This is 40 question I should ask myself every year. Inspired by Steph Ango's note. This is the first time I'm doing this.
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
Plan carefully for my future
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?
Yes
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What cities/states/countries did you visit?
Vĩnh Long, Cần Thơ, TP. Hồ Chí Minh, Vũng Tàu
6. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
More travel, more time for self development
7. What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
March 25, Mai Mai Mãi Mãi concert. I have watching Ngọt live performance
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduate from HCMUS
9. What was your biggest failure?
Failed to complete side/pet project
10. What other hardships did you face?
Money. It's hard to stay wealthy
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
12. What was the best thing you bought?
My new smartphone Samsung S23 ultra
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My best friend, we now engage in conversations that are both meaningful and valuable.
14. Whose behavior made you appalled?
Some of my colleague in the company where I work
15. Where did most of your money go?
Food and stupid tech stuff
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Opt for pursuing a Master's degree in Business Administration at University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
17. What song will always remind you of this year?
18. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?
Happier, Fatter, Richer
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Learn more about economic
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Eat trash food
21. How are you spending the holidays?
Stay home and sleep
22. Did you fall in love this year?
No
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No
24. What was your favorite show?
Silicon Valley. It's was good for first 2 seasons
25. What was the best book you read?
Nhà Giả Kim by Paulo Coelho
26. What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?
Should be Gieo by Ngọt. It' have a retro vibe. I also buy their physical album
27. What was your favorite film?
Attack on Titan
28. What was your favorite meal?
Italian noodles
29. What did you want and get?
To have my pc setups with full tech toys
30. What did you want and not get?
A more secure and fast Wifi connection
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Just stay home and chill
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Having more time to wander around to find inspiration should make my year more satisfying
33. How would you describe your personal fashion this year?
Same as last year
34. What kept you sane?
Music and coffein
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?
Vũ Đình Trọng Thắng. His music so good
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The Vạn Thịnh Phát economic scandal in Vietnam, involving major fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering within one of the country's largest conglomerates and its misuse of the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), has been the most stirring political issue for me.
36. Who did you miss?
None
38. Who was the best new person you met?
My CEO, his manager skill is something I admire and learn from
39. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?
We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. - Spoken by former Prime Minister Henry Palmerstone in the British Parliament in 1848
40. What is a quote that sums up your year?
The more I learn, the less I know