Though I still don’t know the exact date for my return to Canada, I have started organizing farewell meetups with friends. Some friends are out of town and will return in coming weeks. Good thing I had to postpone my trip again due to my sister’s upcoming trip later this week. With a couple of extra weeks, I should be able to meet up with a few more friends, clean up my home and work studio more thoroughly, and finish and handover some more projects to my colleague more properly. Add oil! 💪🏻
A former client approached me to scale up a custom minifig I made for him about a year ago. I kinda got carried away and scaled up the LEGO minifig up to 10 times! At the other end of the scale, I started experimenting with a smaller 0.2 mm nozzle and successfully shrunk down DEXTER by half the size! Decided to try printing my recent prototypes of HK street signs using the different scales, that turned out to be a lot of fun.
Went out to Kwai Chung to help a plastic recycling friend set up a giant 3D printer. We got the printer running and printed its first sample object. Although the print quality was not too satisfactory, it can certainly be improved with more tuning and experience over time. It was a milestone and I can foresee future collaborations with him to print objects 3 to 4 times the size of what I’m capable of at my studio!
With less than one month to go for my return to Canada, I’m still prototyping and helping others instead of cleaning up and packing stuff. Luckily, my sister said she’ll be going to a week long trip with my brother-in-law in mid October, so I‘ll be postponing my trip yet again to late October. Had an informal family meeting with my parents and sister over dim sum on Friday and my plans seemed to have gotten final approval. That brought a little relief from the anxiety I’ve been feeling regarding the upcoming big changes.
May God continue to guide my steps and grant me peace in facing upcoming challenges. 🙏🏻
Went back to my parents’ place for dinner on Tuesday because it was Mid-Autumn and I hoped they wouldn’t feel too lonely on the festive day. My parents were arguing over little things throughout dinner. The argument didn’t stop as they drove me home after dinner. I felt miserable seeing my parents bickering like that. Will they be alright after I move back to Canada in less than a month? Worried, but it’s beyond my control other than leaving the matter to God in my prayers.
Wednesday was a public holiday and I spent the day at home to finish some designs for my calligraphy work to serve as reference materials and also farewell gifts for my Chinese calligraphy class and other friends.
Continued cleaning my house and studio. My brother-in-law drove me to work on Friday so that I can bring back a mini 3D printer to the studio. Spent the entire afternoon at home on Saturday to clean up the apartment. Finally got to clearing out the mountain of waste (mostly cardboard packaging) in the living room. Dropped off the waste to a nearby recycling station in three trips. Felt accomplished and relieved after successfully tackling the heap of trash that had been sitting in the living room for years! After some hard work this week, I think I’m about 80% done cleaning up my apartment and work studio! Much more to do in coming weeks. 💪🏻
Finished off my PP (Plant pots & Polypropylene) recycling project with more 3D printing tests and one last IG post. Cleaned up the studio mess resulting from the project and packed up many empty spools to pass to a friend who will hopefully be able to make many spools of recycled plastic filaments after I move back to Canada.
“Before I go back to Canada…” has become somewhat of a catch phrase in my daily conversations. There’s just about a month left and there’s still plenty of things I need to finish up. Glad that I at least was able to complete the PP Recycling project with satisfying results. A friend managed to find time to visit the studio for the first time before she flew to Canada for a business trip. The timing was good and I was able to show her the PP Recycling project before I try to turn that into a sustainable business after I move back to Canada.
Joined my fellowship for dinner yesterday. It wasn’t a farewell dinner per se, but I thought it might as well be as I doubt it will be possible to organize another meet up with so many b&s before I return to Canada. Will see how things go and how many friends I can meet and properly say farewell to in a month’s time.
Took a day off on Monday. Took a trip to TST to get some art inspirations from HKMOA. The last time I was in the area was probably about half a year ago already. Spent the whole day there to see all the art and design stuff I wanted to see. Took my time to make sure I didn’t miss anything as it may very well be my last time in the area before I move back to Canada.
Spent much of my studio time working on the plant pot recycling project this past week. Countless hours was spent before a typhoon hit on Thursday and interrupted the work. I went back to the studio soon after the T8 was dropped the next day. Worked tirelessly the whole day and achieved some satisfactory results. I decided to go back to the studio the next morning and give it a second try. There was a little breakthrough in the process of turning the cleaned and shredded plant pots into 3DP filaments. The resulting 3D printed plant pot was not perfect but it was a big improvement and good enough for me to declare a success in the long-standing PP recycling project!
Very happy to see the proof-of-concept cradle-to-cradle design project I have been dreaming up for years finally bearing fruit. The next stage will be to transform the PP recycling idea into a sustainable business. Will try to do that after I return to Canada!
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