What's Left of Me
Place: Taipei, Taiwan
I was very sleepy when I boarded the flight from Bangkok to Taipei. I hardly had any sleep the night before, spending a lot of time channel surfing but watched the MTV Chinese channel through the night eventually (still showing too many Jolin Tsai videos in my view). Of course I fell asleep immediately after the plane took off.
Three hours later, the plane had already flown into Taiwan's territory. The island looked quite sunny today. The sky was blue and relatively cloudless. It was a good day to celebrate birthday.
Thinking back this whole trip, even though I just left Taiwan 6 weeks ago, it felt like six months. If I counted the Western Balkan trip before that, and the South American trip before that, it seemed that I had been traveled for 2 or 3 years.
After this Eastern Europe trip, I was several thousand dollars poorer and now a person without any camera. I also left with many extra stamps in my passport and numerous bitemarks on my feet (thanks to those bloodsuckers in Transylvania).
However, the most important thing is, what is left of me may not be much materially, but I actually feel wealthier in the invisible parts. After this trip, I start to believe again, a dream can come true. A missing passport could not stop it, a miserable interview could not abort it, even the theft of my precious could not erase the great memories of it.
Yes, it is a great gift for my grand 30 birthday and I was just in time for the celebration.
Next stop: Home.
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