..my battle stance..

I have been wanting to have a trip, a break.. to somewhere that is culturally different from my normal setting (Singapore / Indonesia). Could have gone to Bangalore as well as Shanghai as there was work related event there. but for one reason or another, I could not make it. So it was a pleasant surprise that last week, my biz partner suddenly told our team that there will be event in HK in which we are invited. Somehow the timing works, and I thought.. yeah, let's go. So we went. The event was co-hosted by monetary authority of HK. I have never been invited to Singapore's one all my life. So it was kinda funny that I found myself on the 56th floor of their HK counterpart office with this crazy view. And all those important people from some of the biggest banks there, investors, and start up founders. Well.. how mysterious. the way God works. I never fancied HK. and I still prefer waking up every day to sweet Taiwanese accent rather than rude Cantonese scol

I love Autumn a lot more than any other season. Which is strange. Because I have never experienced this season. But I just 'knew' it.. or so I believe. So it feels kinda surreal when I decided to book 3 nights stay at an airbnb place in Kyoto. My first time booking airbnb btw. My first autumn, my first solo trip. To the country I love the most. I wonder if they are still my element. We'll see. Yeah.. November in Kyoto. The peak of the falling leaves. I have never heard of friends who spend 3 nights in Kyoto. Which is good. I just have this weird urge to take a slightly different path. Sometimes that path leads to wonderful discovery such as Mealtop at Seoul, sometimes it leads to.. I dunno.. this solo trip? ^___^ or TLG bible camp this year. as 'obvious' as it seems to you, I must say that I have no real reason to join. Just because. Somehow. Now back to this Japan trip.. Every time people ask me.. "whom are you traveling with?" I ki