OMG! KFC is literally selling junk food now!
A man, who once worked for the KFC in Yuen Long Plaza, disclosed the disgusting acts of his ex-colleagues – picking chicken pieces that were once served from the trash and reuse them to serve its customers again. This is a common practice in this particular [...]
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KFC – The Real Junk Food (KFC賣垃圾雞)
Posted in Hong Kong, miscellaneous, tagged Fast Food, KFC on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Travel Packing List
Posted in miscellaneous, traveling in general, tagged Packing, travel on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the check list I use every time when I pack for a vacation. I found it very helpful, so I guess some of you may as well.
Travel Packing List (English)
Travel Packing List (Chinese)
Don’t be scared by this long list. I don’t bring everything on the list with me when I travel. [...]
Homemade Bread
Posted in miscellaneous on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, i applied what i have learned in Heart N Tree and made some hard dough and naan bread for dinner. Taking into account that these were my first homemade bread, even though they were far from perfect, I am very happy with them and I give myself a A-
I made the bread [...]
29 + 1
Posted in miscellaneous on October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My dad asked me where I wanted to go for dinner with the family on my birthday. I thought for a while and told him that I actually did not want to go anywhere and would rather stay at home and cook for them.
Before, I used to think that cooking was too complicated and difficult. [...]
Airline Safety Ranking
Posted in miscellaneous, traveling in general on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Three months ago, when I told my dad that the air tickets I bought for my Hokkaido trip were of Korean Air, he wasn’t very happy. I bought the tickets just becuz of its price. For some reason, the tickets of KAL was cheaper than other major airlines (e.g. Cathay, JAL, ANA) by more than [...]
Have Fun Drawing
Posted in miscellaneous on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Drawing is fun and both Yik n I like to draw. And here are our artwork created in June.
by Yik
by me
The Euphemism of People’s Age in Chinese (年齡的代稱)
Posted in Hainan, interesting findings, tagged Chinese, Euphemism of Age, Nanshan, Sanya on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When we visited Sanya Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, beside Nanshan Temple and the 108m Guanyin statue, there was the Longevity Valley (長壽谷). This valley has neither significant history nor beautiful Buddha statue. I guess it probably is just another nice place built to make the tourism zone more worth-the-money.
Ticket of Sanya Nanshan [...]
The Origin of 壽比南山 (壽比南山的由來)
Posted in Hainan, interesting findings, tagged Hainan, Longevity, Nanshan, Sanya on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know that 南山 (Nanshan) in the well-known, 4-word phrase 壽比南山 (long life as great as Nanshan) is actually referring to Nanshan of Sanya?
Nanshan (南山, literally translated as South Mountain) is the southernmost mountain in China, and its historic facts and legends have led people to believe Nanshan as a blessed land of auspiciousness [...]
Thomas Beatie – The Pregnant Man
Posted in interesting findings, tagged Pregnant Man, Thomas Beatie on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a very interesting yet controversial story. Some people posted comments on forums debating whether this is a man or a woman, feeling angry and hostile about what this person is doing, arguing how sinful and messed up this is… etc, etc, etc.
I really don’t care if this is [...]
