妈妈的朋友从香港带回了我爱吃的恒香老婆饼，听说还是从元朗买的， 很久没吃了。
吃过了很多种老婆饼，让我情有独钟的就只有恒香的，所以看到盒子时很高兴，
打开盒子后， 很吃惊的发现饼子竟然缩小了整整一倍，
吃玩了一个后， 更是很失望的发现味道已不如前。
原来老字号也走上了现今的许多产品一样的策略-
物价猛加，质量却猛减
能怪老人家常提起 good old days 吗？
不会再吃老婆饼了
Looking forward
Looking forward
to the steppes,
to pristine lakes,
to stunning sand dunes,
to starry skies,
to unforgettable sunsets,
to horse trekking,
to flowering fields,
to picking berries,
to drinking horse-milk wine,
to savouring grilled mutton,
to ger camping,
to meeting a people who
boast of having the Great Gengkhis Khan as their ancestor
Yes!!! i'm excited!
i need not plan this round, just a follower , so i'm relieved of a great deal of stress and researching, phew!
Tomorrow i shall be in Ulaan Bataar, and the day after in Moron (pronounced mu-roon), and soon the Blue Pearl of Mongolia....Lake Khovsgol! YESssss, i'm excited !
to the steppes,
to pristine lakes,
to stunning sand dunes,
to starry skies,
to unforgettable sunsets,
to horse trekking,
to flowering fields,
to picking berries,
to drinking horse-milk wine,
to savouring grilled mutton,
to ger camping,
to meeting a people who
boast of having the Great Gengkhis Khan as their ancestor
Yes!!! i'm excited!
i need not plan this round, just a follower , so i'm relieved of a great deal of stress and researching, phew!
Tomorrow i shall be in Ulaan Bataar, and the day after in Moron (pronounced mu-roon), and soon the Blue Pearl of Mongolia....Lake Khovsgol! YESssss, i'm excited !
风凉
又是派那种垃圾信的时候，总是要在我出远门度假前企图扫我兴，我索性看也不看就把它扔进了垃圾桶里。。。
但丢得了纸张，避不了风凉话。。。
风仙家和众多仙家们一起跃入了最新的封神榜上，风仙家兴奋地在我旁边和凉仙家说上榜和没上榜的俸禄有多大的差别。
凉仙家比风仙家更早上榜，而且属爱将级的，已经不止一次在我听觉非常近的范围内大谈分红和俸禄的事。这次又说虽然比凉仙家早上榜，俸禄却仍不及凉仙家的高，早知就不要那么早答应被封，因为不划算，说完后就口是心非的呵呵大笑。。。。
对于在旁被打入地狱的冤魂，风仙家和凉仙家的‘高谈阔论’ 可谓雪上加霜，火上添油啊！
唉！也难怪，在神台上哪瞧得见下面的孤魂呢？
（孤魂没红眼症或患青光眼，只是对这封神榜游戏非常的鄙视，对洋洋得意、雪上加霜、攻于心计和一朝得志者更觉恶心）
但丢得了纸张，避不了风凉话。。。
风仙家和众多仙家们一起跃入了最新的封神榜上，风仙家兴奋地在我旁边和凉仙家说上榜和没上榜的俸禄有多大的差别。
凉仙家比风仙家更早上榜，而且属爱将级的，已经不止一次在我听觉非常近的范围内大谈分红和俸禄的事。这次又说虽然比凉仙家早上榜，俸禄却仍不及凉仙家的高，早知就不要那么早答应被封，因为不划算，说完后就口是心非的呵呵大笑。。。。
对于在旁被打入地狱的冤魂，风仙家和凉仙家的‘高谈阔论’ 可谓雪上加霜，火上添油啊！
唉！也难怪，在神台上哪瞧得见下面的孤魂呢？
（孤魂没红眼症或患青光眼，只是对这封神榜游戏非常的鄙视，对洋洋得意、雪上加霜、攻于心计和一朝得志者更觉恶心）
Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding & Research Centre 成都大熊猫繁育研究基地
i've always wanted to visit the Wolong Panda Reserve each time i visited Sichuan in the past but due to transport difficulties, never did make it and alas, the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake had destroyed it. Fortunately the pandas there with the exception of one, were rescued in time and transported away safely. i heard most of them are now housed in a place called Bifengxia in Ya'an, a 2 to 3 hours drive from Chengdu while awaiting for another site at Wolong to be reconstructed into a new panda breeding and research base.
