What To Do?
Work seems to be picking up after my (half) Sabbatical and studio cleanup, made a new batch of business cards before meeting up a couple of potential collaborators in the past week. In our conversations, I did not hide my plans of possibly moving the business to Canada in the near future as I had […]
tagged: canada, career, depressed, faithfulness, friends, helpless, hk, light, patience, politics, questions, self-control, spiritual-gifts, studio, work
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Unusually Social Week
I’m not entirely sure why, but many of my social meetups ended up cramping into this one week and fitted perfectly into the weekly scheduling without overlapping. Other than Monday which I usually set aside for my weekly indulgence in ink art, I met up with friends every single day, probably a personal social record […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, covid19, faithfulness, friends, joy, pandemic, patience, self-control, social, thankful, tiredness
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A Time For Sorrow
There’s a time for joy and a time for sorrow. Following a happy reunion with my UW gang and coffee with the girl-I-like after more than a year of pandemic craziness, news of sickness and death started coming in from people around me. First, my colleague told me her husband’s intestinal cancer had metastasized into […]
tagged: calligraphy, christian, covid19, faithfulness, friends, gentleness, girl-I-like, joy, kindness, love, memory, pandemic, patience, RIP, school, UW
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A Packed Week
Joined my fellowship b/s for lunch on Tue. after my calligraphy class. Went to see a movie on Wed. with some fellowship brothers. It’s good that they still didn’t seem to see me as an outsider even though I stopped joining my Friday night fellowship since the pandemic started more than a year ago. The […]
tagged: art, artist, bread, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, christian, faithfulness, fellowship, friends, hk, kindness, kingofkowloon, patience, running, self-control, social, sports, tiredness, volunteering
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A Death Blow To Appledaily
The sad week noted on my earlier post turned sadder still. The only pro-democracy newspaper media company, Appledaily, folded and printed their last newspaper on Thursday after being raided by police and had their financial accounts frozen the week before. They printed a record 1 million copies and it was already sold out when I […]
tagged: appledaily, canada, entrepreneurship, faithfulness, family, freedom, friends, hk, hope, justice, marathon, news-media, patience, politics, practice-makes-perfect, running, self-control, sports
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A Sad Week
Following a memorable bday long weekend, the past week was by contrast rather sad… Went to the airport to farewell an old family friend whom I know for over 30 years on Tuesday. Saw his parents and sister for the first time in many years, they obviously were sad to see their son (and 2y/o […]
tagged: canada, china, faithfulness, farewell, freedom, friends, hk, news-media, patience, politics, prayers, sadness, self-control
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Memorable BDay Long Weekend
Didn’t realize today (Monday) was a public holiday until last Friday. It just so happened that many of my friends meetups and farewell gatherings were scheduled perfectly within the few days with no overlapping. Met up with 5 different group of friends on 5 separate meals and 3 of which served with alcohol! This certainly […]
tagged: canada, covid19, faithfulness, friends, hk, joy, milestone, pandemic, patience, politics, self-control, social, social-distancing, thankful
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Home Studio
Finally finished setting up my home studio, one of the biggest projects I included on my Q2 to-do list. The most time-consuming part was the piece of custom shelving I designed and made using paper tubes and 3D-printed joints. This Shigeru-Ban-inspired system of furnitures and accessories is probably my most satisfying work during this self-conducted […]
tagged: architect, canada, covid19, faithfulness, friends, furniture, hk, milestone, pandemic, papertube, patience, self-control, shigeruban, social, thankful
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Super Hot Week
The news announced that today was the hottest day ever recorded in May. In fact, it had been super hot throughout the week. Read about the prison conditions and how there was on A/C despite the heat, I deliberately slept without turning on A/C on Thursday and Friday, slept poorly on the first night, but […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, climatechange, covid19, friends, furniture, global-warming, lego, papertube, shigeruban, sketches, social
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Second Jab
Took my second COVID-19 vaccine shot yesterday evening, despite forewarned side effects I slept surprisingly well last night, but the body is still suffering from minor headaches and muscle fatigue as I’m typing up this blog post. The pandemic numbers continued to ease locally, so I continued to meet and catch up with friends to […]
tagged: canada, covid19, faithfulness, friends, hk, milestone, pandemic, patience, politics, self-control, social, social-distancing, thankful, uk, vaccine
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