This I Promise You

Just close your eyes
Each loving day
I know this feeling won't go away...

One of the songs that goes into our top list, that one. 7 years now and still very much alive on most of our playlists on the iPod.

Take my hand, only you can stop me shaking
We'll share forever, this I promise you

With Ronan Keating coming out with another song that shared the same name, we worried that he would be doing a cover of N'Sync's song. He did a cover of 'Iris' instead. Come on, he doesn't need to do covers any more, the best covers were still in the Boyzone days.

Anyways. In KIV there's this meme of promises. 10 self-promises, in other words, 10 resolutions.

In our entire life we've never really made any New Year's Resolutions, in fact this year was the first we actually made an actual one and never got along to finishing it. Now there's a meme to think of ten? But there's probably a way to look at this: short-term goals.

I don't want to run away, I want to stay forever, through Time and Time
No promises
I don't wanna run away, I don't wanna be alone
No promises

Hmmm. That doesn't make much sense hor? Promises being equated to goals. Or instead of goals let's just see what's a consistent habit that's done. Let us try...

We shall finish all the episodes on the Dilbert DVD that we bought. We just won't state when we'll finish. And watching the first three episodes already had us all in stitches, this series is unforgivingly funny!

We will only wrap our books in embossed wrappers. But then again we've always been doing this. Just that there's a specific embossed wrapper we've come to fancy but can't seem to find off the shelves. Don't know if they still make this nowadays, the last we'd known about it was 6 years ago.

We shall make sure our Scrabulous games with the sister are for sibling fun. What we mean here is that there shan't be any serious 'must maximize scoring using all the double/triple-letter/word squares' kiasu-ism going on. After all, the sis and us don't really play much together unless she's back and we co-op to play Mystery Case Files. Scrabulous so happens to be an awesome way for us to keep in touch - no sense going all competitive and ruining the fun.

Of course, playing a game with NJAPF, 3-Seconder and Jacz is a different story. NJAPF is trashing us, simply trashing us. And as for Henry, who's one of the Top 5 Scrabblers in Malaysia, we'll gladly play more Starcraft or TI:3 with you instead.

Don't go making all those promises
You know you cannot keep
There's a time to play a king a
Time to be the thief

We will try not to commit suicide by making people kill us. Yes, well, ethancya's kid brother was singing lines from Michael Buble's 'Everything' because the song was stuck in his head, which was fine. But then we found out that he too didn't like Britney's 'Gimme More'! Which meant there were times when he started singing 'Everything' we started 'Gimme More'.

That reminded us that we'd already custom-edit the 'Gimme More' song for use as either a ringtone or text alert tone (btw we're disappointed with her new album). So now whenever we receive a text, Britney's keeps asking us to give her more.

This is actually rather hazardous because lad also hates 'Gimme More' and we can expect physical violence from him, haha. But at least we've refrained from singing that song much around him. Just have to make sure we answer our mobile quickly in his presence.

We shall reread our books now and then. But depending on rereadability. Dahlah our Pratchetts and Christies have seen many rereadings, while Herbert's Dune must recharge a bit, and with Stephen King, after years of renting his books we have no shelf space now to really collect his books.

We will experiment 7-Up with more drinks. We've already mixed it with orange juice, pineapple juice, Ribena, Absolut Vanilla, and even with condensed milk (we had Ryan at Mage Cafe to do this for us since he had the ingredients then). But heck no way we're mixing Sprite with our coffee or tea!

We shall entertain the thought of getting a bottle of Absolut Vodka for an upcoming Christmas party. Although this move is risky. The number of actual drinkers can be counted on one hand, and if it turns out to be a sleepover party things may turn out very risky. Imagine Twister when your brain's on the twist, however!

We shall brush up on calligraphy. Hmmm. We ought to brush up on our own handwriting in the first place. Just that we're running short of font ideas for certain problematic areas among some current ambigrams.

We shall make the most out of our next Sporeland trip. Which is sometime next week. First would be another trip to HMV/That CD Shop, to look for Freemasons and Libera and Karl Jenkins. And psike's suppose to bring us to some tea shop. And Christmas shopping with the sister! Not to mention to see the Christmas lights on Orchard. It's just a bleedin' shame that it'll be another rush job trip as well.

Your promises have never been anything you make them seem
So what you gonna promise me this time
You're telling lies so plain to see
You're trying to make a fool of me
So what you gonna promise me this time

We shall not be bound to holding any promises. Because we haven't made any to keep. Nothing to be oath-bound about. Fingers crossed.