Let's chill out
Dwelled on the generation i live at the present of TODAY . i am no longer to be shocked to hear so much about their greed on materials as they always want it in their whole life.for instance,the beautiful girls they looking for, the perfect soulmate they waiting for.stuck in the trap of dumb and broke that has to pay bills next days and weeks and years for buying house,car,life expense etc. the society changes us a lot.yeah,A lot.so we definitely need to find some ironic effects to defeat it with our own creativeness and mindsets inside out for sure.
-Truth or Dare-
We might had set up the games to start over on our belonging goals which we apply for the results reflected as we desired.literally,none of them been done so well as least the way you act and told yourself. That's not motivated anymore.plans and goals were gone AGAIN.you are unpleasant of what you do, you are never comfortable with presence and not satisfied with your life ever.as least that's most of the people whining about their situation of what i hear about.God,you gotta give that sh*t up and give yourself to try the things on you never try yet. and it would come out the certains ways you never feel.
-Now or Never-
-Roundup-
Decided to give myself a chance to unpack these fantastic memories to my ahead 80ys old of looking back at the flow of reckless ages in the feelings and emotions i had.we are getting older and couldn't go back the days we had.
Oh dear,don't let someone take you down to the edge you haven't get to yet.At the end of the day,you should recognize you are the ONLY one to face the truth and live your own attitudes towards the real life unmasked.Don’t get yourself to be embarrassed and Don’t tell yourself that you are really drowning when you do. you need to wake yourself up somehow spiritually of what you pursue for because we all have insatiable curiosity on this lonely planet.
I'm obsessed to talk with friends like seeing what they're living for happiness and what's their intentions. so here are bit of Q&As popped.
What would it be your ideal life from now on?
Response:
I want to live in different countries while i am being able to run my online business because living in a exotic countries could be so excited and adventuous things.with the basic income for my living cost.marketing abroad and get enough money to get what i want.Realistically,i am afraid of stepping out my comfort zone to be brave and live fearless somwhere i never been. it turned out to be a new environment eventually.at least i have blew out my mind when i think of how hard my mom raised me and my sibilings up.then i stoped thinking of that.
The day i started to run my own business,i bet myself to be successful without any hesitation and keep it up till i got what i want.ive been to go any factories getting my products inspected ,marketing,looking for new customers,worked as buyer as well as managing everything by myself;i am extremely amazed of what she's doing by her own with passion and the time she managed which really inspired me at least 10 times per day.
You've been stick to work for this company
for so long so far,what you gained from that?
Response:
Realistically, i got married and have my entire family to take care as well as balacing between work and family.i am so overwhelmed sometimes.i need to plan a lot before i go for that.i have reasponsibilities,bills,life expenses,kids,health,family reunions to think about it which is waiting for me to die for that.i had been working on social marketing about 8 years.Too busy to plan for our trips the days when we both on work.
On comparison,I've had the plans to travel the world with my husband,we could support each other as long as we want to go for another step to marriage.but everything has changed when it comes to marriage,i feel like i am in cage that would not be able to fly it away.just live the same life everyday,nothing really special anymore.i have so much excuses to be surrounded with things and people.
---The time and patience you put on the things you do.it will pay off at the end..what's really matter is what you enjoy doing it instead of living for it.---
As normal as many people, i worked full-time job for global trade.
i choose to be more busy and travel around what's next to me out there.
I am enjoying the time to be alone as well as the time with friends around.
My peripatetic lifestyles with the obsessive stacking up the experiences and stimuli gathered around the world is in fact masking an unhealthy type of hunger,camouflaged gluttony.but i tend to look down on the beauty of what my insight takes in,feeling that true beauty must be far ahead.somewhere behind seven seas & mountains or at least seven-hour flight away.but what if its all right here?
Then why i travel more?
i know i've so much energy on the way,
i have my strength to chase the parts
i love which brought brand new me again.
i could easily find the
different me on the way,the path i choose
is on my own decision so i wouldnt miss any
good chances.the academic education i
learned in the uni.extremely lact of pratical
things in life.we are living in such a social
community where we needs to be get in
touch with it.not bad.like i know,
passion,patience and time would tell
the results of what i perserved for sunrise & sunset.
-Shenzhen Railway station-
I don't expect i would be the one full of
perfections but we are all in the same
situation that definitely desired to
be better version of myself.Focus on
personal development and self-love more
than anything else before i get to the
right things.so i decided to give a
chance on experiment different travel lifestyle. what i went through throughout this trip?
HERE we go!
