Saturday, December 29, 2007

Greyhound Day

Greyhound Day

Leaving Banff

早上,我这屋的几个哥们都收拾好东西作兽散状。England小伙搭Moose Travel Network 继续东行,我则要去坐灰狗了。
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这是我的包和我的车票。实际上票是一年有效,几乎任何时候都可以用(一次性)。所以,如果某班车没座了,你只能等下一辆了。
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坐Greyhound是一种态度,第一次在<<Forrest Gump >>里看到它的样子,背着简单行李的人,伴随着一个个的梦想,搭着灰狗去寻找一个又一个的梦,实在是太浪慢了。Cut. 回到现实社会来吧。实际上就是一豪华大巴,没有中国那么挤,也是开一个小时,到一个小镇、或是加油站旁的Greyhound车站停下来,车上的人下去,放水、吃饭、抽烟、透气。十多个小时的行程,从Rockies里蜿蜒盘旋而出,来得在太平洋的东海岸。John Denver的Rocky Mountain High回响在耳边,虽然实际上歌里指的是Zane Prickett上学所待过的地方。也许我是一个懒人,整整一天,靠在车窗边上,听着流水般的旋律,看着窗外的山、水、丘、云不断地后退,却是心情放松最简单的方法吧。
晚上9点多,来到了Vancouver Pacific Central Station。VIA Railway也在通到了这里。
因为已经很晚了,所以车站里空荡荡的。出了站,顺着人流毫无理由地走到了轻轨站前。我的目的地是位于downtown的HI-Vancouver Central ,前天晚上在SameSun打800预订的,在Granville。(不是Smallville)。到了Translink 的SkyTrain站内,费了一番功夫搞清楚了怎么买票,该买多少钱的票,怎么去Validate票。但是还是不清楚为什么没有人检票??最后还好在最后一班车结束之前到了Granville,从the Bay的入口中走了出来,看到了一条正在施工的不宽的马路,这就是Vancouver中心商业区娱乐业最发达的St. Granville。
延着马路、路障、警戒栏杆,我终于来到了Hostel,办了手续,住了下来。不高的楼房是木质结构,有一股奇怪的味道,(发霉的?)也许是因为这里太潮湿了。这次是三楼的一个小房间,里面除了两张双层上下辅之外,还有四个储物柜,一个洗脸池,但是没有独立的卫生间。楼道里有四个卫生、洗浴间,供dorm里的人用。如果是标准间,价格就贵了。上网倒是比SameSun Banff每20分钟2CAD要便宜一些。按一小时计。(最贵的估计得算Montreal和Quebec了。那个后表)
晚餐?最后还是找了一家Subway。sigh.
就到这里吧。坐了一天车之后就不是很浪漫了。VIA 的火车当然最舒服了。不过单程700多CAD实在是天价啊。
今天的照片不多。因为我就想睡觉。体力还没从昨天恢复过来呢。heihei.












