Monthly Archives: July 2012
Oil Painting
Started the next level of oil painting classes tonight, will be spending 3 more months of Monday nights learning how to paint! We’ll be having 12 classes, 3 classes to complete one painting, so we’ll end up with 4 completed paintings at the end of the course. Unlike the beginner’s course in which we painted […]
tagged: oil-painting, school
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Busyness
Felt like I had spent a little bit too much time in front of my computer this week. On my work list are a few website projects (profiting and probono), adhoc support for a CRM system, and a flash game I’m dreaded to even start. The projects aren’t particularly urgent, but I seem to have […]
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Fellowship
The volunteering team who went to Sichuan earlier shared their experience during fellowship tonight. I hardly spoke a word as I was very attentive in hearing their heart-warming experiences. I couldn’t help but recall the summer of 2008… I remember that summer vividly. I was doing my thesis and defense that summer, and two major […]
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Typhoon No.9
Crazy winds were brought to the city thanks to Typhoon Vicente, this is probably the craziest storm since I returned about 3 years ago! The typhoon came at a really bad time as tonight is the first Monday in months that I don’t have to attend painting class, and I thought I could enjoy a […]
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Dinner Conversation
My brother joined my parents and I for dinner at home tonight, a little conversation was stirred up in the usually quiet meal. I revealed to them for the first time my short term and (vague) long term career goal, something about fusing work with hobby and how I don’t put my salary as a […]
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Cleanup
Went to Ikea and bought a long (150 x 28 cm) piece of shelf board after lunch. After some heavy lifting and a sweaty afternoon of reorganizing and cleanup, I was able to squeeze some extra desktop space by pulling out my desk and adding an additional slightly elevated shelf behind it. Now the 2 […]
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Website Demo
Worked pass 2am mocking up a website to be demoed for a presentation today. It was a presentation in which my friend’s company was invited to present their proposal for a website revamp project, I was just curiously tagged along. My friend seemed a little tense for someone experienced with such settings, but he pulled […]
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Last Painting Class
Had my last oil painting class tonight, painted my first non-fruit/veggie painting. Had spent 12 Monday nights learning and practicing on this medium. Every class (except for the first 2 classes), we would first see the instructor demonstrate for about half-an-hour how to paint a fresh fruit/veggie, then we would go to our separate painting […]
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Unfinished Projects
Starting to feel a little pressure recently, there seems to be a lot of projects left unfinished. I had been working harder than usual this week, managed to clear a couple of small projects. It was hymns and prayers for tonight’s fellowship. Some lyrics got me thinking about life and career. I seemed to have […]
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Cartooning
Some of my fellowship b/s will be heading to Sichuan for a short missionary trip this Sat., they’ll be giving a short summer programme for 2 different primary schools in the province. I insisted in helping out with some illustrations for their programme booklet, this is probably the least I can do to support their […]
tagged: artist, cartooning, fellowship, thankful
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