ADVENTURES OF 2 GUYS, 1 GIRL AND A PET HAMSTER

I apologize for my absence: my life had been temporarily consumed by work, love and other disasters. In truth I didn’t think I would take this blog very far, given my attention span akin to a park squirrel so let’s just celebrate the fact that I haven’t forgotten my tumblr account password just yet.

How was the beginning of 2012 for you? Mine was spent with home made cous cous (the food so nice they named it twice), red wine and a bittersweet symphony. I avoided making sweeping reflections of 2011 largely because I wasn’t really keen on sleeping on a damp pillow last evening. Besides, I’m Chinese - 1st of January means nothing to me and my hokkien sea god praying; we’re all about hot pot and fire crackers and pilial fiety on the 23rd of January.

Have you made your new year resolutions? Get fit, eat healthy, quit drinking, stop playing World of Warcraft, be an adult, stop smoking, work harder in the office, work a little less, stop forgetting to do the laundry, learn to cook, be nicer to your family and friends, read, pick up a new hobby, live a little, love a little?

Ça ne fait rien, mon chouchou - it’s all bullshit. There isn’t some sort of binding magic to the promises that you make at the start of a calendar year; such sorcery simply does not exists.

Short of people who live in their own distorted sense of faux reality (I am truly sorry), most of us are intelligent, sentient beings - if you cared, and I mean, really really gave two shits, wouldn’t you have bucked the fuck up, grown a pair and done something about it a long time ago?

If you really have to start the year with something, it should really be only one thing: stop making empty promises and unattainable goals that you know you’ll never keep. Shut up and stop talking. Do something. Do anything.

It’s nice to kick off 2012 with pessimism: my favorite part about resolutions is breaking them to bits. Have a great year ahead kiddies.