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So far everything is going pretty well I’d say.

For the most part my unread mail count is kept below 100. Sometimes it’s a little over that. Then I do some culling… Hasn’t gone above 200 yet. And definitely none of that few thousand unread mail nonsense.

Been doing some art every week. Even if it’s a quick doodle. Other weeks I do a lot more art, like yesterday. I’ve also been trying out my new art supplies. Still have more new art supplies to try… But I’m doing more art and using my supplies so I call that a win.

Can’t say I’ve stuck very well to my low buy though. I bought new sumi inks (I tried them yesterday, at least!). Just ordered stuff from Jackson’s yet again… And I still have all that stuff that I bought end of last year that I’ve not tried. Like the blue pine arts stuff.

I do have been using my khadi fat book lots and I’m loving it. It does have that weird behavior sometimes but… Over all it’s very fun to swatch and paint in there. Definitely will buy more when I run out. Making good progress towards finishing it as well, though admittedly I have been using my watercolor paper blocks a lot since I’m just using the khadi fat book… But I’m sure I will finish that this year!

The only real downside to the fat book is that it’s too big… My table is just not quite wide enough to accommodate the sketchbook, even after I have packed my table and all. I do love the size of the sketchbook… It’s just that I need more desk space.

Another sketchbook that I’m hoping to finish this year is the Nerdforge sketchbook. I have another 4 of those brand new… Including a full set of the three notebooks… I’ve found that the paper is really nice for marker or for doodling… And like I did so many doodles in the Sketches n Scrubs zoom session on it… Initially I just hoped to get as far as I can in it… But now… There’s *some* hope that I could finish it this year. We’ll see. Sometimes when I doodle a thing or two at night it’s in that book too, because it’s a hard cover sketchbook so I can easily use it in bed. Though yeah I am still not a fan of that paper overall, like it’s not that great for color pencils, nor for watercolor. But it can handle alcohol markers ok (bleeds to the other side though), and it can handle water based markers just fine. Crayons and oil pastels are ok there too… So it’s really depends on what you wanna do. I used the Tom’s studio Lumos in it quite a bit and it works great there.

Hmmm what else did I talk about previously? Reading wise. Meh. Not much progress. I… Ok no. Scrap that. There has been zero progress on that front. Yeah I read lots of web novels. Some scientific journals even. But the last book I finished was in Nov last year… So nope. Yeah. Gotta work on that this year…

Writing wise… I still haven’t send out any pen pal letters. But I started writing again, did some journal scrapbooking, which I am proud of myself for doing that. It’s a start. I also… Bought a second hand pen. My grail pen pretty much.

THE grail pen that I have wanted since I got into the fountain pen hobby really. The Visconti Homo Sapiens. I got it at a good price from a fellow fountain pen lover in the local buy and sell group… Yeah. It really writes nicely, and feels very nice in hand. The only thing though is that it’s an EF… which is a tad too fine for me. Like I would probably have bought an F or M myself, but then hey, I wouldn’t be getting such a good deal. I did go ahead and ground the nib a bit though, so now it writes more like an F nib than a EF, and is wetter too, and I love it a lot more now that it’s wetter. I also pulled out the Visconti travelling inkwell to use with it, and it fits the pen like a glove. I got that travelling inkwell off Drop lonnnngg ago, shortly after I got into this hobby. It wasn’t even called Drop then. And I ended up getting two out of it because the first one was short of defective, with a super loose cap for the top part holding the wick… And also the plastic part of it looks like it’s already corroded with acetone or something… Definitely NOT ok for a US$100 product. So yeah they shipped me another one. Both are still usable though…

But I found out to my great distress last week that the inkwell can get ridiculously hard to open if you cap it all the way… I turned and turned till my finger got a blister to no avail. Even got dad to help and nada. I finally found the rubber grippy thing and it finally worked. Still. So damn tight. Never gonna cap it all the way again.

