2018 Review
My resting heart rate continued to drop from 67 bpm to my normal 60 bpm in the past week, so I ended 2018 and starting 2019 with a healthy body.
Before planning for the new year, here are some highlights of 2018 off the top of my head:
- completed my first full marathon
- completed my two year term as fellowship committee
- finished learning the thousand words in Chinese calligraphy using 楷書, now learning 行書
- vacationed in Canada for more than a month with my parents and sister
- tackled Inktober for the first time and created a 26-panel comic story
- completed a set of 120+ endangered species portraiture in brush-and-ink
- published a website to showcase and archive the endangered species portraitures and other ink art
- read 25+ books, including the bible which I just finished reading today
- went on a few dates with the girl-I-like, but kinda lost touch with her since my long vacation in Canada in July
Looking back, 2018 had been a rather fruitful year, I cannot help but thank God for His abundant grace.
Oh Lord, thank you for your never lacking grace over the year despite my many sins. Please be patient with me and continue to help me rid of my sinful self this year so that Your light can shine through me unhindered.
Recovered and Socializing
Had been monitoring my resting heart rate (bpm) closely since I suffered from the bad flu. It has always been considerably constant rating at around 60 bpm since I got my Fitbit about a year ago, so I never paid much attention to it. But since I got sick many weeks ago, I noticed that it rose and peaked at 88 bpm! Now it’s back down to around 67 bpm, so I’m concluding that I’m finally recovered. Plus, I now know a more scientific way of monitoring my health.
Had a few social gatherings this week:
- Joined my old oil painting friends to visit the Taifun Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen on Monday
- Had pre-Christmas + Winter Solstice lunch buffet with my calligraphy class, followed by dinner with some old high school friends on Tuesday
- Afternoon tea with an old colleague on Friday
- Met up with a friend to learn Cyanotype printing from her on Saturday
- Had Winter Solstice lunch with family and dinner with church b/s today
It’s good to meet and catch up with friends, some of whom I haven’t seen for probably more than a year. It seems like I’m now slowly moving away from socializing online – rarely sharing things on FB and kept rather silent in WhatsApp groups. It’s just so much more enjoyable and satisfying to meet friends and chat in person offline!
