Notes on the joyful life

Handbrake for iPod Nano (5th Gen)

2011-08-04T13:37:00.001-07:00

Handbrake is a descent tool. Recently I was working on a project that compress a homemade DVD into my iPod Nano (5th Gen). The steps are:

1. Install the Handbrake 0.9.5
2. Get the source video file into the local disk from the DVD
3. load the source video file in Handbrake
4. Select preset - Apple - iPod
5. Change the Average Bitrate to around 1000.
6. In "Picture" tab, change the Anamorphic to Strict.
7. Start to make the video file.
8. Load the output video file to iTunes.
9. Plug the iPod Nano. (I'm always set it to manual synchronize
10. Transfer the video to the iPod.
Done

But if you did not start from the preset, then there will be possible that even you have all the codec for video and audio set correctly, the video file cannot be transferred to the iPod nano.

Lambs

2010-02-09T14:12:00.001-08:00

Just for everyone who loves lamb:

Ticketing Broaday Broadway

2009-11-30T05:01:00.001-08:00

One of the important reasons for me to choose NYC as my vacation
destination is to experience what the Broadway is. I've watched STOMP in Kuala Lumpur, TPTO in Shanghai, Cats in Ottawa, Aida in Beijing. but all were the tours. I really want to have a feeling of the center of Broadway.

So, this time, after spending 500 Bucks for the flight tickets, I arrived in Manhattan, the Time Sq, and the heart of Broadway!

I'm
not going to talk about the show itself. It's never enough unless
you've been to the show. Just something about purchasing the tickets.

The first night (Nov 24) was the West Side Story.
The ticket was bought on Broadway.com when I was still fighting with my
work, a week ahead. $121 for the ticket and another $36 for the service
fee. yeah, the extra 25% surcharge was totally paid to Broadway.com.
(Reasonable? and we all know part of the extra goes to Google also.) Seat is not too bad. A102 in Palace Theater.
That is the first seat to the right of middle, at the second row of
Orchestra. The only problem is, the stage of Palace Theater is higher!
I can see the face of each actors but not their feet!. Dancing is a
great part of WSS, and it was too close.

If you've been to Time
Sq. now you will see a rad-lighted stair platform at the north part of
the square. That is a very good spot for taking photos of "I've been
here". And actually it is the roof of Tkts disconnect booths.
So the second day, and after returning back from WTC site and wondering
what to do, I came to Tkts. This time I choose South Pacific, totally
unkown to me. I've got 40% off and only paid $80. The seat is not bad.
Currently the show is at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre of Lincon Center, where the New York Juilliard Music School is located.

So the third day, Nov 26, the Thanksgiving, after a busy day containing Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Empire State Building (also here), the revisit to Financial Street and harbour tour, I returned back to Tkts, and tried Avenue Q, this time. for 40% off with only $50, with also a good seating.

Not
all the broadway or off-broadway shows are listed in Tkts. But for a
tourist who just want to select any of the shows, there are still a
good selection shows with good last minute tickets. And, if you want
only buy one ticket, the the chance of good seat will be much more.

BTW, there are also a bunch of discounted online ticketing sites, I have no time ( and not network either when I was in NYC) to try it.

GFW down

2009-08-16T07:18:00.000-07:00

Surprisingly, the GFW is down! and I can go to anywhere - Youtube, Picasa, Flickr, ...!, at least just for now.

Do not know how long it will be,

Thank the god!

Glimps of Shanghai

2009-06-10T08:55:00.001-07:00

The Weaving Lady
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

To most of the modern Chinese, Shanghai means the villa from the time of colonial, the skyscrapers in the LuJiaZui Peninsula, the 2010 Expo, the shoppings area west of the HuangPu River.

But to me, the normal people who live in the shadowed room, along the narrowed community are more reflect the true image of the Big Shanghai.

I came across this old lady, sitting on her bamboo made chair, weaving with her needles and cotton threads. Above from her, the lights try to fall down but need to penetrate through the cloths hung outside the windows, the classic image of the low level people living in the historical city with hundread year of high and low.

Star Trek (2009)

2009-05-19T06:44:00.001-07:00

I just could not get the mood to Star Trek, at least before having
watched the trailer for "Star Trek" (2009). Either because most of them
were too old or because the newer was too bad. And one big defect is,
why they don't have a seatbelt in those spacious seat in the bridge of
USS Enterprise? That also the reason I prefer Star Wars.

