Happy new year everyone!!

It's now past 7pm on the 1st of Jan 2026, and I have a super important message as someone (probably) from the future (at the time of posting this):
Take care of your health, be safe, and remember to take breaks instead of drawing for 8 hours straight! Don't get RSI, it sucks and I know from personal experience!

My Goals for the Year

Everyone makes a good new year's reso so maybe I'll join in :>

• Draw/paint something at least once a month (so that I can do a summary of the year thing without blank months - 2025 is a year that has a lot of blanks for me as I only started taking art seriously again last year, so I want to change that!)
• Paint a landscape piece once every two months, as a way to ease into doing more backgrounds. Won't set the bar too high for this one because my motivation levels aren't great to begin with, due to my other life issues
• Improve my Mandarin Chinese listening and reading skills to intermediate level, or even get to advanced level if possible.
  I currently can listen and speak at an intermediate level as a heritage speaker, but my reading skill is still beginner level in traditional Chinese :v
• Get a new day job. My current day job has such a toxic work environment both emotionally/mentally and physically - our manager is a massive micromanager and we have a snitch who is out to get someone in trouble all the time!! Plus the building we work in has a mould problem that I reported but it was not taken seriously until the ceiling in another room collapsed. This is in a health facility, mind you!

I reckon that's about it. Hopefully I can stick to these goals!
All the best for everyone and their new year resos too. Enjoy the first week of the new year!