Ameru's blog

Have you noticed before that your newsfeeds on your so-called social media like facebook and such were all filled with competitions? People just bragging about how important their lives are, each and every day, makes you sick inside. The peculiar thing is, you can't really cut loose from those media, since you're already ingested, intoxicated, and become addicted severely to them. On behalf of yourself you began to pay them back by bragging back 'bout yourself. At first you'd feel content, but after a while you tend to realize how rubbish you are, and how rubbish the people you know are. You started to questioning yourself, "what the hell am i doing here???" but still you lingered there. I dunno until when, but never felt this empty before. No one really cared, they don't even remembered your birthday anymore. I'm not putting mine on reminder this year, perhaps some people would actually still care. (yeah...) And, from time to time, I began to wonder ...

I once read on one of my transport studies literature that 'to travel' means 'to suffer'. That's why some of the experts on this field said that travel is a derived demand, you don't travel for the sake of the travel itself, which means it is something you do in order to get to another accomplishment at the end of the journey. Well, the statement is debatable (even until now they're still arguing about this), whether travel itself could be by its own sake or not. But as for sightseeing, maybe the nature of travel as a derived demand can be partly true and partly not. Since being a tourist means you enjoy every single journey you take, then you must say that it's obviously not derived. Nevertheless, there are still times when you feel lost between one spot to another, that you don't actually get why are you there. That's when the derived demand theory works. You can't simply said that you 'enjoyed' every single part of your journey. Th...