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Q: What are your 2014 New Year's resolutions?
1) pay more attention to the important people in my life - it is easy to forget to keep in regular contact, especially those at a distance
2) more exercise - irregular class times, especially those in the evening, have made me lazy
3) work smarter
Happy New Year all 
Paulberger:
same here for number 2... my class schedule at the university has made me extremely lazy... or maybe it's just china...
amjed:
i totally agree with the first point you mentioned . i feel like the longer i stay here the more i forget about my beloved ones back home .
1) Lay more pipe than in yesteryear. In the Land of Wifedor where the Hulkster lies.
2) Help the Dark Lord, on her Dark Throne, conceive more children. In the Land of Wifedor where the shadows lie.
Paulberger:
where the f*ck in arizona do you live? never heard of those counties!
Hulk:
You've never heard of Wifedor, Arizona????????????? WTF???????
tsonj:
Awesome! I hope that they will be steal pipe. Plastic have a way of bursting
1. don't let the little things in China bother me as much 2. exercise a bit more 3. eat more healthily 4. stay in contact with my family back home more 5. find out sorrel's first name....
start the year anew in Shanghai. New job. New outlook. New everything. Im getting a little freaked out... and i have been to China before.. but not to live there!
diverdude1:
Excellent word/term/phrase. Sure hope it does not fall out of use. I read a book entitled Shanghaied about a teenage boy who got shanghaied in Africa, it was supposed to basically be a true story...
shang·hai
transitive verb \ˈshaŋ-ˌhī, shaŋ-ˈhī\: to bring (someone) onto a ship by force
: to make (someone) do something by using force or tricks
Full Definition of SHANGHAI
Origin of SHANGHAI
Let's keep it short
1) Passing my HSK level 1. Or even 2, wooooo ^^
2) Passing my IELTS
3) Emigration to greener pastures
Scandinavian:
hey, this is China, you can paint your pastures any kind of green you'd like
DrMonkey:
*poor imitation of Louis Armstrong's voice*
I see skies of gray... clouds of brown
Moderately bright smoggy days.. Dark sacred nights
And I think to myself... what a wonderful world
*back to normal voice*
I want my kids to have time to be kids, growing up next to a beach and a forest like I did, and grow my own groceries in my garden :)
Scandinavian:
ok, that is only possible in China if you are successful in being corrupt or live in a tv soap fantasy land.
Fight stupidity due to lack of education
bryan.mcminn:
i personally have taken on fighting stupidity as a life long battle.. doesnt matter what year it is!!.. but thats just me..
DrMonkey:
Wow, an IV even for a ... cold ... when it's viral anyway, so antibiotics are both a waste of money and an evolutionary pressure for stronger meaner bacteria ?
Never kept a new year's resolution in my life, so I guess my new years resolution is to not make any new year's resolutions.
Dammit.
1) Move out of China as much business as possible.
2) Convince my company that it's time to relocated me somewhere else.
1. Buy three-or-four Chanel suits, one for each season (I know the best knock-off Chanel seamstress in the world in BJ);
2. Buy one pair of real Ferragamo or Louis Jourdain shoes for each of the new Chanel suits;
3. Buy one each of the entire line of Chanel No. 5 perfume -- the perfume itself, the eau de parfum, the eau de cologne, the eau de toilette, the bath oil, the hand cream and the like;
4. Spend one day every three-or-four months, on the weekends, when I am free, at the new Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa Centre in Beijing;
5. Try to improve my mastery of chopsticks;
6. Learn at least 500 new Chinese radicals.
tsonj:
Sounds like a lot. Let me know how many you have accompIished. Best of luck 
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Samsara:
7. Realise that you're a man unsuccessfully pretending to be a woman on an online forum.
quit smoking and quit drinking too much, again.
Hakupatasa:
Check triglyceride (TG) in blood mate. If you really want to quit or reduce the alcohol intake TG is best shot. alcohol has significant and direct effect in TG and if it is higher than 2 mmol/L it is the sigh that we must do something to reduce the effect of diabetes, heart stroke etc. In six months my TG increased to 2.1 and I am damn scared though the acceptable margin is till 2.5. Fried/greasy pork meat and beers are out of the equation for me until i don't lower TG below 2. Good luck.
Same resolution every year and I have always managed to keep it. I resolve to make no New Year's resolutions!
Work out consistently - I'm set to start after Chinese New Year,
learn more Chinese,
take a few online classes.
Leave China for a while. .
tsonj:
Oh no!
I hope your next pursuit will be a success. All the best!
JacobJohn:
Thanks tsjons. I know it's going to be for a while. I am not happy to leave, but I must. It will be useful to refresh my brain, senses and come back with a better mind set, ready to endure what ever China would make me to struggle. I have faith so I won't be for too long.
No NY resolutions, ever. But.....I'm really looking forward to a happy 2014 with my new wife and step-daughter. Perhaps I should drink less beer. Someone mentioned online study....hmmm. Yes, I could do that but laziness is my nemesis.
