Food in Guangzhou

I know the China post have been dragging on for a while now, even one of my friends asking me:" when will the China posts end? can't wait!". haha...

but bear with me readers, this will be the second last post. next post i will post on the wonderful Yue Xiu Park then I am done with China for a while. hehe...

Here are some nice food we ate in GuangZhou. haha...

steamed dumplings. very nice and tasty, not sure how they made it so tasty. RM 3 for this. :)

little paus (xiao long pau). minced meat inside, quite nice too. around RM3 for this.

hand peeled salted chicken. a bit salty, but very tasty if eat with plain rice. the chicken flesh are peeled off and are in slices. :) RM12 for this one.

normal vege fried with black beans fish. hehe..

pork slices with green beans


the highlight of the trip, pork slices with sour vege (Mei Chai Kou Rou). super nice! highly recommended. around RM6 for this.

and duck rice at the airport. RM6 for the whole set. :D

I am so hungry. :(

The Master

Besides Zhu Miao, there's another special park beside the ancient chinese temple. It's the Confucius Park. What's it about? try to guess? :)

the main entrance

the special three head bird for the incense offering..

yea...they actually worship Confucius...

and there's a wishing tree in the middle of the park

full of wishes...

closer look. :)

special rock door entrance to the wishing tree.

the Confucius temple

every year, a lot of parents come and dedicate and offer their child to Confucius in this temple, wishing Confucius will bless their kids to be smart and champion in studies.

another view from the inside of the temple.

The master

Nothing much to see in the park though, but it's interesting if you know well about the Chinese history as there are plenty of interesting articles and monument inside the temple for you to enjoy. :)

Stay Healthy

As we age, health slowly becomes our main concern in life. When we were younger, sports were just something fun and there were no serious commitment to it. But now, sports have become something essential in our lives.

Besides sports, things we eat or we call it our diets everyday are very important. For example, food or ingredients we take can affect the health of our internal organs as well. We will not want to accumulate too many unnecessary and destructive elements in our bodies, will we? By being a healthy person, there are plenty of things we can observe in our daily routines including the drinks we take in as well. So, this is when the nutrition studies come in that help us to decide what food to eat and what drink to take.

There is a lot of information nowadays available on the internet, but not all of them are useful and truthful. So it is wise to test and evaluate the information that we obtain from the net and stick to some credible websites. Of course, the best source of advice is still going back to the doctors. All the best everyone!

Chinese Ancient Temple

One of the attractions in Foshan is also the Chinese Ancient Temple (Zhu Miao). A lot of people will go there for the buildings, and for the believers, they will go there for the god (Bei Di - North god). Some people get married there too! because they believe that the gods in the temple will protect their marriage as the gods there are there long enough to know what they need. :)

what do you see? :)

one of the entrances to one of the sub temples. :)

look! they still using the ancient gate! just like i saw in Kampar. haha...

the wall of Dragons. huge huh? :)

one of the statues, scared or not? :D

Stone Carving of Cloud and Dragon Stela, Stela is the column or onument placed in front of city walls, palaces, bridges and tombs. :)

look at the carvings, so lively right?

and this is so scary. LOL. they "look" at the believers when they are praying. LOL.

pray...

anyone getting married soon? :D

Renewable Energy

Everyone who appreciates alcohols will learn about Bacardi Cuba. They are not only good at producing good drinks; they are good in taking leads to protect the environment as well. One of the great efforts is to reduce the usage of non-renewable energy such as fossil fuels in the production chain.

Recently, Bacardi Cuba has announced about their wind turbine installation project in their production centre. The wind energy is going to be used for powering the company’s distillery near San Juan, replacing the use of fossil fuel as used before this in the production centre. This year around, the visitors to the centre will not only learn about the production process, but also to learn and be impressed by the company’s effort in utilizing the wind energy in their production process, especially the technology involved and the size of the turbines constructed.

Bacardi Cuba has shown a great example in leading the nation in corporate responsibility and environmental progress. Through installing the wind turbines, the company is able to help the nation to reduce the carbon footprint thus helping to protect the environment. The usage of the wind energy can help the nation to reduce the CO2 production every year by half of the original volume.

Besides, the company also shows that while protecting the environment, their business can be run as usual and in fact better due to positive public impression towards the company this the products will be highly supported by the people. Hopefully through this initiative, all the organizations can be encouraged and more serious actions can be taken towards living in a greener world.

As everyone takes part, little contribution can lead to great achievements when everyone’s efforts are combined together. Let us work together in making this world a greater place to live in! Have you started your part?

