Gao Huayun

Mum and two killed in crash on North-South Expressway

Living !!!

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.

2. Free your mind from worries - Most never happens.

3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less from people but more from yourself.

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Giving

I learned to give not because I have many but because I know exactly how it feels to have nothing.


*** Beautiful Words***

Be content or utilized what you have ?

God doesnt call the qualified, He qualifies the CALLED

P.Bobby Formula for Success

Remember to listen in silence after you pray - you may receive an answer!

I always wonder why God never answer my prayers, maybe I was too busy to listen.

A story on giving

HIS NAME WAS FLEMING, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog.

He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow ad terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduces himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman.

"You saved my son's life." "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish Farmer replied, waving off the offer.

AT THAT MOMENT, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly. "I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of."

And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

-I expect to pass this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.-

Beijing 8.2 - Good Bye Lunch-

There was nothing special about the Good bye lunch except the 'ta fu fa'... Those found in Msia usually mixed sweeteneer... here they add a lot of different stuffs instead!

5ive typee of stuffs which I couldnt remember and the Taste... I dont realy like it but its worth a try.
Basically, I had a good trip but not the best because its too COLD and joining tourgroup which required us to wake up before 7am and reach hotels about 9pm everyday was simply too taxing. If we skipped all the con-shops (about 7even in total), It could have save us 2days extra...

I rather backpack than joining another CHINA-TOUR! That's why in the 1st day Mr.li said vacation is 'buying suffering', that is only true for commercial tour!

Beijing 8.1 -Foot Massage-

The National Olympic Games Energy Experience Center. Wow! Finally there is a place for sports. At the entrance of this center, I saw 10-20 athletes jogging. I thought this must be the real, something that's good and official.

The warm herbs water for leg washing was perfect to ease the freezing temperature outside. Goodanee! Then came the trainee "Chinese doctors' to help us massage our feet.

Then did I realize that this was a Con-shop as well. The tactics they used was the worst I had experienced. The kid who massaged my foot try to force me to buy an oilmen for RMB200. I insist of not taking it! Of all the china con-shops I went to, this was my most pissed off.experience. Unlike others con-shops, I could just walked away but not this one because he was holding my foot.
Although, his massage skills was the worst but I learn few things about foot massages. Foot massage can be done at home by putting marbles into water and steps on it.
China is promoting Tibet and market Tibetan's product. Tibetan doctor consult patient my looking at their palm.

This center totally destroy any hope of me believing in anything true / real coming out from China-Tour! If that boy whom massaged my leg was truly a Chinese trainee doctor, I am sure China will have no future!!!!

Beijing 8.0 -Panda-

The only regret for skipping the 7th day tour was not able to see the Panda "live" but luckily they didn't visited the Pandas and it was re-schedule to the 8th day. Great!

Where to find pandas?

In the Zoo lol! Not sure wat kinda birdy is this but its looks like the legendary phoenix!
China call Panda Xiong-Mao "Bear-Cat' translate into a Cat which looks like bear and taiwanese call Panda Mao-Xiong 'Cat-Bear'. The taiwanese is Right, Panda indeed is a bear that looks like cat. Adult panda live in isolation, just like bear they are territorial animal. Panda is so lazy, they even lazy to have sex. Most of the pregnancy of pandas are by human intervention. Adult panda don't move much so the youngs one are cuter.
Panda originated from sichuan and all pandas in beijing were exported here for exhibition purpose. The adults were export for China Asian Games in the early 2000??? Not sure so they are old! Panda age 7times faster than human. They 6 younger pandas were about 2years old. For Beijing 2008 Olympic these 6 specially chosen for prettiness & activeness....
The mos BIG DEAL about these Pandas are that their Bamboos (food) are send to Beijing daily from sichuan through flight because Pandas don't take Beijing bamboo as its too dry!
Recently, there are few celebrities like jacky chan who adopted panda and each one cost about RMB 1millions. Pandas are Top Level China national Treasure...

Beijing 7.0 -Staying Alive-

The 7th day or should I called it 6th day. In the tour-schedule it was the 7th day, if taking into consideration the 3hours (9pm to 12am) we spend at KLIA was part of the tour, then its the 7th day and if not .... THE SIXTH DAY!

6th or 7th I didn't care because Mrs.lai got too sick to go.... 5straight days of (7am to 8pm) of torturing tour. I would have fallen sick too, if I had continue for the 6days. That day, we were suppose to go to Tianjin which of cause has nothing much to see in the winter, further more weather forecaster a level 6 wind thus I prefer to stay in the hotel!

