Travelling out of my country to visit new places, see new sceneries and watch and listen to people from different cultures speak languages different from my own is my favourite thing to do. In fact, it becomes an essential thing for me to do at least once every few months whenever I feel burned out and want a break from the daily grind. Any country, anywhere, I just want to leave my burden, worries and bad energies behind and start a new journey somewhere else. And of course, whenever I travel, the person I always think about most in my mind is Taenggu. How I wished I could go on every trip with her in the same time, same place and share the same pieces of memories together! Although we may be separated in space, there are always little traces of evidence and surprises along the way which prove that at least her soul is always there with me by my side wherever I go. Here, you will find my travel stories about how Taenggu and I travel in parallel realities in search of lost memories our souls might have shared with each other.
Barely 1-2 weeks after being discharged from IMH for treatment of schizophrenia, I went on a holiday trip to Fukuoka with a friend while still on the road to recovery. How did I manage to cope with mental illness while travelling and which BIGBANG member’s concert did we watch there that turned out to be my very first overseas concert experience??
Cold chills It’s never meant to be that cold How many layers you put on Still not enough to keep you warm Was it the air-con Or was it the chills you get when you were misunderstood or maligned? Or was it the memories of a cold harsh reality when you were left abandoned alone…
Last Monday, I flew to Kuching, the city of Sarawak with my family for a holiday to visit my mum’s family. For the first 2 and a half days of our trip, I felt really normal and comfortable. My body didn’t ache much. I also didn’t have any indigestion problems like I had experienced during…
Date: 28 April 2018 It was already our last day in Seoul. Our return flight was at 11.30pm, which means there was still plenty of time to hang around in Seoul and do some last-minute shopping if we needed to. There was still one last thing I wanted to do (besides eating naengmyeon) before we…
Date: 23 April 2018 My friend and I just arrived in Seoul at around 8am in the morning after a 7-hour overnight flight from Singapore. It was my friend’s very first time in South Korea while for me, it was already the fourth. Prior to our arrival, we had already checked the weather forecast and…
#180422# As you might already know, many things, good or bad, have happened to me lately. Just this Monday, I received sudden news of the closure of our Singapore office. On Friday, I had my last day of work and bid farewell to the company that had treated me nicely for the past 20 months….
Concert: K-Wave 2 Music Festival Date: 13 January 2018 Venue: Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia It was barely less than a month since Taenggu’s The Magic Of Christmas Time concert in Seoul. After having gone through the pain at her Christmas concert (related post: LYRICS: BYE + WHAT IF IT WOULD BE MY LAST…
“叶子” by 阿桑 (“Leaves” by A-Sun) [ORIGINAL LYRICS] 叶子 是不会飞翔的翅膀 翅膀 是落在天上的叶子 天堂 原来应该不是妄想 只是我早已经遗忘 当初怎么开始飞翔 孤单 是一个人的狂欢 狂欢 是一群人的孤单 爱情 原来的开始是陪伴 但我也渐渐地遗忘 当时是怎样有人陪伴 我一个人吃饭 旅行 到处走走停停 也一个人看书 写信 自己对话谈心 只是心又飘到了哪里 就连自己看也看不清 我想我不仅仅是失去你 叶子 是不会飞翔的翅膀 翅膀 是落在天上的叶子 [ENG TRANS] Leaves… are wings that cannot fly Wings… are leaves that fell in the sky Heaven… shouldn’t…
My christmas spent in Seoul in 2015 was a painful one. As naive as I might be, I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t meet Taenggu on that day. Didn’t she already “promised” me that she would spend the christmas day with me? But it didn’t happen. It was such a huge blow to me –…
After 2 years, I will be travelling to Korea again during winter time (excluding my short trip to Seoul and Busan during summer in mid 2016). It’s almost like a déjà vu; I will arrive in Seoul again on Christmas eve and will be spending my Christmas in Seoul for the second time. Will I…
#170722# The night before 22 July, I think I was at home either drawing or writing a blog post on my laptop when I heard voices repeating something along the lines of “I like editing!” or “It’s addicting/editing!”. In my mind, I was thinking, “What do you mean? Do you mean addicting or editing? Are…
{Throwback to the first week of June 2013} **repost from instagram @lovestorieswithtaenggu, added with more details and photos from the trip** Barely 3 months since schizophrenia started and while I was still in the process of recovering from its symptoms and traumas, I made the bold move to go on a holiday trip to Fukuoka…