Back in the days: Lost in NYC

We were not actually lost but the buildings are humongous compared to us as we wandered around New York City on foot by ourselves. I don't think we had smart phones then so we depended on Google map print-outs as our rough guide and made our way through the city.

Deli, pizza, coffee, & flowers

Embassies of different countries, souvenir shops, yellow taxis, and hot dog stands at street corners were in abundance too.

 ...and we reached the Rockefeller Centre.

Links lately

Spring, outside of the Natural History Museum, London, 2015.

Since I have been busy with piano practice, teaching, conducting the newly formed church choir for our evening service, and organising our home (unpacking boxes) lately, these links are mostly related to travel, photography, organisation, videos editing, and spring!
-These two vloggers: one based in London/LA (she brings back good memories of studying masters in the UK and traveling in London) and the other in Seoul. Their recent travels to Europe motivated me to look through my photo archives for the many photos I took in Europe and edit them using lightroom (see my recent uploads on my Europe blog)
-Bellywellyjelly and Jessica Whitaker are two bloggers/photographers who made me want to edit photos in adobe lightroom and take more portraits/tell more stories.
-Music: the free music archive to discover new music done by individuals and available for downloads for personal projects; I enjoy listening to the OSTs of the kdrama "The liar and his lover", IU's new 'Palette' album, and Roy Kim's 'Bloom' album lately. For a less upbeat spring music, listen to Yesung's Paper Umbrella album.
-This home organisation/cleaning method that I had heard before in the UK but watching a youtuber does it and explain it makes it more motivating to follow (partially of course because any method has its strengths and suitability)
-Favourite instagrammers: Imkristen with her family stories, Lydiajane and her travels/art stories, and sigridsminde (the kittens! & her blog).
-Book: D.L. Moody's "The Overcoming Life"

London memories (Spring)

A spring day in London, with my favourite person, filled with some of the things that bring smiles to my face: good spring weather, matcha latte, walks, bookstore, daffodils, ramen, pretty window displays, brick buildings...

As I look back at these memories and time spent in the Big City, I give thanks for the gift of life, creativity, beauty, mobility, and an iphone. Nothing is deserved but all is grace. As such, I acknowledge and hope I can always maintain this posture of gratefulness.

Whitstable-a seaside town near Canterbury

This is a continuation of my day trip in Canterbury... As we were driving towards the seaside, we suddenly saw this patch of brown water behind the houses and slopes and we started saying, “could this be it?” and to our slight disappointment, the brown water is the sea. After we got over disappointment, we were able to enjoy the beautiful bay and the houses, restaurants, boats and the pebble sand beaches at Whitstable.

Whitstable harbour.

Cute little boats that must be friends of Thomas the Engine or “Cars”.

 Look at how big our group is!

A lot of us went to the Easter Camp so we were singing "活出爱" with actions.

 We walked all the way out to the edge of the water

 Then we walked all the way back in again. It was very windy in this open space but thank God for the beautiful sky.

Whitstable is famous for its oysters so we had to try some. Apparently, oysters have been collected in this area since at least Roman times. Thanks to Sherry, we were able to find a seafood takeaway place—Wheelers and satisfy our seafood/oyster craving. Most of us ordered half a dozen of fresh rock oysters and enjoyed the fresh taste of sea in each bite.

The highlight of the day was probably the unexpected sunset that we were able to witness right before we drove back to MK.