Backpacking: Invinsibility of Youth and The Knowledge of Dying

Backpacking addict I spent a lot of time backpacking on my own. Just me a backpack and whoever happenned to be around. I made friends, we travelled together, and then at different times we went separate ways. It’s how the backpacking trail works, you make connections, some last a day, some a few, some aContinue reading “Backpacking: Invinsibility of Youth and The Knowledge of Dying”

Wine Tasting: Hunter Valley: Australia

Today we went to Hunter Valley, two hours drive from the suburbs of Sydney. At the rest stop I bought a hand knitted woollie hat for my friend’s two feet long sorta new born baby, and looked at Gollywogs, not very PC still found in Australia -didn’t know if you’re allowed to buy things likeContinue reading “Wine Tasting: Hunter Valley: Australia”

Australiasia : land of childhood

I always say I don’t know Australia, it’s where my grandmother lives, it’s where my uncles and aunts immigrated at some point to get away from China coming to Hong Kong. It’s the place where my cousins grew up and next to the country my step -dad was born. In the last five years it’sContinue reading “Australiasia : land of childhood”

My Secret Life: The Suburbs

In the coccoon of my father’s study, on the laptop, surrounding by a whole series of “The history of England”, a keyring of “Royal Flying Service of Australia”, cockoo clock that chimes every half an hour, pictres of some ships, with the smell of roast beef, waffing through into the room. I know I amContinue reading “My Secret Life: The Suburbs”

India and China: Violence against the Body vs Violence against the Mind

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong, Back Packing Addict One thing I know for sure, is that I respect the communist government for what they did for the Chinese people from 1949 to the early sixties. They fed the whole of China as best as they could for the first time, they put in infrastructure thatContinue reading “India and China: Violence against the Body vs Violence against the Mind”