alvin in the room

One thing I learned recently is to try to not urge to get an answer.

It’s been my third time to visit Margate, following the first day trip and the second one staying overnight.

Many different tools in a stationery shop.

Living in the digital age, knowledge workers and creatives don't seem to involve much physical labour tasks and so we are increasingly seeking ways to improve our productivity by using more powerful tools especially AI which helps automation to save our t…

Three years ago, I designed my first tote bag with my illustration of London bus (New Routemaster, or New Bus for London, NBfL) printed on it.

I increasingly found early morning is the best time of the day for me.

When talking about productivity, people usually ignore seasons.

Myanmar, 2016 I realized that I didn’t talk much about travel solely, although I covered details about my recent trips.

It’s not my first time to Eastbourne: the fourth time following a stopover to Seven Sisters, the two overnight stays in August 2024 and my birthday in winter last year.

Last summer, I started taking bus and tram only in London, and now it’s more than a year.

I have been in London for almost five years with five summers.

After arriving in the UK, I met a person who told me winter was not hard, but summer.

I have been taking part in most of the events organised by Urban Sketchers London since 2023, and this is my first time leading their event, with one of the team members Sasala Wickramasinghe.

Inspired by Robb Knight’s App Defaults post list, I shared my app defaults in September 2025 and January 2026, and would like to update here.

Folkestone is one of my favourite seaside towns in England, and I have been there for several times.

There were 4 Urban Sketchers London events in May this year, including Canalway Cavalcade in Little Venice, Morden Hall Park and a summer late in Bazalgette Embankment.

I stumbled upon Chichester when I took a bus last year from Portsmouth to Bognor Regis interchanging there, where the Market Cross attracted me, and I made it recently for a day trip.

There has been heatwave in London recently pushing the city’s temperature up to 35c.

The technology we are using is not quiet.

If you visit Greenwich Park overlooking the whole view of the city, you may notice skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, traditional Queen's House and Maritime Museum.

V&A, one of the art museum brands in the UK, has a certain number of galleries not just showcasing artworks, but also promoting creativity in the country.

Morden Hall Park is a National Trust’s park in south London due to its heritage of historic buildings and watermills.

I started using Obsidian at the end of August last year.

More than a month ago, I tried to subscribe Reeder, one of the RSS readers which is also able to include YouTube and podcasts updates to see if it was better than NetNewsWire, as the former has better UI and most importantly it doesn’t have any badges com…

My first smartphone between 2012 and 2013.