February on Lake Lucerne

It was sunny (this was during winter and in a week of gloomy weather), breathtaking, and unforgettable.

Lake Lucerne is located in central Switzerland, just like how this vignette of our boat ride on the lake is in the centre of our first day of seeing Switzerland, and the only spot of sunshine in that day.

The sun broke out around noon time after we had almost given up hope to see the beautiful mountains in Switzerland during our short trip there in February to visit Rebekka and her family. We rejoiced and welcomed the sunshine, recognising that it was God's favour to his children. It made the journey even more delightful.

Words and pictures do not suffice to describe how beautiful the scenery was. Super grateful for the experience.

As the year draws to a close, this is still the lesson that I need to learn: to always remember and be thankful in life...

summer days in Bristol

Daisy and Wen Wen

Costa study date with a classmate

dinner with housemates

Thursday night Bible study

Josh and Jesse signing the albums

Transition's acoustic concert

Yesterday, I received my MA dissertation's result and praise God He has blessed me with a distinction (it is really God's grace because I wasn't prepared for this course in musicology at all and had been feeling like I only knew 0.01% of what's in the field most of the time). Now that I have received my result, those summer days of toiling on that 15000-word piece and stressing about writing seems like so long ago. So here I am reminiscing my summer days in Bristol, the moments in between those gruelling hours of research and procrastination. 

thankful list

I've been inspired by a few other people about having a tangible way of remembering to be thankful for the everyday blessings so I thought why not put it on the blog so I can see the "thankful items" clearly? So here is the first one!
I am thankful for...
-supportive classmates and professor in helping me formulate my research report's topic by talking through the ideas I have with me. It was really helpful to talk about the disorganized ideas in my head with them.
-getting milo from Malaysia.
-this stack of books from the library. Ha! (but to be honest, I am thankful for having easy access to the resources I need for my study) and the library staffs here are so helpful. Also, it was good that we had library training sessions so we know how to search for resources most effectively and how to do references/bibliography.

-discovering this album by Chelseamoonmusic. I've been listening to it nonstop since yesterday.