What does it feel like to halt all communications — verbally, physically and even no gesture for 10 days? Would I…

Để chuẩn bị cho chuyến đi dài ngày trong khi không có nhiều tiền, tôi đã cẩn thận vạch lộ trình vừa ở…

2016 beat me in the ass. It chased me to the doctors’ and long list of medicines (to my own record, I have never in my life taken such amount of antibiotics!). It creeped into my nerves of self-doubts, a career choice derailed and some really, really bad news. But today is not a day for mourning over what went wrong. Today is for hopeful schemes and…

On any given date, the guy will score big times if he mentions three things: 1. Books — 2. Thoughts while traveling — 3. Mono-no-aware or Wabi-sabi.

Mono-no-aware and Wabi-sabi describe feelings that are rather vague in English…

August, 2016. No sakura lining up my path, no snow-cladded town, no maple leaves to paint a picture-perfect Kyoto. Japan is witnessing the last month of summer. Hanging in the air is this tension between tropical humidity and a typhoon-ready attitude. Any minute then and there, it could pour down on…