As many of the frequent readers of this blog may have not known (since I haven't blogged it here), I joined a backpacking adventure last year free of charge. It was a competition hosted by Cebu Pacific. Together with my team, we traveled around Philippines for 7 days all for free! This year, the same backpacking challenge is back for an even more exciting twist. They're having an international destination in their itinerary! Watch the video to know the mechanics! :)

I may haven't been updating this part of mine here. But surely, I'm making every moment count.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln

Stories to inspire the world to follow in episodes. Credits to Jesus for the great year so far!

What a shame! I'm a lazy writer haha. No, I'm not a writer. Just. This. Just. Me. Haha. Lazy.
Not yet done with the Thailand posts huh, but here is a video of how all my friends spoiled me in South Korea. Wasn't really able to capture video clips of all the places I've been to but here's a glimpse of what and how the Land of the Morning Calm brought me in awe in the name of food and culture. Beyond the KPOP we all know. The first place off my home country that made me cry :) Char!

Before I left my heart in Bangkok, I had to go through some hits and misses during my first lone flight abroad which included begging from the Malaysian police after reckless accidental monetary loss, and taking fright on a missed flight. Prior to all those casualties, I already had a doze of obstacles before I finally got my very first passport stamp for the year. Bouts of diarrhea and a typhoid-like high fever almost held me back to lose every plane ticket I had booked and melt away all the imaginations I had fancied a couple of sleeps before this much awaited trip even commenced.

Then 10 days of getting lost, meeting aliens, talking in gibberish, and eating as much as I could rolled by. As my trip was about to end at the river bank of Chao Phraya, I reminisced all the crazy and the un-crazy stuff that made me reevaluate how much I have learned of myself on traveling alone. Things had been bitter at some points summoning all the fun I had to keep from this trip and uncovering the fact that the realities about my inner self bite the worst.

11 Days in 137 Seconds: Engage: Thailand + Malaysia.

A rundown of the things I saw, the places I visited, the food I ate, the people I met, the cultures I blended in with, the languages I tried to speak, the lessons I've learned, and the great memories for keepsake. Life is great! There's a lot of the world to know. Engaging one nation at a time. Keep travelling. Keep learning. :)

I've learned a lot of things about travelling and culture and people and the essence of life. Everything that happened the past 11 days has overwhelmed me so much that I have thought of some things into more depth, of things I had never considered about before, and of what there is to life and what the world has to offer. I feel like I have now become more eager to want to stretch my limits and not think much of what I'm not capable to do but focus more on the resources and potential to go across cultures and learn, and eventually make a difference in this world I have to live just once. The possibilities are endless.

Stories to follow later.

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I was always afraid to try out a travel blog. I had planned this last January, and was always hesitant to publish it or not. But it's now open. And I'm thankful to my friends who continually encourage me to go on with it as they enjoy watching me goofing around and acting stupid, haha. And to God for giving me funds for the [dot] ORG. My new blog is still young and the spaces aren't that filled yet. I'm still trying to gain traffic, since I'm planning and praying to make it bigger and wider in scope later. More content updates will follow soon. :) Mission, vision, reasons, purposes, motives, all posted in the website. :)