100 Blessings (百福)
CNY will be very early this year. With the scarce time, I was debating whether to do the 100 Blessings (百福} art project again this year. I had many positive feedbacks from friends receiving the hand drawn postcard fai-chuns last year, some even framed it like precious artworks. And when I was visiting friends in […]
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Social Isolation
The government announced that it will extend its current unreasonably strict pandemic measures for 2 more weeks into the CNY holidays. Besides my weekly calligraphy class meetup and a consultation session at a paper artisan workshop, my time this week was mostly spent at the studio and at home. Had a funny thought this morning […]
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CNY 2021
Was busy with some last minute fai chun writing for my family last week running up to CNY. Had dinner with my parents, sister, and brother-in-law on CNY’s eve. Went into hiding and never left my apartment for the first 4 days of CNY. This is the first time I didn’t see my parents on […]
tagged: CNY, disaster, faithfulness, family, holidays, japan, Myanmar, patience, politics, self-control
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Future?
CNY is a couple of weeks away, I started designing some ink greetings early in order to make it in time to be mailed to a couple of friends in North America. Apparently, air mail was no longer available in Canada due to the pandemic, so only my US friend could receive it in time […]
tagged: anger, brush-and-ink, canada, CNY, covid19, faithfulness, family, friends, hk, patience, sabbatical, self-control, usa
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CNY 2014
Chinese New Year 2014 has come and gone quickly and plainly. It was the hottest CNY since I came back to HK, so hot that I had to switch back to my summer blankets to sleep well at night. It also felt a little busy, it wasn’t until today (10th day of CNY) that I […]
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Happy CNY 2012!
My friend just delivered this paycheck to me for a small freelance project I completed earlier. Something about the Chinese tradition that debt should not be carried forward to the next year, I’m most thankful for such tradition to have received my first paycheck since graduation! This is what I call a Happy Chinese New […]
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