Patience a Traveller’s Best Companion: Backpacking Alone in the ‘70S to Southern Asia and Europe

By James Hong

James Hong is the author of
Backpacking Alone in the ’70s
to Southern Asia and Europe

He was
Wing Chun Martial Arts Association of Singapore
President 1991 to 1993

Rotary Club of Singapore South
President 2002 to 2003 and 2009 to 2010

The 2nd World Kuoshu All Style Martial Arts
Championship Tournament 2006
Head of Prize Presentation / Publisher

Confucius Descendants Association of Singapore
Honorary President 2015 to 2018
Honorary Treasurer 2018 to 2020

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Jun 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543765465

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Dedication

To The Museums, Parks, Historian,

Sights of Antiquities,

Throughout The World.

Such Institutions had Preserved

not Merely Artifacts, but

Evidence of Human Idealism,

Culturals, Arts Background,

Civilization, Education, Traditions.

They Provide a Continuity of Develop,

Encourage, Foster, Further

Improvement and Pursue.

孔 憲 仁

J. H. Y. J.

Acknowledgement

I am greatly Indebted and Express

my Appreciation

of the Proofreading and Editing,

Adapt, Alter, Assemble, Compile,

Prepare, Censor, Cut, Amend, Rearrange,

Rephrase, Revise, Rewrite, Select and Shorten the Articles.

I am grateful for helping out this book to

whoever helps me, but unfortunately no one except myself.

孔 憲 仁

James Hong

September 2020

Patience

Patience A Traveller’s Best Companion is not just a means to an end but an experience in itself. Most peoples travel moan about the hasssle of baggage clearance, customs, flight delays, a book to read, and so on. I prefer to minimization the baggage.

For any traveller, patience is the most essential and comfortable clothing, light luggage, and toiletries and never forget to bring your own face towel and do not rely on the hostel. If there is nobody interesting to talk to, you don’t feel you have wasted your time. When I was in the domestic flights in China, apart from the fact that we had land, to refuel almost every three to four hours and that the little turbo-propeller plane was not properly pressurized with painful consequences for my head, ears, and nose.

Hey! look where are you going...

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I was struck with deep misgiving when the rosy-cheeked, ponytail, mao-suited air hostess stooped up not to do the usual safety drill with us, but to read us a few of Chairman Mao’s quotes. Somehow I felt that Mao’s theory of contradiction might not enough to hang on to bale out this crash. An element of doubt of flying with a Muslim airline, when the standard announcement, but the flight attendant said, arrival at Lahore 6.00pm Inshallah (if God willing), it sounds funny.

I had my patience, last of my travel is England, custom officer stamp on my passport and walk away, then return and draw a cross on the stamp, so hard that penetrate through the page, I got no chance to ask why, while the other officer shook his head. I think he mistook that he thinks that I slap the girl’s buttock.

I was detained with a young Austrian girl at the detention center for a night. The next morning deportation back to France which cost 50.59 guilders. They ask me to paid and I told them it is not my fault, of course, I definitely