Struggling through traffic that evening in Manila at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage in the Himalayas.

• 一天的大部分时光都局促于室内，让人疲惫不堪，夜晚时分，驾车行驶在马尼拉交通拥堵的路上，我想：不久以后，我要住在喜马拉雅山的一座小村舍里。