期待第一个暑假

i'm leaving for taiwan in another couple of hours. i'm feeling kinda sleepy. the bag is not fully packed, but i'm not very worried. it feels like everything is gonna work out somehow.

it feels like the holiday has already started. how nice.

meanwhile everyone back at home or elsewhere take care! have fun! like me. haha.

taiwan next week

i was busying myself with the boring admin stuffs of the taiwan trip next week. and somehow forgot to be excited of the going-away.

during dinner i was watching 稀游记's (oh i so love the show) last episode of the season. and suddenly felt like taking a year off to volunteer somewhere obscure. and then i was watching this nat geo feature on marco polo in china. it started talking about tibet, which made me fall in love with that place again.

anw the other day over lunch i was talking to this friend about how i look forward to taiwan, being able to just get away from everything for a while, and refresh. he questioned how such a trip can allow me time to think and reflect. but i'm not meditating, i say.

travelling to me, is always more than sight-seeing. but i'm also not saying travelling always offers me an insight into the true meaning of life or whatnot. i think sometimes going to another country is really all about seeing a different way of life. or a different attitude towards living. or merely different possibilities. and this offers me a chance to see my own life in a different light.

and sometimes that is really all i need.

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

i almost fell asleep while watching the first half of the show. but i finished it, and think it's probably one of the best films ever.

made me think. about memories and loops. i haven't been thinking a lot lately, ever since grad show ended last weekend.

i loved the almost final scene between kate winslet and jim carey:

"ok..?"
"ok.."
"ok!"