February 15, 2012
“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

— C.S. Lewis

Filed under: quotes faith note to self 
at 10:34 am
February 12, 2012

I am back in Singapore again and this time the experience is different, besides the fact that I am far from home while still in the process of recovering from a bad case of LPR. Hoping to wrap this trip up with a lengthy update, for a change.

More Day 1 photos here: http://ihardlyknowher.com/claudrod.

Filed under: Singapore travel :) 
at 1:45 am
January 27, 2012
Kim and Claudine and Mandarin

My officemate Kim and I started a ‘learn log’ on Tumblr to keep track of our progress in (re)learning Mandarin. We’re a bit desperate.

Pardon the blog title. I think I’m a bit obsessed with rhyming.

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at 1:40 pm
January 19, 2012
“If you don’t love somebody, it gets annoying when they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them you get pleasure from their pleasure, and it makes it easy to serve. I didn’t love God because I didn’t know God.”

— Donald Miller (from Blue Like Jazz; still reading!)

Filed under: books quote faith note to self 
at 11:19 pm
January 11, 2012
Mr #JamesJean drew on my planner. (Yep, still hungover.) (Taken with instagram)

Mr #JamesJean drew on my planner. (Yep, still hungover.) (Taken with instagram)

Filed under: :) Instagram James Jean 
at 11:22 pm
January 7, 2012
Such a disgrace (I think) for taking a bad photo of this important moment in my life! :P This is Mr. James Jean, friends. I have no words for this man, but I can definitely say that he is one of the reasons why I’m never giving up on my ability to draw (the very little I have of it). In this, you can see him drawing on the cover of a Muji notebook I recently purchased. I am converting it into a planner by manually writing/decoupaging dividers and numbers. This is one of my personal DIY (tactile, non-digital) projects for this year, to add me some boost of uhh creativity. It feels like a high school project but that can be the point of the whole thing. I need a breather from all the grown-up worries/To Dos I have for the year. #goodexcuses I’d have no problem using the first week of January to define my direction for the year. It was all about creating, organizing, and new experiences. All full of (he)art! 

Such a disgrace (I think) for taking a bad photo of this important moment in my life! :P

This is Mr. James Jean, friends. I have no words for this man, but I can definitely say that he is one of the reasons why I’m never giving up on my ability to draw (the very little I have of it).

In this, you can see him drawing on the cover of a Muji notebook I recently purchased. I am converting it into a planner by manually writing/decoupaging dividers and numbers. This is one of my personal DIY (tactile, non-digital) projects for this year, to add me some boost of uhh creativity. It feels like a high school project but that can be the point of the whole thing. I need a breather from all the grown-up worries/To Dos I have for the year. #goodexcuses

I’d have no problem using the first week of January to define my direction for the year. It was all about creating, organizing, and new experiences. All full of (he)art! 

Filed under: James Jean art :D events 
at 10:34 pm
January 4, 2012
2011 was the year of coffee for me. I started seriously drinking coffee (by seriously, I mean just like the grown-ups: no cream, no sugar, just plain black coffee) when a good friend gave me a can of it from Toast Box Singapore for brewing. It was then when I discovered for myself that there’s more to coffee than just its well-loved ice-blended form. I now love my basic coffee. Because of that I decided to keep track of my coffee intake using Daytum, just for fun. Here’s to being perpetually awake. :P PS: I’m letting the occasional latte/cappucino slide. As long as it is hot, it’s counted as half a cup = 0.5. Hardeehar.

2011 was the year of coffee for me. I started seriously drinking coffee (by seriously, I mean just like the grown-ups: no cream, no sugar, just plain black coffee) when a good friend gave me a can of it from Toast Box Singapore for brewing. It was then when I discovered for myself that there’s more to coffee than just its well-loved ice-blended form. I now love my basic coffee.

Because of that I decided to keep track of my coffee intake using Daytum, just for fun.

Here’s to being perpetually awake. :P

PS: I’m letting the occasional latte/cappucino slide. As long as it is hot, it’s counted as half a cup = 0.5. Hardeehar.

Filed under: coffee for fun 2012 Daytum babble 
at 9:35 am