if i could, then i would

Talking to those who just came back from missions about their "village experience" made me think about Chiang Rai, made me ponder on my life, and made me wish i could just fly back there now.

These were all taken with a compact camera back when I was 15, imagine these with a DSLR, they'd be ohmygawd amazing.







That's me in a pink suit.

I want to walk down the dusty untamed roads of the mountains again, and feel the cool of the pure air, untainted. If I could, I may have chosen to be a villager and work in padi fields, awaiting for nothing but the seasons.

It's scary to think how much things have changed since then. In a span of 4 years, I almost no longer keep in contact with a single person I went to Chiang Rai with, I made new friends, fell in, out and back in love again, went back to church, rammed my way through JC, started earning my own allowance, and now I'm in NTU, awaiting the start of something amazing yet again.

I'm damn old.