Hong Kong Visitors
Toronto seems to be a hotspot for HK visitors this summer. A good friend’s dad, another good friend’s in-laws, and a high school friend who just arrived last week with his wife and daughter. I was delighted to be spending time with them, catching up and introducing them to the country where I now call […]
Tiring Week
After a long tiring week of preparation for an event on Saturday, and a day of long hour driving chauffeuring a good friend’s relatives visiting from HK to see the Niagara Falls on Sunday, I was exhausted and slept relatively early (around midnight) on Sunday. Had a refreshing sleep and woke up naturally at around […]
Some Milestones
Turned 47 on Friday, how did I get so old all of a sudden?! Life moves on… A few UW friends came out for a little celebration while watching the first Canada team game on home turf for World Cup. The Canada team scored its first ever World Cup point and tied the match. Apparently […]
Hongkong-ness
Picked up the slack this past week and had spent more time setting up the studio space and less time staring meaninglessly at my investment portfolio value going up and down. Bought a couple of used furniture for the studio, felt good to be giving some useful objects a second chance before they end up […]
Wrapping Up Q1
Time really passed by too fast, just realized it had been nearly a month since I last posted. Many things, mostly happy things, happened in March. A friend was in town for work and I had a chance to meet some of her close friends here, it brought back some fond memories of my UW […]
Fresh Start
LNY had quickly come and gone. Temperature returned to double digits last week and the clocks had just sprung forward for an hour overnight. It felt like Spring has returned. Last Monday I started the first class of a workshop focusing on linoleum relieve prints using a Vandercook press. I enrolled in the course to […]
New Year 2026
Returned to Canada for just over a week, I’m slowly adapting to the slower and quieter life here once again. Started meeting and catching up with some friends here. Seems like not a lot have happened in Canada while I was away for a month. My friend gifted me an air fryer and taught me […]
HK Trip Review
Returned to Canada early yesterday morning after a month-long trip to HK. I relied on my good old friend who dropped me off the airport a month ago to pick me up again in the cold early Saturday morning. Felt good to be back to my familiar quiet home and finding everything just the way […]
A Time to Meet & Mourn
It was a busy week of meetups. Had a total of 7 meetups with friends in 4 days. The only 2 days my schedule was open I had dinner with my parents. I had to rely on my digital scheduler to keep track of everything. Being an introvert, the meetups with so many people in […]
A Time to Meet
Been back to HK for more than a week now. The city still felt as though it’s under a dark gloomy veil from the Wang Fuk fire tragedy. The introverted side of me utilized the city-wide mourning as an excuse not to socialize. But as the time of my visit quickly runs out, I started […]