I'm not the trekkie, and I did not like Star Trek until this morning. I watched the "Star Trek" (2009).

The
trailer and teaser released earlier time gave me the impression that this would be a really cool movie. And the spending 4$ on the big screen in Beijing
UME is really a wise deal. The cast, the story, the editing, the
directing, and the effect and plus the sound/music, I must say, it is
really let me start to think about following the coming two sequels.**

7 Eleven

2009-05-04T01:21:00.000-07:00

第一天上岗非常紧张。看出来好像是刚从学校毕业？带着一副眼镜的小男生站在银台收帐中。

前面一位顾客递给他一碗好炖，鉴于他第一天上岗，或者因为好炖里东西太多的缘故，卖好炖的人给了小男生一张清单。
“53.8”，小声说道。
“大声一点”，旁边的领班督促说
“五十三块八毛”，男孩大声重复了一遍。
顾客抽出一张半新的50，一张破旧的伍块递给他。男孩接过五十，小心地在验钞机的金属探头上前后擦拭。
“正常！”机械的女中音从机器上报告。
男孩很高兴，打开收银机下面的抽屉，把钱放了进去。同时又收过伍块，找回壹块加两个硬币，“谢谢光临”。
旁边的领班问道“怎么样？还行? 小心点啊，有事找我”，走回办公室

下一位，我，走上前，递上两盒酸奶加一块巧克力。
男孩用扫码器规正地依次扫过，检视了一眼显示器，然后回头看了看旁边——领班不在——，大声说道：“二十块八毛”
我递过去两张拾块，一张壹块。
男孩收过钱，按下几个键，抽屉弹开，然后他就木了。

我一瞅，乐了，“实收款”被他输成了“221”，看来键盘有问题。

“遭了！”他明显不知道该怎么办了。
“你找我俩毛不得了？”我随口说到。
“ 不行不行，机器打开了，你只给了21……”（然后是一堆术语我没听见）想把银屉推进去又不敢关上，想找cancel键但是又无处下手。想了几秒中，把银屉虚掩但不推进去——保护现场——然后跑向办公室寻求技术支持。看来对我还是比较放心，旁边那么多人呢，估计我没胆儿偷钱。

我乐了，看他冷汗直冒，不如帮帮他。乐呵呵地又掏出了两张毛爷爷，“我这里有两佰”，我大声招呼他说.
男孩一见我有两佰，于是就跑了回来，非常不好意思地接过钱，然后小心地在验钞机的金属探头上前后擦拭。
“正常”，机械的女中音从机器中报告。
我说“这个还要验啊？”
“嗯，怕有假币”。男孩又把第二张钱小心地在验钞机的金属探头上前后擦拭。
“正常”，机械的女中音从机器中报告。

接下来，他又愣住了，估计在想，倒底要找我多少钱呢？两百零两毛，可打开银屉发现里面的钱不到两百啊。他四下里翻了翻，估计想凑出那两佰。
“你手里不是有两百吗？”
“噢，不好意思”，他擦了擦眉头，把两张毛爷爷又谨慎地“找”给了我，然后又拉开银屉，找出两张崭新的一毛纸币。

“什么事”，领班过来了，男孩马上和他讲述刚才的输入错误……
而我在想，还好只多揿了200，如果多揿了2000，我这今天还没钱付帐了呢，估计得打白条了。不过，至少我知道手上的这两张不是假币，否则被他报案、没收就惨了。

Color of Dream

2009-04-19T19:05:00.001-07:00

Some says that, the dream of child is colorful, but it lost its color when child becomes an adult.
I could hardly remember if I had a colorful dream when I was young, also I can hardly tell if my daily dream is color or single color scale...

But yesterday, I had a dream of taking my camera around and try to takes shots. I still remembered right now that I saw several beautiful and splendid colorful scenes with my bare (dreaming) eyes, and when I tried to get my camera, that scene just gone.

I'm glad I still can see the color of the dreams.

50 Strange Buildings of the world

2009-03-06T17:56:00.001-08:00

Here is a piece of post you might be interested. And hope you can find out the photo which is submitted by me and been viewed for more then 3000 times since last August.

http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/

Gone with the wind

2009-01-02T17:55:00.000-08:00

She is just gone, before the rising of the second sun of the new year.

