2024 Review
2024 has been a busy, and jam-packed year of quite a range of highs and lows. Even though I didn’t …
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2023 Review
Rough notes below. To fill out / supplement over time. The Bad This has been quite possibly (most probably) the …
A micro 2023 resolution
A new year, new beginnings. A fresh start. The boys had never heard of new year’s resolutions before. I suppose we never taught them the concept, until the end of 2022. It might have been on New Year’s Eve itself.
I’m not sure if I will make new year’s resolutions this year. I’ve always been mixed about making them, and also mixed about completing them. But maybe I shall.
One thing I resolve to do though, is to “take a snapshot” of life every day every day for the rest of the calendar year.
Kaleidoscope
I recently finished watching Kaleidoscope on Netflix. A show ostensibly about a $7 billion bank heist, but experimentally and deliberately designed to enable watching in a randomised (‘choose your own’) order.
I was reflecting yesterday (9th Jan), probably because I’m exhausted, not having slept well recently – hence probably seeings all sorts of patterns and having random, scattered thoughts – that this seems to be good parallel to describe some parts of my life actually.
2022 review
2022 has been a strange year. A year of highs and lows, transition and stagnation, introspection / soul-searching, an emotional roller coaster of a year.
2021 Review
What a year it has been! The Good The Bad The Ugly
Arabian nights
I know I have a peculiar tendency to periodic bouts of monomania and depressiveness (not necessarily correlated / linked), and …
2020 review
The good: Baby-F started learning the violin, and seems to have taken well to it, despite all his griping before …
2018 review
2018 was a transition year, and a pretty strange years in many ways. It was my 本命年 (Chinese zodiac animal year of birth), generally expected to be a unlucky year, but some people have good fortune instead. For me, it was a year in two halves: a bad first half, with the bad luck starting exactly on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and a much better second half.
2014 review
So, 2014 is clearly a less exciting year than 2013, which is tough year to beat – getting married, giving birth, living in NYC etc.
But with the Boy’s help – because he really does think of putting everything down, whereas to me, my highlights were only ‘added new countries’ and ‘started a new job’ – I have a halfway decent list of “highlights”, albeit some pretty lame ones.