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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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Wedding, 4th Wave, Persecution
Helped out at my good old family’s friend wedding on Thursday. It was a small cozy and yet extravagant wedding by the sea. Happy to be a witness of my friend’s memorable milestone while seeing his family and catching up with an old primary school classmate. The 4th wave of the pandemic is hitting our […]
tagged: covid19, faithfulness, family, friends, girl-I-like, hk, patience, politics, prayers, self-control, social, thankful
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Sketch… Sunday Service
tagged: art, calligraphy, faithfulness, family, patience, peace, self-control, sketches, sunday-service, thankful
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Typhoon 8
Woke up to a Typhoon 8. According to the local observatory, this T8 was caused by a typhoon that’s furthest away on record. It didn’t hit the city hard, but the wind seemed particularly strong in my new place. My sister next door invited me to go out for dim sum in the morning, but […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, cartooning, family, holiday, nostalgia, thankful, UW
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Independence… Restarted
During a time when the mere hint of independence seemed taboo in our city, I moved back to my minimalist independent unit after the 3-months long third wave pandemic that claimed the lives of about a hundred individuals (mostly elderly). Originally planned to move next week instead, but an argument with my mom hastened the […]
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Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival this year coincided with China’s National Day. With political conflicts piling up and unresolved and a pandemic easing but never seems to cease, the atmosphere this year seemed worst for the 10 years since I returned to HK. There was no celebration to speak of other than eating a moon cake for […]
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Readying for Q4
Continued with the studio cleanup this past week. Experimented with a new way to use up the accumulated popsicle sticks scraps to make boxes and a few more pallet models. After weeks of sporadic cleanup sessions, the studio should now be more or less ready for new projects in the last quarter of a not […]
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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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Back to Social?
As soon as the government relaxed the social distancing measures to allow as many as 4 ppl to meet, the city seems to have livened up almost immediately. I had dim sum lunch with my parents for the first time since the 3rd pandemic broke out in July. Also took the opportunity to farewell a […]
tagged: covid19, faithfulness, family, fellowship, friends, hk, patience, politics, prayers, self-control, social
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