Happy New Year! Welcome to my first post in 2012. I’ve delayed this post for long enough and despite having the worst, chesty cough in medical history (or what I prefer to call ‘a phlegm fest’), coupled with a double-cancellation on a confirmed flight booking which forced me to endure a 7-hour spacebus ride on pothole-riddled roads back to Lagos, I’ve summoned enough strength and sanity to finally grace my keyboard and serve you yet another crazy article (Don’t worry, Air Nigeria; I’ll be suing your asses right after I hit the ‘Publish’ button).
Last year I made a couple of resolutions and now I thought it best to fine tune them so they’re a bit more…well…feasible. I don’t see the point in saying, for example, ‘This year I am going to quit smoking’ and then by January 10th you’re frantically ransacking your apartment for that ’emergency cigarette’; you know, the one you consciously hid on the same day you made that resolution, just in case. Anyway, here’s a peek at updates for my new year resolution:
2011: Go out more
2012: Go out more than once a week or else I’ll end up only having online friends and virtual cocktails/events on Facebook
2011: Do exercise
2012: Do exercise only when my reckless bingeing is an inch from taking its toll on my belly, or I can just stick to believing that Love Handles actually come from Cupid.
2011: Open a couple more saving accounts
2012: Open a couple more saving accounts and actually put money into all of them to avoid the painstaking ordeal of reactivating dormant accounts.
2011: Learn another language
2012: Learn another language when I can ascertain that some of the side talk (from suspicious colleagues speaking that other language) is about me.
2011: Date young women
2012: Date young women and confirm from their siblings or online yearbooks whether they are definitely not 5 years younger or older than I am.
2011: Wear my heart on my sleeve
2012: Wear my heart on my sleeve as far as special cufflinks are concerned.
2011: Finish writing my book
2012: Finish writing my book even if I can only manage a hundred pages and it’s mostly a compilation of every embarrassing (but strangely entertaining) moment in my life.
I’ll spare you any further insights to my resolutions for fear of possible adoption and replication. This year, try to keep your resolutions…and if you can’t do that then keep your sanity. Now, where’s that Air Nigeria Customer Complaint line…
you write really entertaining pieces!
Sori abt ur phlegm fest. Hapi nu year
Thanks for the compliment and for your empathy. I’m coughing up less of the white stuff now. Wish you a happy new year too and do drop by again!
I stopped making resolutions, instead i have like a five year plan(yes like the government) lol! All the best with your resolutions. About accounts last week i could not remember my atm pin to one of my accounts! Too many accounts leads to confusion and memory loss(on the bright side you save more)
lol @ confusion and memory loss. It’s happened to me once where I went completely blank. I was more accustomed to the pattern my finger would punch in my PIN and suddenly realized I didn’t remember the 4 digits off-hand. And yes, I saved money that day (and the next). Viva resolution!
People have virtual cocktails on facebook?!
Thought that stuff was restricted to ‘second life’.
You planning to do a mid year review? Just so we can see if it’ll need further tweaking come 2013.
lol. Thanks Roc. I’ve done a mid-year review somewhere on my blog before. I’ll probably do another this year for the sake of it. Never had a virtual cocktail sent to you before? Your facebook friends are all guys, I presume 🙂
Hey are using WordPress for your blog platform?
I’m new to the blog world but I’m trying to get started and
set up my own. Do you require any coding knowledge to make your own blog?
Any help would be really appreciated!
Hi! I use WordPress and I do not require any coding knowledge. It’s the easiest blogging platform I’ve used (the Nokia of blogs). Happy blogging!