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

About theblacktwig

I believe that the most difficult thing to talk about is about oneself; but amazingly, this is an easy task for most. I, on the other hand, would be very frank that I only describe myself the way I want to be perceived. In a way, it’s a kind of self-advertisement, of which many people are guilty about. But I am not really a complicated person and I don’t have a lot of interesting attributes to share except that I can lock myself the whole day in a room provided there is food, a pen and papers, and most importantly, a good book to read.

I want to write when I’m overwhelmed with any kind of emotion and when I am inspire about anything that surrounds me. I write about my melancholic nights to the hotly debated issue of global warming. When I was 15, my room had to be renovated and in the process lost most of my writings. Hence, I decided to take advantage of technology for my writings’ preservation and at the same time share my musings with others.

TheBlackTwig is a blog on anything that tickles my imagination, opinion and experience. This is probably one of the aims of immortality, as the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman suggested in his book “Death and Dying” (though his is specifically on writing a book); but I do not intend to immortalize myself, I want to immortalize the words once owned by one of the many vessels of mortality.

My everyday mantra is: "I want to travel the world." I wish that someday this blog would be a travel documentation about my dream destinations and even those unexpected detours.  Start exploring! :)

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