Jul 19 2008
Archive for the 'Going Places' Category
Jul 18 2008
Shopping and sightseeing?
Mr. Obama has a 300-person foreign policy team is soon going on his first overseas trip, as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Hmmmm, to drum up his image? I’m wondering who will receive him - protocol wise - not by the head of the state, I’d think. Then what’s the point of the trip? Just roaming around like a [...]
May 13 2008
Tianjin 天津
Tianjin is the backyard of the capital, few notches below in many ways, even their dialect sounds 土, uncultured. But my last visit there was actually very pleasant, the tranquility was what missing in Beijing.
May 13 2008
Tianjin Changde Dao
21 Changde Dao 常德道 21号 located in Heping District (和平区), Tianjin, the former British Concession. The four semi-attached two-story villas and a three-story row that housed four more loosely makes up the compound owned by 三爷 Third Grandfather as Dad calls - my great grandfather’s kid brother. Dad spent few years in Tianjin in [...]
May 05 2008
Yizang’s work
Yizang’s having great time at his current job, the art director for the Trojan 木马. He sends me his work often. He’s great sense of style, but the wording often left me guessing: not that I couldn’t read Chinese - thank you very much I’m still very able - but the modern vocabulary is way [...]
May 02 2008
Death of a salesman
Summit at Massanutten in the Shenandoah Valley is a decent resort, spacious units are built on the cliffs over looking the valley. It’s a year around place. We’ve been there before, kids actually learn to enjoy ski in Virginia, out of all the possible places, good few years back during one of the [...]
Apr 29 2008
The Spring break tennis
Surprisingly I met a group of girls from Maryland at the Massanutten in Virginia. This resort at Shenandoah Valley is neither known for golfers nor tennis players. It used to have a 9-hole short course now expanded into 18 holes and an 18-hole. The short course was much nicer before the expansion, now inter-linked with roads. Golfers have to [...]
Apr 27 2008
Luray
Virginia is full of hams, holes and battle fields. Luray cavern is the second one we’ve visited over the years. Pretty cool if you haven’t. This one is far better than the Endless in the area. The almost deadly calm reflecting pool there is the most memorable. Look closer at the picture you can see the ripple [...]
Apr 18 2008
The Summer Palace 颐和园
The Summer Palace in about 1963 and in 2003. Color photos were rare back then. Most were colored in from black and white like coloring books.
Feb 24 2008
Sterling vineyards
Tanglewood 1997
Peter Newton (1926-2008), a Brit, the founder of this vineyard had just passed away. He’s credited with putting the vocabulary of Merlot and Chardonnay into ordinary Americans who otherwise only knew wine as red and white. We falling in love with Sterling’s Chardonnay at the Lexon when we attended the BSO at Tanglewood that summer [...]