Panorama

- Oberalp Pass, Switzerland, 2007 -

I've taken a long time to decide which of my scenic Switzerland photographs I want to show on my blog. Sure they are all beautiful, but no photographs (at least of mine) could capture the grandiosity and beauty of the moments when I was there. My photographs could not show how happy I was to be aboard the Glacier Express, how small I felt as the train passed through these huge mountains in a valley and how unbelievably blessed I was feeling to be able to experience and appreciate God's creations. Neither could they show how I tried to take surreptitious bites of the cheese puffs that I had fried at six in the morning because you were not allowed to bring your own food to the dining car that I was in. All that aside, here is a photograph of where the train stopped for five minutes at the highest point of the route (2033 m) and everyone got out to take photos or a smoke while just enjoying the scenery.

Walking Through

- Monaco, 2007 -

The right words escape me as I try to write. I was going along the cheesy lines of walking through the tunnel of life and one can either choose to see the incoming crowd that overwhelms you or to look up and see the stars towards the end. So yes, sometimes, as it seems to be in this case, it is better to just let the picture speak for itself and convey the photographer's emotions.

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4 weeks to graduation

Suddenly I See

- Lucerne, Switzerland, 2007 -

When you are stuck in a rut, sometimes all you need to do is to look elsewhere and voila, there goes what you have been searching for all this while.

Of Permanence and Humility

- Paris, France, 2007 -

In this short life of mine, I have come across people from all walks of life, from the destitute who reminded me of how blessed I am to the talented and brilliant who impressed me with their humility and modesty, for as brilliant as they were, they knew that there would always be those who were better than them. It then perplexes me when I meet people with undeserved pride, people who are mediocre yet deluded into thinking that they are better than their peers. Do they not realize that any blessing that was bestowed upon them by God is but His, and that all of it is temporal? There is a fine line with recognition of one's capability and arrogance; I can only pray to God that I do not cross that and that I feel constantly blessed and grateful for whatever God has given me, both the good and the bad.

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5 weeks to graduation

B is for Beautiful, Blessed or Bored?

- Brugge, Belgium, 2007 -

Sometimes you just do not know how to get rid of this dull ache within you and you begin to ask yourself if it is emptiness, loneliness, boredom or a little bit of all three.

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6 weeks to graduation

Life in Monochrome

- Disneyland Paris, France, 2007 -

Should one attribute one's regression to the lack of intellectual stimulation? Perhaps it's a vicious cycle, a "chicken and egg" dilemma; one cannot exactly pinpoint where it all started. The only thing that one can be sure of is that everything is a mess.

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7 weeks to graduation.