I can see this fire hydrant across the street right outside my home office window, and recently it has been surrounded by blooming flowers.
The watercolor wet splatter brush helped me quickly create the flowers effect.
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My current employer has great on-site meal services with high quality, nutrition, taste, variety, and in a subsidized price. The employees usually use an app to order and pay for the meals.
But today, when I tried to pick up my ordered meal, I found the food stall already closed. I was then told that since the app is down, we can just take whatever they like without paying.
As expected, the popular food stalls either had long queues or were already closed due to running out of inventory.
So I just had some salad which seems less popular or better stocked.
When learning a new skill, how well we can do at the beginning or how fast we can improve over time matter less how persistent we can be.
Sometimes the progress might not be obvious in the short term but might pleasantly surprise us in the long term.
I realized a while back (maybe during my teen years) that my brain tends to move too fast for by body to catch up, causing fast (and thus unclear) talking, hand writing, and body movements.
The instructor of one of my physical classes also made similar comments, so today I performed one these forms in a super slow motion. It was more physically demanding (as I need to hold each position longer) but also more mentally relaxing (as I can focus inside myself).
Upon noticing a reminder email about upcoming reviews due for a conference 3 days ago, I realized that I haven’t received any prior notifications about the assignments and thus haven’t started reading the papers yet. It is not a good form to miss reviews, especially for a conference that I previously chaired, so I spent an intense long weekend reviewing these submissions.
While waiting for the train I saw some workers painting an area of the platform with bright green color, which looked fresh, vibrant, and cheerful.
Unlike more complicated paintings that we might be self-conscious about quality, a simple rectangular region provides less room for worries.
I came back to the same spot 2 days later and found the painted areas marking spots for bike boarding, which should be helpful to let the passengers know where the bike trains will stop.
While waiting for an evening train I noticed a familiar face in this recommended article on my mobile phone, and was shocked to discover that two of my former MSR Asia colleagues are among the deceased.
I don’t know how much their deaths are related to the work pressures, but it is a good reminder that we should take care of our health.
There is a certain truth that “pain is temporary, suck is forever”, but none of these matters if one is not even around.
A few days ago I noticed a dead rodent flattened on the driveway, so decomposed that it is hard to tell whether it is a rat, a mouse, a gopher, a mole, a vole, or something else.
I transferred the dead body to the compost bin via a pair of tree branches.
Today, after the garbage was collected, I found the dead body still stuck to the bottom of the bin. So I picked it up (via the same pair of tree branches), stuffed it inside a gopher hole nearby, and covered the hole with the surrounding soil.
Instead of driving, I experimented with taking MUNI bus 28 to the de Young Museum from the Daly City BART station. The stop was right north of the Golden Gate Park entrance, and I can walk through the Rose Garden on the way to the museum. The bus has a pretty frequent service (every 12 to 15 minutes, not too bad relative to the bay area public transport standards), wasn’t much slower than driving by my own along the (usually jammed) 19th avenue, and I could take time sighting the street and observing the fellow passengers. The bus was quite bumpy though, but fortunately I was well conditioned from riding the mini-buses in Hong Kong.
There is another MUNI line 44 that can lead directly to the museum, which I plan to try next time.
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