Questions from Steph Ango
Q1 What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
- Sold my mum’s old Santana, which is too dilapidated to drive safely for her ;)
- Send my girl friend to a intensive English learning camp, where she can went all her out to improve her English in a shortest time.
- Established my first overseas banking account, or rather, two accounts. And now the third one is in its process.
- Got my first foreign SIM card, cards actually, one for the U.S. and one for the U.K.
- Sent and received my first Linkedin recommendation, a straight-A who obtained Master’s degree from the Cambridge and Imperial College London.
- Got married with my beloved wife, yeah it’s she who still in that camp, and I won’t be married again :)
- Bought my first domain and established my first website, hoping that I’ll count on it for a living in the future, may it’s a beginning of something great.
Q2 Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?
Absolutely, studying English well is the most important thing, not one of them, till now, every day.
Q3 Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
Q4 Did anyone close to you die?
Fortunately not :)
Q5 What cities/states/countries did you visit?
Not this year, but we’re preparing at full steam, to live abroad permanently.
Q6 What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
Freedom.
For one, the internet the most Chinese using is actually a LAN(local area network) if you know what I mean.
People who working in this country is actually a slave rather than a worker. Furthermore, working in here at a subsidiary company headquarters in Swiss which profits from global except China itself is worth to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done before. It’ll the same of the other corporations in China.
Q7 What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
It should be my wedding registration day.
Q8 What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Despite enduring the most challenging working environment I have ever encountered, navigating through various forces. Through my adjustments and finding ways to avoid internal conflicts, I’ve managed to survived. Not for money, but for payroll statement, sad but heart-stirring.
Q9 What was your biggest failure?
To be continued…
What other hardships did you face? Did you suffer illness or injury? What was the best thing you bought? Whose behavior merited celebration? Whose behavior made you appalled? Where did most of your money go? What did you get really, really, really excited about? What song will always remind you of this year? Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer? What do you wish you’d done more of? What do you wish you’d done less of? How are you spending the holidays? Did you fall in love this year? Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? What was your favorite show? What was the best book you read? What was your greatest musical discovery of the year? What was your favorite film? What was your favorite meal? What did you want and get? What did you want and not get? What did you do on your birthday? What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? How would you describe your personal fashion this year? What kept you sane? Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most? What political issue stirred you the most? Who did you miss? Who was the best new person you met? What valuable life lesson did you learn this year? What is a quote that sums up your year?
