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Monday, February 28, 2005

Reflections

Hmmm Korea is really a very fun place. I mean from my pics u guys would have known that yah i had fun. In fact till today, there has not been a single day whereby i have not gone out to look at the various sights available. but hey, its not all fun and such even though yah it was fun. but it was more then that. I left Singapore to look for something and I found it here. A new challenge, a new expreience and a new chance to renew myself and change my mindset.

It wasn't that I was stagnanting or anything like that in singapore. I wasn't. But i still felt a bit of the wanderlust that keep calling me out. Haven u ever seen a mountain before and had the urge to go over to the other side just so you could see whats there? It was probably something like that sort of feeling. I wanted to come here, because its here i suppose. because it is. Living in another place is challenging. It is totally unlike touring a place. On a tour you don't get the feel of the land. You never can. Its like looking at someone, but yet never perceiving, never understanding. Metephorically speaking, I would say that the land is like a person, it is alive, abundant with passion, full of potential, it breathes it calls it speaks to you. The ground is its history and the very air you breathe smells of it. hmmmmm or was it the pollution...... but it is challenging.

It is here that I realise how limited a person can be. I mean, hey we speak english which maybe much of the world speaks, relatively speaking but hey. So what? If you speak only english then its pretty sad, cause u will never be able to break out and see so much of the world out there. Sure the states is great, I love the commonwealth nations and Australia is still the land of the brave and the free (occasionally a few political prisoners as well), but hey are you sure u don't want more then this? are you sure you really want to stay in this homogenous society. I mean hey dun kid ourselves. it is homogenous, underlying all the surface stuff. One of the best things i will be forever thankful is being able to speak mandrian. i mean i'm not all that pro at it but i'm adequate. to those who do not like mandrian, u have no idea what u are missing. Long before the british and other european countries came, it was china who was the greatest power on the face of the earth. and if u know mandrian really well, it opens another part of the world. Preachy...... i know.

Language it seems is the key. In "the last lesson" (its a famous french work if you haven read it then go get one) the teacher reminds the children to never forget their language for if they do, the people will be gone. language will unlock cultures, countries borders and your world will expand more and more. and you will realise that hey, cliche but Life Is Beautiful......

I'm determined to learn korean here. Its a beautiful place.

Snowfall, Trees, Flowers, Mountains in the distance
Broad Skys, Streams, Rivers, Lakes within the mountains.

What brings me here?
I am here. Because it is here.

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