5 Days Left!

A week had gone by swiftly and exhaustively and I’m now left with less than 5 days in the city.!

Except for Saturday, I had been meeting and farewelling family and friends every single day, sometimes even more than one meetups in one day! And many things at work and at home are still unfinished.

Less than 5 days left now, still have friends I need to see and say farewell to and things to be finished at the studio and at home. May God help me in my remaining days in the city. 🙏🏻

Sketch… Sunday Service

12 Days Left 😖

Starting to feel the pressure for my upcoming return to Canada. There are still so many things to finish up for work and for my family. And also there are still many people I need to properly say farewell to before I can leave in peace. Just 12 days left now!

This past week I managed to meet up with my high school badminton friends whom I haven’t seen for more than a year at least. It was on Wednesday, I decided to take a day off from work to see the I. M. Pei exhibition in the afternoon before meeting the friends for dinner. The exhibition was well worth my time to visit, this will probably be the last exhibition I can afford the time to see before I leave the city.

Had a follow up gathering with my Canadian high school friends on Saturday night. During our last meetup in which I got awfully sick from alcohol afterwards, we chatted about the famous mainland wine 茅台 and they insisted I had to give it a try in another meetup before I leave. Now I tried, didn’t like it, the 53% alcohol was simply overbearing. The meet up was nonetheless enjoyable without me becoming a drunkard.

The remaining 12 days in the city will be extremely busy, hope I can finish up all the outstanding projects at work, clear out my home as much as possible, and properly meet and say farewell to all my friends before I leave. May God guide my steps. 🙏🏻

Sketch… Sunday Service

Count Down Begins

Thanks to a property agent friend, I finally settled on a short term rental in Canada. Immediately booked my one-way flight back to TO in mid-November. Now the countdown begins with roughly 20 days left to finish up all studio projects and properly farewell all my friends before I leave the city.

Met my woodworking friend on Tuesday and passed him my CNC machine. Had my weekly family dinner on Thursday. Had two farewell meetups on Saturday with my primary school friends and fellowship friends respectively. And this afternoon I met up with an artist friend whom I met serendipitously many years ago, she invited and curated my first and only public solo exhibition back in 2019.

Still have many things to finish up at the studio and at home and still have many friends to properly say farewell to before I leave. As I opened up the red packets I had saved up over the years in order to kickstart my annual postcard faichun project early, I took the opportunity to count my blessings for the loving family and friends God has given me over the years. I’m truly grateful.

Counting down my 20 days left in the city while counting my blessings from my family and friends. The coming few weeks will likely be busy and stressful, but hopefully that won’t affect my gratefulness for my family and friends and to cherish the little time I have left with them before I leave. May God continue to guide my anxious steps ahead, one day at a time. 🙏🏻

Sketch… Sunday Service

Super Busy Week

Had a crazy busy week. Needed to go to my parents’ place for dinner on Monday to makeup for the missed usual one the night before due to my alcohol overdose episode. Had to meet up my plastic recycling friend in Kwai Chung on Wednesday to pass them my filament making machine and give them a demo on how to use it. And on Thursday morning, I met up with my paper cutting artist friend to pass her my “portable” laser cutter. Had the machine set up at her studio and gave her some basic instructions. I knew I had made the right decision of gifting her the not too expensive machine after seeing her brimming with excitement and showing me many ideas of things she had been dreaming to do!

Had to go home early on Thursday night to do some cleaning because my family had arranged a designer to visit the place the next afternoon. The place will be undergoing a complete facelift immediately after I move back to Canada.

Felt stressed and slept rather poorly throughout the week. There are still so many things I need to finish up but there’s so little time left before I leave the city for good. Just a few more stressful weeks to go before I can take a breather in Canada. Add oil and may God continue to guide my steps! 🙏🏻

Sketch… Sunday Service

More Farewells

Hastily finished up an experimental project with 3D printing movable type characters. Successfully printed the functional “stamps” as small as 28pt using a smaller 0.2 nozzle. Happily met up my studio neighbor, an old printing company that still has a huge archive of antique movable type characters, to show them the prototypes and also to have a farewell lunch before I move back to Canada. That was on Thursday, and it was only during our lunch conversations that I realized Friday was a public holiday.

Stayed home to do some cleanups on Friday.

Went back to the studio on Saturday afternoon to do a little work before meeting up some high school friends for a farewell dinner. They are friends I met in Canada, but surprisingly, I found out that I go to the same kindergarten with one of them in HK (although different grades), small world! Happy times, and I unknowingly over drank. Puked a few times and felt unwell the entire day on Sunday. Had to skip church and the usual dinner at my parents’ place. Can’t remember the last time I got this sick from alcohol consumption, definitely not a good feeling, need to remember not to do it again.

Farewells Have Begun

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! 💪🏻

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