Her name is Chen Xiao Lin, a cute girl playing percussion in THUMB during my school time.

And she's got cancer. It was less then 1 month ago that we got to know she has been sick for already 2 years. but we did not know that its the last month she got to see.

Life some times is not fair, but how could we deal the life?

Enjoy today, and leave no more regret.

She must be happy in the heaven.

Movie: Battle in Seattle

2008-12-07T03:51:00.001-08:00

It was the last September. When I was in Vancouver, I was just lucky enough to catch the VIFF '07. Staying in Vancouver HI downtown in Granville (Where is Smallville?), here came an indie film maker from Montreal and he talked about this "Battle in Seattle".

I did not make it for the movie even I had managed to have covered "Atonement", "September", "Control" when I'm busying in visiting different areas of Vancouver.

It was not until now that I just have finished the movie. The story is about several L&Gs in pursuing their truth, about husband/wife and their unborn, about a journalist and her selfawareness, about politics/human rights/business interest, about a battle in the streets, about a battle of everything.

The film tries to touch all the possible aspects from the chaos and out of the chaos, but not let me felt as heavy as Crash or Babel. You must to see it if you have the chance.

The tribute to John Williams

2008-11-14T01:28:00.001-08:00

The original music is from here http://www.moosebutter.com/starwars

Jian Kou Trip

2008-11-11T02:15:00.001-08:00

Jian Kou
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

As a hurry decision made at Friday almost mid-night, we agreed to carry on the long planned trip in Jian Kou.

We arrived at the small village at the foot of the mountain at noon. After finish one not cheap country lunch, we spend 1 hour climbing up to the first tower of Jian kou. Spent 2 hours on the wall, and spent another 1 and half hours descent down the village from the wall with the aid of the Waxing Gibbous Moon and one single LED powered by a button battery.

All the five people safely and hungrily returned home at 10pm.

Boy A

2008-11-06T19:29:00.000-08:00

Stars Andrew Garfield (Jack Burridge), Peter Mullan (Terry) and Katie Lyons (Michelle). A boy who re-entered the society and struggling with his new life. Another quiet but touching movie.

Support Wikipedia

2008-11-06T03:13:00.001-08:00

The children of Qing Hai

2008-10-10T21:50:00.000-07:00

When we drove back to Jin Yin Tan the second day, what was waiting for me is not the yurt of the Mongol any more, but the children who are in their teenage but in some expect are more adult then me.

With the very limited income to their own families, they were struggling to run the family with their parents, looking after their younger sisters and brothers, and have to keep up with their studies, even competing for the top one position with others.

I could not remember exactly each stories of these young faces, but from their smiles, I could tell they are still teenagers expecting a wonderful life in future despite the hard road lying ahead.

What we can do, is to do something from us who are enjoying a very comfort and joyful life in big city, to give the hope to let them continue their journey towards the life they are dreaming but could not get if they do not have the support from others, to leave the poverty behind.

Thanks my friends and colleagues for giving the chance to have this trip along with them. Actually they are keeping on such charity activities for such a long time solely from their heart without any self benefits. They require anonymous from the others but only want to be continuing the work without outside interference.

Qinghai Lake

2008-10-05T09:49:00.001-07:00

Qinghai Lake
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

Have spent 4 days and 4 nights in Qinghai. More photos and stories will come with spectacular scenes and stories.

The Fan's power

2008-08-15T04:25:00.001-07:00

Gael MONFILS
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

After I uploaded my photos during the Tennis match up to flickr, put the big stars' name as the searchable tags and pushed the photos into a "Beijing Summer Olympic Games 2008 (Pool)", the views rate pumped from less than 5 per photo straight to 40 views just in one day.

It is quite an advantage that you buy the tickets for the pre-final matches. first, it's cheap. Second, you will see so many stars than in the final. FEDERER, NADAL, WILLIAMS S. , Li NA, Zheng Jie, ..... If you buy the final , not only it is expensive, but also some of those celebrities will got kicked off and you will never expect who you will miss.

I'm not so called a fan, but it is really exciting to see those faces even you are just told they were the stars minutes ago.
BTW, Federer was kicked off the court by James Blake at round 4

NADAL Rafael in Beijing 2008

2008-08-13T20:43:00.001-07:00

NADAL Rafael in Beijing 2008
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

So lucky we got the tickets at last minutes. Tennis round 3 took place at the National Tennis Central at Aug-13 starting from 4:00 pm.

