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Category: Travelling With Taenggu
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Setting of this post: Bintan/Singapore, 170901-170906 Towards the end of my previous post MONTHSARY SPECIAL: THE THIRTY-FIRST, I wrote about how I found out that Taenggu was on a holiday in Milan. On the night after the post was published, she revealed photos of herself in UK on her instagram. So it turned out that […]
{Throwback to 8 August 2016} The day before, I had just gone to watch Taenggu’s “Butterfly Kiss” concert at the KBS Busan Hall, leaving with good memories of seeing her great performances live onstage. Because the hall was considerably small and I was sitting somewhere near the front section of the hall, it was the […]