起|beginning, starting

since couple weeks, i really wanted to report my travel during the xmas. but i was (am) too busy to make it. so let's make a start now. during the xmas (20-27.12.2007), i and yosuke, we travelled through Budapest->Vienna->Bratislava.

this trip was kind of backpacker trip, low budget, organized but we still had some flexibility to change the details and go somewhere what we just liked. we started in Braunschweig, (where he lives), took a train to Bremen, flew to Bratislava and took a train again to Budapest. (at that time the flight was cheap between Bremen and Budapest.) it took totally more than 12 hours to get there...hula...it was arduous...

in Bremen airport : they threw my shampoo, creme and so one away. i forgot to put them in my big trolley...
in the Bratislava airport:


in Bratislava Railway station: well, it was difficult to buy a ticket and find our train. lack of english sign.
the train to Budapest: it is old, dirty and it smells...OMG. but on the way we listened to a lot of music in the wagon. not bad ;P

Hostel, River side , Budapest: it is a small , family-like hostel. we met several nice people there, patricia, 2 "cool" guys from australia with interesting tatoos on the arms. what really funny was, we lived with 2 gays. they just macked on each other and kissed in front of us... we was shocked. because we never saw it "live"...
yosuke is trying to make his bed organized.
my bed...

the bridge is not far away from our hostel. it was really really beautiful in the night.

the theater is right cross the street.


ok, let's start it!!!

時光機器| Time Machine

recently, i often think about it: what would i do, if i have a time machine...

last year, 2007 was a very interesting year of my life, a lot of work, a lot of changes, high-tide, low tide, succeed, happiness, sadness, mistakes, pain...

if u really have one, should i go back and tell myself:

"hey buddy, be careful, something is going to happen!"

would it be better? would i happier, if i can forecast and prepare all these things?

NO, i don't think so.

life is exciting, because you don't konw, what is coming. if there is only high-tide in the life, we will get bored and high-tide is no more high-tide, if we don't know, what is low-tide.

at that moment, i was sad. i have been asking the whole time, why it happens to me. but now i must say, thanks god to challenge me, push me to be tougher. i think many people have similar experience.

it was a bad luck, a shit at that moment, but a luck in the end.

i think, i am really for more hardcore challenges ;D

閱| Read, E Experience

the best thing of travel is, you are more than what you are before the trip. just like these 2 books. they have been filled with my notes, tickets, maps, thing i collected during the trip, full of unforgettable memories.

someone has said "the purpose of our life is to create wonderful memories". YES, this is what we get, keep and save in our brain. sweet, bitter, funny...all of them belond to our trip of life.

人| human

the people, you meet , is the most interesting and exciting happening on the trip.They are from all over the world, have different background, doing different things, have different purpose, why they are there.

male, female, old or young, some of them are nice, some of them are totally an asshole, but they are all special, like you and me.

in budapest, i knew a lady, patricia (about 35-40? well, you know, it is not polite to ask such a question), she is from colombia, since 13 years lives in florida now. she is writing for a magazine of south america community. we both have a similar past: we left our home-country and live since a while in a different society.

their family decided to leave columbia because of her security. unfortunately, her father had to stay and take care about his mother, so their parents had to devorce intentionally at that time.her mother alone took 2 children and left. it was difficult for her at the beginning. she tried very hard to learn the laguage and to integrate into the american society.

after years of hard work, things have been turned positive. they put a lot effort to be a bridge between american and south-american. she is very active in the community. almost all her close friends are american. she made it.

BUT she can never go back now. she is no more a colombian, she is an american... i can deeply understand what kind of feeling is that. i am from taiwan, but since 5 years i live in germany. taiwan is still my root, my love. but it is hard for me to say "taiwan is my home".

i can't go back, and my family won't come. it is life.

Life is an unexpected trip and it is just a start.

dear my friends,

i wish u all have a nice begin of 2008!!!
firework on taipei 101!