Sometimes my chinese sucks. Shouldn't speed read when you're not too good at it.
Savory pies are just so much nicer. Like the tuna and corn pie in Thailand.
蘿蔔派？
At the sight of the word 蘿 I assume it's carrot pie and rush in to buy. I only realize when i got back to the hotel. Even the words 我就喜歡 seems to come with a mocking laugh. It's really just pineapple from some pineapple tart but in a pie.
So it's really Qian qing gong. No wonder the group of chinese tourists who's standing too near to me turn and look at me when i happily announce that we are at "gan" qing gong. 明明就是葡萄乾的乾。
I was reading a chinese guidebook that i bought at the ticketing counter. I could have bought the english version, but you will never know which is the Palace of Heavenly Purity. 乾 乾 乾 乾 乾
From 6 strings to 4 strings to 21 strings. Abit too much. Its like playing 3 guitars or 5 ukuleles at one go.
Although I started learning because one day I would paint my 古琴 black with neon pink phoenix and maybe appear on Jay Chou concert. Hahaa I would have continued if I knew I had this much time. Now all i can play is what 花菲花.
因為古琴能彈奏出高山和大海的聲音。
From quite sometime back, little to say, everybody love Bangkok.
From a thousand years ago, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
The very famous Angkor wat. The iconic 3 maize on the building. Build by a succession of kings, the whole place is very much Hindu. Might be very much better if I had read some Cambodia history beforehand if not they are pretty much just ruins and some cravings. I had watch Tomb raider but too lazy to read about history.
The main sites have undergo restoration but the rest are pretty much in shambles. There are wooden poles here and there for support and sometimes I feel that I could be buried in rubble anytime.
Definitely worth a visit but once is enough. After visiting the main sites, the rest looks almost alike, long flight of stairs and nothing up there. Siem Reap is like just like Thailand with lots and lots of tourist. Khmer cuisine is almost the same as thai as well. Even their nightmarket sells all the stuff that you can get in thai. I like Amok, some kinda khmer curry dish. Food choices in abundance and beer for 1usd. It's a great place to spend some time.
Apsara dance which is the Khmer traditional dance. Maybe music and dances in the entire region share some similarity. Thai, Burmese, Javanese and Khmer all seems quite alike but with slight variations. Twisting their hands to the music, wearing sharp pointy crowns and dances with a vivid storyline involving a bird or a beast.
Angkor wat. Waking up at 4am to get there to watch this "on-every-single-postcard" sunrise over the Angkor wat. Just to see hundreds of people in the dark armed with their dslr and tripods aiming at the same direction.
Can one really tell the difference between a sunrise and a sunset? Just watch the sunset la.
Ta Prohm. Where Angelina Jolie was there to search for I-can't-remember-what and fight off some guardian statue. They are doing some restoration work because the whole place look like it might collapse anytime. The trees growing out of the ruins makes the place look "untouched" but it seems like it's destroying the structure as well.
If there isn't woodcutters or many other tourists around, you might feel like you have just stumbled upon some lost temple in the middle of the jungle. This place feels peaceful. In contrast, the faces at the Bayon temple makes the whole place eerie.
The very famous Bayon temple. I don't know why but he look really creepy. 又加上綿綿的細雨，更加感覺眼前一片淒涼。
There are lots of carvings. Some with a sense of humor.
Do the ancient cambodians have small feet and long legs or what? I find myself spending 1/4 of my holiday climbing up flights of stairs that look exactly alike. And another 1/4 of the time climbing down.
Also from a thousand years ago. Phuket. Somewhere common and every other person been there before. Just felt that it's very much overrated or I had too high expectations for Thai beaches. Sandy shores and clear blue water and that's about it. As usual, the whole place is full of angmos, lobster red from both alcohol and sun. It's just nice but not excatly my favorite. But anyway you'll still get all the good food as long as you're in Thailand.
The picture that everybody must take when they are there.
Simple but very nice. A-roy ka! Mama brand instant noodle stir fry.
Everybody loves sotongs! From seaman to tourists.
