New Year's Resolution
res·o·lu·tion
n.
1. The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.
2. A resolving to do something.
3. A course of action determined or decided on.
4. A formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion put before or adopted by an assembly such as the U.S. Congress.
5. Physics & Chemistry. The act or process of separating or reducing something into its constituent parts: the prismatic resolution of sunlight into its spectral colors.
6. The fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image, as on a video display terminal.
7. Medicine. The subsiding or termination of an abnormal condition, such as a fever or an inflammation.
8. Law. A court decision.
9.
a. An explanation, as of a problem or puzzle; a solution.
b. The part of a literary work in which the complications of the plot are resolved or simplified.
10. Music.
a. The progression of a dissonant tone or chord to a consonant tone or chord.
b. The tone or chord to which such a progression is made.
11. substitution of one metrical unit for another, especially the substitution of two short syllables for one long syllable in quantitative verse.
n 1: a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote [syn: declaration, resolve] 2: the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together [syn: resolving power] 3: the trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" [syn: resoluteness, firmness, resolve] [ant: irresoluteness] 4: finding a solution to a problem [syn: solving] 5: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "the finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" [syn: settlement, closure] 6: analysis into clear-cut components [syn: resolving] 7: (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture 8: the subsidence of swelling or others signs of inflammation (especially in a lung) 9: (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord [ant: preparation] 10: a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, answer, result, solvent] 11: a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner; "he always wrote down his New Year's resolutions"
Ever experience upon entering a new year, and people around you starts asking you about your so-called "New Year Resolution"? Well, since my deduction is that you definitely did(being the slick metropolitian you're, having found your way here), so chances are, your answers are gonna be:
1) heavily depending on who's asking you that question, as you'll be figuring out the most appropriate answer to that question, the answers ranging from:
a) say, the one asking you is the butcher that sells you pork back in the wet market:
"well, of course I can't be hoping that the price of pork actually decreases with the way the price of everything else increases like crazy but sure as hell hoped that at the very least it maintains the current standard"
...or...
b) your immediate superior who can literally make or break you:
"in order to show my appreciation and deepest regards for my company in their efforts in grooming me to be the capable employee as I am now, I sincerely aspires to improve myself in every possible field and hopefully the company can give me more opportunity in doing so"...(kinda overly pretentious...)
or rather the second one...
2) quite simply put, you give it a serious thought, and just say it. But come on, if it's a really serious thought, I'll bet you can't just answer it in such a prompt response(there's far too many shortcomings to overcome and equally many targets to meet for the every people), that is unless, your resolution is to a problem so darn obviously big that you simply can't ignore and is indeed GOTTA be your A-List priority.
Well, being one of the surviving few self-proclaimed "Ever the naive" person on this hellhole called Earth, quite clearly I'll take the latter. I mean, in a rather blatantly manner, there are some obscenely major problems to deal with after all. Being approached with this question by three different individuals on the new year's eve, I answered, with the same old stiff tone, "I gotta learn how to hardened myself" which nevertheless managed to bewildered them and successfully shut the topic up. I've always been known as a so-called "hard" man, been through all the hard knocks over this twenty-six year journey downward spiral to hell, biting the bullet and rolling with the punches and all...but never have I found myself at such a fix as now... A deadly weakness has emerged and this single flaw to the system may very well be its doom. Something's gotta give. I guess, there's always scenarios where you'll find yourself in a weak-in-the-knee moment and the pathetic part is, you'll actually enjoy indulging in this particular weakness, perhaps in sheer joy upon discovery that you're human, after all... But still, that ain't no excuse to just let your weakness run rampant all over you...it gotta be contained. And contained , it shall be, in 2005.
On to the next much more important point. Indeed. Needless to say, the world at large has come to terms with one of the most major natural disaster ever as 150,000 lives(to date, much more are to be expected) has been lost to the horror of the earthquake and its associated tsunami that has hit 10 countries in the South & South-East Asia. No cynicism here, and none shall be spared. Quite literally, a real life "HELLHOLE" has emerged out of this chaos. At the bottom of this blog, you can find at the affiliates marquee column a banner for my forum, also known as HELLHOLE. Over there, news updates and information on humanitarian aids for this incident shall be posted around the clock. Not for shock value but rather for the sake of raising awareness, a counter for the death tolls are posted there too. There's only so little a crazed online freak running a little den called Hellhole can do...but as Kofi Annan put it, "This is an unprecedented global catastrophe and it requires an unprecedented global response," just imagine if only every little freak out there putting up 0.001 of their effort in helping out in whatever ways they can, what positive effect it would have on the 5 million victims out there...
By the by, happy new year...
(Darn...still don't get what so happy about the new year...Life still goes on, doesn't it?)
n.
