Greetings, everyone! It's been two years since my last long-form post here, and now I'm back, to resume blogging again before 2025 ends. But I haven’t really left at all. In fact I’ve been lurking, curating posts, and even commented on some when I felt like it.
Even though I was always here I've just become too busy with work to write blogs, given that I am now a supervisor, with my primary role being the training of our junior artists. Now, let me share how I ended up as a supervisor.
I was on WFH status at the start of 2024 and about to resume posting here again and had some blogs already lined up for posting, but just awaiting the creation of the CG images and editing of pictures I was going to use for them. But my old desktop computer suddenly died without warning and having no backup computer left me no choice but to work in the office.
So I called our department head and informed him about my situation, and he asked me to report to the office the next day. I showed up early in the day in the hopes of getting things sorted out immediately so I could go home with a new computer. Then I was told that there were no spare desktops to issue to employees on WFH status, as all had already been issued out.
I knew right away that that meant I would have to work there instead. But before I could even get settled down to resume my tasks, a fellow senior artist who was also one of the supervisors, suggested to our boss that since I’m already back in the office, that I help him train and supervise a small team of junior artists. My boss liked the idea and approved it right away and promoted me to supervisor, and immediately informed HR about it.
At the time I was living alone in this apartment, so working again in the office was no big deal. My brother and his girlfriend moved out of here to live in his girlfriend’s house in the province. The girlfriend’s mother had requested her daughter to come home and help out with some things. My brother and his girlfriend plan to stay there for two years, and then come back here when it is already ok to leave them.
With my brother's decision to move out, it left me to shoulder all of the expenses here, and that’s why I graciously accepted the offer to be a trainer and supervisor of a small team of artists.
Fast forward to June 2025 and I am on WFH status again until the end of August, and with a newly-issued desktop workstation from the office. I am also undergoing self-training through paid online tutorials, courtesy of our company.
Now, having a computer again doesn’t mean I can do anything else with it that doesn’t have to do with work. In fact, we are prohibited from installing anything on it without permission. So, to be able to blog again and use the Internet for personal needs, I had to build a cheap desktop just for that purpose. I had some old usable parts from the previous computer that died, and bought a new motherboard and processor too.
And now that I have a dedicated computer for Web3, as well as all my personal online activities that I cannot do on my office-issued computer, it’s time to get back into blogging again, before I get called to go back to work again in the office next year after the Christmas holidays.
As I've mentioned above, my WFH status was supposed to be until the end of August. However, my Mom is here with me right now and staying until the end of October. So I asked our boss for an extension. Mom lives with one of my sisters in another city, but my sister had to go to India on a training assignment at her employer's headquarters. Mom is 78 and too frail to be left alone in their condominium, so we all decided to have her stay with me during my sister's absence.
Besides, Mom and my sister spend the Christmas holidays here with me, since this village where I live is also where most of Mom's brothers and sisters live too. So, I'm used to always having her around anyway. An uncle (Mom's brother too) also flies in every February from Australia to celebrate his birthday here, and right here in my apartment.
Since I'm alone for two-thirds of the year, having visitors and family reunion parties here from time to time are something I always enjoy and look forward to.
I guess this is enough for my first blog for this year. But before I close, let me tell you what that mountain cabin image means.
You see, I've always thought of my Hive account as my cozy "mountain hideaway", to differentiate it from the loud and bustling "high-tech metros" of Ethereum/EVM-based mainstream Web3 ecosystems. Is that how you think of Hive too?
Anyway, you'll be seeing more of this mountain home in future blogs, and in a full 3D environment, not just an exterior one but with an interior too, created by yours truly.
And it won't look like that one in the picture. I'm already checking out some timelapse and tutorial videos for ideas and inspiration, such as this one by 3D artist, maconSTUFF, on YouTube.
So, until my next blog, thank you for reading, and have a nice weekend!