Travelling

There was again a brief hiatus on this blog, and I only have unplugged holidays, uni exams and two new years in a month to blame. December went well with a trip to Southern Germany with Ying Hui, followed by a crazy few weeks of revision, then now, believe or not, I'm in Malaysia to celebrate Chinese New Year with the dearest people to me.

Didn't plan to come home until I graduate next summer, and wanted to travel somewhere in Europe for a treat after our exams (supposedly Netherlands, and ironically I did stop over at Amsterdam for transit on my way back). What changed my mind - I do not know - but what I'm certain of is that getting the flight ticket home was probably one of my best 500 quid spent on something. I kept it away from my family's knowledge for a month, and the expressions on their faces when they saw me at the restaurant last night was really, priceless. 

This also means that I would have to wait a little longer before I can get my 35mm 1.4. But that's okay. 

I want to show you how pretty Triberg was. I want to tell you about my fair share of sunsets, and brag more about the amount of lebkuchens we ate in Nurnberg. There is much to tell but as for now, I'm just gonna head down to the beach and read The Fault In Our Stars till it's time for lunch.

Life at home is good.

wednesday

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.

nicole

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.

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.

White Post Farm

You're gonna think that I was being ridiculous, because I brought my twenty-year-old friends to a petting farm that was designed for little kids. Hehe but they don't know that, so, shhhh! It took us an hour plus from my place to get there, and Bong was rather displeased that I got him up so early in the morning. My punishment was a grumpy faced Bong throughout the day when he's not sleeping (i.e. in the bus, bus stop, bench) :(

We were dropped off at two bus stops ahead, but the walk back to the farm was quite pleasant and I enjoyed that part of Nottingham that even I had not been there before until then. We got some feed for two-legged and four-legged friends (I'm not that interested in two-legged's 'cos they're really quite unresponsive, but Bong somewhat loves them). There was also the reptile house which I absolutely didn't like, but we spent almost an hour looking at snakes, iguanas, froggies (I know they're amphibians but maybe they're snake food..?)

Then.. we met Chir Wey's new best friend. Haha! This fella liked her a lot, and loved the thing she was holding in her hand even more.

While at the other end of the shed, the goats met their new enemy.. Bong.

He seriously annoyed the crap out of them, teasing them with the sight and smell of food and not giving any in the end! (He was kinda holding the feed for two-legged's, so I guess he was doing the right thing.. BUT STILL) 

We had a picnic for lunch.. and the minced meat spaghetti I cooked in the morning was so dry! HAHA. Sorry guys.. Didn't have time in the morn and couldn't make any sauce 'cos the pasta would get soggy and, well. Yucks. Messy. Luckily we got some ham and cheese and bread and juice and some good cider and ales, so we did alright in the end. The worst part of having to rush back that afternoon was missing the first bus and we had to wait for a whole hour for the next! So much for having to rush back.

Yay so that's one blogpost! Phew. I've been quite lazy and busy at the same time, things have been going on and I've had some not-very-nice days. Need to get going but need to do some thinking as well, whew! Till next time!