Another recent purchase was these two Tom’s studio lumos and the dip nib holder. Very pretty stuff indeed, and so far I’m liking the Lumos. I put a brush tip and 1.0 tip in one, and the 0.5 and 0.2 tip in the other. I’m feeling more on the 1.0 tip size now though, it’s a great size for doodling. 0.5 is ok for doodling too, but for sure the 0.2 is for more detailed drawings so to speak. The quality of the pens is very good, though I did have trouble taking out the nib unit with the wick on the black lumos, and again I had to rely on that rubber grippy thing to help. Thankfully that worked immediately. And thank goodness I found that rubber grippy thing. Phew! Overall, I like the pens a lot. Haven’t tried the oblique nib holder yet. But the Lumos duo is really well machined. It is a tad more trouble to open the cap with the screw cap though, and the cap is a bit small and unless you take the effort to screw it on the back every time, you sort of run the risk of losing the cap, especially if you are using it on the bed like me. And the half sized pen is rather small. Not for me if I were to do anything more than making a quick note/label. You can turn it around and screw it on top of the other pen to make it full sized, but that just adds that few seconds more to the set up time… Which does irk me quite a bit… Especially since I don’t like leaving my pens uncapped even if it’s for just half a minute. So on that front, the cheap sakura fine liner or just about any other fine liner with the pull cap wins. The Lumos is great quality though and it’s also refillable… Oh and you can use almost any ink you want in it, barring those with big pigment or shimmer particles. And no acrylic inks either of course. For me I have the sketchink lotte inside. I wish the ink was blacker… But otherwise it works really nicely. Eraser proof and waterproof. Like I did a wash on top pretty much as fast as I would (at my usual drawing pace) after doing the line work and it didn’t budge one bit. So that is something that I really like about the sketchinks.

Oh yes, back to the pens. I really like it. Wish there was a blue color option, and that the black also came with the gold bits in front like the green did. That would look so classy and cool and I would like it a lot better. I wonder if they would sell me just that front bit lol! Maybe wouldn’t hurt to ask. My verdict? It’s a really nice pen, and very good quality. I do think it’s worth what you’re paying for, and it is definitely a nice treat for yourself. But it still is very expensive compared to your typical fine liner. Sure it’ll last a life time though. As a fountain pen user, I’m ok with the price… (I mean, I just bought my second hand grail pen and that one pen even at the second hand price is like… more the price of buying 4 brand new lumos duo?). But if you are prone to losing your pens etc, then I guess you’re better off sticking to the cheap disposable fine liners.

Alternatively, if you want a cheap pen that you can use whatever ink you want in it, the Kuretake karappo pens are just the thing for you. It’s like the Lumo, but plastic and meant to be single use only. If you carefully pry open the back plastic cap you can refill it till the plastic cap wears off, but it’s not meant to last a lifetime like the Lumos, and is also wayyyy cheaper. It comes in several different nib options too. I heard that Guitar also made similar pens. And of course I found similar but much cheaper options from Taobao… So yeah, check those out if you want the Lumos but not the price tag. Of course, if it’s the whole environmental thing you are concerned about, those plastic dispoable alternatives will not be what you are after.

I’ve been sharing my art mostly on the SnS discord group… And also Sarah Renae Clark’s discord. I started posting to instagram again this week though… Well I’ll try to update instagram more often…

That’s about all for now I guess. Till next time!

It’s the Year of the Dragon!

And I’ve thought of a couple of goals that to add to the new year resolutions. Yeah 1 month in… But who cares? Chinese New Year resolutions maybe?

1) Keep the unread email count low, below 100 as much as possible.

I’ve been clearing my mails a lot more, but I didn’t over the CNY holidays and now it’s over 200 unread mails now… Opps. Gotta par that down soon.

2) Finish a Khadi fatbook. It’s a nice, fat book. But it’s not *that* many pages. If I use up 2 or 3 pages per weekend, I should be able to finish one this year!

3) Work on finishing that Nerdforge sketchbook.

Reality is that that sketchbook has too many pages, and unless I use a page everyday, I’m not gonna be able to finish it this year. And finishing it this year isn’t really the goal either… But I’ll work on it!

Other than that… Well I can’t think of much else. I’ve already got the rest covered previously, I think. I definitely want to keep using up all my stock of watercolor paper. It’s always nice to finish *something*. Whether it be a stack of paper, or a sketchbook.

The email count thing is something that I’ve wanted to do since the start of the year, and have been doing it pretty well since Jan. No more 999+ mails again, I hope. Clearing mail is much quicker on the gmail app, except also not really because of the stupid lack of navigation options within the mail itself, at least not that I’ve been able to figure out thus far in the iOS app.

