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12/10/14

How I Should Have Traveled in Asia


「2013年5月起我開始旅行看亞洲的社區。我事後越想旅行的方式越想出不同的旅行的方法來」
Starting from May 2013 I moved constantly for months within the communities of Asia. The more I look back at it, the more the number of things I come up with which I should have done differently.

「那時我應該有做個小的自己計畫 -採訪人,查問東南亞洲的販賣人口,發現各種個的人類被那種事刺激到。我不知道為什麼我沒有做此事。我向隨意性投降,於是我捨不得做不舒服的事情。」
I should have had a side project - interviewing people, inquiring into human trafficking in South East Asia, surveying stimulants of emotions in people across various lands or something similar. I don't know why I never did any of the above. I surrendered myself to prevailing spontaneity but it only led to an increased reluctance to embrace discomfort.

「還好我沒有當志工。亞洲的大部分志工機會就是第一世界人的炫耀冒險。」
I am happy I didn't get into any volunteering project. Most volunteering projects in Asia are merely an extended leg of a first world citizen's swashbuckling summer adventure.

「旅行時我的雙極個性一陣一陣別管地害我沮喪。我本來以為這件事的理由是我的不滿足的在新加坡的工作可是其實是我的基因讓我的內啡肽程度上下。」
Throughout the travel, zaps of bipolar sulkiness kept rattling me no matter what I did. I thought it was an upshot of a highly dissatisfactory way of life in Singapore but it was actually some stupid gene in my cells messing with my endorphins needlessly.

「我很愉快我每逢有機會我去跑。」
I am happy that I ran whenever I could.

「我越探險越意識到我的限度。我的目光應該多客觀一點。我的主觀性沒有經驗而且我的主觀有時非生產性。」
The more I opened up, the more I realized my limitations. I should have been more objective in my approach. My subjectivity is mostly inexperienced and works unproductively.

「我花了太多時間觀光。對我重要的事是人類,當地(藝術)社團還有鄉下。宮殿跟博物館難得吸引我。」
I wasted a lot of time on sight-seeing. Things that matter to me while traveling are people, local (art) communities and countryside. Historical palaces and museums rarely attract me.

「我不喜歡懶惰。我開始覺得不快樂。」
I can't sit idle. I start feeling huffish.

「我應該有比較長的爬山探險。」
I should have gone on longer hiking trips in the mountains.

「再有一年不用工作的機會的話,我會做:
1)學泰拳或是一年住在偏僻的少林寺
2)做紀錄片
3)學在個體經濟裡最窮人的角色
4)社會裡兩段接口的工作「我怕這個句子很奇怪」(在另外一篇文章我要描述這件事)
5)假如各校藝術社團
6)練習跑酷」
Things I will do if I get another chance to take a year-long break:
1) Learn Muay Thai for a year/ spend a year in Shaolin temple in a remote hilltown in China
2) Make a documentary
3) Learn about the role of economically poorest sections in microeconomic theory
4) Do a job that interfaces two different sections of society (more on this in a separate post)
5) Join a small art performance group
6) Learn Parkour

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