Stories in my Journey.
17: Love will guide the way
After the trip, I continue my lyrics writing, music refining and self-learning music production. Since I'm new in music industry, all started from scratch.
The process of music production is very tough for me. While I feel tired, I love playing my songs, feeling the theme of these songs. I found that these songs are independent, creating the experience of immersing in the forest. And at the same time, they are related; each one applies some of the melodies of my first song in sequence. Together, like a song cycle to tell the full journey of my exploration.
After switching between failing and trying lots of times, I released my first song and the following songs are in progress. I believe love will guide the way.
I wish I could keep learning and ideate the experience for us to feel our connection with animals and nature without time and location boundaries, together spreading love to create an inclusive world.
Aug 2025 - Present
16: My 4th Walk – Jeju Olle Trail
I walked on the pilgrim route – Jeju Olle Trail. This is a dual pilgrimage route with the Camino de Santiago. "Olle" means a narrow path that connects the house to the street. This pilgrimage route wishes to connect others with rural villages, coastlines, and forests. Each trails have different style, some trails have visual arts and writing to tell the stories behind Jeju.
I still remember I couldn't stop my tears after knowing an artwork on the trail are memorial the people who lost their lives in an incident. It guided me to go to their Peace Park to know more about their story. There has another artwork in the park, it's about reconciliation with love.
Art can connect people and evoke our empathy to feel with others. I can feel the sadness of people who are suffering in this incident and how they move forward to promote peace. This trip is very memorable.
Jul - Aug 2025
15: Animals are helping me to learn and grow
Nature is always with us, the downstairs of my home are living different kinds of birds, I love humming with them and observe their living style, this is one of my precious moments in nature. I found that they have their own characteristics and preference - Shy, active, enjoy sunbath, playing, sweet like couples and curious like an explorer.
There are lots of barriers in the process of bringing my music to live, while I feel exhausted, animals in nature often helping me to fill up my energy. One day, I met Pen Pen - A little bird that cannot fly, looks weak and sat on the street. After we knew that she's here for a few days, we decided pick her up first until she can fly.
Started from that moment, although we became caregivers again and disrupted our plan, our home suddenly became full of energy and love while take caring her. I'm very surprised on her brave and how she love people, even though she's very weak and suffering from pain, she's always happy and friendly, show her enjoyment when see us around, tries her best to wait and respond to us.
I found that she's a great companion animal, I put aside my worries and stayed with her. I feel so grateful to meet this little bird, her resilience to life and cherish the presence moment shows me the preciousness and the beauty of life. With her accompaniment, I added the new melody and refined the structure of my first song "Home of Life" to tell the most important message in this song and completed the third song "Dancing into the air".
Pen Pen leaves us 2 weeks later, she's now free from pain. After that, when I want to give up, I remind myself be resilient because I want to spread the love that I have learned from different lives during this period.
May 2025
14: Back to my piano for composing
Thank you for these experiences and all the participants. Based on the observation and feedback, I found that guiding the participates feeling our sound merging with nature can help us come back to our hearts to sense the nature around us.
Starting from immerse into forest and humming with nature, some melodies came out. I went back to my piano after so long to write down the melody and then I started relearning music theory and composing.
I am very surprised that I love writing and composing with nature so much! I often immerse into forest and compose my music with the piano during this period. While I am composing my first song, more melodies come out, I write down these melodies and try to compose more songs.
Mar - Dec 2025
13: Connect with nature through combined tools
While I adopted what I've learned to ideate an experience for participates, I am aware that apart from feeling the peace of nature, combining the tools from different criteria may help us enhance our connection with nature in the long term. Therefore, apart from forest bathing, I adopted the concept of awe moment, sound therapy, mindfulness, loving-kindness meditation guided with visualization imaginary and the wild animal cards to ideate this experience.
There are lots of reasons that may cause us cannot deep diving into the forest anytime. The animal cards are not only for us to feel the animals that we can’t see in the forest. I added a QR code to these cards because I wish to ideate an experience for participants to feel our connection with nature and animals without time and location boundaries.
Mar - Jun 2025
12: Started my writing about empathetic experience
While I was volunteering at different organisations, I learned that empathetic experience is very important for philanthropic sectors, especially for sustainability and some use experience skills can be adapted to support the initiatives.
Therefore, I review all the information that I collected during my visits to different types of events and adopted some skills from UX to write a series of articles about empathetic experience for sustainability initiatives. After my writing, I found that connect to nature is very top priority because it can help us enhance our empathy to love ourselves first, with resilience to keep passion burning and spread our love. Therefore, I try to collaborate with NGO and organise a forest bathing for community helpers to experience peace of nature.
Sep 2024 – Feb 2025
11: My 3rd Walk - Gratitude and greet my new beginning
Sometimes a break can guide us to live in the moment and then we can see things clearly.
I walked on the Camino de Santiago again in gratitude for all the experiences in this journey. The arrival date is the same as last year because I want to show my doggie how she has changed my life. I won't forget what she's inspired me and I will keep her love alive.
I greet my new beginning in a pilgrim mass because I believe I've found the most important message - Always remember my true passion.
Jul - Aug 2024
10: Walk for peace, Kumano Kodo - Another pilgrim route
I walked on another pilgrim route in Asia - Kumano Kodo. I planned this walk last year when I was in Santiago because this is a dual pilgrim route with the Camino de Santiago. Although they have relation, the walk experience is different. I am moved when I walk on the route, embraced by nature and read the stories behind each checkpoint. The stories are about connection with nature, and cherishing Mother Earth. I think I came at the right time because they are celebrating their 20th anniversary of the World Heritage registration and the theme is "World of Peace" - A wish for peace between humans and nature.
