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Friend, please wait few more days for more blog post.
It was just 2.5 months, but besides unpack luggage, room cleaning and tidy up works are more than I expected.
I will be back :D

笑死人的12星座宝 zodiac jokes

Forwarded jokes on zodiac characteristics 转载电邮，笑一笑吧 :)

白羊座 Aries
妈妈经常叮嘱羊羊：“穿裙子时不可以荡秋千；不然，会被小男生看到里面的小内裤哦！”
有一天，羊羊高兴地对妈妈说：“今天我和小明比赛荡秋千，我赢了！”
妈妈生气地说：“不是告诉过你吗？穿裙子时不要荡秋千！”
羊羊骄傲地说：“可是我好聪明哦！我把里面的小内裤脱掉了，这样他就看不到我的小内裤了！”
（勇敢直率、敢做敢为的白羊）

金牛座 Taurus
卖瓜小贩：“快来吃西瓜，不甜不要钱！”
饥渴的牛牛：“哇！太好了，老板，来个不甜的！”
（持家、想出轨又顾全自己的金牛）

双子座 Gemini
妈妈叫双双起床：“快点起来！公鸡都叫好几遍了！”
双双说：“公鸡叫和我有什么关系？我又不是母鸡！”
（自我意识强烈、自行思维的双子）

巨蟹座 Cancer
公车上，蟹蟹说：“今晚我要和妈妈睡！”
妈妈问道：“你将来娶了媳妇也和妈妈睡阿？”
蟹蟹不假思索：“嗯！”
妈妈又问：“那你媳妇怎么办？”
蟹蟹想了半天，说：“好办，让她跟爸爸睡！”
妈妈：“！＠＃＄％︿＆＊（……—”
再看爸爸，已经热泪盈眶啦！
（恋母情结、依恋的巨蟹）

狮子座 Leo
狮狮去参加奶奶的寿宴。到了吃寿包的时候，狮狮问：“我们为什么要吃这种像屁股的寿包？”
众人听了脸色大变。
接著狮狮拨开寿包，看看里面的豆沙，说：“奶奶，快看！里面还有大便！”
众人晕的晕，吐的吐。
（以自我感受、不怕旁人眼光的骄傲的狮子）

处女座 Virgo
处处对肚脐很好奇，就问爸爸。
爸爸把脐带连著胎儿与母体的道理简单地讲了一下，说：“婴儿离开母体之后，医生把脐带减断，并打了一个结，後来就成了肚脐。”
处处：“那医生为什么不打个蝴蝶结？”
（好奇心强又追求完美的处女）

天秤座 Libra
父亲对天天说：“今天不要上学了，昨晚．．．你妈给你生了两个弟弟。你给老师说一下就行了。”
天天却回答：“爸爸，我只说生了一个；另一个，我想留著下星期不想上时再说！”
（聪明、权衡利弊的天平）

天蠍座 Scorpio
蠍蠍刚睡著，就叫蚊子叮了一口。
他起来赶蚊子，却怎么也赶不出去。没法，便指著蚊子说：“好吧，你不出去我出去！”边说边出了房间，把门使劲关严得意地说：“哼！我今晚不进屋，非把你饿死不可！”
（搞不懂、不按常理出牌的天蝎）

射手座 Sagittarius
射射：“爸爸，为什么你有那么多白头发？”
爸爸：“因为你不乖，所以爸爸有好多白头发阿。”
射射：……（疑惑中）
射射：“那为什么爷爷全部都是白头发？”
爸爸：！＠＃＄％︿＆＊（……
（喜欢思考的射手）

摩羯座 Capricorn
一天，羯羯跟妈妈上街；走在路上，突然下起雨来。
妈妈拉过羯羯的小手，说：“下雨了，快往前跑阿！”
羯羯慢条斯理地问：“那前面就不下雨喽！？”
（明白现实懒得改变的摩羯）

水瓶座 Aquarius
瓶瓶问妈妈：“问什么称蒋先生为『先人』？”
妈妈说：“因为‘先人’是对死去的人的称呼。”
瓶瓶说：“那去世的奶奶是不是要叫『鲜奶』？”
（天生的另类、脑筋思考永远和常人不一样的水瓶）

双鱼座 Pisces
爸爸给鱼鱼讲小时候经常挨饿的事。
听完後，鱼鱼两眼含泪，十分同情地问：“哦，爸爸，你是因为没饭吃才来我们家的吗？”
（富含丰富同情心、不分情况对象的双鱼）

Finally home :)

It's so good to be home, tasted the hokkien mee, few durian fleshes; don't have to rush to apply lotion after dinner; don't have to cover my nose while walking on the street. But of course I will missed Beijing too, it is so organized especially transportation and parks.

I received a lot of question if I need to be quarantine. Well, according to company travel policy, Beijing China is not a critical area and I don't need to be. In fact, I felt it is safer in Beijing in terms of H1N1.

At Beijing capital airport, most officer have face mask on, especially those have direct contact with flyers. But in KLIA, I didn't see any officer wearing face mask.

Maybe China learnt from SARS case and really take a lot of steps. From online news, I read Malaysia government is taking action for long too, but just I didn't see it, yet.

All my friends/readers, take care, healthy is our own responsibility but nobody else.