This is the first time I entered the Beijing 2008 Facilities. Carrying a small bag with 200mm lens permitted without tripod allowed is just difficult for me to get bigger images of those blinding super stars.

I've enjoyed the competitions even the match was not as close as between Rafael NADAL and Roges FEDERER (may be in the final, maybe not). The show ended in the center court with Gael MONFILS defeating David NALBANDIAN, which made Mariana so disappeared since she waited until midnight for her country hero. But yeah, the show was wonderful since it was also the first time for me to watch the stars playing just in front of my eyes, just for 300 RMB.

Sun Set

2008-08-01T05:44:00.001-07:00

Sun Set
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

7 days before the open ceremony for the XXIX Olympiad, the wind came, tore the clouds into pieces. Sun had the chance to give its last flares before the sun set, while being eaten by the moon behind the clouds.

Tennis Court

2008-07-30T08:01:00.001-07:00

Tennis Court
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

Every Wednesday evening at spring and summer time, is the tennis time for company. Usually we will rent all the four courts at DaYunCun. Today we had 20 some people gathered here, really unusually, and lots of new faces. But all faded if I used 5 seconds exposure for this image.

THUMB show at DuFeng Bar

2008-07-12T21:03:00.001-07:00

Casts
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

Those boys and girls enjoyed their life after the exam or thesis defending were done. Excellent performance and all the thumbers enjoyed. Here is the casts. And more photos if you click into my flickr.

Shoes on the lawn

2008-07-12T21:00:00.001-07:00

Shoes on the lawn
Originally uploaded by littlemalt

Here came an old friend. We enjoyed the sunset on the lawn outside our office. The lawn was nice cut and wet because of the rain weeks ago. She slip off the shoe, and, I clicked the shutter.

Movie Review for H1, 2008

2008-06-28T21:28:00.000-07:00

It is so unstable that the G@F@W@ regularly open and close the connection with the blogspot. Anyway, I even did not regularly update my live spaces.

Here is some movie which I watched in the recent half year:

There will be blood.
Into the Wild
Stop-Loss
Beowulf
Kungfu panda
Jumper
The Golden Compass
.

2008-01-12T05:31:00.000-08:00

Google Reader,

Nancysisi was very excited that night that she saw my blog again, accidentally. As one of the offer holders, she also got a google reader subscriptions including all the blogs owned by those who were called as "SLBer" or current Chinese SLB FEs. I just realized not how the communications changed since the so-called Web 2.0. In that list, not only some who I have been known for long time, but also some of new SLBers. It came to my mind that how our mindless words can give a different image of the general SLB working life to those new comers, by which way the traditional recruiting methodologies could not control how the image of a company could be seen by all the applicants. And also I'm happy that not only my friends, but also others who I will not know now or for ever would be interested to my only words.

So, to everybody who is now reading these but haven't met me before, I am not a FE right-now. And actually there was no words could give you a better image of what the FE's life would look like, but your own living in that life.

New Year

2008-01-01T06:31:00.000-08:00

New Year

Dec 29th

I went to Tanggu with Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, The new Japan Minister while unfortunately, the Beijing-TianJing-Tanggu Highway was entirely closed. I was late than him, so he went to and back from Tanggu by high-way while I have to, as well as other hundreds and millions Chinese have to take detours.

The main reason I went to Tanggu in my day-off was to clean up my HSE certification, but it only took less then 15 mins. While waiting for the coach, I visited my dear colleague, YanXia, and King, who generous gave me an invitation for the New Year party while I doubt if I could be able to pick my old stuff up.

It was almost 8 pm when we got back to office. I felt I had done one good decision that I had canceled my HuKou plan just two days before departure. But I know it was my weak point or laziness. How would I be afraid of going alone there that I had covered the whole Canada just month ago?

