It's 11 days to 2011 and I've decided to break the shackles. So at 11 something PM, I decided to write the 11th blog of this year (just to break the 6, 8, 10 pattern).
I don't have much to say except that it has been a foody last four days. What started with our drive to Boston on Saturday the 18th, the visits with friends and relatives, the feasts at my wife's cousins baby shower and after our return, at dinner with our most wonderful neighbours today. I must say, it is the most wonderful time of the year. The only thing missing so far has been that big snowfall. The lights are all out all over the place and about the shopping, don't even get me started. Every time I go to the plaza or the mall, I have to cirle the parking lots a couple of times before I find someone who is pulling back, only to find someone else already waiting with their giant SUV to pull in there. So what can a meek Honda Accord do but gently roll away and find the farthest spot from the store I meant to go and walk all the way up and down in the cold wind? "How do you eat so much and stay so thin?", asked my host today at dinner. Want to hear more?
This is just like last week. My son and wife are asleep after a long tiring day and I found that teeny weeny ounce of energy to stay up and write this. When I thought of the 11 days to 2011 concept this morning, I was excited about it, but I knew this was going to be a long day, but I kept telling myself that I should not give up and try to keep my composure and get this piece in tonight. I am glad I resisted hitting the sacj straightaway and did this. For I want 2011 to be not just about inspirational ideas that appear at meteoric intervals but the power of discipline, perseverance and execution. So I decided to push myself the extra few minutes at the end of a tiring day. And I want to say, it didn't turn out bad at all. The key now is to do this day after day for the next 10 days, with unfaltering commitment. And that would probably set the tone for the next year to come and many more.
2010 was special in many ways. 2011 will be even better. And in this 11 day run up to 2011, I will try and capture here some of the special moments of the year that is running out and some of the things I want to do in the year coming up. It's lights out and soon it will be 11 minutes to midnight and only 10 days to the new year. So good night world, happy Wednesday morning India and happy rest of the evening all ye in sunny California.
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