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 after grade 11, he probably hoped I would learn some Chinese on my own, but I never really opened it until now.
While tediously going through the boring ancient dictionary, I had my laptop stream the sitcom The Big Bang Theory on the background. The popular TV series was recommended by a research colleague before I moved back to HK more than 10 years ago, but I never really had the time to stream through it until now.
I’m about 2/3 done going through the dictionary and the sitcom, should be done mid-week, will happily move on to other more important projects after.
Living isolated at home under 2019-nCoV reminds me of the biblical Noah’s Ark, especially at times like these when the whole world seems to be under God’s fierce judgement (i.e. War, Amazon fire, Australia fire, 2019-nCoV epidemic, global warming…). I seem to be having new ideas for my next project(s).
Only left home twice the past week, one for a post-CNY gathering with my calligraphy class on Tue., and two for running some errands at the studio yesterday. Leaving home feels a bit like an adventure these days.
Oh God, please continue to help us through this epidemic. Heal those who are sick and let us all stay healthy so that we won’t add extra burden to the already stressed medical system. ??
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.
With the imminent threat of the Wuhan coronavirus and an unreliable government in controlling its infiltration to our city, I have extended the CNY holiday for another week. However, I did go back to the studio on Sat. to do some cleaning and to pack some stuff to work from home this coming week.
It has been many years since I’ve spent so many hours at home in my room. In midst of the Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic fear, the motivation to enter the public realm was low, so I spent most of the time in this CNY holidays catching up on Netflix. Finally watched the second season of Midnight Diner, still loving the series and still making me wanna open a cafe every time!
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.
2020 seems to be off to a pretty good start. In the first 20 days of the year, I have accomplished the following:
