This is 40 question I should ask myself every year. Inspired by Steph Ango's note. This is the second year I'm doing this. See last year
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
Step out of comfort zone
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?
Just stay in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City
6. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
More in passive income
7. What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Not a specific date, but maybe the moment I enlightenment about the communist?
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Read more useful book
9. What was your biggest failure?
I abandon my side projects
10. What other hardships did you face?
Don't know what to do next
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No
12. What was the best thing you bought?
Bitcoin I guess :')
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My friend who invest in crypto and have a wise decision for his life
14. Whose behavior made you appalled?
Still some of my colleague in the company where I work
15. Where did most of your money go?
Food and stupid tech stuff. Also some investment in crypto
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The cure for the agriculture problem in Vietnam
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?
Sadder, Same, Richer
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Learn about politics and economy
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Play video games
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?
Yes
24. What was your favorite show?
Acrane 2
25. What was the best book you read?
Dune by Frank Herbert
26. What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?
The comeback of Linkin Park
27. What was your favorite film?
Dune: Part Two
28. What was your favorite meal?
Pho
29. What did you want and get?
More crypto
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?
The weather in Vietnam should be cooler
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?
Elon Musk, he is a genius for pushing Trump to be the president of the US
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
War in Ukraine
36. Who did you miss?
None
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Some of my new friend in my MBA class
39. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?
Do it yourself, no one gonna do it for you
40. What is a quote that sums up your year?
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius