Fall Colors
Nearly a third of my Q4 break had passed already. So far I had completed a full marathon and a personal project. Just started looking into work and the possibility of setting up a “business” here. Ventured downtown to see an art fair on Friday, got a healthy dose of artistic inspiration out of it. […]
tagged: art, canada, environment, exhibitions, friends, thankful, weather
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Carrying On…
With the social-distancing restrictions relaxed, my social activities are slowly picking up once again. My weekly Chinese calligraphy class was resumed on Tuesday since stopping from December. Had dinner with a few fellowship brothers on Friday, last meet up was probably around half a year ago before the 4th pandemic wave hit the city. Also […]
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End of Tunnel?
The government finally relaxed some of the social distancing restrictions this past week, the city seems to have come alive immediately. The public libraries reopened, I rushed through a long overdue Chinese painting book before returning it. Also started dining out again, one time with my family and another time with my Chinese calligraphy class. […]
tagged: art, biography, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, chinese-painting, climate, covid19, culinary-art, environment, faithfulness, family, friends, Myanmar, patience, politics, portraiture, rthk, self-control, Singapore, social, social-distancing, us
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Back to (Passive) Social…
The past week had been an unusually social one since the third wave of the pandemic hit us in early July – had dinner with a few fellowship brothers on Tue, a friend’s brief studio visit and mom’s and sister’s bday dinner on Thu, and met a friend’s friend on Sat to introduce her to […]
tagged: competition, design, environment, faithfulness, family, friends, patience, plants, politics, prayers, self-control, social, thankful
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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 […]
tagged: art, environment, exhibitions, faithfulness, girl-I-like, love, marathon, peace, running, self-control, sports, studio, thankful, tiredness, volunteering
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Childhood Neighborhood Visit
Got up really early and made a rehearsal drive to the bus station where I’ll be taking the bus downtown to the half-marathon starting point tomorrow morning. Still very early afterwards, I decided to go visit my childhood neighborhood. Started a long walk in the nature trail at around the time I’ll be starting the […]
tagged: canada, environment, family, friends, half-marathon, hk, nature, nostalgia, peace, serendipity, thankful
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New Year’s Resolutions
It’s mid-Feb and I’ve finally found the time to do a little tidying up of my studio’s desktop and then spend some quiet time planning for the new year ahead. Made some new year’s resolutions (wishes), some work related while the rest are more personal. Most of the resolutions are things I’ve been wanting to do for […]
tagged: art, cartooning, dreams, environment, love, patience, portraiture, prayer, self-control, social, thankful, work
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Forum on Land Reclamation
Wasn’t expecting much when I signed to sit in on a forum at my Alma Mater this morning, but somehow it felt like I was destined to be there. It was a panel discussion regarding the local government’s plan on reclaiming land along the coastline for development. The first speaker presented, he was a government […]
tagged: architecture, environment, event, hk, school, thankful, work
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Soul Searching (Education)
A rough calculation shows that I had been in school for ~24 years, that’s more than 2/3 of my life! Been trained to be self-discipline at a very young age when I attended boarding school in grade 1, and my family never really had to worry about my academics since then. Frankly not a smart […]
tagged: architecture, career, environment, hk, life, nostalgia, school, science, soul-searching, thankful
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The 2013-14 Budget
The 2013-14 Budget for HK was released yesterday, I actually spared the time to search and skim through the report for the first time ever (a good sign of me getting old). Something troubled me about the Budget, in it were only 3 short paragraphs about “environmental protection and conservation” and only a merely $15 […]
tagged: environment, hk, questions, work
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