-Girl power with 14 kg backpack all the way,Bus to HK airport-BKK-
Clicked on the headphone , "Happier" rings. i am happier!Truth huh! lights off in the cabin and i barely could see anything because i was way too sleepy and hungover
-Ferry trip & Neighbourhood-
Have seen a mom holding a baby which fell asleep in smiles. That's so sweet and powerful part of life.
"Welcome to Bangkok...」
Noises woke me up of the rough podcasts from Mr.captain awesome.i looked out to the window blissfully.
Seems like everyone woke up without energy at all at the moment like me..walking like a super zombie. we got on the bus where stands more than 30 people around. no hands available at the moment to hold the handrail to be safe. i asked for 5mins to break down and have a rest. Please just 5mins.my eyes closed and leave me alone..
It’s time to connect and change my SIM card so i could be able to contact my host.we were wondering where ,when, who,that anything poped out in our minds are so excited to wait for a "friend"! claimed the luggages and got to the gate outside.a very cute blue race car pulled over and say "hi"from a Thai accent guy with his hat on. --「Emily I am here at the airport waiting you at Gate 11」Text from Peach.--
Ha,it's Peach! he's here.. our Host from
couchsurfing. He's local Thai who works for
pro car race and own service of car rental
online business.He was the guy we talked
to like in very polite and kind to us.he looks
like a 10 y old kid when we first met him.. lol
from the way he dressed up,and the way he speak.
he was very kind and nice to host us after he
found us on CS and the first host to
talk to for this trip. he had black T-shirt and
one leg denim rolled-up jeans on his
cool Nike Jordan.
He was very gentleman and helpful to us to
take care of our heavy bags and stuffs in his
car."my passengers would be on the back if
i am the grab driver"says Peach. so i took the
front seat next to him where i can reach to
the controler of the music. hell yes, i became
DJ Emily for this moment.lol
-First,let me take a selfie-
It was mid-night late at 1am.he drove in the empty highway with loud latin music where we couldn't hear anything from what he's talking about and just got rowdy like everyones in the car.my adrenaline gets high when he speed up to 200m/hour and stimuli everything so cool from my window outside of the road and super excited for the next few days of our trip.thats insane and unsafe but we trusted him so much apparently.
-Plants lover never skip that view-
we got foods at 7/11 some spicy thai noodles and fried rice on the way home when we were all grumbling of the tummy.20mins arrived eventually.we were so excited to see this incredible house where mango trees in the backyard,old vintage filled with couples of statues which defines in so thai styles. we loved it.
he has a very comfort private room for us where he puts everything he thinks that we might need but actually we brought everything that we would need indeed ofc.there are certain times i've lost at his house coz the layout just like a puzzles and spacious.Moments we felt back to the old age served with vintage 70s fans and 50s bicycles inside.
-Cooking time-
Took a breath to drop off the backpack. "i feel good after a long day from heart".
he lives alone with his maid in this big house.we were chilling at the balcony and Peach make us two cups of cocktails which make us "drunk" enough to sleep well. the lights on neighbourhood were all turned off seeing from the balcony.
we were listening to the great flamingo on while we were talking and chilling at the balcony.thinking about where to go for the itinerary of next few days.we planed to go for a road trip to koh ku island that we were very excited about. we googled it on map where rarely to see the crows .
we planed to go for camping outdoor besides the beach and BBQ with firewoods around while music on so we can dance and talk and laugh at night. we couldnt be more excited about it.
3:50AM,electronic products charged and sleep well with no lights on.Good night!
"Lets go for jogging in the morning"i said to my adorable girl next to me got no response since she fell asleep right away on the moment snuggles with the bed eventually..so cute.
He woke up early in he morning and asked the maid to help us for breakfast before we go for running outdoor which is very kind and treat us very good . we are very grateful for what he made us feeling at home for the moment.
-Peach's house-
Nothing could be better that you wake up to the sunshine lights from the balcony and breeze through the face. he warned us of the neighbourhoods dogs of every doors. apparently dogs love us there when we ran passes and say hello and padding them so well.sooo adorable of everything findings and amazing to see the early morning with local people.
After morning exercise and bkf, we went for shower and dressed up.he started to complain about "how could these two girls spending so much time on dressing up and makeup" lol he was waiting in the car with the engine on... i ran out barefoot and rushed to the car and"mask off" on..crazy mode started like usual i do.singing and rowdy all the way like i dont care.
He took us to foods market-in-train and floating market.it ended up leaving because we didn't like that "attractions"place with crows and too commercialized.that wasn't in our bucklist to go.so we decided to do sth out of that.
-Art center-
We ended up of going to the local market for fresh foods and buying stuffs in grocery store of BBQ at night.it's interesting to say that Peach is a "Meatarian" and we both are veganterians.it's quite a bit hard to dig in the same pot for this moment.so we used the seperated electric hotpot stew where we could eat at the same time with various foods.
