Time Flies
Seems like yesterday when I just arrived Toronto for this Q4 break. In fact, I’ve arrived here a full month already, that’s one third of this self-directed “co-op” term. So far I had completed a marathon and a personal calligraphy website project. Looked briefly into casual/part-time jobs, that made me more determined to start a […]
tagged: 3D-printing, calligraphy, canada, entrepreneurship, family, friends, hk, kindness, nostalgia, RIP, thankful, time, UW, website
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Sabbatical Ended
The opening of the embattled and postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics also marked the end of my self-conducted (half) Sabbatical. Thought about continuing the rather fruitful Sabbatical till the end of year, but it felt like the right time now to finally get myself out of this marathon pandemic rut and get serious with my life. […]
tagged: canada, career, covid19, design, entrepreneurship, event, furniture, life, pandemic, papertube, sabbatical, sports, studio, sustainability, work
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A Death Blow To Appledaily
The sad week noted on my earlier post turned sadder still. The only pro-democracy newspaper media company, Appledaily, folded and printed their last newspaper on Thursday after being raided by police and had their financial accounts frozen the week before. They printed a record 1 million copies and it was already sold out when I […]
tagged: appledaily, canada, entrepreneurship, faithfulness, family, freedom, friends, hk, hope, justice, marathon, news-media, patience, politics, practice-makes-perfect, running, self-control, sports
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UW Alumni TBOD
Attracted by the presentation title Science & Entrepreneurship, I decided to join a formal alumni event of my former alma mater for the first time after moving back to HK for 7 or 8 years. The talk was basically a presentation of the facts and milestones of the university’s initiative in incubating tech startups in the university town […]
tagged: canada, career, engineering, entrepreneurship, event, hk, joy, life, patience, thankful, university
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JCCAC Visit
There was a DIY fair at the JCCAC this weekend, it was a good opportunity for a social activity with a couple of my primary school buddies – one of them is interested in seeing architectural renewal projects and the other knows a friend who has a booth set up there. I didn’t go without […]
tagged: career, DIY, entrepreneurship, event, friends, joy, self-control, thankful
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Work
Had been rather busy in the last couple of weeks due to some freelance work and personal design projects. Now that I’ve cleared up some freelance work and sent off some personal design work for printing, my shoulders obviously felt a little lighter! Had been holding off in starting a venture with a friend, now’s […]
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Job Application
With a bit of spontaneity, I’ve sent out my first job application in HK today! I wasn’t really looking for a job per se, but I came across a part-time research position that seemed like a perfect match for me. The job nature seemed right (research, part-time), the field (architecture, sustainability) is something I’m really […]
tagged: architecture, career, entrepreneurship, freelance, life, marathon, prayer, spontaneity, sustainability
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A Different Sunday
Parents went to Mainland for my cousin’s wedding banquet, so we didn’t have our usual family dim sum after church this week. Went to the studio to continue my chalkboard project after lunch. Was thinking about going for an evening run afterwards, but the sudden rain gave my lazy butt an excuse to rest. The […]
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Reality Check
It was good to be able to spend a little time to do a little soul searching for the past week or so, but can’t afford to dwell in dreamland for too long, it’s time to do a little reality check… It’s not that I’m afraid to pursue my dreams, in fact, I still dream […]
tagged: career, DeeSIGNERS, dreams, entrepreneurship, friends, prayer, scripture
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Thinking about Career…
Becoming more serious with my freelance work – designed some business cards and will do the proper business registration tomorrow. I came across an interesting opening for a research assistant position from CU earlier this week, got me thinking about whether I should get myself a full-time job, the regular monthly income is such a […]
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