Beijing Day 3

30/11/2006

3rd day in Beijing. We are going to Yu He Yuan 颐和园。Our tourist guide said today will be a tired trip for us coz all the place need to walk n walk n walk....

We reach 颐和园quite early today. Cool day...It is a big (suppose to say huge) garden. I must say that the emperor that time are so 好命 to own a garden for them to stroll etc. The whole garden is around 22k sq ft. Big?? ABSOLUTELY!!! But the scenery is so nice and beautiful. The old folks have a habit to write poem on the floor. You can see an 'uncle' or 'auntie' to write doing that around there. We can also see China popular 四合院 in the garden.

The building, the rooms and even the roof are very unique built. They did not using any nails. How they do it?? Wonder wonder wonder....

Next, the Pearl factory...again, I dunno how to 'see' a pearl.... empty-handed...

Lunch time....we had a Beijing most popular food...Beijing Duck北京烤鸭 in the most popular restaurant 全聚德. The duck is very juicy and crispy. Before start eating the duck, the waitress will demonstrate how to 'wrap' the duck. It's a must try food. Hubby was not a 'duck-liker' but he eats a lot too... :)

After filling our stomach, we are heading to our next 2 destination, which are Forbidden CIty 故宫/紫禁城 and Tian An Men 天安门。We took almost 2 hours to walk thru these two places. It's already sunset when we reach Tian An Men eventhough it is only around 5 to 6pm. Luckily, wemanage to see the daily 降旗礼. So many peoplie surround the compound to view it.

Our 3rd day schedule ends with an Acrobatic Show. This is something that all China citizen proud of. The show take around 1 hour. The most attractive part is the 四川变脸。They even come to the audience seat to perform the last 3 faces. Wow...fast n curious...dunno how they do it.

Beijing Day 2

29/11/2006

First morning in Beijing. Our first destination is Great Wall. We can see the Great Wall from far in the bus. Amazing....the ONLY manual workmanship can view from the outer space.

Previously only getting know the Great Wall from books or other materials. But now, I really step on it!! I must say that the people from that time are really bravos!! How can they built the Great Wall manually?? How? How? How?
We took almost one hour to reach the only small part of the Great Wall. Maybe due to our dressing, it is heavy for us to move on. But we also manage to get a souvenir as a memory. At least, we had been here before...

Our next destination is Beijing Jade Craving. Erm...Youngsters dunno how to buy jade..(:P) so we only look around the factory, and see those amazing crafts.

After lunch, we move to the next, Beijing Under Ground City 北京地下（长）城. The 'city' took 10 years to build due to avoid the war between Russia (previously known as Soviet Union) and China. It had been called city coz it has mini cinema, army hospital, school, and many others facilities which are all built underground. The entrance of the 'city' is just a only small door(see the picture) and unlikely can be know by the enemy (if really war). What a pity is, the 'city' are going to be 拆除 due to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Photo taken are prohibited inside the 'city' coz it is still consider a P & C place. But they sell their famous 蚕丝 inside.

Our first shopping destination.....Wang Fu Jin Street 王府井大街. Erm...nothing to buy there but I was quite attract by their food stalls.

We have no much time to hang around in Wang Fu Jing Street coz we have a gather dinner at night. Check this out....Our dinner...

Sweet dreams....

Beijing Day 1

28/11/2006

Me n hubby depart to Beijing today early in the morning. We are going to spend 5D4N there. Heard (hubby's cousin study there) the weather there is beginning of the winter and it is cool now...

We took 8.30am flight and transit thru new Bangkok International Airport. It is a absolutely BIG and LONG airport coz the domestic and international terminal are combined. Unlike KLIA, we took the train to international terminal if want to travel oversea. We have around 2 hours to wait for transit but we walk around 45 minutes to reach the gate. *phew* Can u imagine that?? But one thing I must say, it is a very thai-oriented airport. Very Thai identity. Many Thai building model and mascot u can find in the airport.

We reach Beijing International Airport around 4.30pm. It is already sunset. Very unused to it. Looks like already 7 or 8pm in Malaysia. But the weather is COLD.....around 0 Celsius. It will comes to negative when midnight...wow...looking forward for it...We have a Thai food as our dinner. But I think it is more to Chinese oriented Thai food. Not much Thai taste.

We served by a live performance by the staff from the restaurant. They use the cutlery as their instrument and all of us are invited to dance together with them. Those aunties can dance well too... :)

Zoo Negara--part II

"Zoo Negara....Here we are!!"

"Am I looking good?"

"Phew..Have a drink before continue our journey"

"Daddy, this is parrot!!!"

"The birds are walking around"

"Mummy..This is giraffe!!"

"The orang utan is climbing the rope the the audience"

"Excited watching the Multi Animal Show"

"Saying bye-bye to the animal"

Zoo Negara--part I

Me n hubby had planned for a quite long time to bring Thaddeus to zoo. That day when Thaddeus reading his 'animal book' and able to speak out most of the animal name, then we 'really' decided to bring him to zoo negara at Setapak.