Foshan Trip (Continued)

Foshan is famous as the birth place and origins of two masters in China History, Wong Fei Hong and Yip Man.

If you are one of the big fans for Chinese Kung Fu show, you will know these two people . hehe...

So, yea, we went and visited the place, their memorial halls. :)

Yip man...so tempted to touch the head.... :P

Inside Wong Fei Hong's hall...the place for all the performance and demonstration of his martial arts. :)

Gabriel and Wong Fei Hong, both same handsome? :D

new and ancient, at the border line. :)

Bao Zhi Lin(Po Ji Lam)...the place where Wong's family sell the herbs and medicines. :)

Wong's Hall

another view of Wong's hall

Of course, too bad we didn't see the real person, they are both dead already by now. haha...but it was interesting to visit the memorial halls, to know the history and their childhood. :)

"Resurrection In May" by Lisa Samson

May Seymour was a gorgeous girl with a bright future lying in front of her when she graduated from college with 4.0. She had the intelligence and she had the looks, but somehow some where she was lost within herself. She did not know what she wanted in life.

During the night of her graduation, she wasted herself and ended up vomiting and passing out at the roadside of a country side nearby to Claudius Borne’s farm. Claudius, a seventy year-old farmer with a kind heart, took her in to the farm and let her take her time off until she was completely sober again. She fell in love with the farm and decided to stay with him for few weeks before she was off to Rwanda, for a mission trip that changed her life forever.

Civilian wars broke out in Rwanda involving two tribes in the country. May had a chance to escape the country but her love towards the villagers prompted her to stay. The ruling and cruel tribe came and wiped off everyone in the village. May survived, after being maliciously abused physically and sexually. After the army left, she survived for another three months in the village, alone with all the dead people around her. Her life was never the same again.

When she was found and brought back to the states, she took her time to heal in Claudius’ farm. She became a hermit and locked herself up in the farm. Claudius was patient and loving that he helped her in any ways to help her to heal, until the day he collapsed and passed away. He willed his farm to the church nearby but with May was allowed to stay in the farm as long as she wanted to. So May started to stay on her own in the farm, keeping the farm running with the help of few kind and friendly people in the church and also the neighborhood.

Eight peaceful years had passed and yet things started to change. The new pastor from the church who owned the farm started to put pressure on her, driving her to start her new life out of the farm. At the same time, an old friend or date of hers, Eli Campbell suffered from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) after the military service and he killed two people during a robbery in a convenience store. He was sentenced to death. Most of the people thought he should appeal, excluding the family of the victims of course. But Eli did not want to.

While dealing with her own sorrow and wounds, she tried to reach out to Eli and to convince him to grab his life back. During the process, May was healed herself. She found God again and she found life as well. Eli died eventually during the execution, but he was not executed. Miracle happened. May moved on with her new life, transformed and renewed.

The author wrote the story beautifully with plenty of insightful conversations among the characters, and also detailed yet lively descriptions of the surroundings. Because of that, the readers were able to bath in the imagination and as if they were living among the fiction’s characters to feel and experience the main hero and heroin’s emotions and thinking at the point of time. It was an impressive story and it brought food of thoughts, unfailingly in every chapter, to the readers. Even after reading the book, one would close the book with a missing feeling in heart, pondering about the details and lessons learned from the story.

Books

I have been reading this book "Resurrection in May'' by Lisa Sampson recently and just completed it yesterday. It was a good book though, a fiction about a girl overcoming trauma she suffered from a mission trip to Rwanda in Africa. I think i will post up the review soon. After this, i guess i will finish up the book "Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell. Hopefully it will be a good book. :)

These days i realise eveyone is reading a book or magazine or newspaper when inside the LRT. It reminds me of the Japanese that always hold a book with them whenever they are waiting at anywhere and anytime. I guess Malaysians are picking up the trend?

I suppose that is a good thing. At least people are doing something more beneficial rather than just sleep or stare into the empty spaces while waiting to reach the destinations. Reading is a good habit, no? It educates people. :)

Online Tutoring

My brother is going to have his high school examination next year. Even though it is going to be next year, I believe that he needs to start preparing even by this year itself.

He is very good in his languages but not his mathematics subjects. So I guess he needs some Math homework help or even attend some tuition sessions if he has the chance. I do not know why but he just does not like mathematics as much. But with some Free math help I am sure he can do better in his studies.

However, as my family and I realize he could use some Free homework help with his other subjects, we encouraged him to improve on the subjects that he feels less confident with. So hopefully he will have the motivation to do the revision and do well in his high school examination!

way to another level?

A new way? to another new level?

new direction?

different new level?

transition of life, new direction to new level of events. :)