-Busy China town-
Plus We were literally melting underneath the sunny days out. but we still wanted to get out the house and stay chilled out strolling down the neighbours.
-ICONSIAM shopping center-
Peach got pissed-off for a while since we told him we were about to leave and have fun at downtown with friends. he's upset that we didn't invite him for hangout.actually we did.but he wasn't get what we wanna do later than that so we thought he won't go with us.so we left to downtown by Grab .Arrived at this really incredible new shopping center which is called ICONSIEM where just built months ago.almost feed all our curiosities here including so many great restaurants,bouquets,shopstores,views,cinema etc.it has the most beautiful sightseeings out at the riverside as well.Highly recommended other travelers to visit somehow.
-ICONSIAM shopping center-
It's interesting to say that people we met in the street that they were considering we are local or Japanese/philippinese.they talked to us or say hi to us in those languages constantly and we got nothing to respond with those related languages eventually but laughed out loud.
-view from Texi-
Sleepless night here were full of lovely couples,frustrated old men,homeless nomads as well as lazy cats laying down the tuktuk.where people dawned on their wines and dines with exalting musics on.A majority of people coming from different countries with different backgrounds,suits,languages, skins;so yep,nobody cares about what you looked like.and i like that.nobody judge you from your cover or what you doing.this is the kind of comfort zone i always looking for.
-A happy street hunter-
My feminism pops out constantly that i shouldn't care about what people think of me,who i am. i don't give a answer because i am still on my way to know more about myself.nothing really defines me well by a short moments that people see.i would down to the road and streets singing out loud.i would talk to the random strangers "how is your day"? i would go to get foods when i am hungry or snacking my desires.because i know all i am looking for is my desire and my passion.
-CNY Dinner while we waiting for Alex to come-
I talked to our host that we might be home around midnight and asked if thats ok for him and he said YES.so we got out about few hours and phone kept ringing and tons of messages from our host whining about we are LATE home.no doubt,its saturday night as usually traffic jams going on,we are getting late home then i texted Peach and make sure he knew that.
-Bookstore BKK-
1A.M,we are on the way home and received so many messages from him.we weren't feel good of what he was saying from the messages. and all the horrible emotions came up and keep telling me like "oh man,you are in danger,be careful about this guy".me and my friend were so anxious and stressed out a bit.so i take the advantage of who in front of us in the grab,i started to talk to the driver and ask him if he knew somewhere we can go for the late night stay or any great suggestions hostels. and boomed!he said "kaoshan road".i knew that place from the social media and pointed out to my friend before but we didn't plan to go there. few mins later, we got off and went home as brave as tigers.
IconSiam
--so his maid came to open the door for us.and we deeply apologized and thank her for helping us.then we sneaked into the house and make sure not to wake up the puppy next to the door.
-ICONSIAM-
--「Can you just book a hotel and leave my house?
--" This is not the hotel and you should be back home early ...blablabla"
--「Fine,we will leave ASAP」
We felt really upset and wants to pack our messy clothes and stuffs upstair ASAP! we felt hurt but also very happy to be able to leave this house coz its unsafe anymore and unease feeling there. we added and contacted each other month ago and he was very friendly to host us for few nights .
We shared our life on call and talked about the trip itinerary in group chat. he always be the first one to say good morning very early every day. now it all turned out to be like this way...we are truely disappointed for it. he asked us to leave and book hotel or whatever in midnight in a min. that was almost 3 am in host country for us. we didnt know where to go and where to stay. the reason he expressed is that we were late on the way home and not happy about our hangout with our friends in downtown without him. it was kinda ridiculous for us..
-Jogging in the neighbourhood-
30mins later,he said he felt regretful about what he said to us. but we hurts deeply inside our hearts. coz we felt dangerous and rude face he showed us ..it terrified me constantly.
Few mins later we made it to packed all the stuffs in our backpack. and ready to go,he stopped us apologizing for this experience. "i would be very regretful if you all leaving now as a man.i worry about your safety"...
-Ferry sunset-
I asked for the leaving politely and he wants to talk with us. so okay,just give it a break and sitting down next to the stairs where we cross-over our legs and started to think what's going on. we were deeply in a emotional ways at this moment.because it makes me feel upset for the first experience in thailand ended up like this embarrassed feelings we had.so there is nothing to say and we decided to leave and respect his rules for the house.
