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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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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Boredom
It took another week or so for me to fully recover from the cold/flu. Toronto had a week of heavy snow and cold weather. Report said that the total snowfall in just one week equaled that of the entire Winter last year! And because of the snow, I stayed home and had my first Sunday […]
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Holiday Meetups
Had a few more meetups with friends in the first week of 2025. Happy to see everyone staying healthy and well. I’m now more or less settled in TO – got an old car from a childhood friend, made deposits to a condo unit that should be ready for me to move in in a […]
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Drenching Heat
The scorching heat last week had drenched out much of my energy. It was unbearably hot here in HK last summer too, but this year seemed worse. Monday was a public holiday, I turned down my fellowship b&s’ invitation to visit Macau and instead stayed home drenched in sweat and simply wasted the day away. […]
tagged: art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, fellowship, friends, patience, projects, self-control, social, studio, weather
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End of Q2
Finished the 4th and last class of the paper-making course on Monday. I can now resume my regular routines on Mondays. I started going to work at the studio early in the morning because I desperately needed AC during the day in this extremely hot weather. Started the long process of cleaning up the messy […]
tagged: continuous-learning, paper, patience, peace, plants, projects, studio, succulents, weather
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One Month Left
Been back to Canada for 2 months, now left with just 1 month before returning to HK. In the past week or so, I had been experimenting with a few materials (bamboo skewers, straws, etc.) to prototype some products I had been dreaming up for a long time. Found the perfect sustainable material for my […]
tagged: 3D-printing, canada, design, family, friends, hk, sustainability, time, weather
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Fall Colors
Nearly a third of my Q4 break had passed already. So far I had completed a full marathon and a personal project. Just started looking into work and the possibility of setting up a “business” here. Ventured downtown to see an art fair on Friday, got a healthy dose of artistic inspiration out of it. […]
tagged: art, canada, environment, exhibitions, friends, thankful, weather
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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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