Having only slightly more than half a day to spare this time round in Chengdu, we decided against going to Bifengxia, instead we visited the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Centre (aka Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding) which is only 10km north of Chengdu city centre. It proved to be a worthwhile trip after all.
Away from the chaotic traffic jams and pollution of the city heart, the research centre, a huge park with an area spanning about 92acres, and constructed to imitate the natural habitat of the pandas, houses not only the giant pandas, but also the lesser pandas (aka red pandas) and other endangered and rare animals like the black- necked cranes and white storks. Smoking is banned within the premises and we were welcomed by noticeably fresher air there than elsewhere in Chengdu. The huge park is not only an animal sanctuary , it also contains various facilities like a veterinary hospital, a giant panda museum with 3 exhibition halls, a research lab and training center, an animal food processing center and a restaurant as well as a souvenir shop for tourists. Having only half a day to explore, we skipped all these and headed straight for the panda enclosures. Like everyone else, we were delightfully entertained by these absolutely adorable creatures.
Suggest you watch the clips below on full screen.....
If you have only a day in Chengdu, i strongly recommend the Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Center (aka Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding 成都大熊猫繁育研究基地) as a must-see.
Opening time : 0800h-1800h (all year round).
Go early, best before 8am if you want to carry the pandas. Yes, you are allowed to carry the pandas for a few minutes for a 'donation', a sum that can range from 50RMB to 1000RMB , depending on which of the staff you approach. You get a receipt in acknowledgement of your contribution to help sustain the research centre and you can take lots of pictures with the pandas. Even if you do not wish to carry the pandas, do go early in the morning to catch them at their most active after feeding, playing and running about outdoors. If you go after 9.30am, it's likey that most of the pandas would be rather lethargic by the time you get to their enclosures and in summer, it would be too warm for them to stay outdoors for long.
Entrance fees: 58 RMB, discounts for groups of 10 or more, as well as for senior citizens and students
How to get there:
1. By Taxi:
From downtown Chengdu like the Minshan Hotel or Chunxi Shopping area, it costs about 30RMB one way for a taxi. Tell the driver you want to go to the 'Xiongmao Jidi' (熊猫基地) which means Panda Base.
2. By public bus:
a)Take bus no. 902 from the bus stop outside the Traffic Hotel (next to Xinnanmen Bus Station), costs 1RMB, goes all the way to the Panda Base
b)Take public bus no. 99 from around Carrefour (the one near Minshan Hotel) to the zoo and change to bus no. 537, total cost less than 4 RMB
3. By tour group:
If you are staying in backpacker hostels like Dream Travels, or Mix Hostel, or Sim's Cozy or even the Traffic Hostel, the travel agencies there all run a day trip for ~100 RMB that includes a trip to the Panda Base, as well as spending the evening watching Sichuan opera which is known for the art of rapid masks-changing. i would think such a package would be quite worth the money considering the entrance fees and transport fees you would have to fork out if you were going alone to see the pandas, plus the fact that it might not be easy to find a cab outside the panda base to go back to town. The only consideration is how much time would you get to spend with the pandas when following a tour group?
For details and more info on the research center: check out
http://www.panda.org.cn
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/sichuan/chengdu/panda-breeding-and-research-center.htm
i shall make an effort to visit Bifengxia (避风峡) at Ya'an (雅安) the next round, i did hear there are more pandas there and the entrance fee is less, heard too they do not charge for carrying the pandas.....
Opening time : 0800h-1800h (all year round).