After completing the dual pilgrim route, I received some souvenirs, one of the souvenirs has a calligraphy "Time", representing the transition from the past to the present and into the future, which keeps flowing and changing. We have to cherish and live the current "Time" to move forward.
Jun 2024
09: Connect to the community
I decided to apply some volunteer work to experience what I've learned in the course. I went to a nursing home, secondary school, and farm to support the event organized by NGOs. I met some elderly, students and families, I had a chance to listen to their stories and talk to them. I love to see their smiling face, I cherish the time with them, and I am full of energy even after the event. I can validate the research result - true happiness. This experience recalled one of my memories in my career path again.
A long long time ago, I adopted Peanut Candy when she was 3.5 months old. In the past 17 years, she guided me to explore this world from a different angle. Later, I became a dog volunteer and inspired me to develop a start-up from 2016 to 2021 - Promote our interconnection between people, animals, and nature. Running a start-up is not easy for me, but I've learned a lot and met a lot of friends with the same beliefs from different organizations, schools, and media. I deeply enjoy the moment I can share my findings and beliefs with the public.
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Apr - May 2024
08: The true happiness
After completing the course about happiness by practical, I decided to further study another course about happiness by research & analysis. Lots of people may be aware that practicing mindfulness and gratitude can increase our happiness, self-love and minimize our stress. Furthermore, I am impressed by the research result of experience awe in nature and loving-kindness meditation. Apart from decrease our stress, the awe moment can enhance our human well-beings in long term and the meditation can help us enhance our empathy and the connection with others.
I was also impressed by the power of connecting to each other with love. This connection can release the natural hormone - Oxytocin. Due to COVID-19, our lifestyle has changed in the past few years. This is a meaningful finding, love is very powerful, and that is the root of happiness, just a simple connection, we can spread our love to all beings, I deeply believe that this is our true happiness.
Feb - May 2024
07: Learn from nature and be healed by nature
One of the wellness courses I've applied is the Forest Therapy Guide course. In the past, my doggie was my informal forest therapy guide, she was born in nature and loves nature, she shows me how she learns from nature.
Therefore, I applied to this course, in this half-year course, I learned to be a guide but at the same time, I had a chance to explore, learn from nature, and be healed by nature. I am grateful that I can benefit from nature - My therapist in my life.
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
06: Mindfulness is the key
When my doggie had a chronic disease in 2020, this was my first time to become a caregiver and face the death of a loved one when I grew up. I started to read the books written by Thich Nhat Hanh to practice mindfulness during that critical period, I experienced the calmness and cherish every moment with my doggie. Since then I have kept practicing mindfulness every day, it helps me to recover from suffering.
In October 2023, I joined a retreat from Plum Village to focus on practicing mindfulness. This is my first time joining a retreat and had a very unique experience. Therefore, I wrote an article to share my experience - Read the article (Chinese).
Oct 2023
05: I filled up my schedule by courses ... one after another
When I came back to Hong Kong, I didn't stop myself from exploring, I attended the psychology course about happiness by practical, to learn more about enduring happiness. I also attended different wellness courses in local and Taiwan.
I am grateful that I met some new friends in the courses and deeply understand that having enduring happiness is very simple, all of these simple things are always with us in our daily lives, we just need some methods and then practices to help us discover.
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023
04: Love without boundaries
I had a sad and unforgettable memory while I on the way home. When I greet a Camel in a big shelter, she tries her best to come to my side but she can't, her face looks sorrowful and helpless. And then I was shocked when I saw her legs were locked together by a thick chain. I'm not sure when can she walk freely… I imagine if she's my doggie, how sad she will be. In the past, I would not keep this heartbreak photo, but this time I asked myself to be brave and not delete this photo because I want to remind myself that love without boundaries, all life are deserved love and respect.
Aug 2023
03: Arrived the End of the World, restarting from 0.0km
The next day, I went to Finisterre (The End of the World) and Death Coast. Finisterre is the "final" destination of Camino de Santiago in the tradition. When I saw the sign of 0.0km, For me, it meant the end but also restarting my life. I smile and am grateful that I can be here.
A lot of friends asked why I took this walk, the reason is I got touched 3 times by reading the pilgrims' stories. For the third time, when I saw the sign of a 0.0km photo in a story, I was crying. So I decided to go and explore.
Aug 2023
02: Walked on the Camino de Santiago (The way of St. James)!
I traveled to a small town, called Sarria. I do not have religion, but I took a Camino walk, a 6 full-day walk to Santiago. I met some friends during the walk and with little yellow flowers along the road ("Little Flower" is my doggie's nickname, we usually use little yellow flowers as her symbol). When I arrived at the church and attended the pilgrim mass, I cried. I suddenly became aware that same date last year my doggie passed away.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. This journey was started after she passed away. The bracelet I wore during the walk represents her, in the past, she usually guide me to explore this world, but this time I want to bring "her" to explore the world. I took 2 months to plan this walk and finally, I did this.
Aug 2023
01: Study in Alicante and encounter an ancient family
I traveled alone to a little city in Spain, called Alicante to study sound healer. This is my first time to visit Europe. The study center is located very far away, but this is a stunning town surrounded by nature. I had a 2-week intensive full-day course, I lived in this center and made some friends. Although my living room does not have an air-conditioner in hot summer and cold drinks not available, this place have calming scenes, nice people, music and an ancient family - A centipede big family is also living here.
Why do I know this? Because I had found 2 huge centipede friends on my shoulder and under the pillow 2 days in a row when I am sleeping … I am freaked out and wake up from sleep. When I look back, I was surprised that I could be brave enough to face my fear and have endurance after leaving the home town. I miss this wonderful place and the people family concerts at night.
Jul 2023