So Pekam came to visit us, not bad he bought us some souvenir for our wedding.
Thanks Pekam! nice cup...

The rest was worth every cent cause, our tour-bus top was blown off and tour-mates said there was nothing to see at tianjin as most shops has been closed due to lack of tourist in winter.

Beijing 6.2 - Putuo Zongcheng Temple-

Putuo Zongcheng Temple was build by Qianlong Emperor for peace purpose, during 1700-ish there were conflict with Mongolians whom were believer of Tibetan Buddha thus building a temple for their religion would eased the conflict as it was sign of respect to them. Qianlong Emperor did say that "build a temple, save 100thousand life". Indeed true, places of worship are placed very high in individual heart.

This temple also nicknamed 'little potala palace' as it was build to be lookalike the real thing in Tibet but only about 1/3 of the size.

We were invited to pray at one of the building but I didnt enter as I am not of same religion, anyway at the end. People were 'encourage' to donate so that the monks can pray for them. According to my tour-mates, those were same old 'stories!' Just like tibet, building and houses were build without windows as the wind are too strong but to make the houses look better, fake window were made. Be glad that we have REAL WINDOW!
Everybody play badminton in China... Look at his girls! They love it!

I climbed to the very top of this mini-potala palace and found these Western Love Locks...

0h! lalala... then I realise this 'holy' palace has been turned into a 'commercial' palace instead. Western Love locks.... I dont believe in those things as locks can rusted and breaks!

Beijing 6.1 -Mountain Resort-

Mountain Resort in Chinese read 'pi su sang chuan' in straight translation mean 'avoid heat mountain resort'... The resort was build during peace and prosperity time of the kingdom and during that period citizen has grown fear of war thus one of the reason for it construction was to encourage its citizen to enhance their hunting skills which will be important during war times. The chinese characters on the board were written wrongly by the emperor himself but yet no one dare to right his wrong. To err is humane, to forgive is divine... He was indeed human!
The main chamber was build using a special kinda wood which were brought to Chengde through river from Yunnan. This kinda wood produce fragrance and its scare away insects. The main chamber is the only structure in the world that is build by this kinda wood. During world war2, Japanese soldiers damaged the structure by taking wood out of it for protection from insect. But restoration works has been done by the current gomen.
Once upon a time in china, 8 countries came to bully China. China was force to sign an unfair peace treaty and till today Chinese believe that the west & Japanese owe them. That's why making imitation of western and japs good are kinda 'OK" if not "patriotic' for them.
Mountain resort cover land areas of 6km2. During winter time (-15), walking will surely kill me. We had no choice but to follow the tour guide's advice to take the bus, I would love to walk as I could have taken more photos as this mountain resort is famous for scenic view which were copied from famous landscaped gardens in Southern China.
I couldnt really enjoy my vacation in China because of the Freezing weather. The only 'enjoyment' was taking hot food & drinks. A HOT-dog cost RMB5 & a can of HOT-coffee too, this stuffs would have cost 60% less in supermarket. But now its not the time to save money. The best part about visiting during freezing condition was that there were less people, lot less than usual.
This was the place where The 1st Pearl Princess "Wan Chu Kak Kak" was filmed, the exact location where Zhao Wei kick something and flown over the roof and picked up by the Hero? I'm not sure who anyway I don't care... not my typo movie.
The hot tin of coffee wasnt just good enough for drinking. It was very good to warm the hand. There were few stalls along the way and we could exchange for a hotter one at the next stall. For RMB5 that's awesome and that's only okay if you don't let the hawker know you didn't bought from them.
Yeah! My shoes again... cracking my the ice on the lake! Hahaha...

A good shoes but too thin for cold weather. Badminton shoes suppose to be thin and that's why its actually not good for winter time. I seen our tourguide wearing something like 2inches thick...
There were still fishes living under the frozen lake as the ice can only be as thick as 6inches or 6feet, I am not sure. anyway... ice in this lake was strong enough for people to play on it.
I seen the fattest cat for real in Chengde... FATCAT so cutie.
REHE (Hot River) is only 300m long, the shortest river in the world. Its source from a hotspring thus in the winter, the water will never form ice. Good for the fishes (red dots) as they can still feed, while others has to hirbenate.
It looks like Koi to me...
Deer... The game for hunting in the older days and now... locked up! So pitiful, either being hunted or locked up! Hard choice to made.