Another Year, Another Set of Resolutions

I need not say further, the title says it all.

The ones to achieve in the first quarter of the year:

• Hog on chocolate, make up for the all the time lost on it
• Refrain from taking a resolution for abstaining from cheese
• Finish reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
• Buy an epilator (and stop making excuses why not to)
• Start wearing more colours and not just black, white, grey and blue
• Talk less on phone, use Skype and Gtalk instead**
• Learn to keep my table and wardrobe tidy and organised**
• Find a Swatch outlet in the city
• Make a trip to Ooty and Kodaikanal
• Learn to swim**
• Tame my hair**
• Crib less**
• Learn basic Tamil
• Start wearing make up

The ones to achieve over the entire year:

• Be the old fussy, finicky, choosy (more synomyms anyone?) self - BE THYSELF
• Lose a couple of kilograms and maintain it
• Fall out of love and fall back into it again, of course with someone new**
• Figure out my life and career and keep one from encroaching upon other
• Learn a South East Asian language (Chinese or Japanese)
• Keep in touch with all the old friends/foes (I am still around, you like it or not)
• No more snooping on my ex's girlfriend**
• Check on my baby brother more often
• Be good to street animals
• Get up early in the morning**
• Go to bed early in the night
• Spend more time at home
• Keep my appointments with Kaya, Loreal, etc. etc.
• Write, write, write more often!

** - failed resolutions!