there are times when uncanny coincidences made me wonder.
have you felt uncanny coincidences before?
for example, me running into Jiajin at an amusement park in Australia several years back, of all places other than Singapore haha.
and more recently, the uncanny coincidence that I have been talking to two different people who are themselves connected in some way.

if only some geniuses out there could draw out a web of human interactions.
its intriguing.

I cycled around the Karst towers in Hanoi.  I passed by villages full of young children playing together. It was really back-to-basics.  Youths and children hang out and stare as us foreigners zoom pass them, trespassing their laidback childhood.  They stared.  So I called out "Hello!".  They were stunned for a brief moment, and repsonded back with a 'Ahlo' enthusiastically.  I thought, I would have liked to live with them in their humble huts and experience life with them.  I should have stopped and dismounted, taken a selfie with them.  Im sure some of them have never seen a smartphone before.  And then note down their addresses and mail the developed photo to them for safekeeping, or rather, as a memento...

I still feel guilty.  For having spent 5 dollars on a haagen daz icecream, yet unwilling to donate 50 cents or a dollar to buy drinks and fruits from the elderly hunched women.  We were afraid that they would scam us, tourists.  But it was a mere 50 cents in comparison to my extremely extravagant haagen daz icecream which I had for self-enjoyment.  I cannot forget this complexed feeling.