Wow, 10,000 subscribes to my blog as of today!

It was more than 7 years ago when I started this journey of blogging, specifically to capturing all the learning in my life, a life of reading, experimenting, traveling, fixing things, and sharing/teaching. “Live to the old age and learn to the old age,” as the Chinese adage goes. If any of my learning benefits just one other person, I feel that I have lived, contributed and served my purpose. And the more I share the more I learn – the cycle feeds on itself.

As of today, Learnbyblogging.com has almost 500 posts. Despite the common wisdom of keeping a uniform theme, the posts cover diverse topics from book reviews, movie reviews, gardening, DIY (Do It Yourself) repairs, travels, and tips of all kinds. Our subscribers span across the globe and seem to be growing exponentially, thanks to the Internet.

During the last 7 years, my wife and daughter often asked me if there’s anyone reading my blog. Why did I bother blogging! I told them that it didn’t matter; I was doing it for myself. The truth is that it matters a lot to motivate me so that I keep on producing and improving the contents to help the most people in the most effective and concise ways – I strive to the curator of my learning and experience, rather than just a collector.

Thanks for subscribing to learnbyblogging.com and being part of my journey. It makes a world of difference to me. I’m still bullish on this wonderful miracle called life that I’ve been given. I hope you feel the same way and will enjoy the ride with me.

In this video, I share with your my two memorable experiences: my close encounters with the natural disasters in California – earthquakes.

Learning to draw is one thing and learning to draw on iPad digitally is another. There are many iPad apps for drawing. I’ve tried ArtStudio and Procreate. Both offer very good features. I particularly like Procreate’s feature of creating a video from the drawing in progress. I did have to slow down to the video 4x for ease of viewing below:

Thanks to many amazing Youtube channels like Shoo Rayner’s Youtube channel below, you can practically learn drawing on your desk.:

Last Sunday as I was pruning the frost-damaged tomato plant, I accidentally cut about 1/4″ into the tip of my middle finger. Yes, the pruner is a deadly weapon. I then walked back to the house and asked my daughter to bring out some tissue paper to avoid having my blood dripping all over the floor. When I showed my daughter the cut, instead of sympathy, I got a laugh from her, “Middle finger? Ha ha ha!” Not cool. It didn’t hurt that much but the stung a bit when I applied hydrogen peroxide on it.

Like losing the faculty of any part of your body, you don’t appreciate it until you lose it. Several days since, I have had problems flossing my teeth (the middle finger plays a critical of pivoting the floss to get to the back of the teeth), washing my hair and the right side of the my body in the shower. And of course, typing on the keyboard became a painful experience too.

It’s been five days now. The cut is almost gone and it no longer hurts. The strange thing is that as soon it’s healed, it’s back to normal; I don’t pay any attention to it any more. Like the cliche, the squeaky wheels gets the oil and I might add “a sore middle finger gets pampered.”

I used this opportunity to draw my hand on my iPad with Procreate app as above. You can always turn a painful accidental experience into a learning opportunity.

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