3rd Marathon
First mission accomplished for the Q4 break away from the studio! I was seriously lacking practice for the marathon due to the past extremely hot and wet summer that prohibited many of my planned training. I was also unprepared. I entered the race with only 1 gel pack to replenish my energy during the long […]
tagged: canada, faithfulness, hk, joy, marathon, milestone, patience, peace, perseverance, running, self-control, sports, thankful, Toronto, weather
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Hot Week
It was a hot and muggy week. My biggest accomplishment at work was reviving my studio’s old Etsy shop to make available some hand-drawn artworks for online order. Not really expecting to make many sales, but happy that I was able to check off a Q2 task and wrap up one of my biggest projects […]
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44th Birthday
Took a day off on Mon to give myself the gift of time to do whatever I want for my 44th bday. I finally took the time to organize and display my growing series of critically endangered animal caricature paintings in my private living-room gallery. I’m not particularly fond of celebrating bdays, but I’m courteous […]
tagged: 10k-run, animals, art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, depression, faithfulness, family, fellowship, friends, grateful, life, love, milestone, patience, practice-makes-progress, questions, running, sculpture, self-control, sketching, sports, time
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KOKB Launched!
Ran the last mile and felt relieved after finally launching a website I had been working on since LNY holidays. The site is far from perfect, sometimes it doesn’t even load at all, but it’s a WIP and should be good enough at this stage. The site can be found here: KOKB.site The web project […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, cartooning, joy, milestone, patience, projects, self-control, steam, thankful, website
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Prepping For Social-Distancing
The city did not enter lockdown. In fact, for months our city had zero COVID cases recorded in the community thanks to one of the most stringent border quarantine controls and the mask-wearing norm of people in public. Despite ceasing the COVID spread in the community, the government continued to tighten the pandemic measures and […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, calligraphy, covid19, culinary-art, fellowship, friends, milestone, pandemic, paper, politics, projects, social, social-distancing, studio, surveillance, thankful, time
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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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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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Milestone
Since deciding to take a Sabbatical at the beginning of the year, I’ve been focusing on more R&D work at the studio. One of the projects that had me dedicating a lot of time is designing a series of Shigeru-Ban-inspired papertube furniture. After months of R&D work, I’ve finally completed a piece of functional furniture […]
tagged: architect, covid19, fellowship, friends, furniture, milestone, paper, shigeruban, thankful, time
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Easter Holiday
In preparing for this long Easter holiday weekend, I rushed into finishing my first prototype of a Shigeru-Ban-inspired papertube furniture in the studio. Also went for a haircut, first cut in more than 6 months I think. My weekly community running clinic also ended just before the holidays. The studio’s building was cutting electricity for […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, cartooning, covid19, faithfulness, family, friends, furniture, holidays, milestone, models, patience, politics, portraiture, running, self-control, social, sports, studio, thankful
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