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Competition Entry Submitted!
Slept for probably just about 4 hours last night, and was hard at work in front of my computer most of the day without the slightest nap. Finally got my design submitted to a competition just before midnight, hours before the deadline! I would never get things done if not for deadlines, the power of […]
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Design Magazines
The ex-designer at my brother’s office had left behind a whole bookshelf of design magazines, I decided to browse through them today in search of some inspiration for the upcoming design competition. Indeed, there were a lot of inspiring designs in the archive of AXIS – a Japanese design magazine. There is something irresistible about […]
tagged: competition, design, fellowship
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Visiting ArchSD
Had the privilege to visit the Architectural Services Department (ArchSD) this afternoon to sit in on a talk about “Sustainable Design for Community Projects”. ArchSD had won numerous design awards on their projects, and I often imagined their offices to be clean, airy, and stylish like the typical architectural offices. It was nothing like that, […]
tagged: architecture, design, event, friends, school, sustainability
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Creative Monday
Hardly did anything creative today other than stroll around furniture and design stores looking for inspirations for a design competition I plan to participate in. During my regular weekly oil painting class tonight, we started a new painting. One of my best friends initiated a conversation today about starting a little business together, this isn’t […]
tagged: career, competition, creative-mondays, design, friends, oil-painting, thankful, travel
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Holiday Starts!
Restarted work on a website for my church’s new branch. The project was initiated last year, but had been on hold for much of the time. Spent a lot of time on the website this week, it should now be very close to being able to launch, really hope that the project won’t drag on […]
tagged: church, design, family, fellowship, holiday, I.T., scripture, self-control, spiritual-gifts, thankful, website, work
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Creative Monday
Had a particular productive Creative Monday today! In addition to my regular weekly oil painting class at night, I attempted my first ever graffiti work in the afternoon! The reason that I could do graffiti is that I’ve finally found a dirty and under-utilized industrial flat as studio space! I plan to set up a […]
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Aftermath Of Competition
Started working from home again since my mother was injured early July. And for the last week or so I even moved in to sleep in my home studio to focus on completing the submission for the architecture design competition. Worked restlessly – there wasn’t a night I slept before 3am, and I even pulled […]
tagged: architecture, competition, design, family, joy, sickness, thankful, work
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Monday Without Painting
It’s been a long time since I had a Monday without the weekly painting class, the first class for the new course will start next Monday. Spent most of the day to catch up my reading on an online architecture/design blog. Also spent a little time to rest and to read the bible, came across […]
tagged: architecture, bible, creative-mondays, design
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Red Pocket Design
Designing the red pocket last year was my first and happiest experience in serving my church. I was thinking about passing the wonderful experience to a new professional designer this year, but she’s too busy to take up the design task. Was given only 2 days to design it, sparked an idea that would let […]
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