Posts Tagged ‘chinese’
In buddhism, cool photos, my photos, photography stuff, random pix, travel on
13 May 2010 tagged buddhism, buddhist, burning, characters, china, chinese, fire, incense, photo, photography, picture, smoke, sticks, travel, writing with no comments
top – incense sticks, burning in a buddhist temple middle – lighting incense sticks bottom – wooden panels of chinese writing
In australia, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged aboriginals, alice springs, atlas shrugged, australia, beer, bonfire, breakfast, bus, camel station, camp, caves, chinese, coffee, couchsurf, darwin, didgeridoo store, drunk, economics, fire, football, germans, grottos, guide, hangover, hippies, hot, indigenous, katherine, katherine gorge, king's canyon, linux, marijuana, mattress, monolith, movie, noodle, olgas, pot, rock, shower, silhouette, stars, sunrise, sunset, swags, the ghan, theatre, tour bus, tourists, train station, travel, tripod, uluru, uluru climb, walking, water, water bottle bag with no comments
day 251 – today was hot, so i spent a lazy day in alice springs. i had an early coffee and talked to the owner of a didgeridoo store. the owner was a didj player and i got some advice from him. afterwards i got online, catching up on some chess games and had dinner. [...]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
5 October 2009 tagged argument, beer, breeding, buddha, buddhist, carving, chengdu, chess, china, chinese, crowds, dormitory, feet, giant buddha, girls, group, hostel, hotel, japanese, pandas, permit, photos, room, staff, stairs, statue, tibet, travel, traveler, visa with no comments
day 166 – i spent much of the day trying to sort out permits and tour options for tibet. the hostel had lots of information and quite a few people were using chengdu as their jumping point for entry into tibet. i didn’t have much luck finding anyone straight away. i emailed some of the [...]
In travel on
13 August 2009 tagged airport, australia, australian, beer, black hmong, boat, bracelet, breakfast, brits, buffet breakfast, cat ba island, cat cat waterfall, cataract, catholic, catholic church, chess, china, chinese, clothes, coffee, computer, costume, craig, crucifix, cruise, dinner, drink, duckpack, editing, engine, eye, facebook, foreigners, format, girl, guide, halong bay, handicrafts, hanoi, hike, hiking, hmong, homestay, hotel, illiterate, junk, kayak, korea, limestone caves, mall, market, matilda, mobile phone, monkey island, mosquito net, motorbikes, mountain vilage, nanning, netbook, operating system, pool table, portraits, privacy, red hmong, rice paddies, sapa, shower, software, souvenirs, storage, sunset, swimming, ticket, tourists, track, train, vietnam, village, weather, wifi, windows, women, xp with 1 comment
day 156 – today was the last day on the island, and i had to leave early. after breakfast we checked out and were met by a boat which would take us to halong bay. we crossed cat ba island and ended up on a chinese style ‘junk’ which would be home for the final [...]
In buddhism, humorous, life, rants, travel on
2 May 2009 tagged air conditioning, ants, argument, audiobooks, bago, base camp, beer, book, breakfast, bridge, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, burma, burmese days, bus, buses, champions league, chinese, clouds, electricity, email, fan, gold, gold leaf, golden rock, hair, hike, journey, king, kinpun, luggage, lunch, money, monks, mosquitos, myanmar, phone, rain, relic, restaurant, rollercoaster, sacred, scared, sedan chair, shinya, ship, shrine, sleep, sunny, sunset, switchback, temples, train, train station, truck, yangon with no comments
day 54 – the ride to bago was long and shitty. travel by bus in myanmar is incredibly frustrating. most of the buses are used chinese and japanese junks. they’re old, dirty, rattly and uncomfortable. added to that is the fact that the driver and crew fill the bus with as much luggage and as [...]
In blog stuff, computers & internet, rants on
7 October 2007 tagged block, china, chinese, filter, firewall, government, internet, test, url with no comments
would you believe that! apparently, my website (as well as millions of others i assume) are blocked in mainland china. how did i find out? i went to www.greatfirewallofchina.org and tested my site … my understanding of how this works is that the chinese government uses filters … so, for some reason, my site doesn’t [...]