Sunday, December 23, 2007

Banff Lost

Banff, Lost

Day 4. Sep 25

昨天晚上,经过激烈的思想斗争,决定不去Jasper了。主要原因是行单影支,又没有车开,去Jasper估计不会玩得很爽。于是,自由行就成了今天的主题。日程:早上Gondola,下午和SameSun的其它Backpacker走Bow River Trail或Hoodoo trail.
上午起床,收拾收拾就向Mt. Sulpher的进发——by bus.
早上的Banff真是清静。(不要相信exif. 相机的时间一直是GMT+8 Local Time,Banff和GMT+8的时差是-1400 hours.
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小镇的公共汽车多半是为游客和没有车开的人准备的(后面一句是废话)。
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早上的目的地是Stop 34: Banff Gondola
好,我们到了 :p
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上山的时间是缆车8分钟,山路2小时。到了山顶,天气已经阴下来了,我盼望的四面群峰的影像实在是找不到。甚至缆车还在半山腰时外面就漂起了雪花,山上山下气候分层太明显了。实在是不知道这种气候下该怎么拍。就来一张稍微可以看得清的吧。可惜了偶这大玩具了。不过还是可以看出banff town的全貌,这一段的Bow Lake, 和远处的一个湖, Mt. Tunnel。甚至我夜里迷失(Spoiler)的地方其实也就不远。:(
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加拿大的旅游业还是很成熟的。下山的缆车是免费的。就是说只有上山坐缆车才需要购票。当然,下山时会让你扭个头笑一笑。然后到了山下人家就把你的照片PS成一张风光秀丽的照片了。人家的家伙可是1D Mark啊。
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下山了。山下也下起了小雨。等车期间,看到一道漂亮的彩虹
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等啊等,看到路牌上的时间都过去了十几分钟了,车还是不来。偶不愿意待在原地不动。还是如向前走上一站,顺面看看风景也不错啊。
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五彩的叶子,润湿的公路,蓝天,雪山,On the road在这种环境下还是很爽的。看到对面来一哥们,估计也是等不来车,就自个儿走上来了。
不幸的是,山上这几站间隔过长,导致我走到Stop 36时,已经错过两辆bus了。看一下表,已经快12点了,估计赶不上回SameSun去trail了。只好在Glacier Driver乖乖地等车了。
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回来Banff Town,时间既然已经很晚了,就去Greyhound 汽车站买去Vancouver的车票了。其实,Greyhound更像是一个联盟,虽然在主页上可以查几乎所有的路线,但是很多线路并不是Greyhound本身在运营。一般是一个地区有一家公司在运营。而且Banff的长客站也就是火车站,很小,因为,大家都开车嘛。
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买完车票,回到SameSun,带上两瓶水,问了问前台Hoodoo Trail和Bow River Trail大致的位置,就自己出发了。当然,偶的事情还很多,比如,去买了一个Pad Lock,去邮局买明信片,寄给自己。到下午三点多,才正式开跋。
一个成熟的旅游城市,可以让你在没有导游的情况下,完全掌握自己的行程,比如一幅地图,通用的图解警告标志,或者是关键的路标。
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Explore Banff's Trails这张地图算是帮了我的忙,至少我没有一开始就迷路。这图比lp上的要清楚多了。
Fairmont Banff Spring Hotel 真是占尽了Canada的美景啊,这是Bow Falls。当然,走到这个地方,还是要对某些警告标志无睹才行。
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然后就开始Bow River Trail了。这条路从Tunnel Mt.的东边,延Bow River的西岸一直向东北直至。如果大家看上面那张地图的话,从Bow Falls开始就算Hoodoo Trail了。我写着写着,现在也晕了。为什么当时问路人、看书都说还没到Hoodoo呢?
走在没有人的疏林里,还好还有太阳。远处听得见很小的水声,乌鸦的声音倒是很多。有些地方其实你分不清哪条是主路,哪条是旁道。没办法,顺着感觉走。
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不知为什么,没看见动物。虽说Banff看到熊的机会很小,但是其它的动物呢。也许人的影响还是太大了吧。走到一个拐弯处,看到Bow River就在旁边,就觉得不如去看一下吧,来到河边,出了林子,看到了一队过河的moose
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他们三、四个一队,前后过去了大约十几只。手上这支24-105从远处来拍他们实在是太无能为力了,又不敢靠得太近。明显有一只moose发现了我,对我盯了好久。如果背上我的小白,估计还能看到一些。可是,那样我晚上估计就等被熊吃了。(又一张照片上了Google Earth。 )
五点多的时候,回到了Tunnel Mountain Rd.上,看了一下牌子,离开Bow Fall有3.1 km. 向前再走2km就到了Hoodoos了。而且附近有车站。看来不用走回 Banff了。不远处是一个野营的营地。
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那么,什么是Hoodoo 呢?(Cft all of you who are within G^F^W)
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上面照片左下角的几根柱子就是所谓的Hoodoo了吧。观测点的简短说明:
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哪里是Hoodoo Trails呢?刚才走完的估计是Bow River trail吧。(其实刚才走完的应该是Hoodoo Trails)继续向东北方向走吧。路上还看到一队Cyclist,所以偶也就不急了。现在时间是18:30左右,太阳快下山了……
From Canada Tour
之后就没有照片了,有的只是Google Earth上这条路线图
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!请点击查看原图!
从地图左侧中间的沙洲开始,我又继续顺着Bow River北岸的山脊向东南向走去。天色已经暗了下来,我盘算着再走两个小时估计就可以出来了。我仍然可以听见Tunnel Mountain Rd.上的车声,但是,上山下山,林子开始密起来了。我仍就顺着有着山地车轮胎印的小道向下走去。有一段时间,可以看见前方远处的高速路,却听不见任何车辆的声音。我开始有些慌了。
突然,布满车印的小道转了一个大弯向北奔去。满心欢喜啊!不过,这时发现已经很渴了。两瓶水早就喝完了。心想着估计马上上公路了。道是也不太紧张。
可是,太阳落山了,只有天上的亮光。路上放了放水,然后又是步履蹒跚地上上下下,终于到了高速边,一个丁字路口,右边是高速上的车嗖嗖的声音,大喜,右转,心凉了下来,我走到了河边,对面仍是一片小林,然后是高速。河水很急,我不敢淌过去。原路返回,等回到丁字口,一路扎进了林子。天全黑了。从腰包里掏出头灯带上。5米的距离跟本不能照清前面的路,只能给脚下的路给点昏光,模模糊糊分辨出是路还是草地。途中有许多叉路,本能的选择前进的方向。
抬头一望,月亮上来了。9月25日农历八月十五中秋佳节!我一个人就要在林子里喂狗熊了。下坡还好,酸痛的两腿一到上坡就麻木状机械摆动。以前跑半程马拉松也没这么要命啊。终于,脆趴在地上,看表,快8点了。算了,就休息会儿吧。大约十几二十分钟的样子,起身再走。月亮越来越高,天越来越黑,地上的路也越来越模糊,分不清草地还是小路,只剩下石子和硬地了……

