take the plunge, one that is not into the dark but with some certainties for which I would start doing the groundwork right away. This way I would know my real calling and be ready with the industry contacts that can propel me to heights in the right direction. And I have already started my groundwork and quite happy with that...But I have started seeing my day job as the number 1 enemy from doing what I want...so unconsciously I have and I am developing a distaste towards it and its not helping me anyways. I am going beyond my deadlines on deliverables and hating to go to meetings or worse even loathing to talk anything computers...it has literally choked me and managed to box my creativities till date...

But this damn gyaan that says everything happened for good and urging me to go forward with my ambitions keeps popping on my head...So, all I have to do is try to enjoy my job as long as I am here with my company and perform atleast OK if not great until I release myself from the clutches of the routine I have got myself into. So wish me good luck Universe!