1. Get some professional photos taken.
2. Feel the snow.
3. Refresh my personal library and read my favorite novels again.
   1. Gone with the wind
   2. Doctors
   3. Love story
   4. Ponniyin Selvan (Tamil)
4. Have my hair permed.
5. Take son to the zoo or beach all by myself atleast once every month.
6. Visit Lake Palace, Thekkady and stay at the same suite we stayed on our honeymoon.
7. Sail in the sea.
8. Be awake all night doing whatever.
9. Collect favorite movie DVDs in HD.
10. Watch Ellen Show whenever I wish. And watch it live atleast once.
11. Buy Calvin and Hobbes full collection.
12. Maintain an Oil Pastels daily sketch book.
13. Inspire people and be a blessing in someone’s life.
14. Make my own personalized flash cards for son.
15. Sing on stage atleast once.
16. Perform with a professional dance group.
17. Go on a tour of Indian classical dances and learn a few steps in each.
18. Learn ballroom dancing with hubby.
19. Make a really good mouth watering curry.
20. Interview a famous person I really appreciate and admire.
21. Get son to spend quality time with my parents.
22. Spend a night at the beach with closest of family/friends.
23. Teach son to read tamil.
24. Camp in a jungle and not be afraid.
25. Read a book in a lonely beach.
26. Consciously allow myself to be addicted to something and pamper and nurture the addiction.

I’m sure the list is not complete yet, but I have some raw material to work with in life.

I believe in believing. Why yes, it all dates back to the days in my past, with disbelief in the almighty, even though I was an optimist in actions. I believed in myself and everything was possible. Except that I didn’t realize that I was missing something important. That part which I didn’t know, I either was ignorant about it or I subconsciously chose not to dig into it, lest I have to face a truth I’m not prepared for.

Anyway, things turned out well and before it was too late, I understood this important thing in life. The thing that changed me, my life and family and undoubtedly will continue to do so, in a positive way. I’m sure I wrote something related here and here, but these are topics that keep showing more new meanings in life, the more we look. There’s always a lot to explore and the things that we are going to learn shall never end.

What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. -Napolean Hill

Belief. All things tangible are so because of belief. All things superstitious are so because of belief.

A couple of days back hubby was wondering why he was fine when he ate ice creams as a child, but now when he takes ice cream, he gets a sore throat! I said, ‘yeah, when you were a child, your mind was not poisoned with the thought that ice creams cause sore throats, but now that you do, you believe in it and end up getting one’.

The demonstration of Power of belief starts early in life. Everyday when I get ready, son stands next to me and insists that I do makeup on his face. I act as if I’m applying makeup on him but he doesn’t know that I actually closed the accessories safely before putting it on his face. This happens everyday and then he would stand in front of the mirror and admire the work I had ‘done’ on his face. Sometimes I play along saying how the eyeliner made his eyes more beautiful. He feels proud and sometimes when he is not in mood, he even tries to remove the makeup with his shirt, you know, the makeup that really isn’t there.

Belief is a basic of everything. If not for this factor, what would the world look like today?

It’s kind of my own recipe prepared briefly within 10 minutes and I just had to add all those words to the recipe name!!!

• Children grow up too fast.
• You want your child to be smart and all, but there are some skills that you wish your child hadn’t learnt, like opening the zip of your purse or removing his own diaper.
• You’d love your ‘me time’ so much that you wouldn’t mind being awake at 3 am in the night making use of the time.
• You will learn to give-in.
• You’ll be convinced that there needn’t be a source to everything. There are some things that are learnt from nowhere.

Just in case you had any doubts about him being the king.

…eating dip-sticks.

Hmm, Yummy!

City boys under construction.

City boys under construction with a bull dozer.

City boys under construction with a bulldozer and hugging Bob, the builder.

City boys under construction with a bull dozer, hugging Bob, the builder and pushing a kitty cat away!!!

THE END

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Posted in Kids!, NaBloPoMo Jan2010, Through my eyes ]]> http://trulyinspiredmom.com/2010/01/28/24-city-boys/feed/ 2 The_Inspired City boys Under Construction :-) With a bulldozer hugging Bob, the builder Kittycat bulldozer http://trulyinspiredmom.com/2010/01/28/24-sidee/ http://trulyinspiredmom.com/2010/01/28/24-sidee/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:59:57 +0000 The_Inspired http://trulyinspiredmom.com/?p=1471 ]]> No, I’m not talking about any animated character here. Son saw this ad posters in the train and got excited about it.

He calls it Sidee (CD). Yup, it does look like a CD, doesn’t it?

Reunited.

Actually my only non-indian friend so far!

She was new to Singapore when I met her and had just started to learn English. We had a lots of communication challenges and after a long struggle, I learnt to speak broken english to match her at that time. She is getting better at her language these days. Thanks to her, I don’t have to speak word-after-word anymore.