Super Hot Week
The news announced that today was the hottest day ever recorded in May. In fact, it had been super hot throughout the week. Read about the prison conditions and how there was on A/C despite the heat, I deliberately slept without turning on A/C on Thursday and Friday, slept poorly on the first night, but […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, climatechange, covid19, friends, furniture, global-warming, lego, papertube, shigeruban, sketches, social
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Second Jab
Took my second COVID-19 vaccine shot yesterday evening, despite forewarned side effects I slept surprisingly well last night, but the body is still suffering from minor headaches and muscle fatigue as I’m typing up this blog post. The pandemic numbers continued to ease locally, so I continued to meet and catch up with friends to […]
tagged: canada, covid19, faithfulness, friends, hk, milestone, pandemic, patience, politics, self-control, social, social-distancing, thankful, uk, vaccine
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A Packed Week
The past week was unusually packed with social activities. It started with Monday evening when a friend who emigrated to Taiwan came back and wanna meetup before she goes back in a week. Tuesday was packed the most. After my weekly calligraphy class in the morning, I joined my calligraphy classmate and her daughter for […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, cafe-dream, canada, church, covid19, design, family, friends, furniture, illustrations, nostalgia, pandemic, portraiture, social, thankful
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First Jab
Took my first of two COVID19 vaccination needles on Friday. The past week seemed to be centred around that single event. Dined out with my parents and sister on Tuesday, they talked me out of submitting a proposal for a small commercial unit at an artsy establishment that previously turned me down. They think I […]
tagged: 3D, canada, career, covid19, faithfulness, family, friends, girl-I-like, hk, patience, politics, self-control, social, thankful, work
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Transitioning…
Dined out with family and friends 3 times this week, a record high in recent months amidst the pandemic. The number of confirmed cases saw a small rise to low double digits this weekend, hope those were only isolated cases and that we can continue to transition back to a more healthy social state. Finally […]
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Easter Holiday
In preparing for this long Easter holiday weekend, I rushed into finishing my first prototype of a Shigeru-Ban-inspired papertube furniture in the studio. Also went for a haircut, first cut in more than 6 months I think. My weekly community running clinic also ended just before the holidays. The studio’s building was cutting electricity for […]
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Carrying On…
With the social-distancing restrictions relaxed, my social activities are slowly picking up once again. My weekly Chinese calligraphy class was resumed on Tuesday since stopping from December. Had dinner with a few fellowship brothers on Friday, last meet up was probably around half a year ago before the 4th pandemic wave hit the city. Also […]
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End of Tunnel?
The government finally relaxed some of the social distancing restrictions this past week, the city seems to have come alive immediately. The public libraries reopened, I rushed through a long overdue Chinese painting book before returning it. Also started dining out again, one time with my family and another time with my Chinese calligraphy class. […]
tagged: art, biography, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, chinese-painting, climate, covid19, culinary-art, environment, faithfulness, family, friends, Myanmar, patience, politics, portraiture, rthk, self-control, Singapore, social, social-distancing, us
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Fatigue
Being somewhat of an introvert, I sometimes feel exhausted after social events. I’m more at ease doing things solo. But after months of adhering to social distancing rules, I’m starting to feel exhausted, lacking motivation and patience, and easily irritated. Perhaps I’m finally feeling what many experts are calling pandemic-fighting fatigue (抗疫疲勞). February also heightened […]
tagged: covid19, culinary-art, depressed, faithfulness, hk, holidays, patience, politics, self-control, sin, social, social-distancing, tiredness
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Goodbye 2020
New Year came on Friday, but the atmosphere during the long weekend was the least festive I’ve ever experienced. The world seems more glad to see 2020 pass than hopeful to welcome 2021. I spent the long weekend wrapping up a couple of projects in the studio. Reviewing 2020, there wasn’t much accomplishments to speak […]
tagged: art, bible, books, brush-and-ink, cartooning, covid19, devotions, events, faithfulness, family, health, holidays, inktober, patience, self-control, social, studio, thankful, time
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