The Alchemist

As a "why-not" person I always don't see why not to do. All you need is just: desire and circumstances (not excuses be careful). Until recently from reading the Alchemist I found 3 kinds of people:
1) The shepherd, who has a dream and willing to realize it
2) The candy shop owner, who is content of doing what he is doing because he is living his dream
3) The crystal shop owner, who first starts from working towards his dream, but soon work dominates and he feels comfortable at the status quo. He knows he can do more but he fears failure, fears change.

Which one of them are you?

The Stories of the Sahara

An old blog post about a book written by a Taiwanese woman who moved to Sahara with her Spanish husband and the life and death experience there. And remember it was in the 70s when travel information is not as common as now. She is still a legend to me.

p.s. If you can't read Chinese you can always translate it at the bottom of the page (it works!..sometimes)

Saturday, 21 July 2012
重讀三毛 - 撒哈拉的故事 

近來重溫了中學時期一些很喜歡的作品，那些日子的我曾經天馬行空，愛研究外星人的存在，迷上MJ，愛探險故事，更曾為拍一套電影認真的計劃起來。當然，當時年少，只能熱烈的幻想著。
接下來的會考，高考，大學，我面對現實，這些不切實際的幻想（至少在當時）已被遠遠的拋開。 大學畢業工作了快兩年，相隔閱讀此書時已有十年時間。 我不愛回顧當年，因為我相信未來只會更好，但原來，中學時代塑造的本質一直未變，一段時間沒見面的人，多少都覺察我的一些轉變，在我看來，只是變得更接近本質而已。

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The Mongolian dream

picture from volmongol.org

My Mongolian dream stems from a book called Wolf Totem I read about 10 years ago. Though it was about inner Mongolia the picture of endless grass steppe and stand alone mongolian ger were deeply embedded in my mind. I have decided to go once at least in my lifetime and although not expected to be so soon, it is now.

And since it is a must go I do not mind postponing it til a perfect time (no idea when). The only travel friendly months are July and August and being so close to Hong Kong it would be a pretty good starting point of world travel. So why not now?

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Privilege for the twenties

What's out there in the world?

Some people may think it is a stupid mistake to quit a well-paid stable job. I have think through it a thousand times if this is really worth it. It wont hurt to just hide those dreams at least I am able to afford few short trips a year.
But as my adventurous gene grows a stable life becomes more and more intolerable. Why do I need such stability and security? Not in my twenties. This is the age when I am most affordable to lose. The best time to explore what there is to see, nurture new interests and stretch my limits.
If like some of my girl friends whose dream is to get married and have children it is easy you just have to follow the flow. This time will come anyway. But when your dream is hard to reach you have to take some risks to change it.

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Don't let dreams be dreams

Not long before I was just a poor university student who has never travelled out of Asia. In this competitive city of Hong Kong I was content working diligently in the office from 9 to 6 and made some progress in the career of my choice. Pretty nice isn't it?
Things changed from my first 2-week travel to Europe. Then it came the second, third, fourth trips in a year like crazy. These experiences reshaped my perspectives in life totally. For I see there are many other possibilities in life and what I have always dreamed of is more like an option in reality.

So now my rational decision is that I am going to quit my job and travel. For those of you who are struggling with (or maybe starting to think of) the same decision, I am happy to share my thoughts with you. This is a tough one to make but I hope I could conclude it later as a "best decision in my life!" :)