About to celebrate my first birthday ever in quarantine. That's... interesting, lol.
I've always had birthday celebrations outside, because. Whether it was drinks, clubs, a simple meal or a party, there's always been an element of going out. Well, naturally everyone's taken that for granted now. But at least I'll get to spend it with my little waifu Tifa Pik Lin at home, which is nice. We can be cozy and lazy (as if plenty of our time isn't that to begin with, lol).
We've been productive. Pik Lin's been doing her coding modules as well as embroidery painting while I've been focusing on my animation in After Effects. I'm just over halfway through the course now, and it's been quite a lesson. Learnt a lot of things, but thankfully my proficiency with Photoshop and Illustrator have made the transition a little easier. Had to upgrade from AE CS6 to AE CC though, 'cause the Duik Bassel script kept crashing on CS6, and it seemed unique to only CS6. Damn. Yo ho, CC worked fine, and it was about time for an upgrade anyway. CS6 is near elderly by now.
I've got the gaming group Beefy Porn Star Club (Cult now, apparently), the same group I went to Japan with in 2016. We would game pretty regularly during normal days, but now with everyone at home, we game twice a week. We've moved on from Borderlands 2 to Left4Dead 2, then Borderlands 3 and now finally Warhammer: Vermintide 2. We're getting slaughtered on Champion mode, seriously, zzz. But it's pretty fun, and being idiots with them is hilarious.
On sadder news, Donald Chuah from EP-Asia has passed away from pancreatic cancer and Nancy Han from my church, Richmond Hill United Church, passed away from what my minister James Ravenscroft described as a liver fluke. And I found out yesterday that one of my coursemates from Emmanuel College for the Innovative Ministry Centre James Roth passed away very suddenly from stroke and cancer. So yeah. A lot of death recently too, and you don't need me to tell you how difficult the grieving is without any hugs or physical contact due to the whole social distancing thing. Aye... may you all rest without the pain of suffering.
