nouveau annee?

another new year..

i don't do resolutions cos i never remember them or the fact that i went thru the resolution process at all. perhaps reducing them into writing may help..

- try and squeeze some time out from study (it should be easier this time round, since there won't be any weekly groupwork)
- start studying earlier to avoid last-minute mess (it should be easier this time round, since there won't be any weekly groupwork)
- hit the gym (it should be easier this time round, since there won't be any weekly groupwork). achieve 25-inch waistline (yeah, right)
- eat healthily (this is gonna take some time. bakuteh and satay are hard habits to break)
- the domain name needs more to the website than index.htm
- watch all those DVDs which are currently crowding up the coffee table.
- read the newspapers
- room needs clearing up (still)
- guitar needs playing (still)
- violin needs playing (stlll)
- piano needs playing too!

and, by the way, to all ye who have been waiting patiently, 'grape' in french is 'raisin'. (now WHY didn't i think of that.) so Raisin au Fromage it shall be.*

*[What?] See, my usual party/potluck contribution is an hors d'oeuvre of grape and cheddar cheese on a stick. Never had a name for it (it was usually "Hey, dad, I'm heading out to get stuff to make the grape-cheese-thingy!" or "Hi guys, I've brought grape and cheese!" (duh)). At a recent Xmas party, the suggestion of "Chapes" was adopted for about fifteen minutes (punctuated by a possibility of "Greese") when it was unanimously decided that if any name were to be given to the glorious dish (ahem), it should be in French. Without much difficulty, 'cheese' was translated to 'fromage'. Since nobody had the foggiest as to what 'grape' was in French, the creative suggestion of "Nouveau vin", intended to mean 'new (i.e. untrampled) wine', was adopted till the end of dinner. It is with great delight to announce that the revered dish is hereby officially dubbed "Raisin au Fromage".