RETIRED OFFICERS’FORUM

(401,Suntook Chambers, Sardarnagar, Vadodara, 390002) (Www.barodalinks.com/retiree/)

ISSUE:            149                              NUGGETS                            January 2008                

 

MEETING VENUE: Ladies Common Room, Faculty of Arts, MSU, Vadodara.

DATE: Friday 4th January 2008.

TIME:  At   5-00 pm sharp. Please note advanced time. Kindly come on time.

AGENDA: Surprise Games, Birthday Greetings, Housie, and Dinner, to bid good-bye to Year 2007 and welcome New Year 2008. Please positively confirm your participation.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! : We have bid farewell to 2007, a year of satisfaction. We welcome Year 2008 with hopes of fulfillment of cherished activities for self and society. Members are requested to come forward with proposals for specific programs and activities in the new year that can involve people and help in fostering the main object of the Forum.

GOLD YEAR GREETINGS:

ROF Members extend warm and hearty greetings to the following fellow-members who have completed 75 years in 2007 and entered a Golden Age to forge ahead gracefully on the    journey to complete a Century. All our Best Wishes to them and their families:

  1. Shri  D.M.Parikh                   7th January                1932
  2. Shri H.Jetley                          3rd August                  1932
  3. Shri  K.K.Dhir                        21st April                     1932
  4. Padmashri Dr.V.C.Patel        18th September           1932
  5. Shri G.Y.Keskar                    27th June                     1932
  6. Shri Manmohan Gupta          27th September           1932   

We specially request these elders to attend the Meeting and receive Mementoes as mark of our affection.

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS:We extend our hearty best wishes for Health and Happiness to following members whose birthdays fall in January,2008:

B.K.Agarwal                           13-01-38         

Savitri Agarwal                      02-01              

S.L.Banga                               31-01-34

Pramila Bhatt             04-01

Sushila Budhwani                   26-01

S.C.Bagga                              26-01-48

G.M.Bahudhanya                  04-01-49

Padma Char                            01-01

S.N.Contractor                       14-01-29

D.K.Dave                               10-01-41

Asha Desai                             15-01

M.L.Gupta                             01-01-49

R.K.Garg                                26-01-42

E.Gopinathan                         05-01-33

Anila Gujjar                            04-01

S.V.Joshi                                24-01-47

 

Kshama Jetley                       04-01

Usha Kagalwala                     01-01

Laxmi Narayan                      16-01-44

Saroj Mahajan                       04-01

Vibha Nigam                          01-01

Herbert Naronha                   31-01-34

Ashwin Pandya                       02-01-47

I.C.Pandya                              13-01-42

P.K.Pandya                             26-01-40

D.M.Parikh                            07-01-32

Prof.A.G.Patel                        28-01-31

Dr.S.M.Rana                         25-01-39

H.S.Randhwa                         08-01-31

S.K.Sharma                            27-01-44

Sunita Sharma                        20-01

Indu Saini                               02-01

Sudha Shukla                         14-01

Divya Shah                             20-01

Kalavati Trivedi                     05-01

S.C.Vakil                                09-01-35

N.N.Veer                                15-01-46

Manjula Singh                        07-01                               (Please notify any errors/omissions.)

SPIRITUAL RETREAT AT TITHAL: Please register your names, along with any guests who  may like to join in the retreat (17-20 Jan), with M.P.Desai (2784899) soon. 

 

MUSICAL BONANZA: Our Palnitkar Singer-Duo, Satish and Sushm, will be presenting an exclusive one-hour programme of Golden Hindi film songs in the 4th January Meeting, to welcome the New Year and enthrall Members. The Palnitkar couple have been regularly giving such stage performances of 2 to 2 ½ hours, singing popular Hindi and Marathi songs to widely appreciative audiences. We are sure Members will greatly enjoy this event.

 

DREAMS ARE WINDOWS TO THE FUTURE:

The origin of dreams is elucidated in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras as ’result of incidental transition of the mind from its conscious to unconscious state’. The natural tendencies of one’s mind and body are reflected in the sub-conscious state of sleep.

Sub-conscious mind created what we see as great discoveries of nature’s benevolence to humanity. Isaac Newton initially observed falling of a ripened apple while sitting under a tree, while later on he had a dream, wherein sub-conscious mind offered a scientific explanation of the gravitational force. The intensity of visual reflection in dreams is more powerful than any fact spoken or heard. Type and quality of dream largely depends upon one’s intrinsic nature as also bent of mind. Capacity of mind is so great that solution to many a problem is visualized by the dreamer and if the subject remembers the dream, the solution is found.

Good, pious thoughts must remain as our constant companion. Our acts and activities must contain sacred intuitions, so that through dreams we obtain guidance for continuing smoothly on life’s journey. It is not that physical and biological faculties lead to what we dream. If such were the case, then how persons deprived of eye- sight had dreamt so great and sublime thoughts that it is beyond anyone’s perception to believe their creations. (Contributed by R.K. Sharma, ROF member.)

 

RETIRED, NOT TIRED: JUST GO FOR IT!

As a student, you wanted to become a professional. During employment, you were too busy earning money and accomplishing career-oriented goals. As a parent, you were busy raising family and providing for your child’s education Perhaps you did not have the time or even aptitude to understand questions like who you were, what the real purpose of your life was, what your real interests were. Retirement is the time to ponder over all these questions and accomplish what you really wanted to do from the core of your heart. Retirement gives you ample opportunity to discover the real purpose of life and pursue activities that express your true self.

To fulfill only personal and selfish interests is restrictive. You need to reach beyond, to serve a higher purpose that benefits all. All your life you have taken so much. You exploited natural resources and degraded the environment to make life more comfortable. What have you done or given in return? Retirement is the time when you could give something back to society.

Work now for those causes you’ve always believed in. Pursue one or more of these purposes in your retirement, helping the needy doing social work and community networking, promoting an environmental cause, starting a home for the needy elderly, conserving heritage, fighting corruption, writing a book, inventing something useful and translating inspiring literature from one language to another. Though they may not be very rewarding financially, these pursuits are a source of immense happiness and fulfillment, which is the core desire of all human beings. Sometimes you may even spend some money from your own pocket to benefit others. Remember: There is no joy like the joy of serving others. (B.K.Trehan-Times of India: The SpeakingTree: 20/11 /07)

LAUGH A WHILE: Husband: Darling, if I do not survive this operation, promise me you will marry this doctor.

Wife: Oh, why do you say this?

Husband: That is the only way to have my revenge! (Wg.Com. K.Ravindran)

 

ROF DIRECTORY REPRINTING: Please update details of your entry in the Directory earliest.

 

NUGGETS:, Nuggets is being posted on ROF website ( www.barodalinks.com/retiree/) as well as  sent by e-mail. Please intimate if you do not receive your copy sent by courier, by month-end.

(Compiler: M.P.Desai, (Tel: 2784899). Feedback and contributions welcome.)