2019-nCoV Threat

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.

Decided to work from home mainly to safe on masks as there’s a major shortage of mask supplies in the city. Thousands of people lineup outside of drugstores everyday to buy masks, and many leaving empty handed frustratingly. There were even robberies of masks reported! I see the angry and helpless faces of people on the news and I can’t help asking how a bloody government can be so apathetic and merciless to its people?!

Facing this incoming epidemic, there’s really nothing I can do besides staying home to safe on masks and trying to stay healthy so as not to be a burden to an already stressed healthcare system. Have been taking the extra time to catchup on the Inktober52 challenge. Seems like I have an innate affinity to make art at times of stress and sadness. Plan to do more of that this week while strategizing on some major projects for 2020.

Oh God, please be merciful to our city and help us through this imminent epidemic threat. ??

Sketch… Sunday Service

CNY Holidays

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!

A good friend from Toronto messaged me this morning to pass me a document regarding some good information on the Wuhan Coronavirus. The message led to a short conversation. He seemed concerned about me and asked if I considered moving back to Canada. Actually, my mom suggested that a few times already since the anti-extradition protests broke out in June last year, and I declined saying the situation in HK is not that desperate for me to leave yet. As a matter of fact, I’ve grown more and more connected to my birth city since my birthday last year. With a decent education background, no financial burden, and a Canadian citizenship, it feels like I’m in a good position to offer my minuscule help to my fellow Hongkongers.

Started reading Exodus for my daily devotion this morning, the story of Moses (his background and the way God used him to help liberate his people) seems to reinforce my desire to help Hongkongers. Moses was forced out of his Egyptian home at the age of 40 and I’ll be moving out on my own very soon. A coincidence? Or is God trying to tell me something? ?

Sketch… Sunday Service

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 marathon training while the sky was still dark. With the marathon happening in a little bit over 2 weeks, I intensified my training schedule and targeted to run 18k. Tiredness kicked in about halfway. Luckily, I thought of a creative way to distract my tiredness. For the remaining run, every lap (~600m) or so I would think of a special person in my life and search my memory of the special moments I had with him/her. The first came my immediate family (father, mother, sisters, brother), followed by my late uncle, my calligraphy class members, the girl-I-like, and finally God who had purposefully gathered us together in life. I was filled with gratefulness after the tiring run. The dopamine certainly helped too.

Our family’s CNY Day tradition continued this year and we had dim sum lunch at the same restaurant for the past 10 years!

In the late afternoon, our HK gov. held a press conference raising the Wuhan coronavirus to the top emergency tier, and as a result, the marathon scheduled for early Feb. will be cancelled. Even though I’m totally not prepared for it and had been secretly hoping it to be deterred, there was still a sense of disappointment hearing the announcement.

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 non-stop.
  • Finished painting my new home, but decided to delay moving in until after the marathon (early Feb.) so as not to interrupt my running practice.
  • Joined a Farm Ecosystem x Art Education volunteering programme by HKBWS and had completed 2 of 4 training sessions.
  • Got invited to a consignment project, designed and handed over some calligraphy postcards to be sold at an upcoming mini exhibition.
  • Reconnected with a few friends, hope to start a synergistic furniture design project with them this year.
  • Started a new annual daily devotion programme to read the entire bible chronologically.

It has been a little tiring in the first few weeks of the year. In this last week before CNY, I hope to slow down my pace a little to cleanup my studio and home and write faichuns to infuse some much needed positive energy to our city…

Oh God, thank you for a good start of 2020, please continue to bless and guide me to follow You this year. ??

Sketch… Sunday Service

Sketch… Sunday Service

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 amazing year!  Near the second half of the year, a good friend invited me to do a mini exhibition of my ink art, that was totally unexpected as I never really thought of myself as an artist (although I enjoy doing it).  The debut exhibition led to some more art opportunities with WWF and a fruitful ink booth at JCCAC’s Handicraft Fair near the end of the year!  Besides art, the exhibition also indirectly helped me reconnect with the girl-I-like and led to a few happy and memorable dates (I hope she felt the same).

The second half of 2019 is also characterized by constant and lingering protests in our city.  Despite the violence and chaos, the prolonged protests had helped me reconnect with my birth city, never before had I felt such a strong sense of belonging and wishing to offer my minuscule help.

Looking ahead into 2020, I have great expectations, but I also believe that “in his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” (Proverbs 16:9)

Oh God, if my plans are good in your eyes, please guide my steps into fulfilling them.  More importantly, please help me see you more clearly and follow you more closely in 2020. ??

Sketch… (early) Sunday Service

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