---I gave him a hug as my appreciation for his help
and left without hesitation.---
-Have fun at the Rock bar-
what i was thinking about in my mind is to leave asap.and i know i have my own self-esteem and i do not want anything happened meaningless and unworthy to be unhappy. so we walked out to the community and started to get so excited.the security saw us walking to him and might be thinking about like"where are these two girls going with that heavy backpacks?"
we will still find the right hosts for sure.thats our intentions to live as a locals eventually.so we started to find every friends in thailand and go to the couchsurfing app but it gets tough so we need to figure out another choice is to live in a hostel first while we look for another host.
Meanwhile,my phone and camerea were both almost die. all of sudden,it reminds me of the Grab driver told me 2hours ago to go "kaoshan Road".so yep here we go..
-Daisy-
We were getting really hungry and saw there are bunch of bananas on the bench next to us.before we get in the grab car and i stole 2bananas ..haha then the security saw me and stared at me like..i was laughing and eating and walked to the grab saying "thanks for that bananas"!
-Daisy&I-
20mins later we arrived at this messy and tricky place where called "kaoshan"road. there are plenty of vendors,pubs,backpackers,drunk people at the corner and cute couples.
-Kaoshao Road Restaurant-
We gave the money to the driver and asked "Are you sure this is the right address? the driver answered straight away like he don't care.
it's 4am. we were out of energy throughout the whole body with that heavy backpacks and eyes had a fight for opening.i belong to that long journey as i know. so later on we found that there is a Mcdonald's right next to us with many people drinking and rest inside. so we decided to take advantage of this place and get to buy some drinks and foods.we found our comfort zone in that little corner .we ordered drinks and foods but we literally no appetite to eat it anymore but wanted to sleep straight away.we snuggled with each other and leaned on our backpacks and ready to sleep at Mcdonalds tonight.
-Street side photography by me-
What an experience and had been going through such a drama.we were exhausted and overwhelmed.she's always the one who easily fell asleep everywhere but i wasn't.i couldn't sleep till 6am. and she woke me up at 7.we felt really insecured and looking for a new place to go.so i went down to a hostel nearby our location in kaoshan road.where i see are so many options there but i just go for the closest one.i found this hostel and talked to the receptionist with a decent price for 5nights just 500rmb..so we checked in and straight away to our room.
-China doll in China town-
We were so tired and forget sth to miss.nothing could be better than that have a hot warm shower and cleaned myself up,removed the makeup and jump in a cozy bed.it was cold underneath the AC.crazy//we took advantage of our own sleeping bags and snuggled together passed out.
We woke up at late 4p.m!no joke! we slept well and energized again! here we go for our See food diet mode switch.Haha.i'm not gonna lie i love so much about the street foods. but i would choose the better one on clean and fresh snacking to it. i saw there are tons of stores and vendors out there like handmade special designs accessories for some stylish boho and gypsy chics.i love them.of couse so many spas and massages service availble down there.andddd Pha Thai,Asian Veggies Fried Rice,sticky rice mangos,Spring rolls,fresh juices and so many weird roasted insects which i never want to try. so my fav food for sure is my dessert coconut ice cream topped with some chocolate syrup and nuts peanuts and anything with mangos.
-coconut ice cream-
it's interesting to see what is SOMETHING bring us here and others. because you would see the craziest creatures and also the most boring people living there life here.such a contrast for banging the life haul.
(My Fav Rock music live bar in Kaoshan Road.the band was a Rock)
It's quite a bit easy to find sth here,but not easy to find sth with soul and their core. because mostly have a variety of things and stuffs to go.so yeh just give it a try of everything.be fearless,humble,excited in your curiocity.somepeople came her for inspiration,for travel buddies,for passing by,for adventures,for music,for foods.but It's for curiosity to me.
-Art week at Bangkok-
We kinda get bored after two days exploring this area and want something for fun.🔛we ended up to open the hangout mode on Couchsurfing.
-Foodie mood for lunch-
So i met Alex first in a group with almost 15people hangout together.and we were trying to invite some people coming together.other than that most of them were not in kaoshan road.thats why we didn't make it to hangout with some other people.
Alex was at somewhere close to the airport in his hostel.and we decided to hangout at night for parties.we were kind of in a melting way because of the weather getting tooo hot.
-Stole it from his Ins-
"10years later,evetually..he's here to meet us! lol i thought he was doing makeup for that long when we were chilling at the Mexican Latino Pub.he's a cool guy with that little bun on this hair,cute for many girls there for sure.he had his phone dying with him.he came up with another girl from Thai and they met in the hangout group as well.
Jasmine is a very beautiful girl as i see her melting smiles and cool to talk to her at the first sight.she works in a agency for traveling in Thailand.then we started to talked in hours...bout anything lol.
