One Month
It has already been a month since I returned from my HK trip, time really flies. I had kept myself busy this past week with a mix of events, friends meetups, and studio work. On Thursday May 35th, besides meeting up a couple of good old UW classmates for lunch, I kept myself informed with […]
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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 […]
tagged: bball, canada, design, events, faithfulness, fellowship, freedom, friends, furniture, hk, hope, justice, Kindnesses, patience, politics, prayers, social, sports, studio, sustainability
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Sluggishness
After the church’s 3-day retreat, I anticipated pulling myself together and get busy with work in the studio. But things turned out rather sluggish this past week. I still spent most of my time during the day at home trading stocks even though there weren’t many daily transactions. It’s an addiction that’s unnecessarily using up […]
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Studio Setup and Church Retreat
Returned from HK for about 10 days already. My immediate task after returning to TO was to set up the studio I started leasing in May. After buying insurance, getting the key to the studio, a quick “orientation”, and many rounds of moving stuff back and forth from home to the studio, I had managed […]
tagged: animals, church, environment, events, faithfulness, gentleness, goodness, grace, kindness, patience, peace, plants, rest, self-control, studio, thankful, time
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Blessed HK Trip
Managed to pull off a month-long trip to HK to see my parents before getting busy with setting up a studio in TO starting May. I was worried at first about needing to stay with my parents and causing all kinds of unnecessary conflicts during the short stay. To my surprise, my parents didn’t nag […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
tagged: art, creative-mondays, creativity, joy, life, life-drawing, prayers, sketching, studio, time, weather
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Slow Living
Slowly weaning off my compulsive habit of constantly checking my investment portfolio throughout the day. After about 1.5 months of playing in the stock market sandbox, I think I have more or less seeded all the investment fund into about 10 dividend-paying stocks (mostly ETFs). Ongoing work should just be leaving the stocks to grow […]
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Paper Making (cont’ d)
Continued with my paper recycling project this past week. Successfully recycled the many paper coffee cups I had saved up into beautiful handcrafted pink and white paper! I find much satisfaction in transforming waste into beautiful and useful things. Would be nice if I could make some decent income via such joyful endeavors. I’m still […]
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Paper Making
Since making my first ever self-conducted investment a few weeks ago, it has become a bit of an addiction to check up my investment accounts compulsively throughout the day during market hours to see how the value of my portfolio fluctuates. Didn’t make a lot of buying or selling, but I’m quite fascinated to see […]
tagged: art, economics, environment, goodness, milestone, paper, patience, studio, sustainability, thankful
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