Hello there !

I am glad that you are here, pausing for a moment to share the stories and music that once made me pause too.

I started my first big travel in Southeast Asian when I was 22, during the university summer break. It was a month-long trip starting from Hanoi, moving through Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore. 

This was my first time sleeping in an overnight bus, over fridge-rated but surprisingly comfortable ; my first time riding a motorbike and had an accident on the gravel road ; my first time and surly the last time tasting a fried cricket, lost to a stupid bet; my first time traveling solo as the boyfriend who I planned the trip with chose an investment bank internship instead…

I came home marked in small quiet ways – scars on elbows and knees that are still visible after a decade, a sunburnt so deep that my mom could barely recognise her daughter at the airport. I broke my camera in a sudden afternoon downpour in Angkor Wat somewhere between the small and grand circuit. I have forgotten the memory card, with the camera case left behind on the KFC patio in Sentosa beach. While physical evidence were all lost, the images of those hot days walking in sun and sand were always vivid.

A couple years later on Facebook, I saw a photo of me sitting on the lower level of a hostel bunker bed, playing guitar. The guitar owner took the photo, his face was as dark as his black curly hair, after biking across Asia for a year.

This photo is the only trace of my first solo travel. 

I thought, for a time that my curiosity for traveling would fade, as I returned to University, to routine and to the same boyfriend. But it never did.

Instead, life keeps unfolding. I then moved cities and continents, traveling more between jobs, seeing the world a little bit more with friends or alone. Those days on the road shape the decisions I made, leaps I took and relationship I carry and cherish still. 

This is an overflow Hello, I hope you like it. 

If you are still hesitant to step out and explore the world, I hope you found a little courage here. 

If you have already done it but have doubts on reasoning, I hope we could figure it out together.

I hope this is a journey that could last, lasting not quite as long as the light year, but at least, as long as the domain is paid for 🙂