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Wanted
Thursday, 28 Aug, 2008 – 20:05 | No Comment
Wanted

“Kill one and maybe save thousands”. It is the Fraternity’s idea in the movie of “Wanted”.
This is Director Timur Bekmambetov’s first American film, with James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie. Released on June 25, …

Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, 27 Aug, 2008 – 16:40 | One Comment
Oscar Wilde

I always believe that many fairy tales are not for children, but for adults.
Innocent children will never be able to understand the sorrow in the contents of these tales. Most things they’ll see are just …

Sudoku
Tuesday, 26 Aug, 2008 – 17:04 | No Comment
Sudoku

The game of Sudoku is a logic-based number-placement puzzle. The goal is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes (also called blocks or regions) …

Class Enemy
Monday, 25 Aug, 2008 – 17:05 | One Comment
Class Enemy

There are strong calls for tough knife laws recently, after teen death from the public mass after the tragic that several teenagers were been stabbed to death on the streets in different UK cities.
Teenage problems …

North Berwick
Sunday, 24 Aug, 2008 – 22:40 | No Comment
North Berwick

My parents just paid a visit in the little town of North Berwick, the pretty seaside town in East Lothian. I’m planning to make it the very last place for them to visit during their …

Vacation in Rental Houses
Sunday, 24 Aug, 2008 – 22:37 | No Comment
Vacation in Rental Houses

Are you a crazy fan of travelling around? Are you dying for some changes of sceneries? I love travelling around a lot.
The quality of your accommodation is one of the most important factors, which count …

King Roger
Sunday, 24 Aug, 2008 – 20:46 | No Comment
King Roger

The opera of King Roger is another good opera put on show during the Edinburgh Festival.
It is written by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. Szymanowski’s opera has elements of the classical Greek legend of ‘cult’ …

Fabulous Wine Tour
Sunday, 24 Aug, 2008 – 20:05 | No Comment
Fabulous Wine Tour

Do you like wines?
I’m a huge fan in deed. I always think that, unlike other drinks, there is a magic about wine.
Picking your favorite wine from hundreds of thousand brands in the field to explore …

The Two Widows
Friday, 22 Aug, 2008 – 21:13 | No Comment
The Two Widows

There are a lot of wonderful opera on show during the Edinburgh Festival. I picked one of them—The Two Widows, to go to when it was performance in the Festival Theatre.
It’s a Scottish opera written …

Edinburgh International Festival
Friday, 22 Aug, 2008 – 16:04 | No Comment
Edinburgh International Festival

The festival is still on. The city of Edinburgh is still in its deepest craziness, with the large amount of happy people enjoying themselves across the city.
The Edinburgh International Festival was founded in 1947 in …

Stirling
Thursday, 21 Aug, 2008 – 17:00 | No Comment
Stirling

I dropped by the little city of Stirling when going on a trip to Perthshire with my parents today. It’s the second time I paid a visit to Stirling. Actually, I found it quite a …

Hot Pot
Thursday, 21 Aug, 2008 – 16:48 | No Comment
Hot Pot

After the tiresome traveling during the day time, I’m just too lazy to cook tonight. So I just took my parents to a Chinese restaurant to have hot pot for dinner. It was a little …

Dreams and Glory
Wednesday, 20 Aug, 2008 – 20:56 | No Comment
Dreams and Glory

Sometimes, I really doubt that the guide in modern Olympics has deviated too far away from the original intention of Olympics.
Now, Olympics are more like an industry and people focus too much on the result …

An Olympic Loss for Industry
Tuesday, 19 Aug, 2008 – 20:47 | No Comment
An Olympic Loss for Industry

Though some industries, such as the tourism industry mentioned previously, got great opportunity during the Beijing Olympics, it has been argued by many people that there are great loss for industry at the same time …

Different Chemistry
Monday, 18 Aug, 2008 – 21:21 | No Comment
Different Chemistry

Celebrities are treated as different species in many aspects, especially when the issues are concerning their relationships.
After too many articles published on various newspapers, magazines and so on, John Mayer finally put an end to …

Olympic and Tourism Industry
Monday, 18 Aug, 2008 – 15:21 | No Comment
Olympic and Tourism Industry

The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games brings a lot of developing opportunities to different business. Among these businesses of various kinds, I think China’s tourism industry benefits from the Olympic most.
Olympic-related tourism has become one of …