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“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” #greatquotes
“I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.” - Vincent Van Gogh #greatquotes #VanGogh #grit
“Creativity is intelligence having fun” - Albert Einstein #greatquotes
“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” #greatquotes #thereasonforgod
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” - Rabbi Hyman Schachtel #greatquotes
“There is a reason God limits our days... to make each one precious” - The Time Keeper (Mitch Albom) #greatquotes #mitchalbom
“God doesn’t keep a clock.” - Max Lucado #greatquotes #maxlucado
“If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God... your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.” - John Piper #greatquotes
“Good-bye,” said the fox. “Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” - The Little Prince #greatquotes #classicbooks
“A spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of a man and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort.” - Albert Einstein
Global Pandemic
WHO finally announced the P-word after being criticized by many experts of its inaction. I started checking the list of global confirmed cases and deaths almost daily. It felt a bit like checking each country’s medal ranking during the Olympics. I continued my alternate working days routine this past week and still finding myself surprisingly […]
Weathering the COVID-19 Storm
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and worsen globally in South Korea, Iran, Italy, etc. In midst of the depressing atmosphere, I seem to be getting used to these social-distancing days. Continued my alternate working days in the studio this past week, successfully carried out a few “experiments” in translating black and white ink art […]
Isolation Continues
The COVID-19 has become a global pandemic, whether WHO has the guts to announce it or not! There is seriously no denying of it as it has caused serious local community outbreaks in South Korea, Japan, Iran, Italy, etc. Life under isolation feels a bit suffocating. Admittedly, I’m not too social to begin with, but […]
Life Under 2019-nCoV
Worked home for another week to save on masks. Besides eating and sleeping, much of my time was spent going through a Chinese dictionary of 4-letter phrases and practicing Chinese calligraphy by copying the relevant words for a long unfinished project. The dictionary was a gift from my dad when I moved back to Canada […]
2019-nCov Took Root
The novel coronavirus is no longer a threat, it has taken root in our city thanks to our CE’s stubbornness in not closing the Mainland borders. A tenth of our city’s medical staff went on strike but that didn’t perturb our arrogant CE’s decision. Facing the incoming virus from Mainland, our first line of protection […]
CNY Day
Woke up in the middle of the night at around 3am and couldn’t fall back to sleep even though I was still tired. Did my daily devotions, followed by breakfast while catching up on the daily news. It was 6-ish am when I finished my morning routine, I pushed myself out the door for my […]
New Year Update
2020 seems to be off to a pretty good start. In the first 20 days of the year, I have accomplished the following: Finally met up with the girl-I-like. Saw an exhibition together and had dinner afterwards with happy conversations. Visited 3 exhibitions. Kept up with my marathon training, can now run up to ~12k […]
New Year Resolutions
Took me awhile, finally made time to sit down and come up with my list of resolutions for the new year 2020. Looking back at my 2019 resolutions, I only managed to check off 2 or 3 resolutions and the rest were either still in progress or left untouched. Nonetheless, 2019 had been an unexpectedly […]
Holiday Season
The atmosphere in the city this holiday season seems to be the worst one for the past 10 years since I returned from Canada – Silent Night not so silent and Christmas Day seeing more chaotic protest news than about the birth of baby Jesus. There are a few things that lifted up my Christmas […]
Starting Things New
Life seems to be getting a bit stagnant and not going anywhere, I felt the urge to make changes last week: Got a haircut, it has been months since my last cut Picked up regular running practice again, hope it’s not too late to train for the marathon in early Feb. Started renovating my new […]
