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BY EVA CLIFFORD As I drove out one morning down the empty highway in Bagan, dawn light rousing the colours of the plains and the pagodas cold-looking against the sky, I suddenly noticed a small girl on the roadside waving at me like I was a long-lost friend. When I stopped my bike, she greeted me…

BY NELSON NG We had been walking along the streets of Tainan cluelessly that night, unsure of where to spend New Year’s Eve. We had just arrived from Alishan and didn’t know a thing about the city. After about an hour’s walk we realized our decision to go to Anping by foot was a wrong…

BY SUSAN LIU All I saw were stairs. Stairs in front of me. Stairs behind. Stairs to be conquered – there was nowhere else to go. Grumbling, I continued the climb. I’d been excited to finally climb Yellow Mountain, excited to see the subject of oh-so-many ancient Chinese poems and paintings. But at this moment, all…

BY LINLIN SHAN I often see faces in things, the staring as a type of unwanted attention, yet secretly attracted to. They make solitude charming at times.

BY KEEN LOW We made this unplanned trip for our honeymoon…flying halfway across the globe to Brazil with no prior planning. Everything we did on this trip was something we had done for the first time – we were foreigners in a new land, driving on the other side of the road, communicating with locals…