So this is it. I'm back home. I don't want to be home actually. I see all the things piling up for me to settle and ponder over. Gone were the carefree 45 days. It's amazing I can not use the net and fone for so long. I want to continue travelling. I don't wanna study or work. Now I can totally understand why theres so many people travelling for more than a year. People around me go "wow, 6.5 weeks!". It's totally nothing compared to those seasoned travellers. I would pack, no, pick up my bag and continue travelling now if I had the chance. It's really a dread to live life normal again. Life's so simple. Wake up. Walk. See. Take photo. Eat. Travel. Sleep. It's really money well spent I must say. Any longer than 45 days I think I wouldn't want to come back. So the magical number 45 is good i guess. Made many friends along the way. From all over the world. We'll all doing the same thing - travelling. Sharing of experiences and the interaction is great. The experience gained in this travel, I couldn't put into words. But I'm sure it changed me a great deal. For the better I presumed. I think it's a feat to co-exist 45 days together. Sure, theres some different opinions and view points but all works out in the end. Am so super glad that I decided to go for this trip. Open up my eye and heart quite abit. Crawled out from my otherwise myopic world. To comment on any single day, it's nothing much really. This thing comes in a whole package. It's the whole process that counts, I guess. This travel detached me from everything. Girlfriend, money, computer, work, news, friends, soccer, family, handphone, TV, movies, music, food and everything else. And hey, I survived more than comfortably. The world is a beautiful place. Live to see it. Rid of all the unnecessary desires you have. Theres so many ways to look at life. It all depends where you're at and when. It all depends on what colour filter you put in front of your eyes. I proved to myself that impossible is nothing. [ADIDAS]. I mean, I realised that the mind is really manipulative. Mind over body. It's really true. Alot of things is controlled solely by the thing called mind. If you think you can, 99% the time you can. If you think you can't, 99% of the time you can't. I climbed Panchase with my eye, leg, heart, stomach and stamina barriers. I was at an altitude of 5210m when I'm not even supposed to be there with my heart problem. Been there, done that though. Had learn to control my desires and wants. The suffer-then-enjoy tactic is not bad. We were damn happy when we had soft drinks, eggs, and meat (sorry SZ) after India. Or at least I was damn happy. See, little things make you happy. Should check from time to time what colour filter I have in front of my eyes. Man, you don't need to PS3 to be happy. The villagers are happy with nothing because they can't afford any colored lens. It's tough looking at the beggars around the world. Yes, they're all very pitiful. Yet, we can't just give money just like that. Once you give one of them, there may not be any end to it. It's pricking your conscience when you spend $2 on an ice-cream or $40 on a T-shirt but you just refused to offer a penny to the teary-eyed beggars. It's wrong to give them money to encourage the 'booming begging industry'. But yah, sometimes I just felt damn cruel. Interaction with other travellers is just priceless. The experience and bond is simply fantastic. We covered countless cities and attractions, including the magnificent Taj Mahal and the Terracotta soldiers. I've seen 1/5 of the world I think. It's the right friends, right time and right opportunity. Am really glad that it turned out to be a safe and wonderful trip. Well, welcome back to the 'REAL' world, dEn. Can't get my engine started. Am fortunate that this trip's planned out for me. Kudos to the 3 zai ones for the planning. Will never forget this trip. In fact, my raincover for my backpack remained intact for a long time. Refuse to accept the fact it's over. As a conclusion, I would go to another backpacking trip if I had the chance to. Someone asked me whether I'll repeat this whole damn thing. Yes, I would. Hellava trip. Enjoyed it. Great.
For more details of the trip, I think you'll had to depend on TZ the storyteller. Visual stimulation is only available when the hard disk arrives from hong kong tommorrow. You all really had the patience to read my long rubbish huh. haha. If you ask me to tell you about my trip, I don't know what to say and don't know how to start. I guessed this is the best way. yay.
backpacker dEn
&the beauty.
Friday, April 20, 2007
2:55 AM
taken when we were year 2, during orientation. featuring (if you look closely enough) : daniel lim, siva, guan yong, and a host of blur faces. and... our odac structure (some glimpses haha)
open up, knee knee, wash face wash face look and pose!
and the cheer sounds like "yo vjc!" "WAHHH"
memories ey?
mrs chan's farewell video: (with our favourite PE dept and some familiar faces)
and check out some familiar faces here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvQYc-iO9wA
rt
&the beauty.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
3:18 AM
hi all,
i wanted to change the skin but im damn lousy so i think bx you better do it. i'll give you the link. :)
and i think everyone is lazy to log in to post a new entry so everyone's tagging. just log in and leave it logged in lar!
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
rt
&the beauty.
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