Was debating what to do this afternoon, took a stroll around goldfish street, then flowers market, and ended up going to an art supplies shop to buy cork boards. Spent most of my day cutting and installing another row of cork shelf doors.
Have a lot of ideas in my head on how to refurnish my home studio, the shelf doors is only a small part of this long-term project…
Was thinking about finally starting our first dEEsigners’ project yesterday. Looked into my web host and realized everything was all out of place. Started organizing my files and found a couple of flash websites I created over the past, but the video clips don’t seem to work anymore and I just don’t want to spend the time to troubleshoot. I used to do a lot of Flash work, the effects are amazing and cannot be easily reproduced with HTML5/CSS3, but it’s a nightmare to support.
On day 17 of my 21-day “Living a Divinely Inspired Life” devotion plan, it’s about mentorship and learning from the wise – Elisha had Elijah, the disciples had Jesus, Timothy had Paul…
I was lucky enough to come across many mentors in my art and research career. For work, I was also fortunate enough to work and learn from many great people I admire. I still remember my first ever co-op job ~13 years ago, it was a junior internet programming position at a startup company. My immediate supervisor (also one of the founders) was a 30-something who worked and played hard. He never seems to lack energy – cycling, rollerblading, and training for the marathon. The company had less than 10 people and was full of fun and challenges. I wished to be like this supervisor some day. I wished to start a company and recreate that energetic and fun work environment. I still do wish to live out this dream after 13 years, may this day come soon.
p.s. received a partial payment today for a freelance project I had been working on for some time, it’s such a good feeling to finally start seeing the reward of hard work!
Parents have been out of town since Sunday for a short trip with their friends. In their absence, I switched on my rebellious side – eating forbidden food (cup noodles) and jail-breaking (iPhone)! =)
Actually, life isn’t all that different being home alone. Like today, I just had a brief meeting with my new bank representative and then spent the rest of the afternoon working on a freelance project. Speaking of my bank representative, this is the 3rd one managing my portfolio since opening my account ~2 years ago, people in HK seems to switch jobs more frequently.
Thanks to a new tutorial, I was finally able to unlock and use my brother’s old iPhone 3GS! Spent the whole afternoon troubleshooting and migrating everything from my old iPhone 3G. The faster hardware and the newer iOS makes everything feel so much snappier! And the better camera will also allow me to take greater snapshots for this journal.
A bit carried away with all the unlocking, I was almost late for my first oil painting class. Was introduced to some oil painting tools and saw a quick demonstration of the painting of an orange. Amazed! I remember having the same awe feeling when I witnessed my tutor demonstrating the quick ink & wash drawing of a female model during a life drawing class many years ago. Such God-sent gifts! I’ll have my next 11 Monday nights learning this oil painting art, should be fun.
I guess God listened to my prayer when I asked Him to use me for His works. Had a dinner meeting with fellowship group leaders on Thursday, and usual fellowship on Friday night, and a meeting at church this afternoon to discuss about our church’s website updates. Counting Sunday service tomorrow, I’m actually tied to church-related activities 4 days of the week. Actually, 5 days if I count the soccer game with brothers earlier this week! It’s fair to count the soccer game because there are many players who have yet to know Christ, and I do believe we Christians can reflect the image of God in everything including sports.
Sometimes I feel reluctant to serve God because I’ve yet to really start my career, doesn’t a man need to at least be capable of making a living before serving Him? Sometimes I dream of being like Paul in the bible, serving God wherever he goes and supporting himself with his tent-making skills. My internet programming proficiency being the modern tent-making skills and my laptop and the ubiquitous internet connection being my only tools.
Continuing my insightful devotion plan – “Start With What You Have”, “Step out in Faith”, “Discover your Spiritual Gifts”,…
May God continue to lead and guide me in my career and my service for Him.
Currently on the 9th day of this 21-day “Living a Divinely Inspired Life” devotion plan, it is about how the Israelite spent 40 years wandering in the desert without lacking food, water, and clothing. “If God gives you the vision, He will make the provision.”
Even before starting this devotion plan, I have been constantly thinking about God’s purpose in me. He has created me and molded me into who I am today, how is it that I should live my life to glorify His name? Often times I would simply resort to one of my favorite scriptures – “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) But that doesn’t seem to give me any direction in terms of my career. Career counselors would often ask this question – “What do you see yourself doing in 5 years?” A rather provoking visualization exercise…
God, thank you for your constant provisions and blessings, please continue to lead and guide me through life, let me be the salt and light of this world, glorifying You with the things that I do and say.
It has been 2.5+ years since I moved back to HK and I just determined on this very day to file for non-residency of Canada. Although this is the right thing to do, I’m feeling a weird sense of betrayal to a country that have nurtured me for about half my life. Farewell Canada, you’ll always hold an important place in my heart, I’ll be sure to visit you again some time.
It’s about time to start a new life here in HK, my birthplace and my first home, need to quit spending so much time dwelling in the past…
The bball gathering didn’t take place today because we were 1 person short, so I had the whole day all to myself. Decided to indulge myself with some DIY fun. Went out for lunch and then shopped for materials, then I spent the rest of the sweaty afternoon replacing a row of my shelf with cork doors. The original covers were designed to be “temporary” and could be themed with different designs, but they served me well for 2+ years with the original world map theme still intact.
The new cork doors will be a more permanent solution, and with the added function of hanging my reminders, sketches, etc. Will slowly replace the rest of the shelf doors with cork later when I find the time to do some DIY again.
Had been keeping myself busy for the last few days clearing up some freelance work, I think about 75% of the work had been done. Should be able to transition into a full-time deesigner next week.
Weather has been getting quite hot lately, it’s starting to become almost unbearable to work in my west-facing home studio in the afternoon. However, nature seems to be revitalized with the weather, I can see blossoming trees and hear the chirping of birds and the “snoring” sounds of cow frogs from my studio. Don’t think I can survive in this concrete jungle without the bits of nature providing relaxation and inspiration.
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