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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
For four days I was travelling with Vanessa and Bessie, two girls from Hong Kong. I met them when I took a trip to Snow Mountain nearby Lijiang. The trip was a total disaster for me - waking up early, being stuck with stupid Chinese tourists, wasting time waiting, then being forced to hurry up, hearing them shouting, etc. With the girls We travelled to the Lugu Lake and Shangrila. We quickly found out that even though we don’t have common backgrounds, culture, physical apperance (tiny people), but we share one thing - the level of craziness. So we had lots of fun, joking all the time about Chinese tourists (Checkie Chan clones - remember the famous scene from the Family Guy?), we disputed which is more important love or chicken (”chicken is very impotant” - repeated over and over with an Indian accent), I called them “tiny” (160 cms), they called me “giant”. My gosh, I had such a good time!
posted in bullshit, in english, photos, travel | country: china | trackback | 3 comments »
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
[2008-08-31 - 2008-09-01 - Kunming, China]
Dziwny jest ten chiński modern-komunizm. W tym kraju wszechobecnych podróbek w centrum miasta stoją kolorowe butiki: Armani, Louis Vuitton, itp., gdzie sprzedawców jest więcej niż klientów, gdzie parkingowych jest więcej niż miejsc do parkowania, gdzie ochroniarze noszą białe rękawiczki. Ale wsiadasz w jeden autobus, jedziesz do końca linii, wsiadasz w drugi autobus i już jesteś w innym szarym świecie. Szare drogi, budynki, ludzie. Na szczęscie kawałek dalej zaczyna się zieleń.
W parku dzieją się rzeczy zaiste magiczne. Ludzie przynoszą instrumenty, grają, śpiewają, tańczą z wahlarzami. Albo grupki tańczące wspólnie, starzy i młodzi, do muzyki puszczanej z magnetofonów, tańce bardziej wyrafinowane lub w wężyka.
- Is Poland a public country?
- Well… No, it used to be, but it’s not anymore.
posted in bullshit, in english, in polish, photos, travel | country: china | trackback | 4 comments »
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
[Koh Chang, Thailand]
Age: 85. Living alone in a house by the sea. He used to be a captain (got his title from the King). Smoked too many cigarettes in his life, so now he has breathing problems. He shared with me the best things he had - coconuts, fruits… In excachange I visited him again with two beers. Amazing person, amazing experience, amazing moments.
Live long, Captain!
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
[2008-08-15 - Mae Hong Son, Thailand]
Welcome to the University of Life.
Please take your seat
and fasten your seatbelts.
Please switch off your expectations.
You will not need them anymore.
The travel will take long
and it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
But you will like it.
So just relax.
And take it easy.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
[2008-08-12, Pai, Thailand]
There is this guy who came to Pai and stayed for six months. I asked him “how did you end up doing that?”. He said “well, I came here for a day, and then I decided to stay for another day, so I stayed for a week and then I decided to stay for another week. After a month I decided to stay for one more. So… that’s how it happened.” This laid-back, chilled-out atmosphere sucks in. At the first day you get to know some people, then you get to know more people, then you go out for breakfast to your favourite place and you know most of the people on a street, then you start to recognize dogs, then you start to know dogs by name… This is Pai. You want to leave, but you end up in a bar till early morning, and when your alarm clock goes off, you just think “well, I will go tomorrow, there is no rush, I can stay one more day here”. That’s Pai.
posted in bullshit, in english, travel | country: thailand | trackback | 2 comments »
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Nico - born in Kazakhstan, living in Germany for 5 years. Favourite music: techno/electro. Beliefs: good karma/bad karma. His way of living: music festivals animal. One of his dreams: to organize a music festival for 1.000.000 people.
One of my drivers during hitch-hiking from Poland to Frankfurt.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
June 30th is my last day at work. I have decided to take some time off (as much as needed) to rest, travel, make some pics… Do whatever I feel like doing. I have no fixed plan, no arrangements, no plane tickets, no route. “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there” - I will try to put these words into action. I hope to see again some of my old friends and make some new friends. I am planning to taste some new flavours and maybe get some suntan. I have no goal, like travel around the world or something. Whatever the future brings.
So… be ready, cause soon you might see me knocking at your door, willing to use your couch. 
See you around.
posted in bullshit, in english, travel | country: nowhere | trackback | 3 comments »
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
i want to be a ghost
taking the longest rides
jumping from one place to another
catching overnight flights
being a day-time illusion
in places that i don’t like
carrying with me in a suitcase
same thoughts same wonder-whys
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
What can I say? I can just smile and keep the confusing emotions inside me or I can go for another pointless war with this nonsense.
Knowing the direction is too much commitment for me. In new cities the question that confuses me most is “For how many nights, sir?”. How should I know? Will anything good happen to me here? “Three perhaps, maybe more.” Yeah, three sounds good.
So what should I say?
Good luck and goodbye. And maybe see you around.
Or not.
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
My photoreport on the Tomek Niewiadomski’s vernissage - “Nihon” in Galeria65 in Warsaw. Links: pl/en.
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