I finally got back to using my supplies again. Did I mention it? I think not. I cleared out my room big time. Massive spring cleaning. Not that it’s really clean now, far from it. But I threw out so much stuff. You can’t imagine how much sh*t there was in my room. There’s still so much stuff on my other desk… But at least I put away the iMac on the desk I’ve been using as my main for many years now… And now I have a lot more space for art and stuff. Still not quite enough, but much improved from before.

I finally looked through my watercolors yesterday and found like four pans with mold and scrubbed off the mold and added clove oil to them. So far so good with the clove oil, no more mold, even on the worse offenders. Which is a huge relief.

Practiced doing some dragons today, and ended up with the above photo as my ‘final product’. It was fun… But now I’m back to easy roses… Well been trying out different brushes though. Actually liking those natural squirrel hair brushes a lot more now, though I do wish they were stiffer. But seeing as how much water the khadi paper needs… Yeah I’m definitely liking them more now. In fact the dragon was done with the natural squirrel hair brush.

Will probably give the goat hair one another try.

But hmm… I suppose that’s all for now? Oh yeah, I put together a ‘bed arting kit’ yesterday, haven’t actually used it yet. Maybe on weekdays? Then I can do random sketches in the NerdForge sketchbook and inch closer to finishing that.

Ok, till next time!

Updated, and in an easy to read point form.

1. Do art every weekend.

Whether it’s full blown piece of detailed part. Watercolors. Color pencil. Or just a quick doodle in bed, before bed, to tick the checkbox. Or maybe a few strokes towards a big piece. It all counts.

2. Use the happy mail dots from sketches n scrubs.

Ideally I’d try to finish it every month. But I have two month’s worth already and haven’t even tried the one from Jan. Oh wells. I’ll try.

3. Tidy up the desk space and just keep it free so that I can actually write and do art. (Working on it, hoping to finish by CNY?)

4. Write more.

Especially those pen pal letters! And do more scrapbook journalling/diary writing. Also update the blogs more.

5. Read a book a month, on average.

I have this every year. I set a reading goal on goodreads and the recent years I have a very modest goal of just a book a month. I read too much webnovels really, and those don’t count since they aren’t books. I also tend to read a lot of non-fiction books which are fairly long, and takes more time to read and digest. End of last year I did go on a short fiction reading spree and some days I even read two books…

6. Try out all my art supplies, and use those neglected supplies.

Yeah, all the stuff that I bought in the past, especially those that are still brand new, in wrappers and all. I’ve been wanting to use them, but with my general lack of space… It’s been hard. But that *should* change soon so…

Is happening. I threw out a ton of stuff this weekend. Cleaned like, half my room. Which unfortunately still leaves me with the other half. And the bookshelf beside my bed, which is very dusty sigh.

Did clean up a bit and threw a bit more stuff in the ‘other half’. But it’s still really messy and there’s a sky high pile of stuff on my chair, and quite a mountain on my table. I need to finish packing and cleaning the area beside the window, so that I can pile those writing pads, notebooks, coloring books, and reverse coloring books back in that area. And then I can move on to packing probably the most important part of my room – my desks. Ideally I would pack that up, move my iMac to the floor or something… And then I’d have a lot more table space. I’m also really hoping to keep my chair free of stuff so that I can do art/write anytime.

Can I get that done before Chinese New Year? I have no idea. I don’t think so… But I’ll have to try. Probably will take leave this thursday to pack… yeah. Sigh.

Gosh. It’s 2024 now. I’m supposed to be back at work. But nope. Sick. Still sick. Kinda been sick the entire Dec.

We did go to Genting over the Xmas weekend, and I did post about it over in my other blog here. But what happened after that was… I came back and started wheezing that night we returned to Sg. Not too bad. It only happened whenever I lie down. Oh yeah, epic cough started on the way back to sg… And it just constantly felt like there was something stuck in my chest/throat but wouldn’t go away, and no amount of coughing made a difference. Next morning it was the same. Went to the doc and got an asthma inhaler.

Then after coming back from the doctor the fever started. And the chills. And then the throwing up.

Found out the next morning that sis was covid positive. Yeah. All that was the covid. How much of it was bronchitis? Probably just the cough and wheezing?

The fever broke after the first day – before I knew I actually had covid… That was Thursday. Friday I tested positive, as did later everyone else in the family. So plans to meet my cousin who came back from Thailand were obviously cancelled.

