Happy New Year

Hope everyone will have a great year.

2007 ended with a sour note in Asia with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on 27 December, in defiance of my Christmas wish for world peace. I know, most times, wishes never come true. So, I don't expect much will happen to realise my other wish for an end to global warming. Shall the human species perish like people trapped in a house on fire?

Sorry for the bleak intro here but every New Year Day when I think of the past year, I don't get much satisfaction from what had gone by, both globally and personally. Well, hope that's just me and that everyone else is feeling great.

As usual, my new year resolution would be to spend more time on my writing. I want to get at least one prose fiction and one poetry published somewhere this year. So I guess, I need to get cracking with whatever revisions and editings I have to do on some old work or write new ones with better care and techniques.

My second resolution is to stick with my present day job despite the difficulties I face with new cultures and new approaches to handling work and despite that it leaves me very little time to write. During the three months with this company, I had attended twenty-one meetings and had met so many people (collegues and clients) that my head is still spinning. Still, I hope to retire in this job when the time comes and then to concentrate on creative writing. So I don't see myself being seriously published until then, even then, hopefully.