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12 Days Left đ
Starting to feel the pressure for my upcoming return to Canada. There are still so many things to finish up for work and for my family. And also there are still many people I need to properly say farewell to before I can leave in peace. Just 12 days left now! This past week I […]
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Count Down Begins
Thanks to a property agent friend, I finally settled on a short term rental in Canada. Immediately booked my one-way flight back to TO in mid-November. Now the countdown begins with roughly 20 days left to finish up all studio projects and properly farewell all my friends before I leave the city. Met my woodworking […]
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Super Busy Week
Had a crazy busy week. Needed to go to my parentsâ place for dinner on Monday to makeup for the missed usual one the night before due to my alcohol overdose episode. Had to meet up my plastic recycling friend in Kwai Chung on Wednesday to pass them my filament making machine and give them […]
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Still PrototypingâŚ
A former client approached me to scale up a custom minifig I made for him about a year ago. I kinda got carried away and scaled up the LEGO minifig up to 10 times! At the other end of the scale, I started experimenting with a smaller 0.2 mm nozzle and successfully shrunk down DEXTER […]
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Mid-Autumn
Went back to my parentsâ place for dinner on Tuesday because it was Mid-Autumn and I hoped they wouldnât feel too lonely on the festive day. My parents were arguing over little things throughout dinner. The argument didnât stop as they drove me home after dinner. I felt miserable seeing my parents bickering like that. […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, calligraphy, cartooning, family, holidays, patience, prayers, recycle, self-control
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4X-th Birthday
It was my 4X-th birthday last Wednesday. I took a day off from work. Declined to celebrate with my parents, and I didnât wanna ask friends out either. I decided to spend the day doing what I enjoy doing – Art! I revived an IG account dedicated to my ink art and started a new […]
tagged: art, bible, brush-and-ink, cartooning, faithfulness, family, friends, grateful, kindness, prayers, thankful
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Procrastinating (still)
Made considerable progress on my mini letterpress prototype, will need a week or more to finish the prototype for friends to test. Just sparked up a few cool ideas recently about products that I can potentially collaborate with friends even after I move back to Canada, will do some prototypes and discuss with friends in […]
tagged: canada, design, faithfulness, family, friends, letterpress, prayers, procrastination
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Procrastination
Besides joining a short Chinese book-binding workshop on Friday evening, I had kept myself busy this past week designing a small letterpress kit. I thought of an ingenious way of doing the traditional movable type. Should be able complete a functional prototype for friends to test in coming weeks! The deadline I set for myself […]
tagged: books, canada, family, friends, hk, letterpress, patience, procrastination, stress, workshops
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2 Months
Returned to HK for 2 months already. So many things have happened, mostly bad and immediate things that needed my attention but were beyond my control. After the sprinkler disaster at the studio just before LNY, we scheduled the contractor to replace all sprinkler heads on Wednesday. I felt a little relief immediately after the […]
tagged: art, calligraphy, canada, faithfulness, family, patience, school, studio
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Funeral and Sickness
Went to the âfuneralâ of a dear elderly calligraphy classmate on Monday morning. We were classmates for 3 or 4 years before he stopped going to class prior to the pandemic due to deteriorating health and family matters. I still made an effort to visit him a couple of times during the pandemic and the […]
tagged: calligraphy, canada, death, faithfulness, family, fellowship, friends, joy, kindness, life, patience, prayers, RIP, sickness, time
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