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Busy Work Week
This week was a considerably busy week. Decided last week to apply for a local handcraft fair as an joint “exhibitor” with a friend, and being the last-minute person that I am, I only started working on the application on Monday, 2 days before the application deadline! Rushed into prototyping and photographing products to include in the application, and was having a little trouble filling in the application itself as I’m not too fluent in writing/typing Chinese. Managed to submit the application 1 hour before the due submission time, a decent effort as remarked by my friend. Hopefully, our application will be accepted and I’ll be able to market my first batch of products as early as September!
With the application out of the way, I decided to add a FB page for my studio, adding another channel to reveal to the world my ongoing work and to possibly get some useful feedback from it.
Looking at the rough quarterly goals I set for myself for this May-Aug coop term, I think I’m doing ok so far, need to continue to work hard in August!
Holiday
Had been a little busy for a week or so as I tried to complete the website for my studio before Q2 ended, just barely made it to have it launched yesterday!
Decided to take a day off to rest and not to join the annual protest this afternoon. Spent some solitude time in the studio, watched some TED talks and realised again how introverted I am and that I think and act more like a scout than a soldier. Being an introvert, I really treasure these quiet times away from all the visual and acoustic stimuli of the city, only then can I think better and recharge myself. Looking forward to a new start in Q3!
p.s. Happy Canada Day to my friends at the other side of the globe!! It’s time like this that I miss the simple lifestyle in Canada.
Claude Monet Exhibition
Finally decided to see the Claude Monet exhibition this afternoon. It’s my first time seeing an exhibition of an impressionist artist, not to mention one of the pioneers of the field.
I didn’t seem to be too impressed with the impressionist paintings, but I was really captivated by the life of the artist. According to the descriptions, Claude Monet was a family man, a good husband, a good father, and a good friend. He led a simple life spending much of his time painting and gardening when he was not with his family and friends.
I kinda envy the artist’s secluded lifestyle. Maybe because living in the city is too hectic and noisy that it seemed like a dream come true to be spending my days in a solitude garden (with a hugh lily pond) and doing nothing other than painting, eating, and sleeping. If only I could replicate that lifestyle in HK, could I?
A Week of Fiery News
The major local news headline this week was about an industrial building not far from my studio that caught fire. Battling the fire was extremely difficult because the building was used as a mini storage facility that seemed to the firefighters like a maze cluttered with uncountable boxes of unknown personal objects. The fire burned a record 108 hours with 2 firemen died and 10+ more injured. Pray that God would comfort the families of the 2 firemen sacrificed and heal those who were injured. ??
The growing popularity of mini storage facilities is a reflection of our materialism, we simply own much more stuff than we have the space for. I witnessed this trend many years ago, when I was living in Toronto (where there’s no shortage of land like HK), I would see many warehouses along the highway being transformed into storage facilities. It was popular because many people were starting to move from big houses to smaller apartments or townhouses and needed extra space to store their stuff.
When will we humans understand that our materialistic lifestyle is not sustainable? When will we understand that our life on earth is only temporary and that accumulating “treasures” here is meaningless?
