Naughty watch

Finally... I have found my long lost watch!!

It is a present from my mom before I came to UK.
I started finding it before I went back during the summer and almost threw over the drawers but still could not see it! Then I thought I must have lost it somewhere when I was travelling abroad.

Guess where it has been hiding for 6 months?

...in my bath robe! 
* surprise of the day* XD

It's December

If you have been busying around since the start of the term, stop and look:

All in a silence the winter has come!

Today the temperature plummeted to as low as two,

We no longer be able stand strong with thin layers of clothes,

Now it's the time to take out 

our wool knitted tops, coats, gloves and boots,

To keep ourselves warm and snuggy and feeling good!

In the evening I went to the Christmas Market again

which is going to close after this weekend

Bought two packets of Chou Chous, with hazelnuts and almond, 

and had German sausages as my dinner

Thanks to my good friend,

To give me a pair of white gloves, such a heartwarming present.

Then we went up the uni to watch Sleeping Beauty Pantomine

A comedy indeed, with lots of laughters and grins.

I looked up and saw the bright round moon in the vast dark sky

It seems just so so close to the earth.

The white moonlight shines on the dark lane, 

like a lamp-post showing the way back home.

Here goes my second Friday in December, 

which marks of the beginning of winter.

Christmas market

The Christmas market officially began yesterday!
This year the weather is much warmer, as I remembered I wore quite thick layers of clothes when I was going to the market last year. "The weather was due to plummet" after some heavy fog days in UK, reported by Metro.

So here's a few bits and pieces of the Christmas market:

We actually went to see our friend singing choir at one of the street for the opening of Bath Christmas market. The facial expression of the conductor was amazing and she was just so professional. The members of the choir look like a bunch of children obediently looking at the conductor and singing with the best of their male voices.

Lotsa booths have been set up selling a variety of antique and local things that we don't normally find in other places

Bought the favourite must-eat-nuts from the market - Chou chou!

We're entering the winter of the year now~

This is such a meaningful picture - the Paradigm!
We are always told and taught by our teachers, parents and society what's should be done and what's not.
What mistakes that we should avoid and learn from the past. But sometimes the reason behind was just forgotten and I just tend to follow it blindly, follow what other people are doing because what most people do will likely be the right thing to do. I'm too lazy to think why.

So, always questions ourselves, why are we doing each thing in our life? Why are we doing it in this way and not that? Do we truly understand why are we following certain tradition?

This reminds me of the Rancho in Three Idiots, who can always come out of the paradigm of the society.

Kalama sutta says, do not believe anything that is written on the paper or told by even our teachers. Ehipassiko, we have to find it out by ourselves. Throw away the laziness of reasoning and searching your own way and don't do it because it is easy or it's something our closest friends do.

The life is ours, we have the total authority on deciding what colours should be painted on it.
" Human is the supreme beings of creating cause and conditions."

A key chain given by my friend, Cindy. It used to be a key chain on my pencil box for about two years.
The first reaction when I saw it like that was, " Ohh! It's broken!" and a tiny rush of sadness overwhelmed me for a second.
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And then I realised, the key chain was and had always been made of a few threads of strings. It is just coming back to its original form. Then why should I be sad about it?

Recently my friend has given me this little cute angel decoration. I can't tell how subtle my affinity is for it. The angel is holding her heart, as if reminding us to have our hearts with us whenever we are. And when it rings, it gives the crispy glass sound.

Every little thing in life teaches us some lessons.

Now the things look clearer.
Watch your five senses. Watch your attachment. Watch your anger.
Don't be fooled by it.
Arrr, the leaves are green, sky is grey.
The clouds come and go.

Here's what I  heard from a friend.
When nobody's gonna make a step further,
to make connections or to repair the broken parts,
That's how a friendship dies.
It's easy to follow the happiness that comes,
but it's hard to face sorrow with total calmness,
and not reacting to it with more ego and grief.
Because that would never bring peace.
And a simple solution is to face it, let go of the emotions and move on.
It is the easiest way theoretically yet the hardest way practically.
The conditions will still change again today and tomorrow.
When will we be stopped fooling by an ignorance mind?