Travel

Entertainment

Arts

Food

Photography

Home » Archive by Category

Articles in the personal Category

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 …

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’ …

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 …

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

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 …

Queen of Pop
Monday, 18 Aug, 2008 – 14:26 | One Comment
Queen of Pop

The spokeswoman of Madonna has just confirmed that this queen of pop was in the UK at the moment.
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie, born on August 16, 1958, has reached her half century. According to Guinness …

Byôsoku 5 Centimeter (秒速5厘米)
Friday, 15 Aug, 2008 – 20:06 | No Comment
Byôsoku 5 Centimeter (秒速5厘米)

Byôsoku 5 Centimeter (5 Centimeters Per Second), is a Japanese animation about distance love between young people. It is filmed by Makoto Shinkai and first put on show in 2007.
The title of the film comes …

Roast Chicken
Friday, 15 Aug, 2008 – 7:18 | No Comment
Roast Chicken

According to the recipe in making roast chicken, two basic steps should be followed. First of all, higher temperature must be used to brown the skin and lock in juices and taste of the chicken. …

My Blueberry Nights (蓝莓之夜)
Thursday, 14 Aug, 2008 – 21:49 | No Comment
My Blueberry Nights (蓝莓之夜)

“How do you say goodbye to someone you can’t imagine living without? Somebody just don’t, and just walk away.” It’s one of the lines in the movie of My Blueberry Nights.
I just watched it. It’s …

Scorpion King
Thursday, 14 Aug, 2008 – 8:16 | 2 Comments
Scorpion King

I just watched the movie of Scorpion King when I couldn’t sleep last night.
The movie is directed by Chuck Russell with Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan. It’s released by Universal Pictures in 2002. …

Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁)
Wednesday, 13 Aug, 2008 – 12:03 | One Comment
Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁)

One of my American friends, who just began his study in China now knows few Chinese word beside “ni hao”, which means “hello”. However, he is really proud in telling me that he can even …

Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation World
Wednesday, 13 Aug, 2008 – 8:32 | No Comment
Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation World

I just watched the film of Gake no ue no Ponyo, which is made by one of my favorite animation directors—Hayao Miyazaki, a prominent Japanese cartoonist of many popular animated feature films. He is also …

Contraceptive Drugs
Tuesday, 12 Aug, 2008 – 14:15 | No Comment
Contraceptive Drugs

I’ve heard about a lot of discussion about the moral grounds of contraception and abortion lately.
Actually, when considering seriously, you’ll find out that there are a lot of complicated but funny things concerning this topic. …

Smoking Kills
Tuesday, 12 Aug, 2008 – 10:58 | No Comment
Smoking Kills

Smoking kills…I’m quite aware of that, but it’s still something hard to quit.
Every time when I’m really exhausted, or got bad temper without other outlets, I light up a cigarette and calm myself down for …