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Journal
Bits and bobs of my scattered thoughts daily or monthly or yearly
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MY FIRST WATERCOLOUR EXHIBTION
🖼️ The 33rd Uckange International Watercolour Exhibition 2023 💐 The news came on one cold morning in February, I was thrilled to be invited to one of the most well-known and well-organized exhibitions in France. Two of my painting: Garden Scent and Bouquet of Sunshine were selected to participate in this year assemble of 86…
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2022 – A Year in Review
It’s been another year. A special year. A brilliant, sparkling, and heart-breaking year! I’ve reread all my past yearly reviews and each and every year seemed to be such a winding road. Thinking back, I might have never had a totally smooth-sailing year where there is only sunshine, except maybe before college? I feel a…
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BOOK | Bông hồng vàng – Paustovsky
Rất lâu rồi, khi tôi còn trẻ nít và ngây thơ, tôi đã viết về tình yêu cuồng nhiệt của mình với “Bình minh mưa” và Paustovsky. Những truyện ngắn trong trẻo, trữ tình và đầy nhân văn ấy đã theo tôi suốt những năm tháng tuổi trẻ. Nhưng dẫu nằm chung trong cùng một…
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A little note of happiness
It’s been so long a time. But finally, I am here, back to square one. Eyes swollen from lack of sleep, neck hurt from craining over paintings, heart broken and stomach hurt. But happy. Not the kind of happiness that makes you feel exhilarated on cloud nine, but the gentler, quieter kind because it’s meaningful,…
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36 – Đi tìm an yên
Mấy hôm trước bỗng đọc được một cái post trên Weibo về suy nghĩ của phụ nữ trung niên. Có người nghĩ về đàn ông, giữa sự đầy đủ về vật chất và tiện nghi mới thấu hiểu sự cô quạnh, có người vất vả xây dựng lại sự nghiệp sau những năm tháng nghỉ…
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How to start and keep a journal
Why start journaling? Journaling has been a great source of comfort and inspiration to me. The fact that you can slow down and quietly express yourself on paper is incredibly wonderful. It’s more common for artists to talk about sketchbooks, as they represent their own visual thinking process, and which I believe to be essential…
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MUSING | Sống và viết
“Riêng đối với tôi, tôi rất chóng vánh hiểu ra rằng tôi chỉ có thể nói được rất ít, ít đến bực mình. Và tôi cũng hiểu rằng cảm hứng sáng tác cũng dễ tắt như nó dễ bùng lên, nếu ta bỏ đói nó. Cái vốn quan sát cuộc sống của tôi lúc đó…
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MUSING | Things larger than ourselves
We have lost something else in our removal from nature, something more subtle and harder to measure: a groundedness, a feeling of connection to things larger than ourselves, a calm against the frenzied pace of our wired world, a source of creativity…
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ART CRUSH | La Rêverie
I first saw the Daydreaming ( La rêverie in French), also known as the Portrait of Jeanne Samary by Augustin Renoir at the Louis Vuition Fondation last autumn in Paris. Jeanne was a young actress in la Comédie-Française…
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2021 – A Year in Review
2021 was a remarkable year. Although it seems that this statement has been repeated so many times, it was indeed a turning point in my life where I quitted my full-time job and finally followed my dream of doing art professionally. In May, I came across Sylvia Path’s quote, I finally realised that I was…
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