summarise the year

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Flew in an A380.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No. No.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. Which cities did you visit?
HKG, BKK, LHR, MUC, PAR, MIL, ROM.....seriously now I see cities in 3-letter codes.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
More money.

7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
The day we were at Oktoberfest!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Not rolling my eyes when talking to my boss.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not keeping that sharp tongue in its place.

10.Did you suffer illness or injury?
Flu after flu. Migraine. Food poisoning. Skin infection.

11.What was the best thing you bought?
The London trip.

12.Whose behavior merited celebration?
My hard-to-please mum.

13.Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Not depressed, just appalled.
Most of the other drivers on the road.

14.Where did most of your money go?
The bags.

15.What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Breathing the London air again.

16.What song will always remind you of 2008?
鑽禧 - 関淑怡

17.Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Maybe happier.

18.What do you wish you’d done more of?
Stay neutral.

19.What do you wish you’d done less of?
Scowl.

20.How did you spent Christmas?
Asleep.

22.Did you fall in love in 2008?
Again, with my favourite city.

23.How many one-night stands?
Nope.

24.What was your favorite TV program?
Still CSI Miami. Even if it is getting cheesier.

25.Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Not really.

26.What was the best book you read?
Hotel Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones
Fantastically light as air.

27.What was your greatest musical discovery?
江蕙

28.What did you want and get?
Diamonds.

29.What did you want and not get?
Lots more money, preferably from the lottery.

30.What was your favorite film of this year?
Black book.

31.What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I dont answer these questions anymore.

32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A good man.

33.How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Dripping with diamonds.

34.What kept you sane?
The insane state of the world.

35.Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None really.

36.What political issue stirred you the most?
The two-faceness of the lighting bolt.

37.Who did you miss?
I keep missing the newspaper man when he comes to collect his payment.

38.Who was the best new person you met?
The new people made no impressions.

39.Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Learn to laugh at it and then let it go.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Still that one: "I'm saved by grace and destroyed by naivety."