Weekend travel to Jingdezhen & Wuyuan

A tiny countryside named Likeng hided in the deep of Wuyuan, with all Ming & Qing dynasty style architectures standing alongside the river.... They all are still in use as abodes of the local people.

Wuyuan is famous for its rape flowers all over the mountains and plains, the blooming period is from 15the March to 15 April.

This photo is taken from a running bus, wherever you set up the camera, you will find a nice picture appeared in the viewfinder :)

Have a rest along the Mandarin Duck Lake~~~

Take a rest again, lol~~

Still in the countryside, quiet, pure, and a wonderful place for a daily meditation indeed.

Live here for a month, no other annoyances, no pollution, just play with the footstep of time.

JingDezhen is world-famous for its elegant china, it is said to be" as white as jade , as thin as paper and as clear as mirror "... what you see in the picture was taken in a bathroom, even the washbasin was decorated with patterns of blue-and-white porcelain!! :)

What really counts??

The picture right outside the extrance of the ladies' locker room in Bally, which reminds you subtly to keep fit, to build your body. Or more, as if one can "cut down" the extra fat outright by a pair of sharp scissors ^_^

Several weeks ago, on my first step aerobics class, the apparently complicated routine was a little bit beyond me, i thought i was agile enough to support this , but after 2/3 of the total time, i could not be able to insist anymore, i had to keep a clear idea how it worked in mind while did the same movement synchronously...... so i had to stop to fine-tune myself...

And it was by this chance, i found something tellable, something worth the whistle. There were about 2o or more in the Group Exercise Room ( just by rough eyeballing) , more than 3/4 were ladies of all ages. I was a total dabster among them, presumably they all were quite familiar with the routine and did every step subconsciously. That was good, undoubtly, but what was not nice was, they knew it "too well "and become mechanical , you could find only a stiff brow, perplexed eyes, and robot-like legs and arms, some of them might no longer feel it was actually an energetic exercise but just did every footwork correctly.

What the real value of sport is ? I don't think it is losing weight or something ,but to find happiness, to enjoy yourself on the top your bent, not matter you are always stay in the second gear in life, at work or whatever, the fun of doing sports is fair to anyone :)

Whatever a dabster or an expert, have fun, that counts :)

Weekend fun !!!

Something you won't stop questioning its facticity until you actually test it yourself!!

I did an absolutely interesting experiment yesterday evening at my house, i got the spirit from the latest issue of "Reader's Digest".

Okay, here come with me and witness the moment of miracle :)


All stuff we need were: a potato( a common one from the supermarket ) , a glass( any material is okay), and a straw ( as the one you could get from Mcdonald's ).

What we try to verify is , whether the tender-looking plastic straw could pierce through the rather compact potato ?????

The main gist or say like knack is to :

1) Hold the straw tightly with your four fingers ( no thumb).

2) Use your thumb to seal against the top hatch of the straw.

3) Do a menditation first (^_^) and concentrate all your strength on the straw, then thrust towards the potato at full tilt.

See what happened??? The delicate-looking straw actually pierce through the potato and you see i can lift the potato together with the cup just by slightly holding the straw.

Try it again with more strength. OMG !!! The straw totally penetrate through the potato !!!!!!!!!

The whole process without using any other instrument, what you see in the picture was all what i did. Sometimes it is only when you try it yourself then you finally realize how there could be so many "incredible" things around us ^_^ In fact , it is not hard to explain what happend, when you seal against the top hatch of the straw, you equally isolate the circulation of air inside the straw, no wonder it could become so firm ^_*

You can try it yourself and HAVE FUN !!! :)

Follow the pace of spring ( In my campus)

Just over one night, bare branches have changed clothes..

Dotted with numerous light pink flowers...
In my campus, pine trees look all the same throughout the year lol~~~
Winter jasmine.. ... as if it would be disturbed by just a gentle touch :)
Winter jasmine in bud.....
See those just flowering peachblossoms, tender as a little girl's cheeks.....

Peachblossoms at night....


Every year,

I tried to seize the moment leaves turn green, flowers bloom from the buds...

But year after year,

All these happened over one night...

So quiet... as if they don't wanna wake anybody up...

What a fantastic night that would be!!

Silence...

But new lives are on the way, running ...

