There’s something about New Years. Even if you know that those resolutions you plan elaborately , never really last beyond the first week. You still want to take a look back at those highs and lows and ‘try and learn’ some lessons to take to the Next chapter of your life.
Perhaps the change in the calendar is a trigger for you to bring a little change in yourself. For the better. And then like most things in life rearrange themselves to give shape to your thoughts & ideas , you keep running into signs of how the world wants those painstakingly thought out plans of yours to come true. Rest as they say and as you know , is up to you.
So like every year , my new year list has the beaten to death oft repeated items and then there are some new ones that am hoping i stay as excited about as i am write now!
There are some like us who are so bogged down with running behind monthly targets and keeping up with their daily to – do list that they keep pushing aside exploring the very reason of living. and then there are others , who get an oppurtunity to do something that impacts people , every single day. Instead of finding a purpose in their life. They have a life with a purpose. Simple . Uncomplicated.
Like baking fabulous cakes. Now – thats quite simple. No larger than life promises of changing the world. only adding a little joy to one person at a time. what a brilliant way to make the world happier ?
Came across this beautiful episode of ‘Fabulous Cakes’ on TLC yesterday and i literally googled the these gorgeous pics to put on my page.
This ducky in the bathtub cake was for the spa day party for a bunch of little girls fighting cancer ( read more about Amanda Oakleaf who brings such moments of bliss to ordinary people like us with her art of baking here http://blog.oakleafcakes.com/tlc-fabulous-cakes/)
I love the way she writes no one wants to be clicked with a Salad .. :) but a cake.. thats the centre peice of your event.
Well .. i wish this year i get to do something that becomes the centrepiece of someone’s happy day .. :)
A long awaited holiday. A trip that might change my life forever. We couldn’t think of any other place that seems as apt as this carefree , free-spirited & bohemian as Goa ,to turn 3 years old together :)
My long list includes all the cliches that makes up a tourists to do list . Walking down beaches, haggling at flea markets , water sports , get a tattoo maybe (if only I could figure what & where ) and partying at ‘brittos’ and ‘anthonys’. Check out the sunburn fest and make a trip to Casino Royale. Visit the Church and Donna paula and walk all I want in my flip flops !
And perhaps some that not everybody else aboard this plane has on their mind ;-)
I wish life could just go into a never ending loop for the next 5 days while I watch myself living it up is suspended reality .
Am all set for the Bohemian Rhapsody @ Goa !
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Seems to be the story lately..
A change that even my very “change-prone” system didn’t see coming! And boy did it stir up a storm in my already chaotic life.
Anyway – so after enough heartache and contemplation later , It did strike me today how it was the proverbial “for the better”
That said , bridging the ever widening gap between my two worlds – where I am and where I see myself , is now seeming more of an achievable task than a far flung fantasy. With enough inspiration to not just think but really work towards “doing what I like ” than settling down for “liking what I do ” – investing more into “myself” is now giving small yet meaningful returns.
Its not surprising that my two travelogues that go up on HT Travel are from the two ends of the world I love to explore !
An ode to the lucknow city and its majestic monument : http://travel.hindustantimes.com/travelogues/majestic-monuments—lucknows-imamwada.php
And a reverie of the crystal blue waters and the charming sights of the French Rivera :http://travel.hindustantimes.com/travelogues/getaway-to-the-french-riviera.php
Where’s the next milestone ? Perhaps time would tell .. Or maybe my next blog post !
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We look for the larger purpose of our being and yet remain tangled in the triviality of daily affairs. That’s life perhaps … Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone
Sometimes the night is a journey
I make to travel
from one to yet another day
The moments entwined
with you on my mind
the thoughts run astray
And a dream floats in and out
But in my solitary drudgery
I watch them go by
soaking up your memory
Like a bridge over troubled waters
I wear a facade
If wishful thinking was a crime
I stand guilty as charged
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