Way to new journey

    I have made a very tough decision since beginning of this year. I decided to leave my parent to start my journey alone to place that I have never been before. It really need a lot of courage for me to make this decision because I am just a girl who hardly have any travel experience. But a sound amidst me, keep yelling at me. "I need to find the meaning of my life", I need to keep on moving to find something that fill my emptiness.

    I am a girl that like to stay at home, and do not like to go to crowded place and I am not outgoing at all. I would prefer to stay at home reading, play piano and surf net. Stay at home make me feel secure and safe. At the same time, I have complex character. I can be very extreme some time. I want myself to be tougher, able to stand under various circumstances and pressure. I am eager for success. However, I understand that success never come so easily. If you want success, you have to strive for it. Currently, I am too naive and I am too used to stay in my comfort zone. I know that if I do not step out of my comfort zone, I will forever stay at the same place and I will have no chance to learn to be independent. Only if we face difficulties, we grow stronger.

   My friends asked me to go with them on a working holiday to New Zealand. I did not go with them because if I follow them, I may not be able to meet my target, to be independent. I want to test my own ability, though it is a bit risky. I am quite blur, and it is dangerous for me travel alone. But to train myself under extreme circumstances, I have to gamble with my fate. Although the world outside is not as scary as I think. I am over exaggerate on backpacking alone.

   There are few reasons I did not follow them , the other reason is I lack of money. I need to pay my car loan, ptptn and raise a travel fund which my car loan will end next year May, need to settle this before I depart (^.^). And Australian work and holiday visa seems is much more harder to get, so I decided to go to Australia(Oz) first before I apply for New Zealand(NZ) working holiday. NZ working holiday can be applied through online so I can just apply online at Oz. Apply for the tougher first before go for the easier one.

   I was so lucky to get the visa which many peoples who queue up on application day did not manage to get it.  It really need a lot of hard work before apply for the visa and I am happy that my hard work paid off. Oz work and holiday only open for 100 peoples each year, which is very limited. This year the earliest people started to queue around 9pm a day before Oz high commission open for this visa application and the last peoples who managed to get the visa queue at around 3.40am. Which is few hours earlier compare to last year. This means for next year's application it will be much more tougher. You better queue around midnight. For those who plan to apply for next year's work and holiday visa, you really have to be well prepared.

  Back to my personal problem, because I will be traveling alone so I need more time to make sure everything is perfect. So I obtained my visa at July, I bought the ticket for next year April. At the same time, I will use this time to do research on what I should bring, types of backpack, shoes, clothes, need to work so that I have money to buy those that are essential (includes monitor currency rate) to my journey.

  Anyway, I have to step out my first step and now I am started to prepare for my journey. Can't wait to fly to my first destination. Wish myself good luck. :P