I didn’t test myself today, but my dad is not positive anymore, his ART test lines were already pretty faint yesterday. Mine was still strong. Not as strong as the first day I tested, but still there. And gosh the coughing. The coughing got pretty bad last night. It hasn’t been a week since the wheezing either and I’m still feeling that tightness/lump right in the middle of my chest. At least there’s been no more wheezing, but I have been taking like four puffs on the inhaler everyday. For a week the doc says.

At least I haven’t been throwing up for like 2 days now… It was like the start of last year all over again when I started throwing up everything I ate and didn’t eat. Like air and gastic juice. Still not eating much now, but at least I’m not throwing up either which is a great plus. I’m wondering when to go back to work. Technically I don’t have an MC so I should be back. But what’s the point if I’m gonna be coughing my lungs out…? And still covid positive on top of that. Nah. I will go in for the post doc interview on Friday though. At least I think that is in person. Guess I’ll do the ART test tmr morning and see how that goes… And maybe message my boss or something.

What saddens me was that I was on leave!!! All those wasted days off spent being sick. And it’s not like I could cancel those days off either, because I can’t carry over any more days into 2024. Sigh. So stuff like my letter writing… I just didn’t write any because the idea of coughing covid particles onto the letters and sending them to people does not appeal to me. I tried to do some art on the second day but just didn’t end up feeling up to it. Did some swatches of the Masha watercolors and they look gorgeous, but that’s pretty much it. After that I just stayed in bed watching youtube, reading webnovels, and playing mobile games. And coughing. Oh and naps. Sooo tired. I took a nap this morning after waking up and slept till like 12+pm. Just so exhausted. Been taking like 1-2 naps a day and a lot of times when reading I would find myself dropping off to sleep, but after actually getting ready to sleep (like turning off the lights and taking off my specs) I would feel awake again.

So my plan to do art everyday that I stayed home obviously got disrupted… Sigh. So many things got disrupted. And now I’m feeling sleepy again…

I’d like to do more art in the new year though.. But I’ll leave that for a separate post. This Jetpack/wordpress app is also really annoying the shi*t out of me. It won’t auto scroll to reveal the new lines, ok fine. But sometimes it just gets stuck there and you can’t even scroll up to see the latest line even if you tried. Either way both are hellya annoying! So done with it… Having to keep scrolling up every 30 seconds or so is very, very disruptive too. Arghs. I wonder if the Apple Pages app supports publishing to wordpress… Or just exporting to html is all I’d need actually. So annoying! Ok, that’s all for this post I guess. Till the next one!

Guess who went crazy on Black Friday and bought a bunch of Roman Szmal and Micheal Harding watercolors?

That’s right…

I also got some of everything 31 purplefish had to offer.

And the best part? So I placed the large Jackson’s order on Friday… And on Sunday I found that I had a set of 12 full pans from like the art snacks inktober box like… last year? Or was it the year before? I didn’t order this year because the shipping was ridiculous and I was too lazy to do the whole ezbuy mail forwarding thing. Yeah it was last year. Just checked my account. But clearly with the paper mess and all… I didn’t have time to use any of the stuff inside. And I wasn’t really into watercolors then and barely knew any professional brands… So I looked at the pack of 12 Roman Szmal paints with suspicion… And like everything else I didn’t have time for, they stayed in the clear bubble pouch it came in and went…. Well it just laid around somewhere in the room until I cleared out a cupboard for some art stuff and it went in there and never saw the light of day again until this week.

I was NOT expecting them to be wrapped in foil paper like this, literally looking like chocolates. In a cardboard box and a plastic tray too. The bad news is I don’t have space in my palette for these… Oh wait, I could open a new palette and put them there in the mean time… But for now they are still in that cardboard box. I will now have some repeats thanks to this… >< I also have no idea how to store them all when they come.. Yeah… I bought too many… Went to taobao and got some ideas but haven’t made the purchase yet. I should buy them asap, otherwise I will have plenty of paints and no way to store them!

That’s what I am… Or what my bank account is. Zero. Kosong. 零.

Why?

I fell in love with granulating watercolors.

And also love trying out all sorts of different brands of professional grade watercolors…

And different brands of handmade watercolors.

And those granulating watercolors especially.

Oh so beautiful….

In love….

Bank account is not loving it though.

Gosh. I so very much want a whole lot of Daniel Smith Primatek watercolors. Oh so very beautiful!

And MashasWatercolors? I WANT THEM ALL!

And I also want to try beam paints and oceanpaper… All while I’m waiting for my order from 31purplefish to arrive AND I still want to get more during her black friday drop…

Yeah… I’m a little bit crazy I know….

