New Year Resolution 2009

Better late than never… Every one makes their New Year resolutions by New Year eve and by the 2nd week of the New Year they have already broken the resolutions. Two months have gone by and it just dawned on me that I have not updated my New Year resolutions.

As my mom says, all I do is copy paste the previous year resolutions and change the wordings a bit.. that’s all.. So in protest I am not going to do that.

I have only one resolution this year and that is not to swear. I have discovered that I have a very “Mumbaiya” slang of talking which includes a lot of the word “saala”. Also due to the esteemed company that I’m in now a days professionally, every second word I hear is “fuck”. So I have also developed a tendency to keep punctuating my sentences with these choice epithets.

My new year resolution is to take one day at a time and try to avoid using “saala”, “fuck”, “damn”, “bloody”, “asshole” and “bastard” in the normal course of life. These, now that I think back are my favourite swear words and though I’m conscious every time I use them of their unbecomingness I haven’t made any real attempts to stop.

I have also surprisingly (it came as a shock, albeit a pleasant one, to me too!) written one of my Oracle papers. So am tempted to put down on my resolution list that I will finish off the remaining 2 papers in the next 6 months, but I don’t want to jinx anything. So it stays off the list.

Pulling down on my weight is not something that I need to work on this year as it has started with a 3 week trip to Poland at the end of which I’m sure I would have lost at least 2-3 Kgs. That’s good enough for a year.

Regarding my talking a lot and trying to cut down on it, I’ve realized that I talk on and on when I have an audience that I know enjoys my blabbering. Given that I spend most of my time at office or onsite at the client location where there is too much work and the audience is not very receptive, my talking has gone down considerably. Needs working on thought, but am getting there. I’m sure by the time I’m sixty I would be mute!

So here goes my New Year resolution list:

I will not swear!