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Hottest Day?!
Just when I thought the hottest days were behind us, the local temperature reached as high as 35 degrees today, the highest thus far for the summer! I sure hope the heat won’t last too long before the daily temperature starts its gradual decline. I think one of my threestrip corydoras is dying. It may […]
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Summer “Staycation”
When I came back from Toronto a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to immediately buy a laptop and kickstart my freelance career once again. But I didn’t anticipate 2 things: the laptop that I wanted to buy may get an upgrade very soon 3 kids (nephews and niece) would move into my apartment this […]
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Paintings
Took my young nephew and niece to breakfast this morning. There was a small art exhibition by a few Mexican artists in the mall, we spent a fair amount of time looking over the paintings again and again. I was particularly captivated by the series of acrylic paintings of birds (cardinal, blue jay, and a […]
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Aquarium
Bought half a dozen baby Panda Corydoras, love seeing their tiny active bodies swim and curiously explore their new home, bumping into other elder corydoras along the way. Hope they’ll be able to adapt and strive in the relative warm water.
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Metro Toronto Zoo
Spent a leisure afternoon at the zoo. Was planning to make sketches of native fauna, but there were only a handful of animals at the Canadian Domain, and most of them could not be easily sketched. Aside from the bounded animals, there were many chipmunks running all over the places. I also had a glimpse […]
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Richmond Green
The weather was too nice in the afternoon to stay home, so I took a stroll at the nearby Richmond Green. Saw countless Canada geese by the pond, almost forgot to include them in my list of Canadian things to sketch! Parks here seem to be lacking sufficient shading even though solar radiation seems to […]
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Living Things @Home
Took an inventory of the flora and fauna I have acquired since returning to HK. There are 30+ pots of plants (mainly succulents and cacti) and an aquarium with 6 corydoras, 7 neon tetras, 10+ cherry shrimps, 6+ assassin snails, and lots of aquatic vegetation. I can honestly claim that I’m making good use of […]
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Extra Day-off
Gave myself an extra “day-off” before locking myself up for the rest of the week to work on my dissertation. Went shopping and bought some assassin snails to hopefully control the nuisance snail infestation in my studio’s aquarium. Played 3.5 hours of badminton tonight, a personal record. I’ll probably be too tired to leave home […]
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Chinese New Year 2011
It’s the Year of the Rabbit, my second Chinese New Year since returning to HK. The atmosphere is joyous and vibrant, but I didn’t feel as dramatic of a change as last year, another indicator that I’m well adapted to the lifestyle here. Spent the day with my family of ten – dim sum in […]
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Neon Tetras
Bought a batch of 40+ tiny neon tetras on my way back home yesterday. A couple of them died, but the rest seems rather jolly in my small aquarium (rather big from the fish’s perspective). The tank seems so much more vibrant and interesting with these new inhabitants!
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