Dear PP, 04-01-2012
As the year closes and I plan my trip to Sydney for the close of a beautiful year, I reminisce a few of the events that were a part of my life this year. Ofcourse some hair loss, or more so a lot of hair lost in the battle to save them, braving nail biting cold (with friends making it a point to tell me how weak I was and that they have suffered much worse). It was a good year, for myself and for those around. The worst or the best part was the speed with which it passed by. This was the year I perfected my chicken curry, from the meat being partially uncooked to it being extremely well done, from the spices having been fried less to all the nitty gritty, I have experimented with it all, with help from my darling motu. Motu was the taster, but mind you motu never goes near non-vegeterian food.
As in life struggle, joy and hope were all sprinkled to make the year a bitter sweet experience. As I arrived in Australia the state of Queensland was going through its worst flood in decades, many lost homes, loved ones and insurance cover. A few months later the Christ church earthquakes and the Japanese nuclear disaster.
Dooms day sayers had a field day this year with scares and movies all depicting the end as being near. But little do they realize the bible verses clearly state that “1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 (NIV) for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”without fore warning. But who reads the bible or any scriptural text.
The grand finale was the fireworks at Sydney, harbor bridge with Motu and friends where new year will be celebrated the first, fire works and the lot to make known the coming of the new year.
Lessons learnt this year:
Life is a rudderless boat, you have to deal with the fact that a plotted course may or may not work all the time, its exciting and unnerving at the same time
You cannot chose the people who enter your life, but you can chose whether or not they stay (old but a lot of experience attached to it)
That coffee from Baristas are have a reason to be there
One mans loss is anothers opportunity
That if you want to change people, you just have to hurt them.
The Americans are just taking moral responsibility for the wrongs that the world perpetuates
Its oft better to be alone and indecisive than to follow the wrong leader
Regards
E
