It was told that I would be too run down to have meetings after the surgery, but I managed to come back 10 minutes prior to the start of the seminar and gave a live talk without any issues.
But just as a back-up plan, I also pre-recorded a rehearsal.
2023-04-26
Sketch creativity
2023-04-22
Happiest moments of the day
My happiest moments of the day are when I finished my physical trainings, especially at weekend mornings, which made me realize that physical, mental, and relationship health are the most important things to me and everything else is icing on the cake.
2023-03-26
Optometry visit
I manually traced the vector contours over the photographs captured by my mom to highlight the cute hand gestures and facial expressions of my niece performed during an optometry visit.
2023-02-20
Chewing sound from crawl space
Reading at night I
heard animal chewing sound
from crawl space below
2023-02-12
Homeless hand
While waking by the Moscone Center garage I heard some shuffling sound and saw a hand ruffling from a temporary shelter built on a row of bike racks.
A quickly way to identify representative works of someone
I was trying to identify representative works of a friend, so I just went to his FB profile to see what he has bragged about recently.
π
2023-01-23
Asian competitive advantage for SIGGRAPH
I liked to joke that Asian folks have a competitive advantage for SIGGRAPH since its deadline is usually before the lunar new year, but this year proves a rare exception.
Neither matters that much to me anymore, though.
π
2023-01-16
賴εΊ
Sometimes I am envious about people who can stay in bed after waking up in the morning; I either feel bored at that time or have to record a vivid dream before it is gone.
2023-01-12
Last day of Adobe sabbatical
Today is the last day of my Adobe sabbatical, which, as far as I remember, is the first official time off in my entire career.
I never felt the need to take a work break, but the sabbatical will expire if not used soon, unlike other types of day offs that could be accumulated/retained for longer.
I am glad I took it though; even though the duration (20 working days after 5 years of employment) is shorter than a typical faculty sabbatical but is still long enough for me to reflect on things that I wouldn’t thought about otherwise.
Aside from a little bit of research which I considered to be fun (reading/reviewing/revising papers and collaborating with students), I have spent almost the entire sabbatical with my family whom I haven’t visited since the onset of covid, walked/hiked a lot around different places, learned more about (physical) acrylic painting, found out (and dealt with) some health issues that I was too busy to even notice, and realized that I no longer care about some stuff that others consider important (and which I used to or thought I still do).
January 13 2023 add on:
It appears that Microsoft is adopting “unlimited time off” like Adobe.
Since I didn’t take any day off with Microsoft, all my remaining time off got converted to cash on my last day.