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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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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