Dec 30th,
A late waking up from the bed and I found it was sunny out side. I had almost taken the whole morning checking the LowePro camera backpack. The price is not low, even much more the rent I have being payed for more than one year. But the real problem I must face to is, What is the true object for me to travel? To enjoy the absence from the job? To be able to record everything which might have been taken by millions of other tourists already. Maybe just a small camera toploading is enough(?).
I did not go out until after noon. It was 3 pm when I get to BeiHai Park. Maybe the last time I have been to here is more than 20 years ago when I was still a child. There is no more boat rowing but the almost iced lake. Birds were chasing for the food fed by tourist in just the un-iced corner of the lake. It was windy and everything was covered with a thin layer of sand, just like everything in Beijing. I took some shots and not satisfied at all. Then, started to wait there hoping there would be light in the night for the white Buddha tower.

I was almost iced until I decided took a walk around 5 pm while the sun had gone already and it was getting dark. Went to the east gate and asked a park staff about the light for the tower. The answer was what I was expecting, - May be there will be no light tonight - Great, that means I could go to my lovely bed sooner.

Dec 31st,
I canceled the day-off for today. Went to the office as normal.

2008 Jan 1st.
Another late waking up. Spent whole morning checking up the V-Drums from Roland. The HD-1 from V-Lite and the TD-8KW from V-Tour seemed suitable for my current level. V-tour's value/price smart, but requires more space. So the pratical step for me is to rent a bigger apartment.? Or just get a dummy drum-pad to pick up my stuff first.

So, that's all the lazy new year for 2008.

Greyhound Day

2007-12-29T11:39:00.000-08:00

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。

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。

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.

Banff Lost

2007-12-23T00:38:00.000-08:00

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.

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）。

早上的目的地是Stop 34: Banff Gondola
好，我们到了 :p

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。:(

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。

下山了。山下也下起了小雨。等车期间，看到一道漂亮的彩虹

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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

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。

那么，什么是Hoodoo 呢？(Cft all of you who are within G^F^W)

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：

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

!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。

2007-11-09T16:28:00.000-08:00

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.

Canada Tour Photoes

2007-10-18T16:14:00.000-07:00

Please visit my canada tour photoes:

Recent Update

2007-07-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

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.

Small world changes fast

2007-06-30T20:44:00.000-07:00

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.

Good Night

2007-04-14T10:16:00.000-07:00

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.

软卧

2007-03-30T19:55:00.000-07:00

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。

Babel

2007-03-17T09:10:00.000-07:00

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....

A puppet

2007-03-12T22:09:00.000-07:00

Take a look of this guy below.

Updating.... from yesterday

2007-03-10T19:59:00.000-08:00

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.

Still alive, on the job

2007-02-09T16:00:00.000-08:00

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.

Shanxi Trip

2007-01-20T21:25:00.000-08:00

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

2007-01-20T07:20:00.000-08:00

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.
Watch th em in YouTube

One Tree Hill

2007-01-20T00:38:00.000-08:00

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?

Keeping Mum

2006-12-24T20:08:00.000-08:00

A black comedy. The story about how to save the daughter's life. Really scary though at last. The music is nice. And try to imagine that how Mr.Beans can serve as a starchy vicar if you had the chance to watch it.

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

2006-12-24T06:56:00.000-08:00

Movie based on the famous novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The movie have been kept inside my album but until last week I had not watched it yet. The story is not as heavy as what I thought. The love affairs of a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet and a Miss Bennet with Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bingley, Mr. Wickham, Mr. Collins (and so on) are natural, funny some how, and mostly happy endings. Enough words have been said by others about the image, the music, the actors and actresses, so I just write some my feelings here under the precondition that I have not read the original novel yet.

What really amused me in the opening of the movie is skilled the use of long shots: The opening scene of telling the life of the Bennets; The scene at the second ball shows the admiration, the hatred, the father's love, the regret being rejected, and the loneliness just in a single gap less moving of the viewpoint of the camera.

Mrs Bonnet's looking for the appropriate husbands is the key idea in the whole story as well as her main tasks. She is a good mother though, in my opinion: She was looking for the every chance for the Bennets to meet with the potential good young man, who would inherit the good life for her daughters. She was trying by all means to show the best of her daughters to those young men. I finally got to like her.

The dialogues are really beautiful English, which made me have to open the subtitle and the dictionary again trying to understand the conversation. A read of the original novel would not be a bad idea for me to sense the beauty of the language, while Shakespeare seems too ancient to me.

When there is a Great Fire Wall

2006-12-24T06:16:00.000-08:00

Following post was posted on live at November 30 the time I could not access blogspot, A big complain on the GFW. Anyway the access came back finally. Just a brief introduction for you guys about the real internet policy which is going in China.

