When I bid adieu to the year 2011, many memories spring up: good ones, bad ones, inconsequential ones and many more. In many ways, 2011 was a fulfilling and memorable one. It would have been more memorable had I landed up in a good job. That’s the only pain that I had to endure all through the year. Except for that, everything else was fine. I did end my post graduation and thus my academic life with a decent percentage, had met some of my old cronies, had been to quite a few historical places, and as any other years, seen a few good movies and read a few good books.
The year began with a tour to North Karnataka with the family. I’d never seen Northern side of Karnataka. It ended to be a great tour to witness historical places like Bijapur, Koodalasangama, Badami, Eihole, Pattadakal all which were reminiscent of the glorious days of our state. Then somewhere in the year we did visit the fort of Chitradurga. All the People of Karnataka should watch this fort which stands as a testimony to the history of our state.
I always wanted to learn yoga kriya by a master. Although I’d learnt something, it was never proper, disciplined. I considered it was a great opportunity when I came to know that Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev would be conducting inner engineering program in Mysore in the month of April. Without hesitation I along with my father registered to the program and we did attend for two and a half days. I guess those two and a half days were the best, worthy two and half days of my life which was lush with life, experience, intensity and knowledge. The name of the kriya that was taught was ‘Shambhavi Maha Mudra’ which is from distilled repertoire of ancient yogic science. I’ve been regular in my practice till date and I have seen significant improvement in my well-being and my experience of life.
The arena of stock market: In the stock market I actively participated at least for a few days and made some peanut money not out of my knowledge but due to the fluctuations of market. For the very first time, I did day trading. Though the profit made was in a few hundreds, the thrill that it gives is priceless. But one has to be wary about it not to overindulge.
A few of my childhood friends got married. It’s sort of funny to attend the marriages of a few friends who were kiddos once and now with assumed maturity are getting married. It’ll always be a great feeling to meet some of the oldest friends after a long time and to get drenched in the memories of good old days.
This year I read exactly 25 books from various genres. Somewhere I read this fact about Osho Rajaneesh : he was an avid reader. In his lifetime, he’d read more than hundred thousand books. He calculated till that point and after crossing that mark, he left calculating. I was amazed by the fact. I thought I should at least do 10% of what he had done. The number came to be 10000 and seemed impossible and then I decided at least 1% of the number i.e. 1000. So, thus I began calculating from the year 2011. Hopefully, i will cross that mark sometime. Some of the best books I read are: Wings of fire by Abdul Kalam, Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki, Stay hungry stay foolish by Rashmi Bansal, Autobiography of Michael Jackson (Moonwalk), The natural state of U.G. Krishnamurthy, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Enlightenment-Life the way it is of Sadhguru, Aavarana(Kannada) by S.L. Bhairappa, Many lives many masters by Brian Weiss, Negationism in India by Koenraad Elst and finally Shantaram by Gregory Roberts.
As I was jobless most of the times, I saw quite a few movies (114 to be exact!) in 2011. A few good ones: The passion of Christ, Inception, The last seduction, The social Network, Source Code, Raging Bull, The silence of the lambs, Aviator, Copycat, Battle of Algiers, Schindler’s list, Manchurian Candidate, Minority Report, Full metal jacket, 12 angry men, Saving private Ryan, Die hard, Good will hunting, The shining, The kid, Downfall, Sleuth, Seven, Avatar, Infernal Affairs, The pianist, The sting, Das boot, Shutter Island, Braveheart, District 13 Ultimatum and Papillon.
As I bid adieu to 2011 and welcome 2012, the year that is supposed to be the end of the world I hope all positive things come in abundance and the negatives shall become scarce or nil. If the world comes to an end, which would be the end of all non-senses in one shot that man has done. Both are fine with me.
The year began with a tour to North Karnataka with the family. I’d never seen Northern side of Karnataka. It ended to be a great tour to witness historical places like Bijapur, Koodalasangama, Badami, Eihole, Pattadakal all which were reminiscent of the glorious days of our state. Then somewhere in the year we did visit the fort of Chitradurga. All the People of Karnataka should watch this fort which stands as a testimony to the history of our state.
I always wanted to learn yoga kriya by a master. Although I’d learnt something, it was never proper, disciplined. I considered it was a great opportunity when I came to know that Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev would be conducting inner engineering program in Mysore in the month of April. Without hesitation I along with my father registered to the program and we did attend for two and a half days. I guess those two and a half days were the best, worthy two and half days of my life which was lush with life, experience, intensity and knowledge. The name of the kriya that was taught was ‘Shambhavi Maha Mudra’ which is from distilled repertoire of ancient yogic science. I’ve been regular in my practice till date and I have seen significant improvement in my well-being and my experience of life.
The arena of stock market: In the stock market I actively participated at least for a few days and made some peanut money not out of my knowledge but due to the fluctuations of market. For the very first time, I did day trading. Though the profit made was in a few hundreds, the thrill that it gives is priceless. But one has to be wary about it not to overindulge.
A few of my childhood friends got married. It’s sort of funny to attend the marriages of a few friends who were kiddos once and now with assumed maturity are getting married. It’ll always be a great feeling to meet some of the oldest friends after a long time and to get drenched in the memories of good old days.
This year I read exactly 25 books from various genres. Somewhere I read this fact about Osho Rajaneesh : he was an avid reader. In his lifetime, he’d read more than hundred thousand books. He calculated till that point and after crossing that mark, he left calculating. I was amazed by the fact. I thought I should at least do 10% of what he had done. The number came to be 10000 and seemed impossible and then I decided at least 1% of the number i.e. 1000. So, thus I began calculating from the year 2011. Hopefully, i will cross that mark sometime. Some of the best books I read are: Wings of fire by Abdul Kalam, Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki, Stay hungry stay foolish by Rashmi Bansal, Autobiography of Michael Jackson (Moonwalk), The natural state of U.G. Krishnamurthy, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Enlightenment-Life the way it is of Sadhguru, Aavarana(Kannada) by S.L. Bhairappa, Many lives many masters by Brian Weiss, Negationism in India by Koenraad Elst and finally Shantaram by Gregory Roberts.
As I was jobless most of the times, I saw quite a few movies (114 to be exact!) in 2011. A few good ones: The passion of Christ, Inception, The last seduction, The social Network, Source Code, Raging Bull, The silence of the lambs, Aviator, Copycat, Battle of Algiers, Schindler’s list, Manchurian Candidate, Minority Report, Full metal jacket, 12 angry men, Saving private Ryan, Die hard, Good will hunting, The shining, The kid, Downfall, Sleuth, Seven, Avatar, Infernal Affairs, The pianist, The sting, Das boot, Shutter Island, Braveheart, District 13 Ultimatum and Papillon.
As I bid adieu to 2011 and welcome 2012, the year that is supposed to be the end of the world I hope all positive things come in abundance and the negatives shall become scarce or nil. If the world comes to an end, which would be the end of all non-senses in one shot that man has done. Both are fine with me.
Hmmm great post maga... 114 movies and 25 books huh? How can u keep statistics of all these maga?
ReplyDeletethanx macha :) :)i decided to keep statistics till i read 1000 books :) i maintain dairy in which i document significant & insignificant things of my life. There i maintain stats of the movies !:D I have a list in IMDB. Check out sometime :)
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