Go early, best before 8am if you want to carry the pandas. Yes, you are allowed to carry the pandas for a few minutes for a 'donation', a sum that can range from 50RMB to 1000RMB , depending on which of the staff you approach. You get a receipt in acknowledgement of your contribution to help sustain the research centre and you can take lots of pictures with the pandas. Even if you do not wish to carry the pandas, do go early in the morning to catch them at their most active after feeding, playing and running about outdoors. If you go after 9.30am, it's likey that most of the pandas would be rather lethargic by the time you get to their enclosures and in summer, it would be too warm for them to stay outdoors for long.
Entrance fees: 58 RMB, discounts for groups of 10 or more, as well as for senior citizens and students
How to get there:
1. By Taxi:
From downtown Chengdu like the Minshan Hotel or Chunxi Shopping area, it costs about 30RMB one way for a taxi. Tell the driver you want to go to the 'Xiongmao Jidi' (熊猫基地) which means Panda Base.
2. By public bus:
a)Take bus no. 902 from the bus stop outside the Traffic Hotel (next to Xinnanmen Bus Station), costs 1RMB, goes all the way to the Panda Base
b)Take public bus no. 99 from around Carrefour (the one near Minshan Hotel) to the zoo and change to bus no. 537, total cost less than 4 RMB
3. By tour group:
If you are staying in backpacker hostels like Dream Travels, or Mix Hostel, or Sim's Cozy or even the Traffic Hostel, the travel agencies there all run a day trip for ~100 RMB that includes a trip to the Panda Base, as well as spending the evening watching Sichuan opera which is known for the art of rapid masks-changing. i would think such a package would be quite worth the money considering the entrance fees and transport fees you would have to fork out if you were going alone to see the pandas, plus the fact that it might not be easy to find a cab outside the panda base to go back to town. The only consideration is how much time would you get to spend with the pandas when following a tour group?
For details and more info on the research center: check out
http://www.panda.org.cn
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/sichuan/chengdu/panda-breeding-and-research-center.htm
i shall make an effort to visit Bifengxia (避风峡) at Ya'an (雅安) the next round, i did hear there are more pandas there and the entrance fee is less, heard too they do not charge for carrying the pandas.....
Believing...all shall end well
Why is it that a trip to tibet always hold so much apprehension and stress for me prior to departure? i was supposed to have left for Chengdu yesterday night and off to Lhasa tomorrow morning but due to the delay of the processing of the Tibet Travel Permit and only a last minute notification from the travel agent in Tibet, we have to postpone our trip, incurring rebooking charges .
Now, more doubts surface as we read the terms of the sample contract the agent finally emailed us , one which we we would most probably sign on arrival in Lhasa. Thoughts of cancellation and rerouting our whole vacation had been on our minds for the last few days ever since the agent told us about the delay of processing the TTP,. Somehow, we are becoming more and more doubtful of the trustworthiness of this agent which had appeared to be so considerate, reasonable and efficient at our initial correspondences.
The good thing about this so far is that we had not paid any deposit so we are free to to cancel our trip, incurring only flight cancellation charges.
Now, more doubts surface as we read the terms of the sample contract the agent finally emailed us , one which we we would most probably sign on arrival in Lhasa. Thoughts of cancellation and rerouting our whole vacation had been on our minds for the last few days ever since the agent told us about the delay of processing the TTP,. Somehow, we are becoming more and more doubtful of the trustworthiness of this agent which had appeared to be so considerate, reasonable and efficient at our initial correspondences.
The good thing about this so far is that we had not paid any deposit so we are free to to cancel our trip, incurring only flight cancellation charges.
....apprehension
....doubts
....should we be kaisu & kiasee ,what's happened to the backpacker spirit?
.....should we be insistent on our stand about the contract or just close our eyes believing that all shall be well
...should we harbour so much doubts and stress or just relax and trust the agent?
...should we cancel the trip or just do it?
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Believing......that all shall end well, as it always has been.
