Monthly Archives: July 2013
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Running
Sometimes I liken running to shooting free-throws – it’s the same repetitive motion and the height and distance from the hoop is pretty much constant, but even though you’ve practiced a million times, the percentage made just can’t seem to improve much. I ran 10k this afternoon, just barely made it through, and the time […]
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Site Study
Spent a casual afternoon at the HK Science and Technology Park to do a brief study of the site for the architectural design competition. I really like the atmosphere there, it feels just like the huge campus I spent ~8 months in working as a junior researcher for what used to be Canada’s biggest technology […]
tagged: architecture, competition, hk, questions, work
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Uncluttering Life
Finally started rolling out a little website project I’ve started more than a month ago, shouldn’t be too long until I can put a close to it. Also renewed a couple of my IDs so that I can happily do some traveling in August as planned. And now that my mother’s home and slowly recovering, […]
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Mother Returned Home
After more than a week, mother was finally discharged from the hospital this afternoon, I can tell from her gestures that she was really eager to get home. She’s still not fully recovered and cannot sit or standup for a prolonged period of time, but I feel really relieved just seeing her home and be […]
tagged: faithfulness, family, joy, sickness, thankful
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An Unusal Week
I’m a rather habitual person, so it felt a little uncomfortable when my daily routine got out of wack since my mother’s accident on Monday. Instead of going to the office, I decided to work from home again since it’s much closer to the hospital, very little got done however. Visited my mother at the […]
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Mother’s Chinese Name
Visited mother at the hospital despite being told by her every time not to do so. I’m sure she liked seeing us despite what she says, wouldn’t life be so much simpler if women speaks their mind?! On the sign above her bed that used to say my mother must lie in bed was an […]
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Running
Missed my weekly running session for the past weekend due to friends’ gatherings, the running bug was itching, so I went for an early evening jog tonight. Ran 10k, for some reason, breathing seemed particularly difficult and I seemed to be a bit more tired than usual tonight. It seemed like an appropriate time to […]
tagged: faithfulness, family, friends, patience, prayer, running, self-control, sickness, sports, tiredness
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Mother Hospitalized
Mother injured her spine falling off a chair, she was trying to put away some of my winter clothes. The first thing that came up my mind was to scold at her for I’ve told her a million times that I’m capable of tidying up my own rooms. Thank God that I was able to […]
tagged: family, prayer, self-control, sickness, worry
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GIFT Design Ideas Competition
Started looking into an architecture design competition I enrolled earlier. The competition documents are quite detailed, the requirements on anonymity and confidentiality made the competition seem especially official and fair, and the requirement on deliverables seemed a little intimidating. I imagined this is rather usual for all architecture competitions, but this is my first time […]
tagged: architecture, competition, joy, school, thankful
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