I don't remember if I ever made New Year resolutions, so perhaps this is the first time, perhaps because this new year has been different. So here are my resolutions in no particular order.
Get back to photography and processing photos.
Get my Nikon D70s fixed.
If #2 doesn't cost a bomb, perhaps buy a Sigma 10-20.
Study, hard.
Take up cycling; again depends on #2.
Go on some trips and if possible to Wayanad, Kerala, and trek up Chembra Peak and camp there overnight. Go off to sleep under the stars, above the clouds.
Its pretty ironical the way this year started. Amidst all the Happy New Years going around, things weren't really happy. Its surprising that no matter how much you thought about something that is bound to happen, when it really does, you still realise you weren't quite prepared to handle something like that. But then, like they say, Shit Happens. And in life, that does happen quite a lot. In case you haven't noticed both shit and life are 4-words and so is crap and many such which you can think up of your own I'm sure.
Another New Year. A time for 'new' New Year resolutions. A time for starting things afresh, or at least make an attempt at it by trying to leave the past behind. A time for the optimists for believe that something miraculous happens at the tick of the clock from 12:00 to 12:01, that the world will be a better place to live in than the one that just passed. A time for the TV channels to call an astrologer and predict whats in store for everyone. A time for us to believe in all the good things that they say. A time for us to believe in nothing but hope or the grand illusion of it.
Ek barahman ne kaha hai ke ye saal achha hai Zulm ki raat bahut jald dhalegi ab to, Aag chuulhon mein har ek roz jalegi ab to.
Bhookh ke mare koi bachcha nahi royega, Chayn ki neend har ek shaks yahan soyega.
Aandhi nafrat ki chalegi na kahin ab ke baras, Pyar ki fasl ugayegi zameen ab ke baras.
Hai yakeen ab na koi shor sharaaba hoga, Zulm hoga na kahin khoon kharaaba hoga.
Ons aur dhoop ke sadme na sahega koi, Ab mere des mein beghar na rahega koi.
Naye waadon ka jo daala hai, wo jaal achha hai, Rehnumaaon ne kaha hai ke ye saal achha hai.
Dil ke khush rakhne ko Ghalib ye khayaal achha hai
Humko maaloom hai jannat ki haqeeqat lekin Dil ke khush rakhne ko, Ghalib yeh khayaal achcha hai..
Barahman = wise, knowledgeable. Rehnuma = guide ------------- एक बरहमन ने कहा है के ये साल अच्छा है। ज़ुल्म की रात बहुत जल्द ढलेगी अब तो, आग चूल्हों मे हर एक रोज़ जलेगी अब तो।
भूख के मरे कोई बच्चा नही रोयेगा, चयन की नींद हर एक शख्स यहाँ सोयेगा।
आंधी नफरत की चलेगी न कहीं अब के बरस, प्यार की फ़स्ल उगायेगी ज़मीन अब के बरस।
है यकीन अब न कोई शोर शराबा होगा, ज़ुल्म होगा न कहीं खून खराबा होगा।
ओंस और धुप के सदमे न सहेगा कोई, अब मेरे देस मे बेघर न रहेगा कोई।
नए वादों का जो डाला है, वो जाल अच्छा है, रहनुमाओं ने कहा है के ये साल अच्छा है।
हमको मालूम है जन्नत की हकीकत लेकिन दिल के खुश रखने को, "ग़ालिब" यह ख़याल अच्छा है॥
True blue Sagittarian, a hopeless romantic, poet, dreamer, practical, too much of a thinker, impulsive, serious, cranky, idealist, simple and down-to-earth (barring a few exceptions heh heh), optimist, Nationalist, environmental activist. A little bit of this and a little bit of that with a dash of everything makes some of the things that I am...
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