Started the mini art project of drawing 100 Blessed Sleeping Tigers (躺平福虎) on handmade paper. Finished drawing half of them, will start mailing out the postcard fai-chuns tomorrow.

Contacted many old friends to get their mailing addresses and the 4-letter fai-chun greetings they liked me to write. This mini art project turned out to be a great conversation starter and helped me connect with friends near and far amid a pandemic that kept me away from many social activities.

The 5th pandemic wave is worsening in the city. Over 100 COVID cases were recorded today and a couple of housing estates are now under a 5-day lockdown. Following the Mainland’s zero-COVID policy, hundreds of thousands of people need to undergo COVID tests daily, is this effective and sustainable? I doubt it. Experts expect at least 2-3 months for this 5th wave to be contained, it will probably take longer from the looks of it. With the pandemic worsening, I’ll likely have more solitary time in coming days to focus on more R&D work and for prototyping some paper products to be released when the time is ripe. Add oil!!