End of Q1
Many things seem to be ending in March before the start of a new fiscal year. I asked a friend out for lunch on Monday at my primary school friend’s fancy Japanese restaurant in TST because it will be closing in coming weeks. While being outside away from my usual locality, I decided to venture […]
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Funeral and Sickness
Went to the “funeral” of a dear elderly calligraphy classmate on Monday morning. We were classmates for 3 or 4 years before he stopped going to class prior to the pandemic due to deteriorating health and family matters. I still made an effort to visit him a couple of times during the pandemic and the […]
tagged: calligraphy, canada, death, faithfulness, family, fellowship, friends, joy, kindness, life, patience, prayers, RIP, sickness, time
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Easter Weekend
The current pandemic wave has receded substantially from the peak of 50k+ COVID cases daily to the recent 3 digits. The Easter long weekend provided a good time for people to head outside for a little breather from the exhausting pandemic marathon. The streets were flooded with people as a result. I was still awaiting […]
tagged: art, caricatures, cartooning, death, easter, faithfulness, family, holidays, love, pandemic, patience, social, social-distancing, watercolor
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Second Wave
Our city’s number of confirmed COVID-19 cases had seen a second wave of surge this past week due to an influx of travelers returning from more inflicted countries. Experts are urging people to continue practicing social distancing. Looks like I’ll be sticking with my isolation routine for at least 2 more weeks. It’s not easy, […]
tagged: apocalypse, canada, covid19, death, faithfulness, friends, hk, life, mercy, patience, prayers, self-control, sin, war, worry
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Life and Death
Just finished reading a short book Morrie: In His Own Words. Was constantly thinking about my 90-yr-old classmate from my Tuesdays-with-Morrie-like calligraphy class. He’s good and well and I still feel blessed to seeing him at class every Tuesday morning. But over the ~2.5 years since I started learning calligraphy, I’ve been witnessing his hearing […]
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Grave Sweeping
Gloomy day, just the right weather to join my aunt and sister to visit my uncle’s grave. My aunt reminded us that it has been 1 year, 1 month, and x days since my uncle passed away. She still misses uncle a lot, but less so than the last time we saw her, may time […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, death, faithfulness, family, life, milestone, patience, portraiture, time, work
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Art Therapy
Went to the funeral of Mr. Kot on Sunday evening with my dad and sister. His daughter gave a speech on Mr. Kot’s life on behalf of the family, I was moved and couldn’t control my tears. My empathy towards others seemed to have grown last year since my uncle passed away, I am now […]
tagged: acrylic-painting, art, creative-mondays, death, dreams, empathy, girl-I-like, joy, prayer, RIP, sickness, thankful, tiredness
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2017 Review
Took a quick look at the 7 New Year’s resolutions I made as year 2017 started, I’ve completed absolutely zero items, a couple were even left untouched, but I did make good progress on a few of them, so it’s not entirely futile. Looking back on some of the major events that happened to me […]
tagged: acrylic-painting, art, brush-and-ink, canada, coffee, death, fellowship, life, running, sports, thankful, volunteering
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Remembering Mr. Kot
Had dinner with my parents, sister and brother-in-law near my studio last night. In our conversations, we shared our memories of late Mr. Kot who passed away on Christmas Eve. Apparently, my dad had known this good friend since 1986, that’s more than 30 years of friendship! As for me, my earliest memory of Mr. […]
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(Merry) Christmas
Had dinner at home with my parents last night. Towards the end of dinner, my dad calmly told us that one of his long time friend, an uncle who’s very close to our family, just passed away. My mom and I were a bit shocked even though we knew that he had been battling the […]
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