Impatience

Was rather busy in the last couple of weeks working on a freelance flash game project. Was slightly less busy this week which allowed me to clear up a couple of pro bono work for my churches (my current church in HK and my home church back in Toronto).  Perhaps I’ve overworked a little too much, felt unusually tired in the last couple of days.

Not too sure if it’s tiredness-induced, I was rather impatient with my parents.  First with my mother when she kept on bugging me to finish some food my brother bought us as souvenirs for his earlier trip.  Then with my father today when he was bugging me over some TV reception problem for the living room TV.  I didn’t yell or argue, but I couldn’t suppress my impatience and was rather rude in my attitude.

I still haven’t eaten up the food I didn’t buy and I still haven’t figured out how to fix the TV reception problem I didn’t cause, I didn’t do any wrong but why is there so much frustration within me?  Can I just blame the impatience on my tiredness?  Or is there other things in my heart yearning for my resolution?

Hong Kong Arts Centre

Was out in HK Island for a client meeting this afternoon.  Across the client’s office is the HK Arts Centre, decided to take a stroll there for the first time after the meeting.

By chance, I stumbled upon an exhibition called “The Mind Painter” showing off works of the artist Tam Man Ling.  The collection includes a wide variety of media – watercolor, oil painting, pottery, etc.  On my way out, I was unexpectedly offered a free autographed booklet of the artist!  I’ve spent a few hours reading the entire book from cover to back.  Impressed in how the artist was able to use art to get herself through mental illness.  I’m also a bit envy of how she’s able to support herself by making art alone.  What would life be like if one can freely immerse oneself in creating art each and every day?  I can only imagine…

Time(less)

An illustration for my previous fellowship’s upcoming retreat poster.

3 Year Anniversary

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of me returning to HK, time really flies.  I was 30 when I came back, and now I’m 33.  Jesus carried out His master salvation plan when He was my age.  Look at me, what have I done in these 3 years?

I’ve leisurely finished a MSc. degree to study something I enjoy but not very relevant to what I do.  In terms of work, I’ve completed a number of small freelance projects, but could hardly pay off my expenses.  Thought about starting a business with friends, garnered a lot of enthusiasm and interests, but lost steam mainly due to my sluggishness.  In terms of spiritual life, I’ve pretty much settled in the church my sister attends, and was thankfully given many opportunities to serve God with the gifts He had given me.  However, I still often do things I know He wouldn’t approve – I would sin, confess, and then sin again.

Oh God, please forgive me for not better spend the 3 years you had given me.  Sorry for letting you down often.  Please oh Lord, be merciful and don’t give up on me.  I had seen your guidance in my academic work, my career, and my spiritual life in the past 3 years, please continue to lead and guide me in the next 3 years, continue to mold me and use me for Your works, serving others and glorifying Your name.  Let me live my life to the fullest, just like the way You intended.

Cartooning

Gave myself a break today to work on a poster design for my fellowship back in Toronto.  Having left that fellowship for quite a few years now, I feel flattered that they still remember me when they needed to design a poster.  But at the same time, I’m a little worried about the fellowship for not being able to empower someone to seize this opportunity to serve God.

Anyway, I took this opportunity to get away from work and indulge myself with some cartooning.  Will go back to coding the Flash game tomorrow.

Sick and Tired

It’s been a long time since I last used the phrase “sick and tired”, but it seems to describe perfectly how I’m feeling in the last few days. I woke up on Friday feeling a little sick, had a light fever of 99.x degrees and decided to skip fellowship that night (for the first time in many months). But instead of resting, I continued to have my brain juice sucked up by the Flash game programming project.

Was thinking about taking it easy and quickly wrap up the project yesterday, but found a bug at night and ended up debugging and testing till 2:30am, and I couldn’t fall asleep until 4. Feeling tired and a little sick (headache) the whole day today, I desperately need some quality sleep tonight.

Painting Class

20120813-223104.jpgCompleted the first painting of my new painting course.  The colors were way off, and I’m not exactly proud of this piece at all.  I remember the time when I first started to paint a few months ago, I would easily be frustrated when I painted poorly, painting class was a bit of an emotional ride.  Now I just console myself believing there’s much room for improvement in the remaining 3 paintings.  And now instead of envying other students work, I’m learning to turn that envy into admiration.

I’ve learnt this from a fellowship program a couple of weeks ago, a video of Pastor Rick Warren reminded us that good b/s are those who share happiness with each others’ successes instead of envying.  I shall learn to do the same.

Won An Award!

Just when I was feeling a little lifeless with all the programming work throughout the week, a letter was received today notifying me that I’ve won first place in an open competition!  Wow!!  This is my first ever design-related award, thank God for the wonderful surprise.

According to the letter, I’m supposed to keep this secret until the results are officially announced in Sept.  Sometimes it’s just so difficult to keep a secret, couldn’t you just tell me about this later in Sept.?!  I’ll try my best to comply with the request and will share the wonderful news with no one other than my family.

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Work

Since Tuesday, other than the daily lunch breaks, I had pretty much spent all my time staying in my home studio coding Flash AS3.  It’s been too long since I touched Flash programming, spending quite a bit of time searching and looking up documentations.  It brought back memories of the time when I was taking my first programming courses in Year 1, so much time was spent in my dorm room debugging assignments, the cafeteria’s unlimited supply of poutine and coke were some of my best friends back in those days.

I really want to finish this Flash game project ASAP and have it out of my way.  Giving myself till next Friday to get the bulk of the freelance project completed, seems like I’m on track as the major hurdles seem to have been overcome this week.  Have been putting many other things on hold, can’t wait till I’m done with this, let life be breathed into me again!

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HK Geopark

My family and I joined a local tour to visit the Geopark yesterday.  I totally forgot about it until the night before, had drinks with friends till rather late and ended up sleeping very little before the trip.  As a result, the trip seemed rather exhaustive, I spent every minute on the bus and on the boat taking power naps.  Nonetheless, I was once again reminded of the wonderful combination of colors and textures of nature,  it’s been awhile since I took a breather from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Had a bit too much physical activities over the weekend (bball on Sat. and Geopark yesterday), my legs felt a bit tired after standing through the painting class tonight.  Good thing I’ll have some time for my body to recover this week as I don’t have soccer or bball scheduled, and the mid-week badminton session is optional.

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