my blog title

Have you ever wondered that even if you try your best to go against the grain, go against the stereotypes, yet the others put you right back? I guess that's where my blog name came from. There were rice paddies everywhere when I lived in Asia for 3 years and other foreigners always asked me about the rice and the rice paddies. I guess because I am Asian, somehow I know or should know everything about rice. Well...I grew up most of my life in suburb of Philly and no... no rice paddies near where I grew up. Even though I still don't know much about rice, I do want to be a maven (definition 2b) in others things - like how to travel light, how to blend in with the locals, etc. Traveling is one of my passion and photography is another...