Sabbatical Ended
The opening of the embattled and postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics also marked the end of my self-conducted (half) Sabbatical. Thought about continuing the rather fruitful Sabbatical till the end of year, but it felt like the right time now to finally get myself out of this marathon pandemic rut and get serious with my life. […]
tagged: canada, career, covid19, design, entrepreneurship, event, furniture, life, pandemic, papertube, sabbatical, sports, studio, sustainability, work
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Back To Work…
Easing back to work after the super long Easter holidays. Reviewed my Q1 goals while writing up new Q2 goals. Continue to plan my new work in anticipation of a new normal after the pandemic. Rearranged some tables in the studio to make room for more R&D and prototyping work. Also ordered some furniture to […]
tagged: brush-and-ink, calligraphy, faithfulness, freedom, furniture, hk, Hongkongers, justice, patience, politics, portraiture, sabbatical, self-control, studio
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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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Glimpse of Light
After a full week of gloomy weather, the sun started sneaking out again this week. The hardy white orchid I bought from a CNY market many years back seemed to notice the sun and bloomed beautifully in the light. Received a gift for helping a good family friend’s wedding back in Nov/Dec. Was hoping to […]
tagged: 3D, 3D-printing, covid19, design, digital-fabrication, faithfulness, friends, patience, plants, politics, prayers, self-control, studio, work
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Sabbatical Begins
When planning work for the new year, I realized once again that my studio was into its 7th year since officially opening on July 23rd, 2014. I actually thought about taking a Sabbatical leave back in July, but a couple of interesting opportunities kept me dreaming up proposals. Unfortunately, both proposals were turned down and […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, career, cartooning, chinese-painting, church, covid19, digital-fabrication, faithfulness, friends, patience, sabbatical, self-control, studio, thankful, vacation, website
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Goodbye 2020
New Year came on Friday, but the atmosphere during the long weekend was the least festive I’ve ever experienced. The world seems more glad to see 2020 pass than hopeful to welcome 2021. I spent the long weekend wrapping up a couple of projects in the studio. Reviewing 2020, there wasn’t much accomplishments to speak […]
tagged: art, bible, books, brush-and-ink, cartooning, covid19, devotions, events, faithfulness, family, health, holidays, inktober, patience, self-control, social, studio, thankful, time
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Readying for Q4
Continued with the studio cleanup this past week. Experimented with a new way to use up the accumulated popsicle sticks scraps to make boxes and a few more pallet models. After weeks of sporadic cleanup sessions, the studio should now be more or less ready for new projects in the last quarter of a not […]
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Back To School
Resumed my weekly calligraphy class after stopping a couple of months due to the pandemic. We went to have lunch with our 93 y/o ex-classmate after class, the six of us had to split into 3 tables due to the still effective social-distancing measures. Happy to see my elderly classmate and teacher both healthy and […]
tagged: calligraphy, covid19, faithfulness, family, friends, hk, patience, politics, prayers, school, self-control, studio, thankful, work
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1/2 Work From Home (Week 2)
Continued my alternate days of working from home this week. Continued indulging in ink art while at home. One of the books on ink art I borrowed from the library earlier turned out to be really good and got me interested in pen and ink art again. Work wise, I got excited when contacted for […]
tagged: art, books, covid19, devotions, faithfulness, forgiveness, patience, pen-and-ink, prayers, quote, sin, studio, thankful, work
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1/2 Work From Home
The week started off with the sudden crazy rampage of Appledaily by hundreds of police, a complete disregard of the freedom of press. I remember asking my sister in HK awhile back if she’ll consider moving back to Canada, she didn’t like the idea, but said it might be inevitable if Appledaily dies. I didn’t […]
tagged: art, books, brush-and-ink, faithfulness, family, freedom, friends, patience, self-control, studio, thankful, tiredness
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