Sluggishness
After the church’s 3-day retreat, I anticipated pulling myself together and get busy with work in the studio. But things turned out rather sluggish this past week. I still spent most of my time during the day at home trading stocks even though there weren’t many daily transactions. It’s an addiction that’s unnecessarily using up […]
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Studio Setup and Church Retreat
Returned from HK for about 10 days already. My immediate task after returning to TO was to set up the studio I started leasing in May. After buying insurance, getting the key to the studio, a quick “orientation”, and many rounds of moving stuff back and forth from home to the studio, I had managed […]
tagged: animals, church, environment, events, faithfulness, gentleness, goodness, grace, kindness, patience, peace, plants, rest, self-control, studio, thankful, time
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Wrapping Up Q1
Time really passed by too fast, just realized it had been nearly a month since I last posted. Many things, mostly happy things, happened in March. A friend was in town for work and I had a chance to meet some of her close friends here, it brought back some fond memories of my UW […]
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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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HK Trip Review
Returned to Canada early yesterday morning after a month-long trip to HK. I relied on my good old friend who dropped me off the airport a month ago to pick me up again in the cold early Saturday morning. Felt good to be back to my familiar quiet home and finding everything just the way […]
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Back to Designing
Had meetups on Tue, Wed, Thur, and Sat this past week. Also had 3 family gatherings on top of that. I did enjoy seeing and catching up with friends, but the frequent meetups in the past few weeks had exhausted much of my energy. After my lunch meetup with a friend on Tuesday, I visited […]
tagged: 3D-printing, calligraphy, canada, design, family, friends, hk, introvert, letterpress, patience, projects, social
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A Time to Meet & Mourn
It was a busy week of meetups. Had a total of 7 meetups with friends in 4 days. The only 2 days my schedule was open I had dinner with my parents. I had to rely on my digital scheduler to keep track of everything. Being an introvert, the meetups with so many people in […]
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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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Thanksgiving Weekend
It was the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend the last few days. On Saturday evening, the meetup with a couple of my high school friends’ family was finally successfully organized since my return to the country in November last year. It had been nearly a year in the making, a couple or more attempts for us […]
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