New Year messages sms and New Year greetings

THE NEW Year is around. When the clock strikes twelve on December 31, people all over the world cheer and wish each other a 'Happy New Year!'.
As the tradition goes, for most people the New Year symbolises the fresh beginning and a resolve for a better future.
According to G K Chesterton, the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
Thus, the New Year celebration is all about optimism and an occasion to look forward to good times ahead and spread happiness. Much of all this is expressed through New Year wishes and messages.

Here are some new year messages and wished to exchange.

• May the dawning of this New Year fill you with new zest and zeal. Wishing you a very...very... very prosperous 2011!

• Have a joyous and wonderful 2011! Wishing you and you family happy and glorious New Year!

• May your life be fragrant with new opportunities and new hopes because it is New Year. Happy 2011!

• May happy times and warm memories brighten your new year. Have a great year. Happy New Year!

• May the year 2011 brings for you happiness, success and hope. Wishing you a Happy New Year!

• I wish in 2011, every moment is enjoyed. May God bless you through out the New Year. Happy New Year!

• May this New Year bring newly found prosperity, love, happiness and delight in your life. Wishing you a truly fulfilling 2011!

• May the New Year fill your heart with new hopes and brighter tomorrows. May you have a great New Year!

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Top New Year health resolutions of 2011

THE NEW Year is close and it’s that time of the year to make new year resolutions – the top resolutions of 2011 are learning to ride a bike and losing those extra pounds – say experts.
“Maybe it was the shock of seeing oneself in recent holiday photos, or not being able to fit into desired party attire that causes a vow to lose weight, and for many more it is a medical event such as a heart attack, the threat of diabetes or high blood pressure,” said Dr. Jessica Bartfield at the Loyola University Health System.
“Behaviour change is the cornerstone of healthy, successful weight loss and it takes about three months to establish a new behaviour. At Gottlieb, a team of tried-and-true medical experts can teach you the skills you need to achieve and maintain behaviour change,” she added.
Top weight-loss behaviours from Bartfield and the NWCR:
• Eat breakfast – “Eating within one hour of awakening can boost your metabolism up to 20 percent for the rest of the day,” Bartfield said.
• Weigh yourself once per week - “Monitoring your weight on a weekly basis provides a fairly accurate weight trend and, more importantly, an early detection of any weight regain, which allows you to adjust behaviors accordingly,” Bartfield said.
• Get in one hour of moderate physical activity each day - “Snow shoveling, vacuuming, taking the stairs – you don’t have to run like a hamster on a wheel for 60 minutes. Take three, 20-minute brisk walks, or compile the one hour based on a series of activities,” Bartfield said.
• Watch less than 10 hours of TV per week - “Many argue they don’t have time to exercise, but when I ask them to count the hours they spend watching TV or surfing the Net, they are able to find the time for activities where they are moving instead of sitting,” Bartfield said.
What not to do - Barriers that prevent people from losing weight
• Overestimate amount of physical activity -“Park your car farther away, take the stairs, manually change TV channels – these are all simple ways to get more physical activity and you need to write them down as they are performed to keep yourself honest,” Bartfield said.
• Underestimate caloric intake – Keeping a food journal helps you document the calories you take in.
• Set unrealistic goals - “Patients often set vague and outcome-related goals such as “weigh 150 pounds by summer” or “exercise more.”
Set specific and attainable goals. Instead of trying to get to a certain weight, start by trying to lose 10 percent of your weight – that amount has been shown to have a statistically significant improvement in health and reduction in risk of obesity-related disease.
• Lack of consistency - “Eat at regular intervals seven days per week,” she said.
• Failure to plan for setbacks – “Enlist a trusted friend, or enroll in a program to learn and master the rules of weight loss,” Bartfield said.

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2011 New Year Parties in Delhi with fine dining, dancing

ON DECEMBER 31^st, Delhiites will witness the biggest ever new year bash which is all set to enthrall audiences from far and near. In order to usher in the new decade, many clubs, lounges and discs are offering an opportunity to party all night long at unbeatable prices. Here is a list of places where one can keep all his troubles in the backseat and hop on to a journey which can be very well reminisced for the rest of his life.

BluO:- Starting from December 29, BluO will usher in the new year in advance with the presence of rock band Nasha who have got quite an enviable resume. The band who has earlier performed with the likes of Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy, Aamir Khan and Mohit Chauhan apart from Sufi guru, Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will strum their guitars and vocal chords on an entirely different level and create a psychedelic environment in Gurgaon ALL DAY LONG!

Elevate:- Rightly accredited as one of the best clubs in Delhi, Elevate will play host to “Quantum” with its NYE Celebrations along with DJ Juggy D and DJ Vishnu on December 31^st.

BluO:- After its day long carnival on 29^th, BluO will welcome the New Year in style along with world renowned DJ Bally Sagoo.