为什么不是个问题
为什么燃油跌价了机票却涨价了？
为什么巴士后头是空的前面却挤不上去？
为什么上了那么多年‘好公民’课的他们还是那么没公德心？
为什么我们的人民不能像日本人那样有公民意识？
为什么会有大逆不道的不孝子女？
为什么会有蹂躏自家女儿的父亲？
为什么好人不得善终而奸人总是得逞？
为什么世间总有那么多的不公与不平？
为什么偏偏是我？
为什么为什么为什么为什么为什么。。。。
很多时候‘为什么’其实不是个问题，更多时候‘为什么’其实只是种呐喊， 喊的人知道这些‘为什么’之后都不会有个合理的‘因为’
而随着年龄的增长，你或许会发现更适合作为‘为什么’后的标点符号是感叹号而不是问号
为什么！为什么！为什么！
为什么巴士后头是空的前面却挤不上去？
为什么上了那么多年‘好公民’课的他们还是那么没公德心？
为什么我们的人民不能像日本人那样有公民意识？
为什么会有大逆不道的不孝子女？
为什么会有蹂躏自家女儿的父亲？
为什么好人不得善终而奸人总是得逞？
为什么世间总有那么多的不公与不平？
为什么偏偏是我？
为什么为什么为什么为什么为什么。。。。
很多时候‘为什么’其实不是个问题，更多时候‘为什么’其实只是种呐喊， 喊的人知道这些‘为什么’之后都不会有个合理的‘因为’
而随着年龄的增长，你或许会发现更适合作为‘为什么’后的标点符号是感叹号而不是问号
为什么！为什么！为什么！
玉皇大帝的圣旨
今天
玉皇大帝宣了这道圣旨：
多半众生即将被列入仙班，有些更可能晋升到封神榜上， 提到了入仙班的程序，也提及了被贬入地府的可能原因（不知是否今天因我在而特别一提）
大意是：
行善积德的未必就能成仙，打入十八层地狱的也未必是罪人
关键，在于您给天庭的天将们留下了何等印象，这包括了在工作或私人场合的时候。
而重点是
态度。
天将们手里都持有您的个别档案，档案里附着您的个人照片，每当天将们瞥到那张照片时，联想起的是您曾在他们面前留下的印象：
是。。。。
卑躬屈膝？
阿谀奉迎？
八面玲珑？
不亢不卑？
宁顽不灵？
粗俗无脑？
。。。。。
何等印象意味着您将被列入何等仙级或掉入第几层地狱，而之前您的一切战功或败史都可能因你那张脸所勾起的印象而一一抹除。
玉皇大帝‘光明正大’ 的发出如此‘忠告’，我是否该赶紧变个笑面佛脸到天将们面前改变他们对我的印象，或继续当我的无奈冤魂？
仙我可不羡当，脸我是不会变得了，可我也不愿含冤而终啊！
玉皇大帝宣了这道圣旨：
多半众生即将被列入仙班，有些更可能晋升到封神榜上， 提到了入仙班的程序，也提及了被贬入地府的可能原因（不知是否今天因我在而特别一提）
大意是：
行善积德的未必就能成仙，打入十八层地狱的也未必是罪人
关键，在于您给天庭的天将们留下了何等印象，这包括了在工作或私人场合的时候。
而重点是
态度。
天将们手里都持有您的个别档案，档案里附着您的个人照片，每当天将们瞥到那张照片时，联想起的是您曾在他们面前留下的印象：
是。。。。
卑躬屈膝？
阿谀奉迎？
八面玲珑？
不亢不卑？
宁顽不灵？
粗俗无脑？
。。。。。
何等印象意味着您将被列入何等仙级或掉入第几层地狱，而之前您的一切战功或败史都可能因你那张脸所勾起的印象而一一抹除。
玉皇大帝‘光明正大’ 的发出如此‘忠告’，我是否该赶紧变个笑面佛脸到天将们面前改变他们对我的印象，或继续当我的无奈冤魂？
仙我可不羡当，脸我是不会变得了，可我也不愿含冤而终啊！
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