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First Jab
Took my first of two COVID19 vaccination needles on Friday. The past week seemed to be centred around that single event. Dined out with my parents and sister on Tuesday, they talked me out of submitting a proposal for a small commercial unit at an artsy establishment that previously turned me down. They think I […]
tagged: 3D, canada, career, covid19, faithfulness, family, friends, girl-I-like, hk, patience, politics, self-control, social, thankful, work
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Transitioning…
Dined out with family and friends 3 times this week, a record high in recent months amidst the pandemic. The number of confirmed cases saw a small rise to low double digits this weekend, hope those were only isolated cases and that we can continue to transition back to a more healthy social state. Finally […]
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Easter Holiday
In preparing for this long Easter holiday weekend, I rushed into finishing my first prototype of a Shigeru-Ban-inspired papertube furniture in the studio. Also went for a haircut, first cut in more than 6 months I think. My weekly community running clinic also ended just before the holidays. The studio’s building was cutting electricity for […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, cartooning, covid19, faithfulness, family, friends, furniture, holidays, milestone, models, patience, politics, portraiture, running, self-control, social, sports, studio, thankful
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Prepping For Easter
The number of COVID19 cases in the city had dropped to single digits and there was 0 local cases this weekend, first time in 4 months! Happy to see more light shining at the end of this long pandemic tunnel. The pandemic is still far from over, one of the more reliable vaccines was put […]
tagged: art, calligraphy, cartooning, covid19, faithfulness, family, hk, holiday, injustice, justice, patience, politics, portraiture, prayers, self-control, work
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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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