Taj Palace Hotel:- Located in the heart of Delhi, Taj Palace will play host to Punjabi singing sensation, Sukhbir as he lends his voice to songs ranging from rap, techno and reggae.

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Is the tradition of New Year resolutions an absurdity?

A RESOLUTION is a mental commitment that an individual makes for reforming a habit or lifestyle or relationship by learning lessons from the past experiences.
And, New Year resolutions are the change-affecting commitments made by an individual that normally go into effect on New Year's Day. For this one is to reflect upon self-improvement annually and resolve to accomplish the improvement.
While stressing the need of resolution, Eric Zorn said, "Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle."

On the other hand, there are critics of the New Year resolutions too. As Mark Twain has aptly remarked, "New Year is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions."
But the absurdities of the New Year resolutions can’t escape the mind of the wise. Here are some funny quotes describing the New Year resolutions as a foolery of mind:

• Oscar Wilde: Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
• Joey Adams: May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!
• Jay Leno: Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average…which means, you have met your New Year's resolution.
• James Agate: New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
• Anonymous: Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
• Anais Nin: I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticising, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

A few research studies inform that only about 12 per cent actually achieved their goals through the resolutions made on the eve of New Year. Anyway, about 10 per cent people of any group achieve their whether they resolve or do not. 

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New Year Eve: Better reflect and get perfect

THOUGH REFLECTING on our experiences in 2010 on the eve of New Year 2011 may prove discomforting, but it is not a bad idea at all.

Read the following and perhaps you may feel motivated to reflect on the past year and plan consciously for the New Year.

An autobiography of New Year titled "I Am the New Year" in a Bible Illustrator goes as follows.

"I am the new year. I am an unspoiled page in your book of time. I am your. I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned about life during the last twelve months. All that you sought and didn’t find is hidden in me, waiting for you to search it but with more determination. All the good that you tried for and didn’t achieve is mine to grant when you have fewer conflicting desires. All that you dreamed but didn’t dare to do, all that you hoped but did not will, all the faith that you claimed but did not have—these slumber lightly, waiting to be awakened by the touch of a strong purpose. I am your opportunity to renew your allegiance to Him who said, 'Behold, I make all things new.''

Here is my acrostic verse on the significance of reflection on the eve of New Year.

N: Next chance at improving oneself
E: Efforts be made consciously to achieve the purpose of life
W: Wealth of time be planned and used adequately
Y: Yesteryear is lost for ever but the new can planned in advance
E: Every moment should count in future
A: All the good that you tried for earlier, continue that and have fewer conflicting desires
R: Reflect on the past year and yourself to find what needs to be done in the New Year

Likewise, Steven B. Cloud, in his write-up titled "A Year of Time" says the following.

"As we look into 2011 we look at a block of time. We see 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds. And all is a gift from God. We have done nothing to deserve it, earn it, or purchased it. Like the air we breathe, time comes to us as a part of life. The gift of time is not ours alone. It is given equally to each person. Rich and poor, educated and ignorant, strong and weak—every man, woman and child has the same twenty-four hours every day. Another important thing about time is that you cannot stop it. There is no way to slow it down, turn it off, or adjust it. Time marches on. And you cannot bring back time. Once it is gone, it is gone. Yesterday is lost forever. If yesterday is lost, tomorrow is uncertain. We may look ahead at a full year’s block of time, but we really have no guarantee that we will experience any of it.

Obviously, time is one of our most precious possessions. We can waste it. We can worry over it. We can spend it on ourselves. Or, as good stewards, we can invest it in the kingdom of God. The New Year is full of time. As the seconds tick away, will you be tossing time out the window, or will you make every minute count?"

So, on the eve of New Year, reflect, plan and move ahead. Wish you all a Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year 2011 wishes and messages

THE ENTIRE world gears up and puts on its dancing shoes to welcome the new year 2011. People across the globe celebrate the world's biggest celebration to make life more beautiful, peaceful and meaningful.

People across the globe have kicked off exchanging greetings and wishing their relatives, friends and colleagues to start all things with a new beginning and the completion of all desires which were left unfulfilled last year on the occasion of Happy New Year 2011.
Some of the popular Happy New Year messages are here:
Oh my Dear, Forget ur Fear,
Let all ur Dreams be Clear,
Never put Tear, Please Hear,
I want to tell one thing in ur Ear
Wishing u a very "HAPPY NEW YEAR"!

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IIM Lucknow launches Manfest 2011

IIM Lucknow today announced the launch of its 24^th Annual International Business Conclave, Manfest 2011 with the unveiling of the event’s website. This edition of Manfest is based on the theme “Renaissance 2030: Shape the Change” and aims to create new paradigms of thought that foresee our lives, our society, our economy, two decades from now. Manfest 2011 will be held from January 21-23 in the IIM Lucknow campus.