For almost one month, the user from China mainland could not access the blogspot directly, so, the Great Fire Wall became the murderer by all the blogspot user from China. Someone think this is because now blogspot is related to google and google was black-mailed by baidu. Finally, maybe the Greate Fire Wall has updated and blogspot was released, leaving wikipedia alone still walled outside China mainland.

But was there anything happened to me in my life?

Days and days working in the cubic, to make the finally deadline at the end of the year... following the Prison Break, Supernatural, Smallville, Heroes, Lost every week, even the Lost has already lost...

Also I am practicing for the small show in the coming Company's Christmas Party. Though I thought it would be interesting, actually it became so difficult for me, especially I did not attend the first training... and I will miss the coming 3 training sessions cause there will be a 5 days
job. Yes, near-real job, the second job for me in the past 4 month. Get some feeling of the past two years back, even though only small part of. And also because of the training, I missed the show of The King's Singer today in Beijing.

The 3 body by Liu Ci Xin have finished its publish in the monthly journal Science Fiction World. But after reading this long-expected work, some disappointment drew down my feeling: he continued his brave imagination, but the literal part also shows his lack of as a good story writer. Even I'm thinking the possibilities of the movie productions based on his great pieces, such as The Ball Lightning, The Wandering Earth, his works still need the big re-writing on the literary side to be accepted by the producers or screen writer.

So the life was still going on, with old friends and new friends, with the TV marathons (thanks to the internet), with the work and business and side-business, with the happiness and sadness and some dumbness. It is the life behind Great Fire Wall.

Swallow Nesting in Manned Swallow Housing

2006-12-18T04:16:00.000-08:00

An interesting video shot in Kuala Rompin, Malaysia Peninsula. The Swallow Housings are very common in South East Asia.
Watch it in YouTube.Com!

Logging

2006-12-09T06:24:00.000-08:00

Just returned back from one test well near Beijing City. We have spent 7 days in YanJiao, stuffed with all kinds of drinks, yogurt, snacks, as well as hot boat, dumplings, BBQs. Have been kicked off from one hotel and checked into another one with all luggages packed with ourselves. Have got all kinds of receipts from the local taxi drivers, the formal ones, the two-year-expired ones, the diesel receipts and the highway fee receipts.

The end of the year is coming and everything is being pushed to finish or give a milestone out. This test well logging trip was the first YanJiao well trip with full BGC crew (Ding helped us for the first 3 days during his honeymoon).

Just as the real logging job, unexpected events happened during the time of the trip, and they have enlonged the whole plan from the original 4 days. The renters had to cut us in the middle with their own test activities without informing us beforehand. And even one guy from the renter (A similar company doing the logging jobs as we do) came into our logging units and complain the unsatisfactory of the whole first 4 months career in his company..really ironic.

Job was finished. After having the dinner in JinDingXuan near YongHeGong, get really tired after this trip. need to sleep......

Say NO to PSP

2006-12-01T21:29:00.000-08:00

I need a Playstation Portable.

First time seeing from Kevin's son, who was pressing enjoyably the buttons of the PSP when we were have a small party in Pop Inn one night, the PSP became a option for my mobile entertainment solution. Even later Zane brought his PSP to kemaman also. But after all the efforts I paid this morning, it was found that it will be such a headache for a relatively poor guy like me, not only money but also time, to buy a PSP and have it hacked and to play in China.... And another staring to the small LCD after the 8 hours facing to the big LCD monitor in the office, shit, iPod is better.

Now, I'm looking for the PS3 as the next target, after spending 4 hours looking through all the information online, and I have to go back now, to pick up the washed cloth from the washing machine.... Yeah, maybe a dry machine will be a better choice for me, with more real use indeed.

So, let's face it, PS3 for next year, and, .., a dryer machine for now.

Glance of Malaysia

2006-11-29T05:43:00.000-08:00

Cameron Highland is just a red tee plantation, and also became a domestic vacation spot. The following picture was shot from the tea plant.

The second one is take form Pulau Tioman, a famous diving island in west Malaysia. The worn oxygen tanks were laid behind a diving school at the beach, where you can get the diving certification within one week.

