Transitioning…
Made considerable progress in shifting my focus away from my financial investments this past week. The trick I used to ease my addiction of constantly checking my investments during market hours was simply to leave the laptop at the studio. I can still check my investments and trade stocks via the tablet at home, but […]
tagged: canada, design, faithfulness, finance, friends, hk, joy, love, patience, projects, romance, self-control, studio, sustainability
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Saying Goodbyes
Attended a good friend’s funeral on Friday to say my final goodbye through prayers. If I’m not forgetting, I think he was the first among my friends to pass away, he’s only 10 years older than me. I attempted to draw a portrait of him in remembrance of his kindness and encouragement and gifted it […]
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Blessed HK Trip
Managed to pull off a month-long trip to HK to see my parents before getting busy with setting up a studio in TO starting May. I was worried at first about needing to stay with my parents and causing all kinds of unnecessary conflicts during the short stay. To my surprise, my parents didn’t nag […]
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Fresh Start
LNY had quickly come and gone. Temperature returned to double digits last week and the clocks had just sprung forward for an hour overnight. It felt like Spring has returned. Last Monday I started the first class of a workshop focusing on linoleum relieve prints using a Vandercook press. I enrolled in the course to […]
tagged: art, creative-mondays, creativity, joy, life, life-drawing, prayers, sketching, studio, time, weather
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LNY 2026
One of the perks of being Chinese is that you get to celebrate New Year twice annually. However in recent years, in midst of all the political persecutions happening in HK, I find it difficult expressing joy during festive days when I know so many people are imprisoned unjustly and are separated from their families […]
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Art
After moving back to Canada for more than a year, I finally started picking up doing some art again. The Print Studio 101 course I enrolled at the beginning of the year did provide the motivation I was hoping for. Weekly class and assignment was of great help to move my lazy butt away from […]
tagged: art, calligraphy, cartooning, carving, continuous-learning, joy, patience, peace, self-control, thankful
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One Month Back
More than 3 weeks had passed in 2026 and I had returned to Canada from my HK trip for about a month already. Time flies. I started picking up doing some art and design again in the past couple of weeks. Spent a lot of time on the second week of January to work on […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, canada, cartooning, church, continuous-learning, design, event, hk, joy, music, patience, sunday-service, weather
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First Week of 2026
Trump’s administration surprised the world with the capture of Venezuela’s dictator last weekend. I had been pouring a lot of time watching news trying to grasp the implications for Canada, HK, and the entire world’s geopolitical environment. I feel worried and couldn’t quite know how to react. The stock market reacted positively and the TSX […]
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Traveling Jays Fan
Still not completely over the devastating loss of Blue Jays last night. The game was very exciting and we were soooooo close to winning it all in a few opportunities! I only started watching the game for the past 10 games or so as my home team looked more and more like a worthy contender […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, canada, friends, grateful, joy, kindness, politics, social, watercolor
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The Marathon
The long anticipated marathon finally came on Sunday. I thought I was more prepared than 2 years ago when I ran the same race, but ended up taking about 30 minutes longer to finish this time around. The time limit was 6 hours and I finished the marathon in 5 hours and 58 minutes! 😂 […]
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