A flagship management event called TAS Zeus will offer a prestigious TAS shortlist to the winners aside from whopping prize money of INR 1 Lakh. Innovation seems to be the key driving force as Manfest readies to launch Treatise, its International Debate event on the hugely popular social networking site, Facebook.

BizQuiz 2011 partnered by SBI  promises to be a humdinger if last year’s event is any indication. The Next CEO, Call for Arms, Strategos and Finathlon complete the flagship management events ably supported by a host of industry and domain specific competitions for B-school students. Online events such as Treatise and Dayitva have extended Manfest’s reach to International participants from Stanford to Singapore.

The Leaders Express vertical at Manfest this year is all set to host two very relevant conclaves - Arthashaatra, the Finance Leadership Summit and Srujan, The Creative Arts and Media Conclave. Not to mention, the avant garde Corporate Luncheon, talk series and Gravitas - the Manfest publication that will feature original articles from the likes of Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and Vikram Pandit. Some of the personalities gracing Manfest this year are Dr. J. J. Irani, Dr. Mallika Sarabhai, Prahlad Kakkar, Rahul Bose, Abhigyan Prakash, A. P. Kurien, and H. K. Dua amongst others.

Social Responsibility is a crucial element in the path to sustainable living and transformational social change. As a responsible B-school, IIM Lucknow places a lot of stress on this. Under its CSR Initiatives, Manfest launched a new flagship CSR event called Yajna - The CSR Challenge that will get NGOs, Corporates and students to work together in solving critical social problems of the day in as many as 6 Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bangalore and Pune. Ably complementing Yajna are The Prerna Social Entrepreneurship Awards, Lucknow City 10km Awareness run and Dayitva - the online CSR Strategy game.

Says Manfest coordinator Abhishek Kumar, “Manfest has matured to the point where we want to utilize this platform to create critical value - be it through competitions, conclaves or social initiatives”

All this serious business is, however, not without its share of fun as Manfest becomes the first B-school in the country to host an International Rock Act.  This will be the first performance of the band in the country. This will be backed by an exhilarating Bollywood Nite featuring a leading playback singer, a scintillating cultural performance courtesy SPIC MACAY, and lots of other entertainment events.

All in All, Manfest 2011 promises to be a roller coaster ride of competition, discussion, knowledge creation and entertainment!

Media: Love it, hate it but you can't ignore it

WITH A lot being said about commercialisation of the media, ethics of Indian journalism getting tainted at every instance and journalists being questioned of their integrity, the media surely has come a long way from being a sect that induces information amongst a large group of people. It has evolved as an entity taking various elements in its being as per the demand of time. The media has undergone various developmental phases to become what it is today.

No matter how badly we criticise it for selling away its power of influencing public opinion, it remains inevitable that we hugely depend on it for our daily dose of news, entertainment and sometimes all the masala that becomes our dining table discussion. Having said that, our firm belief finds roots in the fact that we are as involved with the media as it is with us- ‘the commoners’, ‘the aam admi’, ‘the masses’ or a more popular term that a coming of age movie coined for ‘we the people’- ‘the mango people.’

All the hue and cry about how people are enraged with the media for unethical conduct, crossing boundaries and irresponsibly reporting issues of national concern is just like the fizz which mellows down after the corks pops out. All the questions being raised about how can the media so blatantly intrude in the lives of public figures and expose their private lives in the public domain, has been talked about for quite some time now. Celebrities and public figures have been condemning the media for this act forever. But when you question them about abandoning the media, all go mum. All the credit they gobble and leave the leftovers, that is the accusations, the rage and the blame for the media.

We must give credit to the fourth estate for surviving all these blows and still being able to make way into our bedrooms, being a part of our discussions and lastly making us a part of it. This is just one instance that emphasises on the power and importance of the media. Then we have all the scams, the investigative reports, the revelations which expose the wrong doers and instil a fear for the media. Those who understand this power try taming the media by all means but that is a different story all together.

No one can disagree that the media today is very powerful in almost every sense. With its diversification, it has strengthened its roots and has been able to combat the lashes of time. Allowing space for public opinion has only added to its glory. With the advent of new media basically online journalism the power of the media has increased by leaps and bound. Be it online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging or micro blogging; all this has not only given the people chance to voice their opinions but also allowed them to strengthen their views and write without the fear of being objected.

Today micro blogging has become a means that disseminates news. 160 characters have created news stories. Call it meagre or call it insignificant, the scams that have been in the fore front lately has come to the public domain because as yet there is no quasi judicial body that aims to regulate the flow of news of information online. One click and you already know, give your opinion, create a thread and lo! Everyone gets talking.

This does not for once mean that the traditional media is taking a backseat. All that this article aims to emphasise on is that come what may the media has been evolving and will evolve with time to grow in stature. It has been powerful enough to influence public opinion always but today by vesting the power in the hands of the people it has not only stretched its boundaries but also proven that it is not only the media but is also the message.