I’ve written about this before but allow me to once again wax about something I seriously want to venture into.
It’s called Project: Orinoco.
Basically, I want to visit all the places Enya mentioned in her song, Orinoco Flow. I’ve done my (Internet) research and as far as I could dig, no one’s done this before, so that makes it a little more exciting for me.
Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia
This is sort of a continuation of Minor Detail #1. But first, allow me to embarrass myself by admitting that…
I love Enya.
Very much so that yesterday, my Last.Fm chart looked like this:
How this relates to travel I will get to in a while. But first, Enya (real name=Eithne, pronounced Enya). I learned about her in late 1997, when she released Paint the Sky with Stars. I was fascinated by this ethereal new age artist and her music video Only If. I thought it was refreshing to see someone like her on MTV, which was then dominated by 90s pop artists like Hanson, The Backstreet Boys, The Spice Girls, etc.
Wanderlusting, academic woes, trivial pursuits, ruminations, creative forays, absurdity, feast & famine, acquisitive tendencies, Kodak moments, complexes & disorders, whatever it fakes.
Welcome to my beautiful dumpsite!
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Aldo teaches and studies at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
