Well, me myself would like to forward a due apology for my long hiatus. My life has never been a quiet one. A roller coaster ride simply failed to describe precisely what had happened to me. However, the most important thing is, i am still surviving and rocking. Last month i guess, some of us might had been stirred by a topic in Budu's column. I am not excluded. A topic of something about oversea student bla bla bla. However, thats not important on what i want to say here. I confronted Ed on that topic and told him I wanted to comment on something.. but my fingers simply can't type what my mind was thinking. And i do remember Ed told me just to let it out. Nonetheless, I guess that applied to everyone of us as well.
So, after all the blabbering.. I shall start on something really. During Ramadhan, at one of the berbuka puasa gathering here, I had been approached by this one fella. Talkative, friendly and tried to start a conversation he was. And he carelessly pop up a topic about Kelana Convoy (he was wearing a K.C t shirt with his name printed on it and asked me to find it..wierdo). So the conversation turn out to be quite interesting one. More or less he asked me about where have i been touring since i step my foot in UK. Not much really, most part of the UK and Scotland, Amsterdam twice and Italy twice and thats about it. This guy started saying i'm missing something and offering me the idea of joining K.C trip to actually see Europe. The big question is, do I really missing something??
For most of us, the chances of studying oversea is something really spectacular. Don't mind the quality of the degree been offered, but the experience is such an overwhelm one. And travelling across Europe is part of the package not mention in the initial offer. It is like killing the whole generation of birds with one stone. However, each part and parcel came with how we show our appreciation on it including the travelling. Some might say they have been to so many places and some might ended up here and there. No disrespect to people who actually joined the K.C thingy. For me, it just a waste of time, energy and money. And you can't really say you appreciated each destination you have been in a short while.
Travelling should be something sacred or more like a short pilgrimage for us in order to enlighten our life. It doesn't matter where do you go, what is your mission or who you go with. It should be more like what are you going to do while you are there and how it will affected your life. My perfect vacation will be something like not too short or too long time limits, maybe couple of places nearby and just right with my budget. Simply said I want to have the space and time where i can breath their airs, step on their lands, learn their story, listen to their music, share their burden, know their politics, maybe speak a bit of their lingo,read their papers, eat their food, drink their beer, taste their wine, fuck their women, or get high on their tooka. Doesn't meant it literally though but i guess you got what i meant.
And again, probably it is fair for me to say, the choices is up to you. Wether you prefer to go to some places like a bunch of idiots wearing the same clothes, in a huge group, and everyone having their own camera and taking the same pose all over again or to be an avid enthusiastic traveller.
