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What he offered was something we could do on our own, so I declined. I gave him a chance, I thought. Then the surprise – the miracle – occurred. Instead of perseverance, I met affirmation. There was no pestering, no cheaper prices, no customization, and no further add-ons that I wouldn't want.
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In early mornings, the town shuddered to life. Women washed vegetables, laundry, and children in the murmuring streams. Grandmothers opened steaming tins of dumplings and set out large bowls of noodles.
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After half an hour of glances, the salesman climbed into his top bunk opposite my own. His name was Albert. I pressed him for his Chinese name, but he said I would forget it and that his English name was easier to remember.
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Walkways, overpasses and billboards are armed with purples, pinks, and greens. The facades of buildings offer constant distractions from its light displays; on one memorable office tower, a Tetris game blinked across 50 stories.
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Most border regions are no-man's lands where countries bleed culture, cuisine and customs into their neighbors. That's what I love about land crossings.
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Trust me, it was funny. Particularly when we both argued in broken Vietnamese, utilizing a hot-pot of accents unintelligible.
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What does that mean? Five months? Such a flippant phrase. Does it give off anything but a dry denotation of time? Five months, twenty weeks, one hundred and forty days, and so on.
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Traveling alone means: times of frenzied activities when your orbit merges with the spins-spuns of other backpackers... and times of silent introspection (and by this I mean the increasing volume that silence brings inside your head until your brain devours itself).
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Some photos from my recent trip are up. Really an amazing time. Met some great people, ate the best food I've had in Asia, and well.. the landscapes can fill up cliches and the Malays are really wonderful hosts. Can't wait for what's coming
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Whenever other people talk about me, I have uncontrollable urge to figure out what the hell the details were. Doesn't matter if they're high school choir girls, or analysts in the next cubicle, or the family on vacation.
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After I've had some time to think about it, there are a lot of scenarios in my head. What ifs scenarios, hindsight projecting Matrixed views, psychological musings that were never there, and not just a little bit of self pity.
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I left Kota Bharu as soon as I got there. Well, not as soon, but like, 6 hours later when the bus for Penang/Pinang left the station. It was just too much.