硬地?是公路!
刚才还想着怎么遇到狗熊来装死,现在看到公路了。太爽了。
可是,这条路看着怎么那么荒呢?路上很多的石块,一看就是不经常走车。方向不明,背着月亮的是上坡,向着月亮的是下坡,选择右转下坡。路拐了几个弯,甚至还能看到对面的路桥,马上就要上高速了。高高兴兴地冲了下去,碰上了几个大石头把路堵住了。再往前可以看到是一个深崖。这时,已经大约晚上8点半了。

天哪,又走错了,路的南边是一个compound,里面的房间都没有灯光。我狂呼几声Any Body?也没有人应。天哪,还好没人。要是有个恶人出来把我骗进去,之后会不会把我做成蜡人啊!出来只能原路返回啊。可这是上坡啊,走了大约二十米,扑通一声又做在地上了。抬头看看月亮,低头打起盹来。迷了二十分钟,又饥又渴,浑身无力中。起声接着走。回来上公路的那个点,接着向西走去,来到了一个叉路口。路口有一横杆,旁书“Private property, No Entry",原来我从林子里直接蹿到人家的花园小径了。还好里面没有狗。
出了禁路,外面是一条标准公路,路况很好。但是,我不知道自己在什么地方!往哪里走?正犹豫中,一辆车Shua!地从北飞向西边。北边高,西边低,估计高速在北边。我向北走去。约摸蹒跚了20多分钟,一对灯光由远驶进。偶伸出右手大拇指——这次和军乐队无关——我这是第一回HitchHike!
好人啊,Neil(?)夫妇把我搭上了。开车几分钟,路过Camp,我才意识道自己刚才一直在Tunnel Mountain Rd.向高速走去(离开Banff中). Neil夫妇刚搬到Banff来住,所以顺便就把我载到了Banff SameSun了。
感谢天,感谢地,感谢大好人啊。而且主要是偶面善,所以人家没据我。以后大家在安全有保障的基础上,一定要多帮路人甲啊。

到了SameSun,已经是十点半了。偶径直趴到前台,给James一张20CAD的大钞,让他给我换硬币。拿起硬币,奔向饮料机,拿了一听Pepsi,然后就瘫倒在沙发上喝。我现在是脱水、低血糖,整个人一粘到沙发上就虚脱掉了。花了20分钟喝完半瓶Pepsi,终于缓了过来。这才有劲再出门,去Safeway找点吃了。11点了。

等快12点回来,其它人也都回来了,他们走了Bow River Trail,而且也看到了moose,不过人家没有Lost!

