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People always say 讀萬卷書不如行萬里路, so I'm literally going to put down my books and run 萬里的路! 加油!
People always say 讀萬卷書不如行萬里路, so I'm literally going to put down my books and run 萬里的路! 加油!
There's no need to buy those hello kitty toaster so that you can get hello kitty prints on your toast. =D
Now i feel old. This was like 8 years ago. Packing my room when i found my portfolio for my O'levels art.
Fashion design.
It's all about drawing stick thin ugly women wearing impossible dresses.
The one on the left was the rejected one. I just felt that it had dead fishes on it.
Anyway, I manage to keep a copy of the actual because i didn't have time or the skill to draw a scale up version for the portfolio. So i cheated and brought it to the printing shop to print a zoom out version. Hehe i wonder how many art student really drew a bigger version of it. And thinking back, how did i manage to draw all these. The sepak takraw prints at the bottom with the fishes look super kelong/kampong style.
I don't think i can draw this again. Hahaa what a waste, i should have taken a pic of the actual piece but i guess i was in too much of a rush to remember. And that face up there was really horrible, you'll be forced to look at the dress instead.
音樂不只是用耳朵聽,是用心去感受。
It's gonna be national day again. But i'm always not one of the randomly selected portion of the population who won tickets. It's as impossible as lottery. Hmpf can someone bring me along?
Going to Xi'an and loyang is like taking a live history lesson. Every place that you go to has some historical value and a story behind. Used to known as 長安, ancient capital of many dynasties in Chinese history. That explain all the stuff that they found underground. And there ain't selling A grade bags, the people there have more scholarly pursuits. Quite an interesting place.
They have tuktuks too! Just not as fanciful as the thais ones. And this modified tuktuk.
This is a place that really have LOTS and LOTS of stuff dug up from the ground. The terracotta army, chariots, tableware, figurines, people that accompany him in his death and every other thing that he uses. I wonder what was the Qin emperor thinking.
This is one of the very 1st chinese poem I've learn when i was small. Trying to make me finish all the food in my bowl. If kids don't care bout the rice, kids wun be bothered by a poem either. Haha
I need a compact camera!!
On average, I bring at least 2 cameras on a trip. (3, if you consider my iphone camera as a camera) Its getting heavy. Extra lens, filters, or underwater camera etc etc. Its like never going back, you can bring more but nothing less ;D
Who cares bout the great wall. One hasn't been to china if they've never visited shaolin! All the monks wear sports shoes here. =D So I'm left with 华山, 峨嵋山, 武当山 and whichever place that are mention in the chinese swordplay novels.
Kids, foreigners and locals travel all the way there to learn the 72 arts of shaolin. All are rather aggressive, if they have something like 易筋经 i don't mind learning. Its super cool to learn some kinda martial arts in shaolin!! If they are going to whack my head with a metal rod after i've gather my qi then i rather learn pilates back home. Hahaa maybe need some kinda martial arts background or experience.
The guide say many many years ago the shaolin monks were practicing the diamond finger (一指金剛法) when they left all these marks on the tree trunk.
China is a completely porkified nation, pork dumplings, pork noodle soup, and even lays potato chips has a finger licking braise pork flavor. The muslim quarters is the only place that goes porkless. They eat more of mutton. Not that it's any better for me. Maybe we are just not used to their flavors. Its either too salty, oily and in really big portions. And maybe its really near sichuan that the only chili they have is the ma la chilli. Numbing and tingly. Even their mac have a ma la burger. I miss my sambal.
This is their famous rose mirror cake, its rice cake with some jam and nuts on top. Not exactly very nice either.
The weather was so hot at this time of the year that even going to the museum seems like a really good idea.
You simply need a popsicle at a time like this. Old popsicle. I had 3 in the entire trip but i still couldn't tell what flavor was it. It taste like some chinese new year candy that i couldn't remember.
So i'm sick and stuck at home for the entire week. Down with some kinda mysterious illness. And why is baking becoming the most popular activity around?
But NO i didn't want to bake a cake or something i rather sleep.
I'm bored.
Arghh. I dread listening to all the chinese new year songs during this period of time. Its the same every year, and it doesn't help when the bus driver on my transport decided that they sound better than the usual happy birthday song on 97.2fm.
Enjoying my cuppa while doing nothing on this Chinese new year.
It national day! I've been there working for the past 3 years and i'm still feeling lethargic every morning before my coffee. Someone told me i will get so used to working life that i will wake up early even on weekends. Apparently it doesn't apply for everybody. Just last week, I woke up close to 7 in the evening without alarm clock.
I drew this on the whiteboard of microlab in celebration of the 7th month ghost festival and nearly got other people into trouble. Tsk tsk. But what's wrong with it? Isn't it cute?
The sky look different everyday. Busy urbanites should slow down and take note of the finer details of life.
My yearly Pilgrimage. It may not have the most beautiful beach but it's near enough, the people are nice, its cheap and i just like it.
A friend of mine said that this is a perfect place for people to retire in. Cool weather, close to home, grow some flowers in your yard, read a book in the ye olde English style architecture and furnishing. Hmmm its beautiful no doubt but its wet and eerie at night. I still prefer a seaside setting. Watching the waves and feeling the sea breeze on my face while reading my book lying on the warm sand. I guess that explains my pilgrimage.
Until i get it figure out, all my photos are like this.
Many years back, i bought a book from Kinokuniya. The land of green ghosts, A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe. I've got no idea what got me interested in the book then. But after reading, i knew i'll be there one day to see them in person. Everyone is discouraging, telling me its difficult to get there and all. It did took me quite a few years to gather my courage and all but finally. ;)
Jobless, living in a magical land of the unicorns in search for the green fairy, trying to remember huge amount of infomation twice a year, wish that 余文樂 will leave his girlfriend for me, quitted being a part in a drug-making syndicate but is in transition to become an even more oppressed petri-dish slave, want to see the aurora borealis, leo, doesn't like to eat muffins and loves travelling and honeystars.