Pleasant surprises are doomed to happened the next morning.....

Waiting for the first ray of sunshine in this lovely spring.......

And you?

You hear the footstep of the spring girl? ..............

Itchy feet

A pair of Tibetan-style earrings...

Tibet to me is so heavenly a piece of pure land...

A special kinda culture you might never know thoroughly but that doesn't bother a little to enjoy it...

The train will take you to feel the changing of height...

Every minute you are a little bit closer to the sky ...

Vegetation along side is changing...

You can find less and less oxygen...

But the scenery outside the window is more and more stirring....

The toothpaste in your luggage could "blast"....

You might sense the smell of vomit...

Anyway, that's a special kinda experience...

It's definitely one of my dream place...

I should get a rather strong body and go embark on the journey to Tibet...

First , let's bring about the journey next week to see rape flowers all over the mountains and plains in southern China :)

Expecting......

nothing special

what to do first about a new language??

If you want to learn a language, the first thing you should do is what??

What i've been told to do first was to know how to say everything in my room...

But after several years, i know so many weird other things' name but still couldn't be able to name certain stuff i use everyday....

Sometimes it is easy to express your mind, but hard to even describe a tiny stuff....

The picture above was given by one of my french teacher, Rene(i've mentioned earlier)...

We were asked to know how to say every part of our bodies ( similiar to the point i mentioned at the beginning)....

He designed this funny cartoon himself and made it much more fun....

It's been kept for almost 3 years ( OMG, how could my french still be so rusty after THREE years??!!!)....

What lucky is, i could name every part of my body in french now.....^_*

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How could i love you ??

Just over my dead body...

But im still trying...

Waiting for one day...

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Happy Women's Day......lol.......

dengzi, dongdong and me~

dongdong and me




hehe~~

what a sweet lady....



This hotpot restaurant is so hooooot!!! All is my carelessness, i didn't make a reservation as i never expect there could be sooooo many people~~ People waiting for a seat squeezed into every corner, the corridor , the stairs, even outside the bathrooms.....all you can see is hungry guys and running waiters....lol~~ i've brought so many friends there ( i actually could be a spokeman here)....as it is really good!!


But today, totally incredible....ahhhh, it's women's day!! March 8th...no wonder gathered so many guys.......they waited outside, playing chess and enjoyed the snacks offered by the restaurant....seemed so leisureful...but not us.... we want a seat right away.....it was at the moment we decided to give up and find another one..... it was our turn!!!!!


And finally, we enjoyed a wonderful meal and here you see the pictures above.....

A place where i shouldn't stay long

A place where i shouldn't stay long...

Wandering from the world to heaven...

Have no idea where my next meal is coming from...

But i'm on the way...

The moment i turned back...

A lot left behind...

But at least ...

I am on the way...

On the way...

To a dream place...

ON IRA AU SAHARA...

TOI ET MOI...

Who raises you up???

"YOU RAISE ME UP"

When i am down and my soul , so weary...
When troubles come and my heart burden be...
Then i am still and wait here in the silence...
Until you come and sit awhile with me...

There's no life- no life without its hunger...
Each restless heart bests so imperfectly...
But when you come i am filled with wonder....
Sometimes, I think i glimpse eternity...

You raise me up, so i can stand on the mountains...
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas...
I am strong , when i am on your shoulders...
You raise me up, to more than i can be....

每當悲傷飲泣，我的靈魂脆弱倦怠...
每當煩擾侵襲，我的心兒沉重不堪...
孤寂中我在這裏默默期待...
等著你翩然之而小坐傾談...
所有的生命都蘊含著欲望和不甘...
悸動的心在激蕩中跳動不安...
你的到來讓我充滿驚喜和期盼...
那一刻我分明看到永恆的燦爛...
在你的擎舉中，我立于群山之巔...
在你的鼓舞下，我劃過風口浪尖...
站在你的肩膀上，我從未如此強壯...
你支撐著我沖向自身難以企及的境界...

I appreciate this song a loooot ....not only because the dulcet lyrics, but the idea it got you, the feeling you've been tightly caught hold of...


Success is absolutely not the only yardstick of the quality of life. You once been raised up by someone? You once been loved and upheld even when you were down? Think those warm moment, " I will be there for you" might best read my mind now~~~~



I've gonna hit the hay now, have a nice day and night you all :)


Bonne nuit~~~

What my kids taught me......

