Thailand It That Way... Again.

As my Singapore Airlines flight descended towards Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi (pronounced as Soowanapoom) Airport, I was excited. Excited was an understatement, to be fair. Seated in the aisle part of the premium economy of the Airbus A350-900, I couldn’t see any landmarks from the window. My only guide was the flight information map from my inflight entertainment system. I was entertained, apart from finishing an entire movie of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Great movie, by the way. It took our flight forever to taxi towards our assigned gate. Bangkok’s international airport is one of the largest in Southeast Asia. 

A Talk for Atok

This trip was a spontaneous one. My friends had already booked their flights and tour at Atok, Benguet, a week before this trip. It has been ten years since I visited Baguio. From NAIA 3, we went straight to PITX, the Paranaque Integrated Terminal Exchange. It’s a centralized bus terminal with numerous bus networks from Manila to any point within Luzon. We took the first class bus to Baguio City. It has a reclining chair, an entertainment system, and a lavatory. We left PITX at around 10 PM and arrived at Baguio at around two in the morning.

As we meandered around the street, we got lost while looking for our hostel but eventually found our way after several minutes.

The following morning, we had a hearty breakfast at Good Taste, Baguio’s famous family restaurant. The food was delicious and very affordable! The van terminal to Atok was just right across from the restaurant. Honestly, I don’t know what’s in store for us, but I guess we’re off to an exciting part.

We Grow

The more I learn, the less I know. Through every high and every low, I grow.

That song, Grow, hits hard. It's a shame that the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 got canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. That song could've been an easy top-ten finish.

The Sky Is Full Of Stars

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The blue sky fades as day turns to night, revealing the night sky. The stars light up the sky like snowflakes on a cloudless and moonless night. It never occurred to me how big our universe is until I had basic knowledge about astronomy. For instance, the fastest speed in the universe is light, traveling up to 300,000 kilometers per second. From our perspective, that's really fast. A trip to the moon would take at least a second. A trip to the sun takes more than eight minutes. But a trip to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, takes four years, and a journey to the nearest galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy, takes at least two million years. The light we see from the stars was emitted at least tens of thousands or even millions of years ago. Ten thousand years ago, no human civilizations or even settlements were founded in any part of the world. Two million years ago, the first humans emerged in Africa.

Some people tend to doubt and mock us whenever we dream big; it will never happen. But, the stars constantly remind us that they shine and glisten under the night sky, even if it takes their light to reach us for a long time.