The December Questions 2019

The fourth annual post where I ask myself questions about the year gone by.

This is my fourth annual December Questions, inspired by Abby Norman’s own yearly questionnaire. You can read 2018’s post here.

The December Questions is a set of 20 questions aimed at helping me be as open and as honest with myself about what I’m doing and where I’m going. Almost like a sort of publicly available self-reflection.

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(verb)

[to] be ok; be all right; not worry

Those of you with a good knowledge of current events will recognise that moving out of Hong Kong on 3rd June 2019 was somewhat fortunate timing. Six days later, more than one million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to protest a proposed extradition bill. Nearly seven months on, and with four additional demands, those protests haven’t let up.

I said in last year’s December questions that life in Hong Kong seemed to be compressed into a series of rapidly occurring moments. And in between those moments, there was little time to take a step back and breathe.

By March, Jen and I had grown tired of being tired all of the time. We’d failed to get on to Hong Kong University’s…