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PAGING through last week's YOU magazine, I couldn't help but smile (and occasionally giggle) at some of Tinseltown's new year's resolutions for 2008.

From learning to cook to saying goodbye to cancer sticks, Hollywood's famous have vowed to resolve it all this year.

Alas, Catherine Zeta Jones is apparently even resolutely aiming to shy away from the big screen for a while so that she can take part in a Viva Las Vegas drag queen show. "The tackier the better," she allegedly confessed. Charming!

While I do favour the turn of a new year, I must admit that I am not quite the fan of new year's resolutions.

I love the idea, but I also know that often it is never lived up to, so I don't really see the point in it.

That is why my new year's resolution for 2008, if you can call it that, is to have no resolutions from here on out.

No empty promises, no fake ideas, no confined limitations, just a brand new day with a start to a brand new year.

I was told by a very wise woman that 2008 is being called two thousand and great, and if the way in which I entered this new year is anything to go by, I would have to agree.

You see, when the clock struck midnight on 31 December 2007, I was lucky enough to welcome the new year in the arms of the one I love, amidst my friends and family ? a far cry from my previous new year's eve, the best part of which was spent crying at home in my bed.

Come to think of it, this could explain a lot for 2007.

Anyway, with 2007 now having come and gone, I am sure, like me, you too are only too pleased to start a new year, and something tells me that it really is going to be a great year.

Until next week, I leave you with a new year's wish for 2008, sent to me by a friend. May it inspire you to kick-start the new year as it has me: "It's being called two thousand and great, and I have always loved the qualities of eight. There's a wondrous magic in the air, a magic in which we all share. The days that are coming lie blank as a slate, and the tales we will write are our own to create. The words to come dance delightfully in our minds, sugar-sweet visions of what we can be over time. Today, and every day, in this new year that is ours, let us remember the magic of being alive. And let us write with our pen what our heart bids us do, and bring that tale inside us to life, and live anew!"

Happy new year!

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