"You are crazy."
"Your'e so lucky."
"How are you able to travel for so long?"
"How do you have the money?"
"Where do you stay?"
"What do you do?"
"I wish I could do what you're doing."
I'll address a few of these:
"You are crazy."
Maybe. I think, to be more descriptive, I'm being adventurous, risky, and a bit reckless. Why? Because life hasn't been going according to plan, so I can't find justification in trying to stick with it.
"You're so lucky."
Yes, I really am. I am a very lucky lucky girl to be able to have supportive friends, family and amazing opportunities (ie: traveling to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, China, etc). To be fair, I've also come across some bad luck. Examples would be messing up my knee, being sick more often than normal, chipping my tooth, missing two flights, having cancelled flights, etc etc...it's easy to get caught up in the bad luck, but I have to remember all the good, too!
"How are you able to travel for so long?"
"How do you have the money?"
"Where do you stay?"
I'm just bunching these three together because I can answer all in one go. Unlike some speculations, I actually saved up my own money for the past year. I also had a savings account I never touched but kept for several years and inevitably had to tap into when I made the big decision to stay abroad longer. So savings combined with generous friends who let me stay at their places = stretched budgeting. Yes, it's scary and risky, especially for someone like me who likes having a solid plan, but money is money and it's something I can make back (I hope).
"What do you do?"
These days, a lot of job hunting. I also like to aggressively keep in touch with friends back home aka Facebook stalk people. I also like to eat a lot; I gained weight in Asia. I take photos, though not enough. I go out on weekends mostly and try to recruit girls for our group. I should really do more.
"I wish I could do what you're doing."
You know, I hear this allll the time...and the annoying truth is, you CAN. I did it; I am doing it, so can anyone else. However, I understand that unlike me, most people have jobs and responsibilities. I'm just saying that many of these responsible adults hate their jobs and live with a slight regret of never traveling. If you really wanted to, you could. As for accommodation, check out www.couchsurfing.org. It's a great site that is dedicated to connecting people all over the world and safe about it.
I'm trying to stay young and grow up at the same time.
Anyways, the real purpose of this post was to cover this past weekend. Saturday was pretty important to me because I wanted to take my generous and gracious hosts out as a small thank you for letting me stay with them for so long. Singapore was actually more of a last minute escape plan, but they have been so good to me to let me stay for such a ridiculous amount of time and help me get back on my feet.
As a quick recap, we went to Lantern, which is this lovely lounge bar a the top of the Fullerton Bay Hotel that has a great view of Marina Bay. Of course, I didn't take any photos of the actual lounge itself, so I'll have to do that next time. I reserved a couple bay couches for us and ordered a Rose to chill out before heading to Ku De Ta (again). Adam has been awesome at getting us in and so I really wanted to take my friends up there before I left Singapore since it's so difficult otherwise.
A different angle of the Sands.
After, we headed to Stereolab and supper at Netwon Hawker Center. Aaand now I'm too tired to keep typing. The end. For now.
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