Tremendous Travel TIPS***

~ Prepare a composition book as your travel journal
This would probably help you with sticking all your travel pass, tickets,
receipts and any other momentos which you love to keep.

~ Hotel Rate Watch
People, you gonna check with the hotel rates approximately once in every 2 days
because hotel rates can be changes anytime. When you know the rate has been
reduced,you may cancel the first time and make a new reservation.

~ Archive Articles
You should save all your travel stories as electronic files. Whenever you find any
place that you would love to visit just save everything of that particular place in
Word document.

~ Don't forget your iPod - MUSIC
While you are waiting for the next flight or train, you may have the urge craving
for music. Please make sure you'll have your MP3 with you while you are traveling.

...... and, what else?
Last, but not least..

~ Write HOME!
Do inculcate a habit of getting postcards wherever you travel. Your friends and
family would love to know where the heck are you while you are having tons of fun
and they are still stuck at their same old/dull place. =)

What should I do?

Well, well, well~~
Should I go NYC during Thanksgiving? or should I go Washington DC in August? Actually I'll be quite certain if of going all these places if I dont have to go travel next year in summer. I might have miss going to all these places if I'm going before I graduate because I'm not sure if I'm staying in the States.

There are a plenty of options for MBA right now. Difficult to decide.

Sorry to life

Sorry for many things !

Life is always unpredictable. Sometimes its hard to believe what are you seeing right now. You can never know what is right and what is wrong, not probably until you deal with something that beyond your expectation. No one knows how long it takes to heal a broken heart but a smile will always do. A cheerful personality would cure it all too! Be positive and always looking forward.

Only look back when you need to learn from it, not digging out the unnecessary stuffs. It will only make you more and more depress.

MJ 1958 - 2009

"The biggest shinning star in the universe is not shinny anymore. This is the saddest news."

The above statement was what I read on the New York Times when I woke up this morning. Micheal Jackson died in the age of 50. Indeed, this is a very shocking news to me. But I don't think he is not shinny anymore. No matter where he goes, his music, his passion, his talent and his voice would be still staying around with us. Because people cherish him and adore him. Micheal was a legend to the pop music world. His music was loved by people all around the world between the age range of 8 to 80.

Although I'm not a huge fan of Micheal Jackson, I do understand that all the things he has done managed to give countless of inspiration and encouragement for those who have a passion of music. Somehow he is not only a performer, but he is a uniter of black and white races' music. Because of him, the distance between black and white began to trim down.

Beat it! He is a LEGEND!

杭州 - 茶城

天啊~我本来只是想找一找中国杭州一些青年旅舍的相关资料，后来却忍不住要去了解一下杭州茶馆茶楼茶坊茶舍一事。结果没想谷歌地图一打开，杭州的茶馆果然是遍及全城，简直就是每一条大街，每一条小巷统统都是充满着与茶有关的东西。我心里在想，我到底要花多少时间才能逛完所有的茶楼？

还有，我已经说过，除非我不去中国，要不然我非要去杭州西湖的龙井村龙井问茶去！不止，我还要去附近的中国茶叶博物馆看一看。

A marvelous trip started to begin ....... HERE!

Out of a sudden, I had this formidable desire and urge to have a tour around Asian countries. This mind-blowing thought began in last year Fall semester while I was still half way through suffering with my SPA - Sensation & Perception (Frankly, I never like this class, not to be mean). In fact, my jealousy towards my cousin who born in United Kingdom had been rooted intensely in my heart since 2006. Once she done with her bachelor in Physical Therapy, she decided to leave UK and travel around the world for A YEAR.

This was greatly astonishing! I still remembered the day we went out together and bought a backpacking bag in Liverpool. Her out-going, daring and adventurous personality is what I always looking for. And yeah, I adore her a lot.

Since college life is somehow boring for me mainly because of my major - psychology as well as my schedule is usually amazingly FULL. Therefore, the idea of traveling around Asian countries for the whole entire summer could be just easily appeared on my mind. I'm exceedingly confidence with this trip because I understand my parents won't against it and they might support me mentality as well as financially. Apart from that, UCO has quite an amount of international students and I know a couple of them quite well. So, going to visit their countries might not be a problem.

I decided to take this challenge all by myself in the very first place. But so happen that there's someone called Yida, a friend from China. He's a travel freak too. There was no way that he could resist this Asian tour temptation when I told him about my summer plan in 2010. Also, one of his American friend decided to join us as well. And yeah, I have companies for this magnificent voyage !

Finally we had our first official discussion on our voyage yesterday. Our first station is gonna be in China - his hometown!

We are planning to go
- Hong Kong
- HangZhou (I'll definitely be there for LongJing Tea!)
- Hunan
- GuiZhou (Yida's hometown)
- Beijing
- Shanghai
- Tibet
- Sichuan, and may be a few places more.

This Asian Voyage will be heading to Vietnam, Japan, and Taiwan as well.

International Photographer

Life is somehow dull and tasteless when you are not doing something that you are keen to or things that you enjoy doing it. Unfortunately, there are countless people do not aware of their interests as well as the things they enjoy doing the most. This is called pathetic! If you do bring up a question and ask, "Hello, people! Do you know what are you doing right now?", "Do you like what you are doing right now?". Most probably, you will get a tons of "NO".
....or may be "I don't know" (That would be the saddest part of all! I mean, how would you not know what is your purpose in life?)

Today, I got stunned when a guy told me that he has gone for 2 years because he has been to 24 countries for a couple of years. He is an international photographer. Not to be exaggerated, I Lurvvveee his job!!! Sorry that I have to say "I don't know" why do I like to go traveling around. No matter where, I'll just go without any further consideration. Probably I might want to have a better understanding of others' life, cultural backgrounds and daily practices. I think to me, this is so LIFE and there is no where that you can actually learn the life of others. I just simply love the diversity of the world. Everything is different in their unique way. The uniqueness that delighted me always. I find the uniqueness of the world is very fascinating and making me very exuberant.

When he told me about his job and I literally ask myself, what the heck am I doing here? How could you be more of yourself if you are just gonna stay here and do nothing. People tell me life likes this and no choice you might have to stuck it here because this is life. But I denied it intensely. Everyone has their choice of freedom. It depends how you make up your choice to get your freedom. Do not get affected by family members and peers easily or somehow negatively. Well, just want to advocate to whoever is reading this - BE YOURSELF!

I think being an international photographer is the best/awesome/coolest job ever. Can you imagine you telling your friends, "Owh, my dad is an international photographer and he has been to every single place of the world. He is able to speak more than 40 different languages." Wow wow wow... too much too much...

Traveling is somehow tiring but it worth it after all.


I think I'm just way too far to be an international photographer, hmmm...