... it is so easy to play on the name of this city. I wonder whether the founding fathers knew this (... duh ( Read more... )

I have arrived in Korea and am sitting in a small bus, on the way to town. The sun isn't quite ready to rise yet but it has already started diluting the dark night sky, turning it deep orange on the horizon ( Read more... )

A seemingly impossible departure looms upon my daily experience of Life ( Read more... )

Woke up around 6 a.m. not knowing why, and then again around 8 when the concierge-of-sorts decided it was time for me to pay. The price went from 20 dollars to 30'000 as I wanted to pay in local currency. Maximum annoyance. Yeah, different prices for tourists, as always ( Read more... )

We spent the first night in a ger, this second one in the Gobi desert. I don't think it could get any better. Well, perhaps it could, but I can't quite say how ( Read more... )

Made it this far. They speak a charming language that reminds me of the one I heard on the Tibetan plateau. They wait along with me, in front of me, slouched on airport chairs, just like me ( Read more... )

Inzwishen, in-between, entre deux, nulle part, partout, every no where. Already gone, still here, the usual conundrum. I wish I gave myself a bit more Peace. Reminiscing about moments in little devil, speeding across forest roads. Dry and cruel beauty of the Himalayan landscape. Lush wetness of heat-bound Shanghai ( Read more... )

I'm tired, yet I write ( Read more... )

Well it's been odd. Really nice but odd. I don't understand him at all. I thought I did but his barrier is so high up and so thick that I'm not going to even attempt getting past it. He doesn't want to talk and well, what can I say to that? Not much. Nothing actually ( Read more... )

I miss myself. I do not recognise the stone set patterns that seem to impose themselves upon my daily experience of Life as me. I miss the boundless experience of me I have come to enjoy in the past almost 4 years. Now the self has turned into a thick mud cake that seems to solidify with each moment spent awake, sinking deeper and deeper into ( Read more... )