Monthly Archives: January 2013
Oil Painting Class
Completed one of my most satisfying piece of work tonight! There are still lots of room for improvement, but the result looks encouraging enough that I want to continue practicing and seek further improvements in this ever more enjoyable hobby of mine.
tagged: creative-mondays, oil-painting, project, school, thankful
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10K Run
Temperature rose above 20 degrees yesterday afternoon and I decided to go out for a run. Haven’t ran for weeks, a bit out of shape, I stopped running after 3k. Thought about giving up and head home, but it was still early, so I found a place to sit, rest, and watch some youngsters play […]
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Freedom
Sometimes in life there are these little things that are not urgent, has no apparent deadline, and you just don’t want to spend time on. Ironically, because of a promise you’ve made, you just can’t seem to focus on more pleasurable things until those dreadful tasks were completed. That is exactly what it felt like […]
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Red Pocket Design
Designing the red pocket last year was my first and happiest experience in serving my church. I was thinking about passing the wonderful experience to a new professional designer this year, but she’s too busy to take up the design task. Was given only 2 days to design it, sparked an idea that would let […]
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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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Busy Holiday
I don’t remember the last time I slept pass noon, but it was close to 1pm when I woke up today! I must be really tired last night. It had been a rather busy holiday, there was only one day that I didn’t have any gathering with family or friends, and I used it to […]
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