Posts Tagged ‘Travel’

Return to Form?

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

BACK. So… Nick has been intensely hold­ing down the fort at UNKITSCH and the sum­mer has been kinda slow for the rest of us but I assure you that it has not gone by as one unpro­duc­tive blur of beer infused with sunshine..(maybe a lit­tle). Nay, I’ve been open­ing my eyes to the won­ders of Europe and meet­ing fan­tas­tic peo­ple all along the way. A colour­ful expe­ri­ence whether I was roam­ing through vol­canic Ice­land or stum­bling down La Ram­blas in Barcelona dur­ing the wee hours of the morning.

While it is a shocker to go from 100km/h trav­el­ing and then sud­denly find your­self back at home, I’m tak­ing it in stride. I have a plan to con­tinue some of the best things I learned while back­pack­ing, like meet­ing new peo­ple. The world is filled with peo­ple you just haven’t spo­ken to yet. So my advice today is to look at that per­son sit­ting beside you on the sub­way.. what are they doing? read­ing a paper? skip.. star­ing into the abyss? gogogo smile and give them your best line. Is there a pickup guide for friends? Because “Baby are you an angel, I think I just died and went to heaven”– doesn’t really work in nor­mal situations ; )

In other news… I’m now liv­ing in Hong Kong full time. I’ll be switch­ing my music cov­er­age up… prob­a­bly be a bit more can­topop thrown in there haha

Pho­tos by Neil Krug

“You can’t always get what you want
 And if you try some­time you find
 You get what you need”

LVOEOLVOEVLOVE

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  1. The Sub­urbs – The Arcade Fire
  2. Tell Me (Clock Opera Remix) – Au Revoir Simone
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Journey

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

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I want to enjoy the jour­ney more!

When am I going to be happy with where I am as opposed to where I want to go? Not sure where this dichotomy will finally con­nect my dreams with the real­ity. It hurts more because the goal I’ve given myself isn’t really rooted in any one thing but relies instead on accom­plish­ing cer­tain steps along the way. Fin­ish­ing school, just around the cor­ner, get­ting into grad school/ get­ting a job.. finan­cial resources to be able to do those things I love most.. going trav­el­ling, eat­ing out with friends, going to funky dance par­ties… on top of pay­ing for all the essen­tials like hous­ing, inter­net, cloth­ing; yes, in that order.

Next. This four let­ter word is hang­ing over all of us con­stantly.. what IS “next”? Damn if I know, but it inter­rupts my thoughts every­day. I’m not one of those poor saps who can’t han­dle the pres­sure of respon­si­bil­ity or am not on top of my work, has poor work/life bal­ance, none of the above.. sim­ply I am not com­pletely sat­is­fied with the sta­tus quo. Essen­tially I have noth­ing to com­plain about and spend my life of leisure enjoy­ing the pur­suits of any aver­age 21 year old in the the big city.. but just not quite sure whats the point? Do you want to know the mean­ing of life? I’m not sure it exists. I think I will keep try­ing to ques­tion and pur­sue that utopic vision of hap­pi­ness. One where I’m happy with my job, have finan­cial means, free time to pur­sue hob­bies, have a fam­ily and so on.

Sit­ting here I know spring is com­ing, I can feel it shin­ning through my win­dows, the birds are singing and I just want to know whats “next”. Summer?

I’m going to say good­bye soon and I think I’ve learned all those quin­tes­sen­tial lessons that uni­ver­sity should provide.

Love life: Don’t even want to go there. I imag­ine now that it was prob­a­bly a mon­u­men­tal waste of time, but hope­fully the expe­ri­ence will prove invaluable.

School: They give you shit marks to demor­al­ize you, then you meet some amaz­ing peo­ple who change your per­spec­tive about it all and rewards come in.

Friends: The ones who shape your out­look and help you grow dur­ing this most impor­tant time in your life. Basi­cally if you are a douchebag– your friends usu­ally are too.

This list could go on I’m sure… I just want to say I feel smart but equally stu­pid some­times, as I’m sure every­one does. Point is keep your friends close and enjoy the ride.

I’m plan­ning my trip to Europe this sum­mer… that makes me very happy. I’m going to try and find myself on my solo jour­ney. I expect to have some kind of epiphany around the 4th week while sit­ting at a lit­tle cafe in Prague haha. I can dream, can’t I?

1. You Can’t Hurry Love — The Supremes

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