I’ve been on a watercolor roll lately. Lots and lots of watercolors.

Both in terms of the buying and spending, and the actual doing.

Been just painting a lot of stuff lately. Like 8 or 10 watercolors paintings each day over the weekend… Loose florals, some landscapes… Just having some fun.

And as for the purchases… I have a palette full of Holbein watercolors now. Like 44 watercolors, according to my google sheet.

I’ve got a bunch of winsor and newtons as well… And a whole lot of daniel smiths… Both their extra fine watercolors and their luminance series of fun watercolors. Found that just adding a bit of shiny stuff here and there makes the painting really interesting and so… Yeah I just ended up buying a whole bunch. Visited Straits Art twice and ordered online once… Yeah. I’m deep down the rabbit hole for sure.

Also just paid like 70 bucks in gst and handling fees for a lot of schminke watercolors from jackson art… Not too sure if it was worth it compared to just buying from straits art but… Yeah… Just… felt like I’ve been there a bit too much in just like… two weeks or something so… Yeah. THEN afterwards I got very tempted by michelle harding watercolors, also sold on jackson art… Added a whole lot of them to my cart already. But for now I’m just holding my horses and putting that purchase on hold. Maybe after the renovation. Maybe never. I don’t know. I have so much professional watercolors and they will already last me years and years. I want more of course, but obviously I don’t need more.

And on top of that I ordered a whole lot of handmade watercolors… Including a whole year of watercolor preorders from boulder colors… So… Yeah. I do actually have more than enough for a long long time to come.

Now my daniel smiths are in the same pan as the holbein, and that’s just the regular watercolors. The shiny ones have been upgraded to the palette for up to 24 colors. Neither are filled yet, allowing for some bit of expansion. But not that much. I want an interference green for the D.S…. Not sure if they just didn’t have it in stock or something…

Kinda want some more holbeins too… I want colors more similar to an olive green. And I want like a proper primary red.

Hmmm… Yeah. I’m at a conference now so I’m actually in novena. Which is fairly close to orchard road. Well. Very close. I’m wondering if I should drop by later or something… But that’s also making it hard for me to concentrate on my blog post writing… So I guess I shall end it here…

But so far I’m really loving the DS and Holbein paints… W&N is good too. QOR, haven’t liked them that much so far. Got two tubes of schimnke and I loved them too… So yeah…

Is neither too long nor too short. It went by in a flash really, those 3 weeks of workcation. The first 6 days were honestly more work than anything else. With the proposal writing… It was basically writing through the night or till the wee hours of the morning, then sleeping a bit, going to the conference… Rinse and repeat. We barely stepped out of the hotel room in San Diego really, because it was just writing and writing and writing. And dinner would be Uber eats… And the leftovers I would have for supper and throughout the night as I’m writing. It’s been too long since I did any sort of academic writing…

Typing on my new (ok, about a month old) iPad keyboard now… And I didn’t hear anything about a new one being announced yet so I guess I’m good. Probably next year says the rumor mills? By then I would have enjoyed this for a while. It is nice though, the key travel in this keyboard. But yeah no it IS heavy though! No matter what the weight still sucks. Especially if I also bring my work laptop back, as I did yesterday just in case… Also because I forgot that I did find an app alternative to mendeley… So I don’t actually need my work laptop to read journal papers. Oh wells. I don’t think I’ll touch my work laptop at all this weekend. But that’s alright… I took off on Monday, my birthday! Yay! Pack my table a bit, get some art going maybe? Oh yes, all my new neon watercolors have arrived. By last Sat in fact. Awesome. And my empty watercolor pans are supposed to be delivered today. I really can’t wait. Hope it’s sooner rather than later really… I want to make my Holbein pans and stuff and I’m so excited for that stuff to arrive.

I’m sort of used to the trackpad just existing on this keyboard now. Not like really use it *that* much… But I also learned some of the gestures and what not… But yeah overall… I guess I’ll indeed be going magic trackpad in the future… Heavy weight be damned lol.

