What Makes a Good Traveler?
The Neighbor With Luggage Being a good traveler is basically being a decent neighbor—just one who drags wheels instead of watering plants. Same rules apply: keep your noise down, pick…
Betrayal Is Not a Perception: Why Self-Help Books Gaslight You
The Self-Help Circus Let me set a scene. You know the inflight will be terrible, and you didn’t reload any entertainment for yourself… so you decide to buy a book.…
Half-Packed Thoughts: Don’t Saw Sawdust – The Best Advice I Ever Got
Grandma’s One-Liner “Don’t try to saw sawdust.”That was my grandmother’s mic drop. No lecture, no sugarcoating—just one image sharp enough to shut down my spirals. The Kitchen Scene She usually…
I don’t collect red flags
Let me set a scene. A café table, chipped at the edges. Coffee cooling faster than my patience. Across from me, someone’s running through their personal “red flag list” like…
The Beijing Bikini 北京比基尼
Let me set a scene. It’s August in Beijing and the city is cooking alive. The pavement shimmers like it’s made of molten glass, the buses cough out waves of…
Half-Packed Thoughts: Revenge Freeloading 游客的报复性白嫖
The Scene: Full Buses, Empty Cables It’s peak season in China and the parking lots are stacked with tour buses, engines ticking as they cool. But half the buses don’t…
Pretend Travel: The Weibo Trend That Roasted Travel Influencers
The last thing I searched?“Fake travel trend China.”Not because I wanted to roast it (yet), but because a Bilibili clip popped up of a girl “boarding” a plane with nothing…
What I Love About Where I Live (Hanoi Edition)
It’s 6:47 AM and the city’s already sweating. The woman downstairs is chopping lemongrass like it owes her money. A rooster screams from somewhere that definitely isn’t a farm. My…