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The journey so far, going forward, and rebuilding the blog

This will be the final year of my 30’s. Time flies, and it seems to fade faster as one gets older. This post is a bit of recap of my adult life and some future plans.

Travel

Travel has always been my passion. Haven’t seen as many places as I had hoped but it’s been pretty good regardless. One of the main reasons I started this blog in 2007 was to share my travel and food stories.

I posted quite often about the trips at the beginning but got distracted by other stuff at some point. Currently organising my photos and will share some better stories and pictures in near future.

During this period I’ve been to United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Macau, South Korea and Thailand.

The highlight is the prolonged stay in Seoul from 2015 to 2017. My home country Malaysia is summer all year-long, and I’ve always wanted to stay in a place with four seasons for a year or two.

When I first had the idea I thought I would make the big trip before turning 30. Had to delay that for a few years for multiple reasons. But as the old saying goes, it’s better late than never.

I’ve started a Korea travel blog during the stay to share those memories. But as usual, procrastination kicked in and it will need a bit of revamp and updates. Should be worth checking in a few months time.

If you can read Chinese then check out Seoul Fun Time. It’s a blog by my friends, mostly about food and restaurants with some travel and fun stuff in between. I’ve contributed a few posts also.

Future trips

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The Meg (2018) extended movie trailer

Extended trailer for The Meg, an upcoming American Chinese co-production film with a monster-shark theme. Directed by Jon Turteltaub and based on a 1997 book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten.

The film stars Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis. Set to be released in the United States and China in August 2018.

The plot is about a group of scientists who discovered a 95-foot-long prehistoric shark called megalodon (hence the name MEG) – thought to be long extinct – two hundred miles off the Chinese coast. They have to stop the shark before it attacks the beach but looks like Meggy makes it anyway.

I love watching monster movies, the teaser doesn’t look too exciting but will give it a go regardless. Most of these films have nothing new, you know what you get when you walk into the cinema.

And if you don’t know, megalodon was a real extinct species. Read more on Wiki.

Reply 1997 – Alone music video by Bee Gees

Bumped into this music video while doing some Youtube hopping of western music from the 1990’s. Alone by British pop group Bee Gees, released in 1997.

Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records in a career spanned over half-a-century, placing them among the world’s all time best-selling music artists.

Old memories

Not particularly fond of this song, but it’s one of those memory-trigger pieces that stuck in my head. I just started driving (mostly to tuition and libraries) back then and this was played so often on the radio that it became toxic LoL.

It was also during the first “major” crossroad I faced. Just got into pre-university and pondering whether I should switch to business or stay with science stream. Chose the later partly because of a girl, and the rest is history.

It’s been 20 years now. Two of the three brothers in Bee Gees are in heaven, and I’m probably halfway through my journey. Time flies for sure, carpe diem.

BTW, Reply 1997 is a popular Korean drama series about pop culture and memories in the 90’s. I’m borrowing the title to tell my own stories.

Fala Chen talks about hometown Chengdu

Video of Chinese actress Fala Chen who shares some views about her hometown, Chengdu. Decent film but a bit long-winded, could have cramped more information in a three minutes video.

I always thought that she was born in America. Apparently she was born and raised in China instead, until she was 14 years old when she emigrated to the United States with her family.

Chen entered the show business after earning a place as 1st runner-up in the 2005 Miss Chinese International Pageant. She worked primarily with TVB in Hong Kong and starred in numerous TV drama series until her contract ended in 2013. She did quite well during that period.

The actress settled some personal matters and went back to school after that. She’s currently studying in Juilliard in New York; it’s one of the world’s leading drama, music, and dance school. She’s expected to graduate next year (with a postgraduate or master degree.)

Not sure when the video was made but it looks recent. I visited the city over two decades ago when China was still at early stage of its economic boom. A lot of things have changed, obviously. I’m thinking of revisiting the place for comparison sake, but there are other priorities at the moment.