Overall thoughts on the trip… Well… We more or less finished writing the proposal by the end of the San Diego trip… So we could mostly just have fun in Europe. 3 hours flight delay on the flight from LA to Paris though so that sucked. That flight by KLM sucked. It was so fucking hot and stuffy. The first flight from SG to San Francisco sucked too. I was freezing on the flight – it was sooooo bloody cold, and my jacket was too thin. And it was long… over 15 hours… My butt hurt from sitting down for so long, even though I made regular trips to the toilet to get some blood circulation going and all… But well, no matter what the flights were just a one day thing. It sucked in the moment but you just grind your teeth and bear with it for a few hours and it’s a done deal. The flight back from AMS was a lot shorter than – well about 12 hours… And it wasn’t overly cold or hot. Ok a little on the warm side, and I was sitting next to a fairly large guy…. But it was ok overall. I was starving at one point and they took forever to start serving snacks, but overall it was quite ok. My knees did feel like they swelled up a lot though… Again from the inactivity I guess… And carrying my luggages from Paris to Brussels and then Amsterdam… Yeah my knee did give way once when carrying my luggage down from the train. It’s not even that heavy, my stuff this time. 34kg in two check in luggages. And then a probably 10 ish kg bagpack. That’s way lesser than what I had when I came back from Japan. But I’m also older, heavier, and less fit so… Yeah.

I definitely spent way too much on this trip. Ahhh which reminds me I need to sort out all the $$$ claiming for all the work expenses. Mostly the conference registration fee and hotels. And also some food, transport, and the poster printing. Yeah. Food in Europe was good, mostly. But expensive. And also a lot. I mean, when you’re greedy and order a started and a main and a beer… Yeah that’s a lot of food… And I bought back lots of chocolates and cheese… And of course a bunch of art supplies too. Haven’t actually dug into those art supplies yet… Yeah. That’s what I gotta do this weekend.. Maybe I’ll read two papers and then do some art or something…

Speaking of which, I slept till 11:30am this morning lol! It’s a Friday and I decided to work from home… I woke up during the night at like 4ish, took really long to get back to sleep, woke up at 7am… And then the next time I knew it, it was 11:30am! I was NOT intending to wake up so late for sure. But the trip has been really exhausting and even though it’s a whole week since I’m back, there’s probably still some jet lag and what not… Also. Fever. Not sure why but I got a fever on Sunday evening. Took some panadol and it went down the next morning. Monday was back to work day and I felt alright. But on Tuesday evening I was feverish again… Slight fever both times. And that slight fever lasted till Wednesday morning… But I had stuff to finish up at work so I went to work anyway… Felt a bit tired and a little off in the morning but not that much… And I was feeling quite ok in the afternoon, but still felt a bit feverish. Yesterday (Thurs) I felt ok. Until when I woke up at like 3 or 4am during the night and I felt feverish, but temp was just 36.5 ish and normal for me so… Yeah. Not sure what’s happening. Dengue? I did get pangs of pain in my knee on Sunday. But that could be just my knees being bad from the trip/flight. And my knees hurt quite a bit too, like aches and stuff. Then on Wednesday my right wrist/forearm hurt so much, I took out my tape to tape it up. But again, that could just be from carrying all that stuff on the trip. Just a delayed reaction… No headaches or anything else so… I’m just putting it down to being tired from the trip and that’s why I stayed home today…

Pelikan hub tmr! I’m looking forward to it lots! Yeah our hub master swapped the date to tmr to get a cheaper venue. Saturday works for me too so that’s great. Just read the email from Olivia (our hub master) earlier and that got me so excited. Looking forward to it! Alright. I guess that’s all for now. We might be hearing back from the editors tmr morning and I hope it’s good news… :X After all, coming back from the trip I’ve been working yet on more figure edits, but for the patent filing this time. I really want this to be over asap so that we can move on and do other stuff. More stuff. Yeah… And I want a break… I want to sleep… I want to just slack at home for a week…

I want to play with all my art supplies basically…

All good things come to an end… And we are at the last leg, last two days of the trip. Well. One day. The conference day two tmr. And then on Thurs it’s just headed to the airport in the morning… Last two nights.

I definitely wanted to blog more on this trip. Write more in my diary too… But didn’t get much time for both. I did write in my journal a little, but as a result there’s no time for blogging.

It’s been a fun trip, but very tiring. Spent like crazy too, mostly on food… Food is so expensive here, eating in restaurants… But yeah overall, I had fun. Bought lots too. Chocolates, museum souvenirs, art supplies… Even a few fountain pens.

I’ll definitely slowly blog more when I’m back… Slowly I guess.. Yeah. For now, it’s conference 2 day 1 and I’m sleepy again…