-Jasmine from CS-
So then we discussed and decided to make our group more expanded. we were trying to ask and see more people join us for party at night.then Simon came to us.
So it was funny because my mistake i put the wrong location accidentially in London instead of Bangkok. and this guy just keep asking me where we are and where exactly we are .lol.. he took a while to find us eventually.
-How Simon using chopstick flicking his teeth-
He wants to get a little bit rowdy from beers before to the bar for fun,so its good to sit down and know more about all of us in this hangout group;
-Club time-
we've been dancing around several types of clubs and bars down there.drinked mostly the beers in 7/11.exactly not my routine..lol and had so much laughing gas balloons.
-Pool party group friends-
We already had the craziest hangout group throughout the couchsuring i guess.not sleep for more than 40hours..drinking all night long with laughing people and dramas to tell.my voice was getting very weak at some point i know but i still so excited everytime when i talked to friends around. lol guess what,i figured out another event to join after 40hours.Thats Pool party lady night in the Am-bar rooftop.
-Photographer from the bar took for these cute ladies-
So i met Susan at couchsurfing platform where she was hosting a pool party and invited me to join.she's such a social butterflies with her good personality.we have so many great conversations to talk about adventures.she's an Indonesian who lives in Sydney and she usually come to BKK for projects with her boyfriend of work.other than that it was really good with some deep thoughts on what's life is going on each other.
-Susan,Me,Daisy-
I couldn't describe how amazing of this night but it was insane with the hundred of people around ,great foods , of course good vibes with friends on loud techo music. at the end of the party,we were chilling down and started to set up a group where people all included from 11 countries 7 kinds of languages.Not bad.
DJ-Daisy -DJ Jonny-Me
It was great that we made it to an Art Exhibition the next day.me and daisy were both crazy in loving the arts and always looking for sth of art no matter where we go.Art is the part of the life we should give its way to be attracted. that's the words and feelings inside where people makes it alive.
-Recycling the city plans from Art exhibition-
The most incredible relationships i can get is absolutely from traveling no matter for partners,close friends,random strangers became friends.thats stuck in life and i take it for part of it which i also look for it.
-Group in Tuk-Tuk to somewhere-
It's great to put the time and passions for photography into my life. thats how i get to document and film it of how i feel and how i had that things going on after years and years .memories will be gone,but the pictures and videos you made are both something can exist for centuries.
-Wrap up-
Sum-up of the craziest group from Simon
We ended up this journey with so much hug,laugh,escort,help,respect,influence,care,share with each others.
China-town exploring and celebrating CNY
It was definitely the longest as well as shortest time spent together in Thailand.
For sure we will be reunited somewhere again for fun!
The crazy texi driver we met - Jack
We are blessed with all the kindness from people around and deeply appreciated for everything we received.
About Alex
This young dude with his strong passions of looking for a new place staying.he've been to 73 countries so far as a backpacker.he quited his 9-5 job in Germany and started to travel through some groups in facebook including some tips and advise as well as some voluteering events out there.what i impressed about him is that his capability to travel so light and everything so leisure to-go. Alex is still on the way. he's very open minded and helpful guy of this trip. i could say he's such a good company that he knows many things to share for traveling.Keep moving Alex,you will see and get what you want on the way and be safe to visit us in China or Germany's family!
About Simon
It was a coincidence to meet Simon where he works full-time job which got him tired.then he quited and started his 3months SOLO traveling and just the decision like"i wanna see what else outside of Denmark"and he chose Asian coutries to go! Simon is the one that very caring and considerate and fun person to hangout with.he's such laugher that's why we are so clicked to the common things for fun and socialized people.and also into deep conversions for his mindset. he 's likely to share something from his side and always looking for the great opportunity to be done.i am happy for his whole trip with us and safe back to Denmark.
started to create this Global Travel Buddies Group in Wechat .where we could share advises and tips on the way including helpful Resources ,Budgets,Recommended local events,Photography,Wonderlust,Hangout and Things to do etc. you are welcomed to join in and share your stories with us. Important notice!!!!!(English only and Share the real stories from yourself while traveling and get some exchanges here) Monthly cleaning-up the wrong/always silent people here so make sure this group's vibe and spirit in the right path which is fair enough for everyone.
I would like to take a step for translating each one of my following blogs about my journeys in bilingual approach to reach out to the friends who doesn't udnerstand Chinese. At the same time,you could go for the similar theme if you are learning Chinese which could help you something there for reading and writing.My native language is not English and i am improving my English writing as well.please feel free to comment below and let me know any advises and highlight for some apparent writing mistakes will be very helpful and humble to take care of that.Appreciated for your precious time for reading!Thank you!
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