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What I am up to now · What does ~rogbeer put here?
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<h3 class="masthead-title">
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<a href="/~rogbeer/" title="Home">What does ~rogbeer put here?</a>
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<small>That which probably doesn't fit anywhere else on the Internet</small>
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<blockquote>
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<p>"Man makes a clever face and talks about being lord on Earth.
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And at the same time he doesn’t even know where to begin with his own body:
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he watches
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sports on television and defends himself saying that everyone else does it too."
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<p>- <a href="http://antaiji.org/archives/eng/kodo-sawaki-to-you.shtml">Homeless Kodo
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<small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/now">What ~rogbeer is focused on at this point in his life
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<small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/rogbeer">What's with the name, ~rogbeer?
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<small>| <a href="/~rogbeer/swap">What would people give, for a cassette tape?
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<h1 class="page-title">What I am up to now</h1>
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<h3 id="introduction">Introduction</h3>
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<p>This is my proverbial jump onto the band-wagon of the <a href="https://nownownow.com/about">“now page”</a>,
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which <a href="https://sivers.org/now3">Mr. Derek Sivers wrote about</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="now">Now</h3>
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<p>As of the date 14th November 2018 A.D., I’m engaged in part-time employment
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in the kitchen of a restaurant of “Italian casual dining”.</p>
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<p>I decided to work part-time instead of full-time because I still want to
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commit to volunteering. What kind of volunteering? I am helping out with
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the administrative tasks of running a soup kitchen, of sorts, for migrant-workers
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in Singapore. I am volunteering with a non-profit organisation.
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More info <a href="http://twc2.org.sg/what-we-do/cuff-road-food-programme/">here</a></p>
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<p>What makes me want to do the above?</p>
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<p>I want to please <a href="http://phtan.github.io/religion.html">my god</a>,
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so both of the efforts above are what I feel called
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to do after reading the Bible, where I can find out about what my god likes
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and doesn’t like.</p>
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<p>I’ve discovered that art (as in art-making) helps me process my experiences,
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including emotions and states of being, and in this direction, I’ve made
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a few paintings and put them up for sale
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(on <a href="https://tonychen.bigcartel.com">an online store</a>).</p>
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<p>I want to stay tuned to the mystery behind (the impulse and/or need of)
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art-making - this means I have to maintain a position/stance of patience, and even
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surrender, to see what comes up and when it comes up.</p>
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<p>I entrust this matter,
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as with all matters in my life, to my god, who is good, and whose ways are
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blameless.</p>
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<p>More concretely, this means being aware - developing an intuition, even - for
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what feeds my art - as an aside, perhaps, this is perhaps related to the
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somewhat unsavoury character that has been attributed to artists in general,
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such as Hesse’s portrayal of an artist-womaniser in the fictional story
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of
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5954.Narcissus_and_Goldmund">‘Narcissus and Goldmund’</a> -
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and giving myself permission to pursue it/those,
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whatever it/they may be.</p>
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<p>Somewhat related to my paintings are a visual journal that I am maintaining
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(and hosting <a href="https://trust-in-jehovah.tumblr.com">on Tumblr</a>). It’s been
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suggested to me, by <a href="http://mira-yoon.format.com">an art-therapist</a>,
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to keep one; if my god is willing, it will
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be inspiration that a future me could come across.</p>
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© <a href="https://phtan.github.io/">Tony Chen</a>, <time datetime="2018-11-23T06:18:40+00:00">2018</time>. All rights reserved.
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