FROM learning how to meditate to wishing Asian stock markets continue to head higher to hoping a painless cure for cancer is discovered to a further strengthening of India-Singapore bilateral relations... tabla! readers have a wide range of wishes for the coming year.
When approached in early December to share their wishes for 2011, the first reaction from most people was that they had not thought about it. But, given some time to mull over the matter, they all came back with their inputs. Some very wholesome, some driven by corporate aspirations, others very down to earth and personal. You can read what 16 tabla! readers wish for in the coming year.
As for us at tabla!, we'd first like to thank all our friends - readers, advertisers and all those who work with us in any manner - for all the support during this year. And our wish for 2011 is to become an even better product that reaches out to the growing Indian diaspora here in Singapore.
Of course, even our wish for 2011 pales in comparison to the one sent in by an eight-year-old reader. Bathed in the pure innocence that only childhood can provide, she wishes that her "BFF" - that's best friend forever, in case you were wondering - didn't have to go to Australia "so then I could play with her".
Here's wishing all tabla! readers - nay, friends - a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year.
My wish for 2011
On a professional level, I wish to grow the Candylicious, Hersheys and Garrett popcorn business in South-east Asia. The confectionary business is growing and I want to bring a more creative, a more experiential retail experience to it. On a personal level, as the last 21/2 years have been very intense, I would like to spend more time with my family and friends. It will be hard with the expansion but my wish for 2011 is to have a better work-life balance.
- Gill Capital director Sunaina Gill
In the last couple of years I saw some close friends suffering from cancer. I wish from the bottom of my heart that there would be lesser diseases, deaths and violence in the coming year. I also hope more effective and painless cures for diseases like cancer are found. Personally, I hope 2011 offers me a balance between academic and social life. I am planning to be more involved in community service projects at my school.
- Class 6 student Paul Immanuel
Never for once intending to be arrogant or complacent, one has to look for new challenges after you have dominated the sport locally for over a decade. Having said that, my wish for 2011 is to go across the Causeway and challenge in the Malaysian hockey league and give a lift to this dying sport of hockey in Singapore.
- Former Indian hockey captain and Singapore Recreation Club head coach Jude Felix
I wish my BFF (best friend forever) Cynthia did not have to go to Australia so then I could continue playing with her. She has been the kindest person ever and I want her to stay in Singapore. I also wish the pain in my father's neck goes away and he becomes okay fast.
- Class 3 student Anagha Nautiyal
In 2011, we like to place greater emphasis on our corporate social responsibility programme and make a difference in the lives of many more children from different parts of the world. And I hope to spend more time with my family. These are my wishes for 2011.
- WhiteLodge Education Group Services founding director Jayne Nadarajo
My wish for 2011 is for the Singapore economy to sizzle and the ever-buoyant construction industry to march forward with more self-reliance... less dependent on foreign workers (through higher mechanisation/productivity) and less dependent on foreign sand and aggregates (through resource recovery and reuse).
- Holcim (Singapore) chief executive officer Sujit Ghosh
It is great to finish 2010 on a positive note with Asia recovering faster than the rest of the world and our own Singapore economy turning in a stellar performance. While the United States and Europe grapple with both short term challenges and long term structural issues, we look forward to welcoming 2011 as the Year of the BRIIC (including Indonesia), the leaders in the emerging markets and biggest contributors to world economic growth.
- Nanyang Executive Education (at the Nanyang Business School) associate dean Nilanjan Sen
I hope that stock markets here in Asia will continue to head higher and offer investors decent returns in the year ahead. Hopefully, uncertainties in Europe and China won't derail the uptrend in regional markets. Personally, I hope to enjoy a year of good health and happiness, which are priceless.
- OCBC Bank vice president (wealth management Singapore) Vasu Menon
I look forward to confidently stepping forward (in my Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, of course!) to a great new year ahead and hope this year's economic recovery will ride its way smoothly all through 2011. On the home front, I look forward to spending more quality time with family and friends. And on a personal front, I would finally like to start learning how to meditate... calming my over-active mind.
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