ULTA PULTA
January fad
Jaspal Bhatti

This is the second day of the New Year. By this time most of the New Year resolutions will have been broken. Strong-willed are those who do not resolve anything like "This year I will stop drinking" or "I will start exercising" and so on. Every New Year resolution has an expiry date. Some of the resolutions go up to the second or third week of January and some even last till the end of January.

The resolutions that are backed by medical compulsions have a greater success rate. Last year, my friend, who was a confirmed meat-eater, suddenly began professing his love for vegetarianism. Later, I discovered that because of high uric acid content he had been warned by the doctor to take it easy on meat.

Similarly, another friend, who is in the Police Department, announced rather grandly that from now on he would be saying no to bribes. What leaked out later was that my poor friend was posted at such an unimportant post at the headquarters that even a fool would think twice before offering him any bribe.

My wife has also made a resolution. "This year, I am not going to quarrel with you," she said. "And how are you going to do it my dear?" I asked her. She replied calmly, "I am going to spend more time at my kitty parties".

My little daughter decided to get sporty and resolved that she was going to take playing games very seriously this year. Boy was I happy. But for these two days of the New Year I have seen her do nothing else but play video games.

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