JacobJohn:
Wish your wish come true. Congrats on your family. May you be happy!
question for OP tsonj:
what are your New Years resolutions ?? 
My New Years resolutions
.
1) Find another job. This one I am working at leaves me with no money in my pocket and I cannot afford an apartment (staying with friends). Next month it should get a little bit better, but I will still have the same problems.
2) Exercise more.
3) Try to teach myself Chinese.
4) Make a compromise with my friend, Loneliness
.
tsonj:
I know...since it seems a if I have fallen in love with loneliness.
royceH:
Yes, that's possible. Loneliness is as loneliness does. It shouldn't seem to be attractive at all but then, whammo!...it is attractive and we embrace it.
Funny, that.
1. get married
2. change my life style
tsonj:
Awesome! Do you have a significant other in mind? Don't be afraid to propose. Best of luck!
Whats a resolution??? Hahaha I sound chinese. I mean, is it a plan for the new year? Is it goal to change something negative? Is it to work for a goal that is more unrealistic? I never know how to answer this question because when i make any plan i really try to do it, so all goals are plans.......
Ok, I will sell my car, and use the money and the savings for an upgrade. 2014 VW Golf GTI MK7 ( if i cant import a truck)
Oh this is a real resolution. I will have an MMA fight this year. I just found a professional gym, i will spend the money , and get healthier, and learn how to get punched in the face, and get in the cage and punch someone at least once before I tap out.
If these 2 things happen it will be a great year!
tsonj:
I guess I don't have to answer your questions since you already did.
Those are good goals...except the ones where you punch and tap. Good luck!
mike695ca:
haha anything more than a punch and tap just wouldnt be a realistic goal... it would be a dream hahaha
Pay off our house and hoping for a 6th year working permit with the same company in Shenzhen this July 2014.
Not to be afraid next year. 
Started recording my run since Nov. 21st and completed 249 km so far (180 km in December including 2 half marathon). One was this morning. I used to run before but it became irregular after few months in China and was worried that I might have lost my strength with each and everyday passing in China. Happy that I am 100% solid and nothing to complain about China now. Run-work-run-work-party with colleagues. Now my aim is to run at least 100 km every month and in total 1500- 2000 km by the end of 2014.
Paulberger:
i wish i had the motivation to get out and run. it's way too cold here now though. it the summer i ride my bike. you ever run out in the country side and see some interesting things?
tsonj:
Awesome! I wish I was that motivated. Good luck top of the pineapple lemonade to you.
royceH:
I wish I was you, matey. Actually, I was you. Ran between 10 - 30 k six mornings a week for about 20 years. Now got a job to walk to the little shop to get more beer. Some days are hopping only days. An ignored minor foot fracture during my running years has developed into degenerative arthritis with constant inflammation, pain and swelling.
Message to you, running man; don't ignore injuries!
Hakupatasa:
Thanks for your encouragement. I will surely keep it up. No I haven’t run out in the country side in China. I will try in spring/summer.
I have had few injuries in the past. Major one was bike accident and I was directly hit on my knee by a van. It wasn’t that big but the impact was directly on my right knee. Doctors said everything was fine. But after that I could not run more than 40 mins. Crossing 40 min, I could get pain anytime. So I kept pushing slowly and slow. Finally, it seems that my body has accepted it and I am able to run more. Before, I could run more than an hour and as I didn’t have anything to measure the distance I used to set the limit with time like for an hour or two etc. Then I had swollen shin muscles and healed. Anyway, taking your message, “don’t ignore injuries,” I am going back home in two weeks for spring festival and I have planned to do thorough medical checkup.
Nevertheless, we should not find excuses from doing any physical activities suitable for our body condition. If we don't love ourselves then others won't love us or as I say: If I don't love me, then no one will love me or I have no rights to love anyone, i.e. I have to motivate myself to do anything. 
Happy New Year and Cheers.
Survive the next day 
...
tsonj:
Isn't that what we all wish for these days? We might not say it out aloud, but that is what we all want.
Good luck
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To finish my master
To be fluent in Dutch
To find a job
Go to Iceland and Mexico!
.Paulberger:
i grew up next to mexico (california). i have a love hate relationship with that country. try and stick to the seaside towns and away from the cartel controlled areas...
JoyAlmost:
Thanks guys~~~~!
I will stay in the seaside cities there.
It is also cheap to fly to the seaside thanks to the European tourists.
Good luck to all you guys too
My New Years resolutions.
1. Be a Better Husband and Father / Grandfather.(grandchild #2 on the way)
2. Work smarter not harder.
3. Be happier.
4.Save more
5. Loose the last 15 pounds i am working on.
since April 11 ,2013 i have lost 5 shirt sizes and 6 sizes in the waist . Almost down to my high school size.
It's never too late to make your New Years resolutions.
