but glad and thankful to be alive!

June 2nd 2010
(When away from home,) I embrace unpredictability. I think all avid travelers do, or rather, to be an avid traveler you have to. And this midweek has been nothing short of that. On Monday, I planned to meet Elvis, Eewei and their friends for dinner at Xidan 西单 after work. They were traveling in China after the Sino/Singapore Exchange Programme and dropped by Beijing - for only one day, misera ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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A Backpackful of Stories

kellynsq

Despite having travelled considerably for the better part of my life, these experiences have never made it past scraps of paper bound together by twine, and then often lost in a stash of similar scraps of paper. Much as I love writing, I often felt myself suffering from the poor journaling syndromes mentioned by Dave Fox in his book, Globejotting - "The owners of these journals return home safe and sound, but their journals die a quiet and lonely death". Right now, I have just begun an overseas internship at China Radio International Online (CRI Online)'s Tra... full info

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