It has been very depressing. It feels slightly tacky to blog about my everyday petty concerns. It feels even more useless and redundant to talk about the devastation knowing how very little we can do other than giving some money to the charities supporting the victims. The sheer helplessness in the face of such disasters is scary, humbling, depressing - it brings home like nothing else the complete uncertainty of our existence.

It is hard to make new year wishes - when you know even the most basic wishes of over 100,000 people did not find a place in our world.

I wish you peace of mind and hope that you make those around you happy. At the end of the day, that is pretty much the only thing we have.

I am thankful to my readers who have been coming to this weblog regularly. Sometime in the last few weeks, this weblog reached its three year anniversary. I dont know if any of you have been reading 'Random Notes' for three years. But if you have been, thank you.