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Steady Progress
While having my breakfast and catching up on my daily news on Tuesday morning, a loud explosion was heard in the kitchen. Checked and found the glass lid of my months-old multifunctional electric pot completely shattered. The shocking part was that the appliance had been unplugged and left idling on top of the fridge for […]
tagged: 3D-printing, architect, architecture, bible, covid19, culinary-art, design, faithfulness, family, friends, furniture, hk, injustice, mystery, paper, patience, running, sabbatical, self-control, sports, thankful
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A Gloomy Week
The weather had been gloomy all week, a matching backdrop for the inhumane marathon court hearing of 47 democrats who were accused of violating the vague national security law. They were detained and judged throughout the week without being granted basic needs like shower and change of clothes, some inevitably fell ill and were sent […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, brush-and-ink, canada, cartooning, faithfulness, family, hk, patience, politics, prayers, running, sports, weather
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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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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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Isolation
Our insane government issued the first ever surprise weekend lockdown in one of the more covid19-affected areas, I was angry even though it didn’t affect me. The problem is not the lockdown itself, it’s the way it was suddenly executed without people’s consent. One of the government advisers said openly the operation wasn’t secret enough […]
tagged: anger, devotions, faithfulness, family, hk, hope, injustice, isolation, pandemic, patience, politics, prayers, sabbatical, self-control
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A Dark Cold Depressing Week
Less than 10 days had passed in 2021, hope was still relatively high for a better year and suddenly news broke out that more than 50 democratic leaders were arrested under the vague national security law. A dark veil seemed to have covered the entire city immediately, everything around me seemed to have turned joyless […]
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Goodbye 2020
New Year came on Friday, but the atmosphere during the long weekend was the least festive I’ve ever experienced. The world seems more glad to see 2020 pass than hopeful to welcome 2021. I spent the long weekend wrapping up a couple of projects in the studio. Reviewing 2020, there wasn’t much accomplishments to speak […]
tagged: art, bible, books, brush-and-ink, cartooning, covid19, devotions, events, faithfulness, family, health, holidays, inktober, patience, self-control, social, studio, thankful, time
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Winter Solstice, Christmas,…
The holiday season started with the Winter Solstice on Monday. It’s a traditional Chinese celebration when most people would make their best effort to go home for a warm family dinner. With the pandemic still serious, my family of 10 (in HK) did not celebrate together for the first time in the past 11 years […]
tagged: canada, christmas, covid19, dreams, faithfulness, family, friends, girl-I-like, hk, holidays, kindness, pandemic, patience, self-control, social, social-distancing, thankful
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Escape Continues…
Continuing my escape from the gloomy reality of a declining city and an unceasing pandemic. The public library was closed again, so I couldn’t continue my reading of the Midnight Diner comic series. I switched to spending more time in experimenting with real culinary arts. My theme in the past week was making all-day breakfasts […]
tagged: apocalypse, art, brush-and-ink, cartooning, covid19, culinary-art, dreams, faithfulness, family, hk, milestone, patience, politics, questions, self-control, stress, taiwan, thankful, time, UW, war
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