My new-year pot

My new-year resolutions
Your new-year resolutions

The New Year approaches and as usual there are great
hopes, dreams and resolutions to make for the coming
year. However, I will desist from hoping and dreaming this
time and stick to the resolution only.

My past experiences have taught me that hoping and
dreams are useless waste of energy for they usually do
not come true of the target. Only resolutions can be kept,
to a certain degree of success.

First of all, I resolved to spend less time talking and more
time doing. The past year had been a very noisy one as
my friends and I spent so much time gossiping and talking
nonsense. This year we cannot afford such a luxury.
There are many assignments to be done. So, it is action
time and I shall devote the year to it.

Secondly, I have to spend less time in front of the
television set and the computer. These are fun thing but
they are also very time consuming. The time is better
spent within my books. Otherwise, I might run out of time
in the end. I have to make the effort to get away from
these very addictive time wasters.

Next I resolved to cut down on my physical activities in
school as well as outside school. It is fine to score a few
goals and be a hero for a short spell, but sport-heroes are
quickly forgotten. It is better to do well in the examinations

than on the field. The legs get old and cannot kick the ball
for very long. The brain is much more durable.

Physical activities also include the time wasted in
shopping malls and fast-food outlet like Jusco, Plaza
Angsana and City Square. Again these are fun things to
do while they last, but I have to outgrow them. Besides,
these activities are taxing on the pocket. Money can be
better spent than on a piece of fried chicken or a glass of
dizzy drink.

Lastly, I resolve to keep these few resolutions. Previously,
I used to make neither tons of resolution which I had no
chance nor intention of keeping. So, I was just deceiving
myself in making many wishful resolutions. This state of
affairs has to stop or I will keep bluffing myself. A few
resolutions are far easier to remember and so to keep
than a dozen which are quickly forgotten and thus are
impossible to keep.

So the old year gradually draws to a close and the new
year appears. It is with determination and courage that I
shall strive to keep my resolutions and not let them drop
away like so many useless words.