1. The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.
2. A resolving to do something.
3. A course of action determined or decided on.
4. A formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion put before or adopted by an assembly such as the U.S. Congress.
5. Physics & Chemistry. The act or process of separating or reducing something into its constituent parts: the prismatic resolution of sunlight into its spectral colors.
6. The fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image, as on a video display terminal.
7. Medicine. The subsiding or termination of an abnormal condition, such as a fever or an inflammation.
8. Law. A court decision.
9.
a. An explanation, as of a problem or puzzle; a solution.
b. The part of a literary work in which the complications of the plot are resolved or simplified.
10. Music.
a. The progression of a dissonant tone or chord to a consonant tone or chord.
b. The tone or chord to which such a progression is made.
11. substitution of one metrical unit for another, especially the substitution of two short syllables for one long syllable in quantitative verse.
n 1: a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote [syn: declaration, resolve] 2: the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together [syn: resolving power] 3: the trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" [syn: resoluteness, firmness, resolve] [ant: irresoluteness] 4: finding a solution to a problem [syn: solving] 5: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "the finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" [syn: settlement, closure] 6: analysis into clear-cut components [syn: resolving] 7: (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture 8: the subsidence of swelling or others signs of inflammation (especially in a lung) 9: (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord [ant: preparation] 10: a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, answer, result, solvent] 11: a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner; "he always wrote down his New Year's resolutions"
Ever experience upon entering a new year, and people around you starts asking you about your so-called "New Year Resolution"? Well, since my deduction is that you definitely did(being the slick metropolitian you're, having found your way here), so chances are, your answers are gonna be:
1) heavily depending on who's asking you that question, as you'll be figuring out the most appropriate answer to that question, the answers ranging from:
a) say, the one asking you is the butcher that sells you pork back in the wet market:
"well, of course I can't be hoping that the price of pork actually decreases with the way the price of everything else increases like crazy but sure as hell hoped that at the very least it maintains the current standard"
...or...
b) your immediate superior who can literally make or break you:
"in order to show my appreciation and deepest regards for my company in their efforts in grooming me to be the capable employee as I am now, I sincerely aspires to improve myself in every possible field and hopefully the company can give me more opportunity in doing so"...(kinda overly pretentious...)
or rather the second one...
2) quite simply put, you give it a serious thought, and just say it. But come on, if it's a really serious thought, I'll bet you can't just answer it in such a prompt response(there's far too many shortcomings to overcome and equally many targets to meet for the every people), that is unless, your resolution is to a problem so darn obviously big that you simply can't ignore and is indeed GOTTA be your A-List priority.
Well, being one of the surviving few self-proclaimed "Ever the naive" person on this hellhole called Earth, quite clearly I'll take the latter. I mean, in a rather blatantly manner, there are some obscenely major problems to deal with after all. Being approached with this question by three different individuals on the new year's eve, I answered, with the same old stiff tone, "I gotta learn how to hardened myself" which nevertheless managed to bewildered them and successfully shut the topic up. I've always been known as a so-called "hard" man, been through all the hard knocks over this twenty-six year journey downward spiral to hell, biting the bullet and rolling with the punches and all...but never have I found myself at such a fix as now... A deadly weakness has emerged and this single flaw to the system may very well be its doom. Something's gotta give. I guess, there's always scenarios where you'll find yourself in a weak-in-the-knee moment and the pathetic part is, you'll actually enjoy indulging in this particular weakness, perhaps in sheer joy upon discovery that you're human, after all... But still, that ain't no excuse to just let your weakness run rampant all over you...it gotta be contained. And contained , it shall be, in 2005.
On to the next much more important point. Indeed. Needless to say, the world at large has come to terms with one of the most major natural disaster ever as 150,000 lives(to date, much more are to be expected) has been lost to the horror of the earthquake and its associated tsunami that has hit 10 countries in the South & South-East Asia. No cynicism here, and none shall be spared. Quite literally, a real life "HELLHOLE" has emerged out of this chaos. At the bottom of this blog, you can find at the affiliates marquee column a banner for my forum, also known as HELLHOLE. Over there, news updates and information on humanitarian aids for this incident shall be posted around the clock. Not for shock value but rather for the sake of raising awareness, a counter for the death tolls are posted there too. There's only so little a crazed online freak running a little den called Hellhole can do...but as Kofi Annan put it, "This is an unprecedented global catastrophe and it requires an unprecedented global response," just imagine if only every little freak out there putting up 0.001 of their effort in helping out in whatever ways they can, what positive effect it would have on the 5 million victims out there...
By the by, happy new year...
(Darn...still don't get what so happy about the new year...Life still goes on, doesn't it?)
posted by Grey at 1/01/2005 08:06:00 AM