Little Miss Gao spent a very nice day with her 18 kids...

We played pokers, learned how to shoot a basketball, sell & buy their favorite food, hide-and- seek, we kicked the shuttlecock, we shared pizza and lollipops.....

I found kids are as creative as you could imagine...

By the following exercise...

Here we've got 8 different words...

feet / meat / beef / sea / pea / bee / tree / tea ...

Please group them any way as you like...

The target answer is, divide them by the different monogram they have, one is /ea/, the other is /ee/...

And finally i got several funny answers...

1) Same with the target answer...
2) feet, meat, beef, tree/
sea, pea, bee, tea
( 1st group are all four-letter words while 2nd group are three-letter ones)
3) feet, meat, beef /
sea, pea, bea, tree, tea
( 1st group with monogram in the middle of each word while 2nd group at the end)

4)feet, pea,bee, tree,sea/
meat, beef, tea
( 1 st group are those live while 2nd group are those lifeless itself )

5) feet, meat , beef , pea , bee , tree /
sea, tea
( 1st group are solid stuff while 2nd group are liquid)

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Kids are kids, we adults' imagination are drying up at every minute. We tend to think more sane, we filtrate every 'slim-chance' possibility, we rush to the point as quickly as directly as we can..

But on the way we rush at the goals we set beforehand, we get the speed but lose the joy :(

My french teachers

Remy, my schoolfellow and my first french teacher too:)
Quite funny a guy, say one day his bicycle broke down on his way to school, so he was late for class inevitably, the first word he rushed into the class breathlessly and told us was, ' the monthly bonus is gone..." lol~~
Rene, came from Le Mans, is an expert on arts (painting) in French, i like his chinese name a lot, which was given after the pronunciation of his french name, “海纳”, means 'all rivers run into sea', develop into
'A person is great when he can be tolerant and forgiving to many other people. ' He's quite good at freehand on the blackboard, vividly and easy to understand ( than those french words.....lol)


XavierGao, a half-native guy, fluent both in chinese and french, he's got loads of fun games to play with us on class. One day at the very beginning, he plays a 5 min audio and let us say the words we caught. French sounds like a language from another weird planet at that time, the only word i caught was 'la place de concorde' what i've read from the loney planet..but the beauty of this game was everybody caught a word,and when we said that out, we got 20 or more... petit a petit, l'oiseau fait son nid. ( every little helps)
Ywenn, he was the first french guy i talked to, on the first class, he wanted us to have a taste of how nice french was by making a rather long address( Gods knew what he was talking), but it was just like cast pearls before swine, not even a little reaction from we confused audience^_^
Mrs.Wang, the first lady who taught my french, a very gentle, soft, kind lady... but with a little bit Quebec accent after several years' study there :) i still remember one day she asked us to make sentences by using the word " Vieux/vieille", the one i made was" Si un jour je serai vieille, je voudrais vivre avec toi."( i still not sure whether the grammar is totally correct, but the meaning is there), she appreciated it a lot, saying it was like a poem :)


I miss you guys so much, miss the every minute we spent together, miss every word you taught me......it's been quite a long time, is everything okay?...........

you understand me???

How could you put up with the torment you have to face a hateful, brainless,arrogant,esp. dumb guy for an incredible 60min !! 3600 seconds !! It's like a billion years to me...

But i still have to...

It's not his fault, he's a victim on a certain extent...though the idea " see him again? OVER MY DEAD BODY" pops up in my mind again and again...

But i know i couldn't give up...

He's just a kid at the very most. If we 'cast him away", there might well never be a day for him to find the coast and back to us. I don't wanna betray my original idea to be here, to be a teacher, i know clearly what i should insist, what i should stick to, im not a person with that great benevolence, but i know for sure every little helps, once i started ,i don't wanna drop it half way, moreover it's just a little kid...

For him, hatred and love and commiseration, interweaved, so complicated... i just wanna see any little change on him, then i know i gain after i pain...

I have to see him tomorrow, 3600 seconds, wish time passes quickly as possible.... thats what i should do ,what i should love to...

P.S, This HE is one subject involved in my current psychologic experiment.