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bababardwan

Posted on: Christmas Surprise

December 26, 2008 at 5:01 AM

I suppose sheng4dan4 圣诞 sounds so much better than sheng4sheng1 圣生

Posted on: Christmas Surprise

December 26, 2008 at 4:59 AM

多谢Kesirui.祝你两个很好礼物 from each 朋友

Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hangzhou

December 26, 2008 at 4:13 AM

svik,

Thanks.They weren't hard to find.Wow.You took that photo yourself ! Very nice.I love the interesting subject in the foreground contrasted against the misty [almost mystical ] background.Yeah;it looks like the same boat as in the first photo I posted.Lucky man;I'd love to be going there myself.Have fun mate in 杭州西湖 :)

Posted on: Christmas Surprise

December 26, 2008 at 4:08 AM

我祝你们 Kesirui 和 Frank 圣诞快乐和生日快乐

Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hangzhou

December 26, 2008 at 3:51 AM

Portraits of Su DongPo:

One of his poems:

Shui Diao Ge Tuo
By Mr. Su Dong Po (Mr. Su Si) , Song Dynasty
Translated by Laijon Liu

O bright moon, how often do you appear?
I held up the wine cup and asked the gray sky.
Tonight, in heaven's palace,
what is the time and year?

I would ride the wind to go back there,
But I’m afraid of its marble mansions, jade eaves,
That they are too high and too chill.
So I rise and dance, and my shadow swings,
How is this human world compare with yours?

Your circling rosy chambers;
Your lowly curtained gates;
Shine upon the sleepless ones.
And I should not have any complaints,
But why do you shine your fullness in departure times?

Life meet griefs and joys, in departure and reunion;
Moon circles in clouds and fine, in fullness and wanings;
Such things never suit our desire since ancient time.
But I still wish that lovers may live a long life,
And share their grace even if a thousand miles apart.

His calligraphy:

and a wikipedia article here.

Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hangzhou

December 25, 2008 at 1:42 PM

Dongporou from Hangzhou:

Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hangzhou

December 25, 2008 at 1:37 PM

Found this pic of an interestingly presented dish with the yin/yang symbol in what looks like perhaps a soup from a restaurant in west lake region of Hangzhou ,but couldn't work out what the dish was called: