Archive for the 'Travelogue' Category
Say Cheese
London, UK
Seriously, could you please smile just for a little bit?
Glow
Location: Avenue of Stars, Hong Kong
Majestic yet Deadly
Location: Road to Mt Everest Base Camp, Tibet
The mighty Mt Everest has taken the lives of 188 climbers and the number is still adding up.
Perfect Jump
Father and daughter spending evening quality time together in Summer Palace
Location: Summer Palace (Yíhé Yuán – 颐和园 ), Beijing – UNESCO World Heritage List
Zhong Shan Park Musical
A group of drum musicals performing (with booze handy) in Zhong Shan Park, Shanghai. The audience appreciated the music although the beats sound foreign to most of them.
Baosteel Trip
Location: Shànghǎi Bǎogāng Jítuán Gōngsī 宝山钢铁（集团）公司
Steel has always been a commodity of choice for China. Ambitions of former Chinese leaders concentrated heavily on steel production and China learned the hard way with the failure of the great leap forward, right before the cultural revolution. The government realized that steel produced by backyard furnaces were useless because the quality was so low. The call for integrated steel plant yielded Baosteel. Its location near Yang Tze river makes it easier to get the raw materials, to get water needed during the production (to cool the steel after the melting process requires lots of water), and to reach global market.
Shoe Polisher
The equipment of a mobile shoe polisher in Xi Tang. She charges RMB 2 to clean your shoes but she gave up on my olive oil tainted boots.
Tom, is that you?
No, the guy on the left is not Tom Cruise. He is a rickshaw peddler usually waiting just outside of the Xi Tang gate. He also buys unused entrance tickets for 30% the price. That’s how he gets his Hollywood moments.
Joking aside, MI3’s effect on Xi Tang is pretty massive and you can still feel it. It literally puts the small water village on the map. Residents are very proud of it and they display the MI3 posters everywhere.
Affirmative Action?
Call it what you want but 99% of the students in the school share the same family name as mine! It was quite humbling to see lots of your distant relatives, from a little baby to a pre-highschool student gathered in one big room. If my grandparents had not emigrated to Indonesia, I would have been schooled here. This would have been my playground, I would have been a teacher teaching how to write Han Zi.
Light it up!
Hangzhou Fireworks Festival 2007
We didn’t stay until the end because there were too many people, a stampede wouldn’t be nice.
