Kathmandu:

We are embarking on yet another new year, and the year 2063 gave us lots of memories — some we’d like to cherish forever and some we wouldn’t want to even remember. Fashion trends quite disappointed us as we just saw clones of each other on the streets. Here are some things that we liked and some that irked us.

Too much

It is said too much of everything is not good. Barring a few artists and curators, most of the exhibitions were just to garner ‘media attention’. Period. This kind of a ‘art for media’s attention’s sake’ kills the whole purpose of ‘art’ in the true sense. Our slogan for the coming year is ‘Let quality override quantity’.

Not more than flesh show

Music videos are nothing but about skimpily dressed girls shaking their booties. A little less of this, puleese!

Uniforms, please

Colleges have uniforms because they want their students to be uniform. While you are a student, look like a student and not like a member of some punk group. Tuck in the shirt, and please get rid of those bling-blings and raccoon eyes while in uniform. And no more conical pants please.

Oratorial skills

Long elaborated, never-ending speech (at times on irrelevant topics) does not mean you can make your point or impress the audience. The words “I finish my two lines” must come prior to two lines, not 1,000 more lines. Audience’s yawns, blank faces, fidgetings, checking the time after every five seconds — get the message?

Let the work speak, not words.

Civic sense

Protesting for your rights is alright, but it is not a licence to violate others’. Stopping traffic at peak hours might get your voice heard, but it is at somebody else’s expense, no? Also scattering peanut shells and papers all over the Mandala during and after protests is not cool at all.

Silent mode

Cell phones have become a necessity, but even after repeated requests to switch it off at different functions, many ignore the requests. There is something called the silent mode,

if you didn’t know. Boo to those who think trendy film ring tones in between meetings, functions and movies are cool.

Twins everywhere

Every Ram, Shyam and Ghanshyam cannot carry straightened hair the way John Abraham did. Natural is a hundred times better than some weird looking ironed out hair. And this goes for girls too.

Looking identical in straightened hair and similar outfits does not count for being in and trendy. Wear what makes you comfortable. Be different, stand out.

Vroom-vroom

Life is not a video game. There are no second level or extra lives. Get over the ‘too fast too furious’ fever. Stop the noise pollution with your bikes minus the silencer. Drive safe, reach home in one piece.

Bitter truth

We root for something more in this vein — we mean Tito Satya. Here is something original, not something inspired by the ‘K’-trend.

Let’s be on time

It is fashionable to be late — this might apply to Paris Hilton, but for the rest of us, waiting for hours for a programme to begin, it is extreme torture. Could a unanimous New Year resolution be ‘We’ll be punctual this year’? It’s not much to ask, is it?

Sense of humour

No one has died because of a ‘sense of humour’. Sometimes it’s good to laugh at ourselves as well as others. We are as funny as the next guy. Let’s take some of the jokes and digs in a good way.

And yes everything that you’ve wished for — we wish you all that and more this new year.