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A drifter off to see the world everyday mantra is: "I want to travel the world." I am an aspiring travel writer. I'm not sure whether I travel so I could write or I am a writer, hence I need inspirations from my travel. In any case, traveling and writing are the things I

My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture

INDIA | Saturday, 19 Mar 2011 | Views [446] | Scholarship Entry

I am a writer running out of thoughts and a traveler without destinations until I saw India. Aboard the auto-rickshaw with its antiquated meter clanging clumsily against the bar handles, I breathe in the heavy air of dawn. I am on my way to ... Read more >

Tags: #2011writing, travel writing scholarship 2011


History, Hiroshima and the Hollowness of Regret

JAPAN | Sunday, 13 Feb 2011 | Views [373]

I have traveled as far as hundreds of miles from the Pearl of the Orient to the Land of the Rising Sun only to encounter images of déjà vu from a distant past. My knowledge of Japan is similar to the preserved stories in the pages of history books ... Read more >

Tags: bombing, hiroshima, history, japan, peace, student in japan


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