When there is a Great Fire Wall

2006-11-29T04:59:00.000-08:00

For almost one month, the user from China mainland could not access the blogspot directly, so, the Great Fire Wall became the murderer by all the blogspot user from China. Someone think this is because now blogspot is related to google and google was black-mailed by baidu. Finally, maybe the Greate Fire Wall has updated and blogspot was released, leaving wikipedia alone still walled outside China mainland.

So unfortunately, this blog has also been blacked for nearly one month.

But was there anything happened to me in my life?

Days and days working in the cubic, to make the finally deadline at the end of the year... following the Prison Break, Supernatural, Smallville, Heroes, Lost every week, even the Lost has already lost...

Also I am practicing for the small show in the coming Company's Christmas Party. Though I thought it would be interesting, actually it became so difficult for me, especially I did not attend the first training... and I will miss the coming 3 training sessions cause there will be a 5 days job. Yes, near-real job, the second job for me in the past 4 month. Get some feeling of the past two years back, even though only small part of. And also because of the training, I missed the show of The King's Singer today in Beijing.

The 3 body by Liu Ci Xin have finished its publish in the monthly journal Science Fiction World. But after reading this long-expected work, some disappointment drew down my feeling: he continued his brave imagination, but the literal part also shows his lack of as a good story writer. Even I'm thinking the possibilities of the movie productions based on his great pieces, such as The Ball Lightning, The Wandering Earth, his works still need the big re-writing on the literary side to be accepted by the producers or screen writer.

So the life was still going on, with old friends and new friends, with the TV marathons (thanks to the internet), with the work and business and side-business, with the happiness and sadness and some dumbness. It is the life behind Great Fire Wall.

Autumn in Tsinghua

2006-11-06T00:39:00.000-08:00

Windy Beijing showed her power this morning, which I missed for tweo years. With the clear blue sky, I can not against my will to save this beauty into my ablum. Woke up at 0600, spend almost 3 hours moving around the ErXiaoMen, The first set of picture of the university I had spent 7 years were kept inside my camera...

But, just as all the newbies, I can hardly select a fairly good picture to show you all. Here are some out of the more than one hundred shuttle pressings.

The Yellow Gingko Leaves

The Great Hall

Remember Autumn

2006-10-24T06:53:00.000-07:00

At last, here comes the autumn.

After two years humid summer-like equator life, the familiar dry cold climate ran into my life again just less than one week. I need to pick-up the thick cashmere and looking for wind-proof jacket before the final winter coming...

Again the defoliations in the wind will cover the road, and no more coconut tree and palm filling with your view the whole year; Again the snow will falling in one or two month and saying goodbye to the pouring monsoon shower; Again the old winter comes and, good luck to the South China Sea.

Today it was cloudy, the temperature was really in the lab. Outside in the office, there is going a recruitment for the year 2007 university fresh-outs. Some of them will join us, spreading out to the different corner of the world. Kinglad is still busy in his huge globalwide big project, Presley will head to US for his OFS-1 next week, Tubamqx will go to karamay and work as EIC temperately, and qiangwei is going for his new career, if it goes fine. Me? working in the cold lab and wondering what will happen in this familiar winter, or next year.....

So everything come back two years later, and all the people I knew are already not whom they were. Here comes the Autumn, also, here comes another summer, soon.

Welcome to the new Google Documents

2006-10-11T01:22:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new toy named

Just imagine that what will happen to the enterprise online document sharing 2 years later?

Actually what I'm concerning about is that, when the e-document has completely replaced most of the human knowledge storage, how the history and culture can be interpreted by other civilization if they do not have the ability to extract information from HD-DVD, Flash-memory, .... Should the paper-based documentation be totally replaced?

It is a big problem.

LOST in Communication

2006-10-08T00:31:00.000-07:00

Cited from www.newsmth.net, Sun Oct 8 15:27:56 2006

Actually everybody has one piece of the jig-saw, but due to the lack of the communication, no one can see the big picture. All are irrational and emotional. Everybody ask the other to shut their f**king mouth but did not want to shut the mouth himself or herself(Anna) before get to know what the other knew.
The unknown side-effect of the uncontrollable electronic-magnet field can make some of them thought that they were destinated to the island (Sun, Lockie, Rose, ...), except Hurley's unliky lottery won before the island left without explanation at now.

The guns are the origin of the evil. Sawyer is correct for his gun-controlment, 'cause we can see at least one innocent guy ended whenever a gun has been out of control. And the others have even more humanity since they did not even kill for nothing....

