Return to Formosa
Right on time, at exactly 8:09 am, the familiar tone of the garbage truck's Beethoven's Für Elise blares full blast in the street below my bedroom window. As the sound echoes and amplifies back and forth between the buildings of the alley, I am jarred from my sleep and instantly reminded of where I am. I am home. Well..... in Taiwan anyway.
It is definitely a weird feeling, returning back to Taiwan and feeling like i am back 'home' after 3 weeks in Malaysia. The last 3 weeks seem like a blur, yet also an eternity at the same time. Back in Taiwan i feel like I am back in a familiar place, yet lost all over again.
The winds of change are in the air, and things are going to be a lot different in the coming year. I can feel it and I'm not quite sure what to expect.
I apologize for my laziness and the fact that I didn't write anything my entire time in Malaysia. I'm beginning to feel that I've lost my motivation to share my travel stories with the masses. I had a great time, saw a lot of cool stuff, met some really special people, but it becomes different to continually glamorize everything in a way that makes it interesting for everyone to read. For the most part, the best of the memories are in my head and of no interest to most people, and the rest can easily be summed up as follows:
Flew to Singapore with Amanda and Elaine, met up with Lenny, did some sightseeing, Hit up the town and got smashed, and then left for Malaysia. In Malaysia, visited Ming, Horng, and Yuyu in their home town of Muar. Met all their families and got a locals perspective and tour of the area. Then left with a growing gang of friends from Taiwan, Friends from Canada, and friends of Friends for Redang island in the north (some funny stories there, perhaps that will inspire me to write more about later) . After Redang, split from the crew, went into the jungle. Came out of the jungle and went to visit a recently acquired friend in Kuala Lumpur. Had an amazing weekend trip up to Kuala Sengalor that got the gossip birds chirping and which I'm not going to write about. Then left for Some amazing Diving on Tioman Island, before heading back to Singapore and getting wasted again with Lenny for his birthday. It all goes full circle. Flew home the next day and I begin work again on Wednesday.
That's the extreme Coles Notes version and about all I feel like writing about. If people read this and want to know more, then let me know the demand for more 'Ryan stories' is out there and maybe I'll take the time to write more.
If not, stay tuned in the coming weeks for photos, they tell a pretty good stories themselves.