恭王府 Mansion of Prince Gong

After Forbidden City 紫禁城, Great Wall 长城, Summer Palace 颐和园, Temple of Heaven 天坛, the priority list will go to Lama Temple雍和宫, Mansion of Prince Gong 恭王府, Hu Tong 胡同, Qian Men前门，后海 and etc.

Entrance fee to this mansion cost RMB 40, which is the same with MuTianYu Great Wall. If you are interested to read some historical story, here is the best place http://www.pgm.org.cn/ :D

This mansion can be divided into two parts in general. Buildings and room in front, garden and some bedroom at the back.



Of course it is not as large as Forbidden City, but I do agree that this is a well preserved mansion. Similar to Forbidden City, most of the building are locked. Some of the building is used for exhibition, and no photo allowed. So I am not able to share them, most probably I myself will forgot about those after a certain number of years too :p but I think the exhibition hall is more exciting than that in Forbidden City, like below. More decoration and well preserve ceiling and furniture inside the hall.




This seems to be a very popular spot for local tour. 10 minutes after I enter the mansion, I seldom had chance to enjoy the calm and quiet environment. I have pictures as proof, before and after:




After this tour group left, another will come within few minutes :)

Another uniqueness is on the building window. Like picture below, there are around 44 windows like that on top left of the building, and only few of them are duplicated designs/shapes. If you ever have chance to come here, remember to look up at the window of the long building in front of the garden entrance :) I took all of the window picture, only half way through my neck started to get tired :p





The garden is green and nicely design, with pond, small pavilion, stone and even a mini Great Wall :D





Overhearing some local tour agent explanation, in feng shui, rock and water represent power and wealth. In ancient rich man or royal residence, these can be seen everywhere. The mansion owner tend to believe bat bring good luck to him, as a lot of the things are named with bat, and even some design are origin from bat. Another is the corridor and door. All doors/corridors are narrow and long, to bring good meaning in chinese 长寿. Well, I looks thin but not too' long' is 长瘦, could I be long life also? :p　此长瘦非彼长寿，哈哈

As for food, there are stalls selling snack, water and instant noodle only. Luckily there is still a SiChuan restaurant which is accessible from inside/outside of the mansion for my lunch.



I finish all foods above by myself, I need energy to continue walking :D A waitress asked if I dine there very frequently. I told her this is my first time and asked why she has that query. She explained there was a time a female undergraduate always dine there alone, and she thought I am the one. Well probably there are some stories about that lady so she is curious to know. Anyway, I can still 'tipu makan' by telling people I am still in university :p *chuckle*

One improvement of culture I see from this trip is, they are more polite in taking picture, give way and block people view less. Fast learner eh.

Turkish food

In a raining like cats and dogs evening, we went to Turkish Mum for dinner. This is the only Turkey restaurant in Beijing, as advertised. We met the chef, she probably is a Turkish. After we finished our dinner, a lady looks like restaurant or owner came to our table with the chef, asked if we like the food. They talked to us in English as the waitress know we are from Malaysia. We all gave the same reply that we loved the food, it was really great.

After long talking, here is the food. All description from top left corner, clockwise:


1. Turkey bread with lentil soup. The lentil soup taste is similar to dalcha we used to eat with roti canai except additional fragrant taste, not really sure what taste it that though.
2. Lemon lime mint juice, kind of nice, surprisingly taste similar to Penang 'ketla sumboi' :p
3. Sultan Delights - Very tender mutton with mashed potato. I wish I can find similar mutton in Malaysia :D The best dish of the day.
4. Some appetizer: Minced parsley + onion + don't-know-what-rice, mashed chickpea (if not mistaken), cucumber + cauliflower pickle, salsa-like tomato + onion.



1. Turkish dumpling with yogurt. The dumpling is very small, there are 2 in the spoon, with 1 opened.
2. Beef curry + fragrant rice. The taste it is good. SH said similar dish can be found at Penang padang famous kambing soup.


1. Rice puree with milk. Smooth and nice.
2. Puff, we think this is normal, maybe puff is not so common in Beijing.
3. Turkey red tea, normal red tea.
4. Turkish coffee. Wow, the taste is special, a little bit sour and a little bit of herb taste, best fit for black coffee lover like me. When drink it, have to drink slowly and carefully, to avoid the coffee powder which usually sink at the bottom, more story about this later.
5. Pumpkin pie, can taste it has less flour/cream and more pumpkin natural taste :)



There is some believe about Turkish coffee fortune teller. After finish the coffee, capsize the coffee cup, after a while, your fortune can be read from the coffee powder stick on the coffee cup. Well, we just do it according to the menu instruction. The chef was surprised when she saw this and she thought we know how to tell the fortune. We told her we just follow the instruction and the chef said we were doing it wrongly :p Anyway, just for fun :)

By the way, our stomach is full so we did not order kebab. By the way, the waiter still think we did not order enough and keep asking if we need more. This situation happened at almost all other restaurant where the waiter will said the food we order is very less. Haha, now you can imagine a Beijinger's appetite :)

McDull 麦兜

McDull new movie is on show in Beijing cinema, but I won't watch because it is in mandarin. If it is in cantonese I probably will :D

Jul 22 Solar eclipse

Before we start, let's take a look a real sunny day view from my office :D




Nice sky eh :D
Well, this is how it looks like on Jul 22 ;)



So this is the only eclipse I manage to see, it appears less than 1 minutes :) Other than that, greyish and hazy sky.