Running
Went for my weekly dose of endorphin, jogged for a full 10k in 67 minutes. I experimented with a new psychological exercise while jogging today, for each of the laps, I tried to recall the memories when I was at the age equal to the number of laps I had finished. I jogged for a […]
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Back To Reality
Slept at around midnight and woke up at around 6am this morning, still jet-lagging a little I suppose. Decided to pull myself back to the office today. Cleared up my email inbox and caught up with my news feeds. Spent my yesterday going through the hundreds of photos I took during the Hawaiian trip, gave […]
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Hawaii Trip – Day 5
Played the part of an amateur wedding photographer for my friend, find it rather difficult to capture people’s split-second expressions. I did try my best to capture as many smiles as I possibly could, and there were quite a few sweet genuine smiles I saw through the camera’s eyepiece. Happy to be able to witness […]
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Hawaii Trip – Day 4
Went to the Punaluu Black Sand Beach in the afternoon and tried capturing some powerful wave action with my camera. Then drove to the southernmost point of the island just before sunset. Spent quite some time there to capture the breathtaking view of the boundless Pacific Ocean. The drive back in the dark was a […]
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Hawaii Trip – Day 3
Finished reading the camera manual, finally started exploring the island and practice what I’ve learnt about shutter speed, aperture, exposure,… Hit the beach (Hapuna Beach) in the afternoon. Then decided to get to the Northernmost point of the island before sunset, but drove passed it without knowing. Accidentally ended up at the Pololu Valley Lookout, […]
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Simplified Week
Life has become routine and simple again this week. Other than my spontaneous and creative Monday, everyday seemed to be about the same – started with a light breakfast at home, then work at the office, followed by dinner at home, a little TV, shower, brush up, devotion, and sleep. Saturday was the highlight of […]
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Aftermath Of Competition
Started working from home again since my mother was injured early July. And for the last week or so I even moved in to sleep in my home studio to focus on completing the submission for the architecture design competition. Worked restlessly – there wasn’t a night I slept before 3am, and I even pulled […]
tagged: architecture, competition, design, family, joy, sickness, thankful, work
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Mother Returned Home
After more than a week, mother was finally discharged from the hospital this afternoon, I can tell from her gestures that she was really eager to get home. She’s still not fully recovered and cannot sit or standup for a prolonged period of time, but I feel really relieved just seeing her home and be […]
tagged: faithfulness, family, joy, sickness, thankful
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GIFT Design Ideas Competition
Started looking into an architecture design competition I enrolled earlier. The competition documents are quite detailed, the requirements on anonymity and confidentiality made the competition seem especially official and fair, and the requirement on deliverables seemed a little intimidating. I imagined this is rather usual for all architecture competitions, but this is my first time […]
tagged: architecture, competition, joy, school, thankful
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Running
Apart from a little rain, the weather this evening was great for running. Ran a record 13k, and slightly faster than last time too! Furthermore, I’m starting to enjoy my run a little more, before it was mostly just training and hardship. Perhaps it is the extra endorphin production induced by exercising, or maybe I’m […]
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