这次的教训
  • 不要迟到。
  • 一定要有地图和GPS,尤其是一个人走路。
  • 带够水和干粮
  • 三角架能背就背,但是能不背就不背。山里的晴空月色非常漂亮,可是,偶一张都没有拍。早就累得晕了。
  • 还好没带小白IS,否则累死。

Friday, November 09, 2007

Hi, if you saw this document, it means I can directly publish my google document to this blog inside China. Awesome!


I just back from my vacation in Canada. Here will soon be my stories from my trip coming.


Thursday, October 18, 2007

Canada Tour Photoes

Please visit my canada tour photoes:

Friday, July 13, 2007

Recent Update

About the movie I have watched recently:

In cinema, I saw Spiderman III,Pirates of caribbean.

The movie which I missed than watched elsewhere, I like the Deja Vu,Shooter,The Hash Time. There is also a low budget movie BobbyZ which was not as good as Running Scared and I watched only because Paul Waker stars. Poseidon seems just ok for the action part. For comedy, I watched The Holidays, Stranger than fiction and Sideways. All of them are really good

Yesterday I watched the Pan's Labyrinth, what a touching, fantasitic, and a bit of sad movie...

Now I'm going to watch the Zodiac which to my suprise has Mouth (One Tree Hill) showed up in the beginning.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Small world changes fast

The world is so small. When I walked out of the apartment, I met Amy at the street. After greeting to each other, I just realized that I haven't known where she came from yet. To my surprise, that she was from the same department which I was in my college years. And she was in the same class with daybreak. The world is so small.

And the world changes fast though. From Amy, I got to know that happybj got a child already. Congratulations to him.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Good Night

WuDaoKou is a busy commercial area. The two of the most famous universities are sitting around. Lots of IT company, including but not limited to Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Oracle, Juniper, Sun, Symatic, have their China R&D Center settled in the Tsinghua Science Park nearby. With large residential community with starred restaurant, shops in this area, there also some people, either handicapped or just being poor, came here to living by get the sympathy of the people around here.

A child and his or her(?) granny have been stay outside the Yonghe King and Golden M since last year. They usually sleep there in the middle of the street in the night. The went missing during the Spring Festival for several days, and have come back after the spring actually came.

In the evening, I stepped out of Nirvana finishing exercise, and walked to YongHeKing restaurant for the dinner. I saw them again, but with another member. A big staffed dog.

Maybe it was still early, the child looked really happy, playing around with the coins in the cup in front of them, and try to pull with the dog. It was sure that the dog belongs to them now. It was the first time I saw the child was so happy.

After one hour, they'd gone sleep, in the same middle of street, with there new family member and maybe were having another sweat dream.



Friday, March 30, 2007

软卧

第一次作软卧,没想到就碰上两位奇人。
一位是韩亚州,另一位是王云光。
韩先生眼光灼灼,陈稳杰言,王先生大胡乌黑,健谈风趣。
两位老先生这次是去银川红花乡去玩,一见到我这个年轻人,就开始聊起来宁夏、银川,与北京的不同,什么在吸引着他们。
火车聊天,那就是侃侃而谈,随性随流,从自然环境、人文古风,到民间的传奇人物,气功、中医及其相关的传说,还有一些那十年,以及那十年之前、之后的人物轶事。谈及北京的建设的功功过过,逝去的城墙,日本京都,梁思成,以及徐志摩、林徽因……从现代的流行文化,快餐文化,从易中天、刘心开、于丹、钱文忠,到钱钟书、柯璜、鲁迅、甚至到对郭沫若、杨振宁的事非功过……

作为两位画家,从他们身上,我能感受到国学的渊博,能感受到自己的欠缺。想到我们天天学习外文,想着出去旅游,去见世面,结果面对着外国人,自己不知道怎样介绍自己的祖国文化,不仅仅是尴尬二字可以概括。中国文化的传承,的确需要现代中国人很多的努力。

其实坐火车于飞机的不同就在于,你可以和形形色色的人面对面的作着,而不是面对椅背上的液晶屏。长者们的经历,对于每一个人,都是珍贵的历史。

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Babel

Oh my god, I finally spent my free movie coupons on Babel. by Alejandro González Iñárritu



I was so angry that the local movie web told everybody the story, but finally I made up to the cinema, and to read the whole story along with the lovely music scored by Gustavo Santaolalla. The story has some where alike Crash, but has its own style.
The best actors in this movie from my point view are Adriana Barraza, and also the two sons of Mohammed. Also we can saw some familiar faces, such as Elle Fanning - the younger sister; and Michael Peña, the locksmith in Crash...

