I am at my ‘home sweet home’ now enjoying the tropical raining season. Been busy recuperating from my previous back to back traveling and at the same time catching up with my life. There were a few times during this week whereby my mind were cramped and congested with my ‘things to do’ activities that I kinda missed my ’empty and blank’ mind during traveling.
Ahh … “All that glitters is not gold, all who wander are not lost.” J.R.R Tolkien
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Ahh … after spending 2 weeks breathing the polluted air along the Old Silk Road route in North China, the autumn air here in South Korea felt so refreshingly good. Yeah … I am in Seoul right now enjoying the refreshing and crispy autumn air.
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Cheritera Cinta Kita by Matsuda Mashimaru/ Tales of Our Love Story
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
~ Lao Tzu
Prologue: It all started with me tagging along with two(2) of my childhood friends and we planned to test our friendship by joining a group of Malaysian and Singaporean photographers (total strangers). People said the best way to test the compatibility of your friendship is through surviving a tough trip together and comes out still emotionally intact.
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I noticed that I could see MORE when I traveled with fellow photographer buddies. Photography taught me to spot, stop and appreciate moments better than before. Like when I decided to join them for a weekend photography gateway to Lake Toba, I never thought that I could see more of Indonesia compared to what I had already seen.
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Last year, I visited Tibet via overland routes from Xining to Lhasa (1,907km long). I had been curious about Tibet for quite some time. The mysterious Tibetans that stayed up high on the mountain and their features looked a lot like the Native Americans in the US, the stories of the Dalai Lama with monasteries and nunneries playing a very strong role in Tibetan culture, the political struggles and so on.
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