St Paul's, New Moon Festival, and a Horoscope

I've been a tad lax about updating my blog for a couple of reasons: 1) nothing has really been worth noting, and 2) I don't know if anyone is actually reading this so I feel like I can go along at my own pace because this is entirely for me :).

The past week has been fairly boring.  Still job hunting, still wandering aimlessly around the city (which I would normally love, but it's hard to enjoy when you've got worries constantly lingering in the back of your mind), still popping into St Paul's fairly regularly for services whenever I feel like I need to clear my head or want to feel at peace with things.  Though I'm not religious in the slightest, I find that when I'm in London, I become quite a regular churchgoer.  Part of the reason for that is the music - I've developed an affinity for choral music and I love to go just to listen.  It's like going to a free concert, with the added benefit that the service always makes my spirit feel calm and quiet.  I generally walk out of St Paul's feeling renewed :).  Another reason why I go is because, if there's anywhere in the world where I feel like God really exists, it's in St Paul's.  I'm sure the feeling is induced by the building itself and is quite a deliberate ploy on the part of the Church (actually, come to think of it, so is the use of music) but, what can I say, it works!!  

This past weekend marked the celebration of the New Moon Festival in the Chinese calendar and Choosuk in the Korean one (Korean Thanksgiving).  As a result, Chinatown was decorated very prettily with red lanterns hung all over the place.  I snapped the picture below one day whilst passing through:

Also, randomly, this was my horoscope in The London Paper (one of London's free commuter newspapers, like Toronto's Metro) today:

Guardian angel not quite doing their job at the moment, Virgo?  You could be forgiven for thinking that, seeing as someone else seems to be getting all your karma.  But if you stop trying now, you really aren't going to reap the rewards - your day will come, it really will.  Just maybe not as soon as you'd hoped it would.

Thought that was quite interesting and appropriate! :)  Hope it's true!!!