Yes, I am a travel diva. I’m so tired from calling travel agents. Tickets to Beijing, then to Taiwan, then to LAX. $1940, cha- ching ching. Big money, for a small no money person like a student graduate.

I’ve probably traveled enough to tell you how it is, but really, I’m no expert. I’m not like Up In the Air kinda dude, but I do want that “premium” VIP lounge card. Last time when I went to Switzerland, I learned not to get too happy about an 800 roundtrip ticket, because I ended up paying much more for missing my flight. Anything can happen, really. I swear. ANYTHING. That is the fun part about traveling. And I LOVE IT.

I’ve slept at train stations, airports, on random jackets, and traveling and getting lost. You definitely need some sass so you don’t get mugged or look lost. Even if you’re lost, you must look like a local. Somehow, this is easier if you are in Asia obviously. Bargain the hell out, be sassy, or get cheated to pay foreign price. I’m a little anxious looking for the right price, when in the end, there’s a certain skill of buying it right away so the price doesn’t rise. Like yeast or some crazy monster in the ocean.

I love and hate chinese travel agents. They are also very sassy. And they don’t really care to persuade you.

Just in case you’re wondering where I get my blog entry titles- usually from random sayings and songs.

(Huntington Library on a rainy and lovely day)

Now Listening to Death Cab For Cutie- A Movie Script Ending

Find thy passion, and thy will live without societal restrictions

which chooses to bind and tear

though the compounds of safety and freedom are like two siblings, so different, yet, so complementary

I can’t but define my state of mind- between love and fear

salt and sugar, bitterness and sweetness, goodbyes and hellos

future and past,

and then just when im writing,

i halt and remember

Now and present. Instead of either or, I’ve chosen the best of both, I’ll live now and remember not to fret

the stops I didn’t take, or the stops I will take

and embrace the stop I’m at now.

Frights and terrors, colors and spinning, noise and peace, they are but a fragment of my imagination

what if i chose, simply to be. letting all circumstances float like marshmallows wavering

not hitting me on the head, but brushing past

like unicorns and lovely kewpies flying past, one by one, one by one.

List of news: booking flight to China ASAP, just finished my online class test, awaiting a text, staring at my calendar in dismay, too many people to pray for, Sugar and Spice Art and Fashion Show, new relationships, Ten Thousand Villages, and prepping for graduation and China. Many calls to make. BUT, I’m going to take a nice relaxing bath.