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昨天往澳門團拜，下午再到盧九公園旁邊的「典雅檀香山」咖啡室。
好咖啡！食物亦相當不俗。

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Grand day out to Macau last Thursday. Had coffee at one of the THS Cafes (probably the one near Lou Lim Yeic Garden). They do they coffee right. WILL GO AGAIN.

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寄件者 2009-02-08 SZ

在深圳博物館的鹽田的模型。

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2009 Spring Festival, Guangzhou
We went to Guangzhou with my parents and a friend during the Spring Festival. Great place, and I think my parents enjoyed the trip. We stayed at the White Swan Hotel, which unfortunately was a bit stuffy and the duvets were too think, so none of us really slept all that well. [...]

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400mg of Celebrex didn’t help enough, so for safety I decided to cut short my trip and returned home yesterday. I then visited a local clinic and got an injection, and has gotten better.
The local diet in Henan and Shanxi was very salty and greasy. The cold climate also didn’t help my circulation. Despite the [...]

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I have been using Picasa on Windows to manage my photo library, and got around to try to geotag the photos I took for my Inner Mongolia trip. After some Googling, I found GeoSetter, as reviewed by the excellent Free Geography Tools website.
In Geosetter, you specific a directory where a bunch of GPX (or other [...]

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My 2008 Resolution.
I finally got around to go to Beijing in July, on the way back home from Inner Mongolia, but only stayed one night.
No job placement in London. That was a major disappointment.
I didn’t go to Portugal in June.
Visited Inner Mongolia and Beijing in July. Excellent trip.
Study trip to India cancelled. Only two members [...]

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Blood and gore! Movie 1 (~20MB) and movie 2 (~120MB).
Update (25/7) : James said he couldn’t finished watching the 2nd movie (too much blood and gore?) The Lady had no problem watching it thou. She said once the lamb was dead taking its carcass apart wasn’t so bad. She even noted that there was a [...]

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To prepare for a little presentation in the debriefing of our Archaeology trip to Inner Mongolia, I was going thru the video footages I shot during the trip. I have therefore had an opportunity to review the use of my Sony CX7.
Video filming is hard. Staging is necessary for decent results, and by decent results [...]

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I took my old Domke bag with me on this trip, and it has worked really well. It holds a DSLR w/ kit lens and a 50/1.4 (not used at all), 1 spare camera battery and 2 spare videocam batteries, a GPS, a Photobank, a pair of gloves, my hat, a notebook, a pack of [...]

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Been running around not getting quite enough sleep, so updates have slowed down.
House moving.

Da Zhao Temple, the home temple of Qing emperor Kangxi.

A big Buddist scripture wheel.

Some fscking!!!! hot!!!! dry chilli pepper. A small one had my mouth burning!!!! for 10 minutes. AVOID. AT. ALL. COST.
We then took the plane and flew to Chifeng in [...]

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We took a tour bus to the grass field

and visited a Mongol tent cluster, for tourists.

We had some traditional Mongolian tea and snacks. This is that salty tea. With stir-fried millet.

We had some local friends who are into traditional Mongolian singing and dancing to come with us, and we got the traditional Mongolian traditional guest-welcoming [...]

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Dinner time!

It is not water in the big wine glass. It’s 37% proof spirit. ~12 500ml bottles of that stuff, among the 14 of us. Scary…

Finest lamb and beef I’ve ever had.

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The new Hohhot Museum. Gigantic square in front of the museum. WICKEDLY COOL. MUST. SEE.

Free to get in. Sunday morning. Long queue right before 9am.

Astroturf behind the museum.

Handsome museum staff.

Huge dinosaur. It visited Hong Kong not too long ago.

Ancient rock drawings in Mongolia. These are replicas.

Hmm…

Mongolian mobile tent. Genghis Khan had one which could seat [...]

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We took the afternoon flight from Shenzhen, which took three hours to get to Hohhot. Got bumped up to First Class. Absolutely charming air hostess. Food was so-so. Got there at ~1800 hours. The aerial view outside the window when the aircraft was approaching landing was simply stunning.

Nice new airport. Style of Norman Foster. This [...]

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