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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…

BY TORI DANG 觀看山景是需要湊齊天時地利人和的。 兩年前曾一度錯過了一睹富士先生的風采，兩年後再次來到日本旅遊時必定事在必行！！ 由打聽日本友人有關山頂的積雪程度，再來每天搜查靜岡(Shizuoka)一帶的天氣報告，直到選擇臨近又較方便的禦殿場(Gotemba)。 當踏出JR的第一步，懷著向往已久的心情，奔向富士先生懷抱去！

BY HARVARD WANG The restaurant was dark. I looked at the menu, and thought it felt more like a work of cryptography. The chef just gave a speech. “I hope you will enjoy our journey tonight,” he concluded. The audience cheered and applauded. I think I saw one of them on TV the other night.…

BY TIMOTHY CHENG The trail to the hidden village of YuBeng is a 6 hour hike towards the valley of Meli Snow Mountain. There’s no map nor tour guide, there’s only the verbal direction from local villagers: “Follow the Electric Pole”. As suspicious as it sounded, it led me to the village inside a visualization of…