want you to stay

I like having my cup of cereals with a big porcelain spoon – more you can munch in one mouthful. 

I like waking up to mornings when I can see light piercing through the kitchen blinds, and that will make me happy enough for the rest of the day. 

I also know that days are getting shorter and nights will soon seem endless, but I really wish that the light would stay.

Sze Yinn took this photo of me while we were out on our mini shoot the other day! 

 

Have I told you how much I love it here, and almost everyday? Time and time again I wish that the people I love are physically here with me, because having all of these to myself makes it less perfect than what it might have been. I think I have now made this place my home, and now I am proud to say that I have many homes. People say that home is where the heart is, so I sometimes wonder if mine is fragmented and spread across all the places I have been.

On a side note, here's a recent work of mine for Bureau Direct's stationery catalogue. 

I'm now eyeing on some of the Lee Neutral Density filters because I plan to travel more (and of course I would love to get some nice photos of those places to feed my memory!), and I'm pretty determined to earn them instead of forking some amount out of my savings. Christmas markets are coming up and I'll be covering one in London soon, can't wait!

forget yesterday

This is Sze Yinn.

short walks by the lake

Weather forecasts expected Tuesday to be sunny, and here's the magic it brought.

The beauty of autumn never fails to amaze me. About the same time last year, I remember looking out of my window from Broadgate Park, telling myself to go out to get some photos of the red, vibrant leaves. Little did I know, they were all gone the week after.

Zx and I started out at 3pm after my lectures, and the sun was already setting then. We walked from Portland to the Law and Social Sciences building, then through Millenium Garden and towards Wollaton Park. Didn't make it past Wayne's Manor 'cos the sun was almost gone!

It was a nice evening and I wish I had more good, sunny days like yesterday in a year. 

Why hello autumn, I know you're leaving but please stay.

serious stuff

Took photos for Nottingham Economics and Finance Society at their Financial Forum Conference yesterday. Some big shots in the finance industry came to speak, and Anton Kreil was one of them. It was rather tiring to take photos during that 7-hour event (I'd rather do a 14-hour wedding any day, to be honest, hehe), but thankfully I had friends with me. Here's a shot that Zhi Xiang took of me, and check out some of his work on his facebook photography page!

updates

CRAZINESS.

I realised that I left this blog to an unimpressive state – no updates about my travels and all that, when I did mention that I would tell more about day 2 of Korea, Prague, yada yada.

The very valid reason for this is that

I've been working on a Japanese presentation to tell my class about Korea, in Japanese – which was absolutely hard work for me because I'm not fluent at it, yet, and I don't do very well standing alone in front of a sitting crowd,

I've been working on a blog post/interview for Malaysia Wedding Hub, in which my brother Jon, and I got featured in this week,

and I've been working on my very first Asian-British wedding with the awesome photographer David Bell at Buckinghamshire! I'm going to blog about it soon on Pixellot Photography's website, so feel free to follow to find out about the lovely fusion of cultures in a wedding; it was nothing short of beautiful. Follow us on Facebook to get updates and more!

I love, love love, LOVE, every day of them all! I can't tell you enough – the nice feeling when you're doing something you love, and learning more each day because every day is different!

If you've found something you love doing, please, DO IT.