Happy New Year!
This post is scheduled to be out on 01-01-10 01:01. It is so cute to see so many 01s lining up neatly, reminding me of the binary numeral system.

“It is this time of the year,” I told my children to hammer out their New Year Resolutions just to carry on this family tradition, specifically the practice that I imposed and insisted since their early years. They have certain built-in psychological resistence to any suggestion of this kind. “You asked us to write this every year. If we don’t pay any attention to it afterward, what’s the use of writing it?” one of them asked.

“Good question,” said I. That’s how I answer a question when I don’t have the answer. Still, I insist on their writing something on computer or on paper because having a resolution. Even if they cannot implement it, it is better than not having one, in case they want to have something to target at. Plus, I still believe it a good habit and like all good things, it is so easy to get rid of it and leave room for its opposite to slip in. Good thing they all work out something to this effect.