Not every blog needS a name: Cam-Viet Tour 柬越游记

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Welcome to my virtual home. This is a little private space for me to put my thoughts and share my feelings since 2005. Due to my wide range of interests, there are perhaps too many tags. I would explain some of the less obvious tags:

"About Life" is really about how I have been pondering about life and what enlightenments and paradigm shifts I had experienced.

"About Psi" contains most topics about happiness, optimism vs pessimism,
confidence, comparison, pride and prejudice and other psychological aspects.

"About Logical Thinking" is about my own way of interpretating and explaining
certain issues, aiming to debunk (or create?) superficialness of them.

"About Ideology" is about my thoughts on big concepts like freedom, justice,
fairness in society and religion.

"About Society" is more about my observations about the society, often through interactions with different peoples.

"My Country" reveals my frustration, critics and hope
on my homeland - Malaysia.

"My Little Pieces" has more short posts though mostly are written in Mandarin.

While I do have some posts on book reviews and business, I am planning to
separate them into author-specific and content-specific blogs. Stay tuned.

Enjoy your reading!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Cam-Viet Tour 柬越游记

(Newly updated: 02-07-2008)

人一生能有几次长达十八天的背包旅行？对工作假期多得是的西方人来说，这问题是不可思议的，但对我们而言，能有几次已经很满足了。我很有幸能在毕业之后和三位志同道合的朋友去柬越玩了十八天，这一段旅程必将成为我们以后美好的回忆，但回忆若没有被整理、重塑和升华，就只会是凌乱的碎片。

How many times can you afford to spend 18 days for backpacking? This question to westerners whom have long working holidays seems redundant, but for most of us, to have few times of it will be satisfactory. I am glad that I had experienced once at least as my graduation trip with three other friends of similar interests. That will stay in our memory forever, but memory will be meaningless without organizing and reshaping.

我想将所见所闻所感所想写成一篇游记，不仅仅是像流水账这样的记录，而是希望和大家分享经验，通过我们的眼睛看到我们所看到的，通过我们的感觉感受到我们感受到的，通过我们的喜怒哀乐去想象和体验，仿佛如亲身经历一般。我也想以此测试我的双语写作能力，但知易行难，语言功力有限，希望辞能达意。

I am not satisfied just to record things plainly but I want to put down what I've seen and felt nicely in a comprehensive journey, to share with friends our experiences, to see through our eyes what we've seen, to feel what we've felt, to imagine and experience as if it was their journey. This will also test my ability in writing bilingually and I hope I do it clearly.

也因此，要完成这事需要一段很长的时间，或许是一两个月，也或许是更长。以下的每一项题目都将是一篇独立的文章，等我写好了我就会链接起来。没耐心的朋友，可要吃亏了哦。哈哈。

And hence, it may take quite a while for me to finish this, maybe one to two months or even longer. When I finish each separate article, I will link it with this post. So please be patient and stay tuned ya, my friends. ^^