We all agree that Michael has the rights to get his son back, but.... does he have the rights to get it with the cost of Anna? Libby just another unexpected victim. Sometimes the nature love goes wrong and even worse.

What's to say now? Still at least 2 seasons left, just wait for another sunrise

Oct.1st The National Day

2006-10-02T00:21:00.000-07:00

Still a late wake-up. Today's objct was to get the new furniture for my small room. The room was one of the two-room-apartment rented with supercomet@newsmth.net, But the old twin-bed was so bad that I have to change it.

After 3 hours shopping in IKEA Beijing, we (me and qiangwei) finished the order and the shipment would arrive in few hours. 1800 hours, the new bed, new sofa-chair and new three-drawer-desk were standing in my room.

Dinner in MeiLinGe, ZhongGuanCun shop. Thanks for the coupon from qiangwei.

Sep. 30. TianQiaoLe Tea House

2006-10-01T23:12:00.000-07:00

The first day of this 8 days, one-day-stop holiday.

Made a late waking up morning. Started to think about what to do in this whole golden week without wasting it. OK, let's move.

First, headed to Room 209, Center Building of nearby University, to top up the net access fee. Another 1 year accessibility at least for my thu email. It's, ..., actually, no use at all in my daily life. But, I prefer the feeling of ownership.

Then, cycled to the metro station in WuDaoKou, spent 20 minutes to find a space to leave my bicycle. Purchased a 5 RMB ticket and got to XiZhiMen. You can not image the importance of the public transportation system in China until you got to see the people sea in XiZhiMen metro interchange station. And even the door can harldy be closed for the outer-loop train, I selected the inner-loop train instead and spent 1/2 more time to go to my destination without being pressed into a much more thiner version of me. (Do not imagine. It will be terrible).

QianMen, The Front Door, and JianLou, Arrow Building, The outer frontier of The Beijing City. All the building in QianMenDaJie were tore down. The ungly-developed building were undergoing the renovation. The whole area will be return to Beijing traditional culture. At least, it is some of the good things the government has been doing for the sake of the culture preservation. But now, it is nothing in the main street which should have been filled with people shopping for the local artifacts. Though the DaShiLa was filled with people, I had no interests in visit there for the moment.

No idea how far my destination will go and without google earth in hand (How to? need update my handphone), I had to get on to bus Route.59. Almost failing to get the back door (for exit) from the mid-door (for entrance) in this bus with people filled as sardine, I escaped down at TianQianXiZhan. After another 5 minutes walk, here came the TianQiaoJuChang, TianQiao Theatre.

In 2003, the 'Cats' came to China. They were going performing in TianQiaoTheatre. The whole theatre was renovated to adapt the huge dump area for those smelly cats. But the SARS prevented the final trip, and The Cats came back after and performed in the People's Conference Hall of China, the worse place for such a musical. Damn lucky the fans in Shanghai, I have to say.

Checked at the ticket counter, only the ballet of the Romeo and Juliet was showing tonight. And thank for the help of the counter lady, I found my place, TianQiaoLe Tea House.

Already familiar with the name of Guo DeGang, the XiangSheng genius who is not interested in the commercial media, and who devotes himself and his colleagues in the theatre shows. The program of tonight was the Episode III of the PiFengShan series played by Mr. Guo himself, while two pair of other XiangSheng as rest. Time flew fast. Within the voice of the actors on the stage, the sound of cracking peanuts and sunflower seeds, the hushing and the applause rising now and then, the bumping of the tea cups, all but not limited to, the feeling of the old Beijing entertainment came back to the hundreds people in side this tea house. When the fade of the XiangSheng was talking about everyday by the experts of inside and outside, an art can not thrive with the massive media or with the suits and ties while its origin was from the local people, from the streat or the teahouse live show with gray or blue long dress and a simple piece of wooden block. Just like the HuTong, the lost of hutong can not recover back, because it is not a dead shows in the museum, but a living life of the people and enviroment.

The shows ended at 22:00 in the night. The first was over.

Pilot. 1st.Oct

2006-10-01T23:05:00.000-07:00

Due to the partial unavailability of MSN Spaces in CERNET, I created this blog for my friends and every one, who cares about my life. (.....no one? Shit!,Damn! Jesus!)