OK. Some other highlights today...(ft, already passed the mid-night) The Timberland is so pricey. The BreadTalk is so delicious....

Monday, March 12, 2007

A puppet

Take a look of this guy below.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Updating.... from yesterday

2007-03-11, Sunday

Ready to cook the eggs as usual, but I found out that the egg-cooker has been powered up for almost one day. The plastic support was already melt. Poor guy, only lasted for 3 month. I must have forgot the egg last night?

That's why we need the over-heat protection / auto-power-down circuit for an egg-cooker.

2007-03-10, Saturday
the agent called me about an apartment available for selling. I went there, and soon be persuaded by the salesladies. Just ready to pay the deposit, a guy came and started to change the lock. Shit, it turned out that the owner of the apartment had already sold to another one, bypassing the agency.

Later, I took the bus and metro to the Landmark Forum introduction session, met with my colleagues and spent 2 hours listening to this so-called "World Second Top Adventure". I was really touched by those ex-attendees who, including my high school classmate Sally, became the volunteer for the Lardmark China.

2007-03-10 Friday
, Karaoke in the 17 Miles. With robbyking, qiangwei, lizaydd, tenorhanz, Clarice, and HuaJing. Sang to death. Robbyking is leaving for 3 month's THU-Standford Exchange Program. Hanz has just officially graduated. ydd came back from UK. Clarice had a new development in her career. Everything looks fine.

It's pretty good. en..

I had a dream that night.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Still alive, on the job

Hi, guys. I have being on the job for 5 days already. It is very busy at the end of the Chinese year. Today is the "Xiao Nian" and we get the chance to take a break for this job and return back to Beijing to attend the Company party and return back tomorrow. Wish the job can be finished and I can return back to home before the New Year Eve.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Shanxi Trip

My friends and I took a New Year Holiday leave for Shanxi from 29th Dec - 1st Jan. Generally we payed the visit to Pingyao City and the Wangs' Mansion. Here is the route:

  • Day 1: Train N203 from Beijing to Pingyao departed at 1856 hrs
  • Day 2: Arriving Pingyao at 0530 hrs. Stayed in TianYuanKui Hostel. Spent whole day in Pingyao city and the ShuangLin (two forrest) Temple.
  • Day 3: Took a 30 minutes train from Pingyao to Jiexiu. And then by #11 bus from Jiexiu Train station, we arrived to the Wangs' Mansion and spent half day there. After a two and half hours bus, we got to Taiyuan City. Due to the transportation limitation in the holiday season, we decided to go back to Beijing by bus at 2230 hrs.
  • Day 4: Arrived Beijing in the morning.

Here is some photo I would like to present here. Please enjoy.





Look the full album in Picasa

Noodle Dance

Can you imagine that the noodle can be made during the dance. Some restaurant upgraded the normal stretching noodle techniques into the noodle dance. The chief who makes the noodle right in front of the customers behaves like the Rhythmic Gymnastician with rope replaced by the noodle.
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One Tree Hill

It has been a long time since last update on this. Recently I'm chasing One Tree Hill. From the very beginning to the recently aired episode. I've been noticed this series from Star World, but had not started until sitting back to office life. Some how I noticed I could see a lot from this series, to answer some questions I was facing to for the last several years. Though it is talking about the teenagers, the relationship between the boys and girls in another cultures are still have some meaning to the people around of me.

Okei dokei. Talking about the beauties, OTH has the amazing casts, story lines, story behind the stories, and also the very important factor, the music. You can try www.oth-music.com to find out more about the music. I was so excited to hear so many sweet songs from the series and only wished i could be in the live.

The fourth season is almost a full season with 21 episode. But all the fans wish it could last longer. Only problem is, is there any new story or idea from the production team to make the OTH continues after the THHS, after the Ravens, for who ones were teenagers becoming the adults?