Typhoon Nida
Typhoon signal no.8 was hoisted at 8:40 last night as Nida hit near HK coast. The signal lasted for most of the morning today and much of the HK workforce got a morning off. I went back to the studio in the early afternoon, walking pass many fallen branches and leaves along the way. Many shops and restaurants were […]
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Holiday
Had been a little busy for a week or so as I tried to complete the website for my studio before Q2 ended, just barely made it to have it launched yesterday! Decided to take a day off to rest and not to join the annual protest this afternoon. Spent some solitude time in the […]
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Claude Monet Exhibition
Finally decided to see the Claude Monet exhibition this afternoon. It’s my first time seeing an exhibition of an impressionist artist, not to mention one of the pioneers of the field. I didn’t seem to be too impressed with the impressionist paintings, but I was really captivated by the life of the artist. According to […]
tagged: art, artist, city, claude-monet, creative-mondays, event, hk, landscape, life, questions
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A Week of Fiery News
The major local news headline this week was about an industrial building not far from my studio that caught fire. Battling the fire was extremely difficult because the building was used as a mini storage facility that seemed to the firefighters like a maze cluttered with uncountable boxes of unknown personal objects. The fire burned […]
tagged: canada, fire, hk, materialism, prayer, questions, RIP, sustainability
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Time
Time, a concept that warrants timeless debates/discussions/contemplations. I’m still not quite completely recovered from my emotional low, the constant depressing news (both locally and globally) seems to have lengthened the recovery process. Rather than pushing myself to recover from the blues with mindless and endless work, I decided to take it slow and use all […]
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Feeling Low
Planned to do a big cleanup of my studio last week, got started but didn’t go too far. Feeling a little sluggish and lack of motivation lately, not entirely sure why. On the local news today was another youngster committing suicide, ramping up to a bit short of 20 cases since the start of the […]
tagged: faithfulness, hk, hope, patience, prayer, self-control, sluggish
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1st Half Marathon Completed!!
I’ve MADE IT!! I’ve completed my 1st half marathon!! Though slow (2h43min), I’m happy that I was able to complete the full 21K without stopping (I did stop briefly once to tie my shoelace). Although the weather didn’t cooperate (it rained throughout most of the run), it was a wonderful experience to run with so […]
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Monday Artist
It was a day of fully-packed artistic events. I first went to a chinese painting exhibition by artist 林勇遜 in the early afternoon, then quickly saw the MUJI compact life exhibition @PMQ while I was in the Central area. Ended the day with my weekly evening watercolor and oil painting classes, completed 2 pieces of […]
tagged: continuous-learning, creative-mondays, event, hk, joy, oil-painting, patience, thankful, watercolor
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Running
Planned to do a 7k practice run this morning, but could only run 4k, felt defeated. I think there were 2 possible reasons for the upset, one was that I got ambitious and used up a lot of the strength at the beginning of the run, and second was the scorching sun. It was 30 […]
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Taipei Trip
The 5-day Taipei trip with my fellowship friends had ended on Saturday. Thankful for the 5 days of perfect weather, amazing scenery, and an unforgettable and breathtaking sunset! I couldn’t resist to use the sunset photo for my phone’s wallpaper. =) Feeling slightly recharged after the trip, should now have enough energy to keep me […]
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