Resolution time again

This year in addition to making more resolutions, I wanted to re-visit last year’s resolutions to see where I stand. Last year was:

1.     Lose 5 kgs – I’m not sure whether I lost 5 kgs, but I did certainly lose weight, but still got some work to do.

2.     Visit 3 countries – done! Italy, Hong Kong and Sydney

3.     Read 100 books – not successful, due mainly to the bloody Candy Crush menace that I got hooked on (on the plus side, I am at level 419) but I did read a total of 42 books, here’s the list:

1.     Lasting Damage - Sophie Hannah

2.    The unauthorized biography of William Axl Rose - Mick Wall 

3.    While my pretty one sleeps - Mary Higgins Clark

4.    Twisted - Jeffery Deaver

5.     The lost years - Mary Higgins Clark

6.     Hide & Seek - Ian Rankin

7.     The Remains of the day - Kazuo Ishiguro

8.     Shatter the Bones - Stuart Macbride

9.     The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid

10.   Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid

11.   A Place of Execution - Val McDermid

12.   The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

13.   Pop goes the weasel - James Patterson

14.   The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler

15.    She's Never Coming Back - Hans Koppel

16.    The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng

17.    The Burning Wire - Jeffrey Deaver

18.    The Mystic Masseur - V.S. Naipaul

19.    The Carrier - Sophie Hannah

20.    The Devil's Teardrop - Jeffrey Deaver

21.    Mary, Mary - James Patterson

22.    Trick of the Dark - Val McDermid

23.     The Burning Air - Erin Kelly

24.     The Vanishing Point - Val McDermid

25.     The Nightmare - Lars Kepler

26.     Broken Window - Jeffery Deaver

27.     Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid

28.     Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela

29.     Mandela's Way - Richard Stengel

30.     The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

31.     A Feast For Crows - George R. R. Martin

32.     Close to the Bone - Stuart Macbride

33.     Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx & Frederick Engels

34.    The Other Half Lives - Sophie Hannah

35.     You're Mine Now - Hans Koppel

36.     The Retribution - Val McDermid

37.     Blind Eye - Stuart Macbride

38.     The Fire Witness - Lars Kepler

39.     My Uncle Oswald - Roald Dahl

40.     Zealot - The life and times of Jesus of Nazareth - Reza Aslan

41.     Newton's Fire - Will Adams

42.     The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 

                Not bad, but could’ve been better!

4.     Run a half marathon – only managed 10 km

5.     Less tv, less procrastination, more activities – definitely less tv and less procrastination, but not sure about more activities

Ok so I didn’t keep all my resolutions. But resolutions, like rules, are meant to be broken, right? And at least I tried.

So here’s this year’s resolutions:

1.       Be 55 kgs

2.       Wake up early, meditate, go to work early and come home early

3.       Run a half marathon

4.       Gradually give up (I’m not saying)

5.       Talk less

Happy New Year, and I wish myself all the very best!