Come together!

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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?

Xi'an, China

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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.

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They have tuktuks too! Just not as fanciful as the thais ones. And this modified tuktuk.

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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.

Chinese poem

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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

Cameras

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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

Shaolin!

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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.

Mount song

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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.

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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.

Shaolin monks

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Ouch~ why would anyone want to learn this??

Rose mirror cake

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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 Longmen Grottoes

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The weather was so hot at this time of the year that even going to the museum seems like a really good idea.

Old popsicle.

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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.

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深夜

黑眼圈越來越深，
但就是喜歡黑夜。
享受著黑夜的寧靜
與淒涼的浪漫，
我根本就不期待黎明的曙光。

聽著身後輕鬆的Bossa nova音樂，

似乎能夠在深夜里感受到陽光的溫暖。

什麼都不想做。

什麼都不想去想。

總是覺得世界是如此的遼闊，

而我是如此渺小卑微。

如果有一天我從世界的某個角落突然消失，

地球還是會繼續旋轉，風還是會繼續的吹。

不曉得是害怕無聊

還是習慣性的把我每一個星期的schedule排得滿滿的。

就算少打一份工還是一樣。

開始累了。

嗨！

反正到人生的盡頭都是一場空，不如盡量的享受每一天！

Glutinous riceballs

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I don't like glutinous riceballs. I won't buy them again no matter how cute or colorful they are. They are just lumps of colored flour. Hmpf 

How bored can i get?

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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.

Shanties from the seven seas~

I don't dream. Or at least i don't remember them at all. I don't know if it's the dreamcatcher that's hanging on my window or what. But last night i must had dreamt of taking a boat to somewhere on a choppy sea and i got seasick. I woke up feeling queasy. 

I'm feeling nausea and had a vertigo migraine all day. =( 

Let the Air on G string play on..

I'm tired. 

So it wasn't just the Internet or the computers that's making me stay up late.

yawn~

However long the night, the dawn will break.

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