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Update Jan 2024

I'm travelling again!!. In a way I was suppose to be travelling in 2023 after leaving my job in May 2023 but somehow everything changed when Mom got a stroke just as I started off to ride China. Luckily I had not plan much this time round so the test trip quickly completed and ended while I shoveled my travel ideas to take care of mom. 

By Nov 2023 mom was independentish with dad and I could dream again. Dreaming very quickly became a last minute plane ticket booking and somehow I was backpacking instead of riding. 

This would be the 4th time I am doing a long trip, a trip where I have no income and constantly deplating money. The first trip had a idea to backpack europe and USA while the second was a continuation of the first but expended more places such as South America, Europe, Australia and India! The third was the begining of motorbiking South East Asia and from there I thought backpacking would be shelved and be a thing of a past since discovering the wonderful world of having one owns wheels. 

I am glad I am backpacking again ... but then I still want to ride everywhere.  

Update Apr 2022 

I am writing base on long term memory now, since my pure slackness of being lazy during the Covid-19 period of 2 years has binge drag this blog for a long long time. Imagine the trip I write now was done in the mid 2019 and now its already mid 2022. I left the last leg ... which was the Borneo leg of roughly 3 months of travel to write ...

I feel guilty in part .... for Borneo was one of the best road trip I had in the entire journey for this leg and seeing the hits on my blog recently since Malaysia opened up again where people were really searching for gems info for a road trip in Malaysia makes me regret a little not writing fast enough to cover Borneo for it was truly an amazing place to explore.

Naturally, the Borneo Leg was also one of those that I was so slack that my travel journal was mostly blank .... usually I have a rough journal written every 3-4 days of the travel that just rambles whatever goes off the head of what happen, unfiltered and utterly boring ... then from the unpolished version, I see how I could group them up, form a story and make it into a blog post.

Sometimes it works out ... coz some stories if rushed out early to the blog would have been incomplete for the extraodinary experience has yet to happened ... but thats also one of the baseless excuse I use for the slow drag on updating the blog. Needless to say ... the lack of a rough journal makes recalling events way more slower. 

Rest assured .... I’m finally paying some attention to this Blog after a while .... and in a way, I feel that finishing the Borneo Leg would relinquish me to start planning for the next adventure. Travelling in the New Normal COVID-19 world ... that would be a whole new experience and red tape to cross which I am not sure if its even worth the effort. However ... for my sanity, it will happen eventually .... soon

Update Aug 2021

Its that time again ... somehow I have a feet of forgetting to update this page, and every time I reminisce back to those amazing trips I did, It feels like a dream now and somehow this longing always boils down to around this time of the year ... Aug to Sep ... 

The changing of seasons seams to have an impact to me for wanting to start a journey. Alas, COVID - 19 is truly not to be ignored as it has changed lives around the world and in a way perspectives of many people as well. 

Never have I more truly appreciated the freedom of our time, being able to go anywhere you want, and explore oneself to the fullest. Life is indeed short if not to enjoy or experience or contemplate but yet many are bound to a herd mentality. 

" Some things are just too big for one person to change yet it is the small changes that makes the differences "  

Update Aug 2020 

How time flies as the saying goes and it has been another year since. I'm back in Singapore working for nearly a year now and as usual finding it harder and harder to update the blog especially on those fleeting dreamy moments of travels where most things seams memorable but just plain and difficult to describe in words.

Times when after a long journey and for no reason at all while taking a random pit stop with Bluey at the petrol station, looking at locals having their own pit stop as well, asking their children if they want Ice-cream have a mini impact on the way I look at life from outside the window.

Timeline wise on the blog ... I have only managed to update up to Feb 2019 .... heck I am a year + behind .... so sorry for the wait thou I doubt anyone is really reading this beside close friends ... if you need info ... best advise I can give is to drop me a message .....

Then again all the info I'll be writing from here on out should be outdated, expired, no longer valid since COVID-19 has made travelling a whole new adventure of its own trying to circumvent the complex nature of inter - border / state travel.

Stay put, earn some money .. save up ... and hope that one day we can be on the road again without borders.

Update Aug 2019

I know I should be writing and updating the blog when I was back in KL doing nothing practically everyday but somehow every-time I return from travels, procrastination sets in and I will go for months not updating the blog or the personal journal even if I had the time to do so.

Hence I am now in a bit of a pickle since most the time in my mind the stories I imagine while riding Bluey is the current adventure but the Blog is lagged behind for a few months now and virtually I am still in Thailand thou physically the Borneo leg has just started. Do I skip and post whenever I had a writing inspiration for whichever story comes to mind first or do I slug it out and try to write it in the choronological order which I have been doing for years.

The fastest way to update is to write both at the same time which means posting the recent exploration logs while once a while trying to recap months ago adventure and posting those once a while as I go along. I think this is best for me writing wise since I will somehow churn out more post but I know in the readers view it will be a little confusing. Forgive me for this and if you really need to read in the chronological order, refer to the chronological page which I will try to update frequently.

Update Sep 2017

This year i have been planning and re-planning my next adventure. South East Asia. It's a shame that i have been to so many wonderful places in the world but yet still have not explored close to home.

It was time to do it right ... and not just the usual tour of the backpacker trail in SEA but slightly different with a motorbike .... ( I have decided on a motorbike )

Standard route is hard to avoid for they are the comfort stops and the ground stone to replenish before exploring the more secluded areas of SEA. I fill that this journey although closer to home will be much more challenging than the other ... when to leave, monsoons, visa, bike visa, overstaying issues, language, it just bogs me down. Feel like i am not even a veteran in travelling but then again i know that once i start the journey ... it'll be ok somehow

Will i be alone this time ? .... i doubt so ... so close to home i am sure some major pit stop will be hijacked by friends and family visiting by the cheap budget airlines. Motorbiking ... a convoy would be cool, and some fellow Malaysian has already hinted not to leave without telling them the plan.

One thing is for sure, i have set the target of departure for mid 2018, and as time passes and i get closer to the departure dates, the big picture slowly becomes more solid.

New Stuff ... i have set up an Instagram Account - @blurtravels 

Update  June 2014

Its been a year +

Sometimes i see people with a pinch of salt. People are so passionate in the things they like. Music , work, hobbies, skills, taste, food, passion like a taste of identity. This is the world we seam to be living in now. Not accepting the norm nor attuning to the bland ....

Social media makes us show only the crazy best times of our life's that hypes it even more so that if you plan to do something ... make sure you are all 100% into it.

But I just want to be free ... for someone with itchy feet like me always looking for an excuse to travel and see the world i actually love to just sit in a small corner stone and watch the world skip by. How do you tell people you are passionate about Nothingness ... heck both words are even polar opposite i think ... you cant be one and the other at the same time.

Well i am still finding that special place .... till then enjoy my storytelling with a pinch of salt for it is very difficult to write about nothing ....

First Post

In the short period of me kick starting this blog i find it enjoyable to gather back thoughts that i could not write down into the journal due to traveling issues. In a way its like a self reflection of my time traveling alone for 6 months.

I am definitely addicted / hooked into traveling and just cant get enough of it.

The aim is to create a website where i would be able to leave details prints of my personnel view
(without crossing the line) during travel so as to update family and friends and entertain as much people who are willing to read this blog. "It sure beats telling the same story over and over again"

Hopefully when i finish writing the blog about 2011 - 2012 adventure i would have started my next BIG journey and continue feeding this website.

An adventure and not holiday would be the aim.


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