Last Wednesday, when we all reach kl then I started to simply find some info about the zoo negara at its website. The entrance fee is RM15 for adults and RM6 for kids below 3 years old. Wow..I thought is only RM5/6 for adults previouly.Hehe..maybe the price was when I was a small kid??

We bring Thad to zoo on Friday morning. Luckily it was a sunny day since KL was raining most of time especially during noon time. We reach zoo around 9.30am and there was a lot of students (kindergarten)there too. I think it was an activity before the end of school semester. Mummy was a little bit excited too since it was a long time I never visit to zoo. *hehe*

We board on a train to go around the zoo before we decide our view point. Thaddeus was so excited shouting “长颈鹿...！！”and clapping his hand when seeing a real giraffe in front of him!! We took around 15 minutes by train to round the zoo. After that, we went to see the Multi Animal Show presented by Zoo Negara. It was a 20 minutes show. Mmm..thaddeus feel bored at the first because the animal was too small and could not viewed by him ( i think). It was 2 parrots picking up the small ball to throw into the net. But Thaddeus was start gettting high when 2 orang utan come out from the back stage and climbing the rope which is hanging from stage to the audience. Haha..Thad was 傻眼 seeing this. Actually I was little afraid too when see the orang utan coming to audience place. *hehe*

Next coming up is the show by sealion. Ooo...Thaddeus really attract by the sea lion's performance. The sea lion weight 114kg. He saw the sealion jump out from the pond to catch the ball and throw the into the net. He was clapping his hand and show his excited face when see this.

We did not walk the whole zoo. Only show a few animals that Thad interested eg. hippoteneous, pig pig (wild boar), different types of cow, tiger, lion, zebra, and of course giraffe etc. We decided to have a round by train again before we going back. Thad was saying "bye bye 再见" and waiving to the animal that he knews.

The little kid was excited when reach home and telling everyone what he saws in the zoo. My sis was also 'tak boleh tahan' to him too. Hehe..

I think I'll bring Thad to zoo again. But different location next time.

又爱又恨的冰水

談到冰水，時下沒有人不喜歡的，尤其是炎炎夏天，熱死人了，
很多人都會去買冰涼的飲料或冰、冰淇淋來止渴，一口喝下，
更是暢快無比，但是，卻很少人會去注意它的傷害力與嚴重性。

其實，冰水並非不能吃，但是要等到冰氣溢出才不會傷到身體。
為什麼冰水會斷人種呢？

譬如一位小女孩從小就很起喜歡喝冰水，
長大後嫁人可能就會產生不孕症,因為冰氣會聚集於下腹部，
子宮、卵巢就像是一座冷凍庫，男子的精蟲會凍死，
所以，很多不孕的人就是從小就喝冰水引起的,
喝冰水也會產生發育不良的現象，冰氣積於腸胃，
導致營養不易吸收，變成俗語所說的「冷底」，
所以有很多小孩「瘦枝落葉」——面黃肌瘦，
這些都是長期喝冰水所致。

冰水會引起心肌梗塞，很多國小、國中的小孩因長期喝冰水，
到了學校辦運動會時，參加短跑或長跑，中途突然倒下、休克，
甚至猝死，這些都是冰水所「賜」。

喝冰水的人很容易感冒、咳嗽、聲啞，目前，國小、國中、高中，
甚至於專科、大學的學生，百分之八十以上,都有聲啞的現象。
還有，因喝冰水所引起的感冒，靠吃藥、打針不容易痊癒。

最嚴重的就是被冰水「嗆到」、「嗆傷」，在身體熱熱、
呼吸急促時?若狠狠喝冰水止渴而引起的「嗆傷」，
可以說中、西醫都無藥可救，筆者尋遍多年，
至今還未找到可以根治冰水所引起的「嗆傷」的方子。

冰氣一旦因「嗆傷」而逼入肺經八卦或膻中大穴，那就麻煩了，
全身的循環系統因而阻塞，眼睛開始「濛霧」，接著導致假性近視、
耳鳴、中耳炎老花眼、散光、青光眼、頭痛、偏頭痛、胸部緊悶、
心跳加速、心律不整、心臟病、肝病、肝硬化，甚至肝癌，
所謂病症百出，再來就是胃痛、腹瀉、脾土不開、胃口不開、
腎臟功能失調、胰島素無法分泌而引起糖尿病、腳麻手痺，
癌症都跟冰水有關；再者，冰水會引起虛火，虛火屬陰症，
中醫認為陽症易醫，陰症難治，
所以，喝冰水可能引起百種以上的病症，您能不小心嗎？

十年來筆者，眼見芸芸蒼生苦於病中，特執禿筆，
望有緣人能見而慎之，凡事有得有失，
我這樣說畢竟會得罪靠賣冰水生存的人，經衡量之後，
我想，大家都有後代不是嗎？讓我們的下一代能健康成長，
也只好得罪了，其實冰水並非不能喝，
只要教導好大家怎麼喝才健康，才不會傷身，那何罪之有呢?

中醫說吃冰易上火, 尤其女人家更需忌冰 ,常常會 這疼 , 那痛 ,
都是這東東害的唷。^_^


〈转摘自http://chinese.cari.com.my〉

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