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Am I ready ?

Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow. - A novel of Rumi, Forty rules of love, Elif Shafak Am I ready to let things go and start a new life on my own in a new place with a group of new people. I know I will and I can as long as I want it to be. Like how people always said where there’s a will, there’s a way. Yet, why do I feel like it's strenuous to even make a single move this time around?  I was trying hard to find thousand of reasons to move on.  This feelings somehow felt so familiar. It was the similar feeling when I have to force myself to move on from being too attached to my high school good friends to start a new life in a university. Miraculously, I did it. Perhaps, now I’m overly attached to those good buddies and best friend that ...

Hanoi: A journey of choice

  January 12 th  2019, I came to Hanoi, Vietnam to spend my 5 days holiday there. I booked my flight ticket with Air Asia during the year end sale that they held in 2018. My cousin and I didn’t take a lot of time to finally decide to go to Hanoi. We actually took about half an hour before we decided to say, Yes! To Hanoi we go! We were excited since it’s our first trip together. Like finallyyyy, as she was so busy with her work. However, when I was planning for our trip, I saw least blog that wrote about Hanoi, Sa Pa and Ha Long Bay. I get tiny amount of information by reading online. Worst of all, I get the eerie feeling of going to Hanoi since I read and heard a lot about scams, black magic, taxi drivers threatening tourist, double or even triple charges by vendors to tourist and the list goes on. Reading those horrible comments and experiences made me considering again whether we should go or just forget about the trip. Deciding to go on a trip like this with a tour ...