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Its dawn of the new year. Every things seems fresh, though its just a psychological feeling.The past is past, everybody make plans for the future, and I have some too.I scribbled some lines in Punjabi on new year eve.Here is English translation :

"have dreams in the eyes,
and passion to live the dreams..
have tides of wishes,
and courage to achieve those.. "

Punjabi Source Here

So my new year resolutions will be a progress in living my dreams .

Professional/ Academic :

• Pursue study/research in Natural Language Processing / Linguistics , Full fledged dedication does not seems to be affordable . Will look for alternatives like Open / Free Education thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare. There are many other players which provide open education.
• Start / become member of an open source project in the field of Natural Language Processing and Python as my favorite language.
• Learn a new programming language, LISP is a favorite, Scala or Groovy are also on the Radar.
• Dive more in depth into Java (Excited about closures in Java 7) and Python . In fact become more competent in Python.
• Will look to work on frameworks/technologies like Struts2, Spring , Guice ,
  Hibernate , Axis2 , SOA in Java/J2EE and django , Plone in Python , Will be following happenings in these .
• Become a Sun Certified Web Component Developer.

Personal :

• Learn Urdu langauge/script , to be efficient in reading and translating Pakistani Punjabi /Shahmukhi.
• Have personnel web space and host/migrate my blogs there.
• Will make cycling/exercising a habit.
• Will start writing a diary
• Will look for a girl friend…

Books To Read:

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
• The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking.
• Ik Nadi Sanvli Jihi(Punjabi) by Nirupuma Dutt
• Many More as they come across .

My Predictions :

• Open Source is going to rule that is for sure . Linux (especially ubuntu) will give the fight to windows in desktop war.
  I am excited about KDE4 release.
• Google will be drifting from ” Don’t Be Evil ” policy .
• A Multipolar world order as US hegemony gets counter balanced by Russia, Iran and Venezuela trio.

Hmmm. It has become quite a long list . Hope I make all of these . I will appreciate if anybody has similar/anti thoughts on this, please do drop me a comment..