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Creative Mondays
Went out for an early lunch today, followed by a quick walk at IKEA and some book browsing at a bookstore before heading home. Started working on an “urgent” design project for my church before ending my day with oil painting class. My creative Mondays is becoming more routine, and life seems to be slowly […]
tagged: creative-mondays, oil-painting, project, school
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Receipts
Not too sure why I kept all the purchase receipts of 2012. The sheer volume testifies the consumerist nature in our society. I wonder how many of those receipts are from purchases of things I NEED rather than things I WANT. If I’m ever going to make resolutions this year, one of the items should […]
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To-do Lists
For about 2 years now, I have the habit of writing down my daily to-dos on square pieces of paper and then crossing out the tasks as they get finished. At the end of the year, I would have enough used paper to fold a geodesic “ball”. I thought about going digital with my to-do […]
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10K Run
Decided to go for a last run this afternoon before the cold weather sets in. I was finally able to break the 60 mins. barrier, my new unofficial record for 10k run is 56 mins! Thank God! And I really mean it as I was constantly reminded of this bible verse at times when I […]
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Papercraft
Still hasn’t received further info from the client about the adhoc support task, and I wasn’t really in the mood to start a new project, especially in this holiday season. I ended up spending more than a day doing nothing but folding papers! Those are actually receipts from my purchases this year, not sure why […]
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Creative Mondays
Did a lot of planting this afternoon, the row of succulents previously planted on my desktop didn’t quite last, hopefully these new species would survive in my apparently harsh desktop environment.
tagged: creative-mondays, plants, project
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10K Run
Allocated time this afternoon to work on a new feature for a custom CRM system, but about 10 minutes into work, I got stuck and couldn’t proceed without further information from client. Took it easy and enjoyed a relaxing afternoon instead. Went running, still out of shape, had to complete the 10k in 3 separate […]
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Creative Mondays
Bought myself a new “toy” this afternoon, I’m hoping that it will rekindle my joy to sketch. Haven’t tried it yet though as my afternoon was spent helping to babysit my 2 nieces from Toronto. Had my weekly painting class at night and finished the second painting, still found time lacking and had to rush […]
tagged: creative-mondays, family, oil-painting, project, school
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10K Run
The sun was shining again today after nearly a whole week of gloomy weather. Went out for a run, the last time I ran was more than 2 weeks ago! I was rather out of shape, had to stop after running 5k. Was thinking about calling it quit and head home, but I was quite […]
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Creative Mondays
Still enjoying my Creative Mondays. Besides my weekly painting class, I’ve spent a little time this afternoon making a candle decoration from materials found mostly in the studio. Temperature will be staying at around 15 degrees throughout this week, winter is definitely just around the corner. It is forecast that we’ll have a very cold […]
tagged: class, creative-mondays, DIY, oil-painting, project, weather
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