You don’t really need to think how to create a post to create a post. Do you get this? Well, here is a few things that I took with my Samsung D510 Phone and guessed what, it’s all the randomness of the pictures I had while I was in Tibet and also in different parts of China.

This trip was meant to be a budget in Tibet and China, but at times, I can’t resist trying to eat something familiar, and what a choice to eat. KFC in China. Don’t ask me what it says, I just chose the food right off the menu.

But but but… sometimes when there’s no place to eat fast food, we have what we call expensive train food, and it might look familiar, but the taste is totally different from the food we have back in Malaysia.

Food taken on a train on the way to Tibet.

Of course nothing beats drinking economically, and that’s Tsing Tao Beer from China for you. Cheap and definitely tax free. It’s cheaper than Coke and other soft drinks.

All this is so that we’ll get ready for our walk along the tricky path of Tibet, a place where you have seen me exploring but at times with a handy phone, you get to see pictures that aren’t appealing. It might not appeal but it sure is mysterious.

This is the pathway to our hotel actually. Now if this were in our streets, I bet that this is a perfect place to ambush.

Of course, if I had a video cam the next video would have been better. Darn. I need a video cam.

Now then after pondering and witnessing all the old photos from the Tibet trip, I find that my features are changing. Seems to look like someone. Who?

What is this? Dae Gil or Song Tae Ha? (Korean Drama people will understand this!)

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After what have been a long time, it’s been overdue and this time I am trying to finish what I have been doing all these while. My last post talks about me in Potala Palace and what’s in store in there. Basically you will see Dalai Lama’s old place, the 3 Buddha statues (Past Buddha, Present Buddha and the Future Buddha).

Moving Around Lhasa Tibet
Monastery Visit Around Tibet
Drepung Monastery
etc.. do view more from the Tibet category under Travel.

The view up there wasn’t as spectacular due to the palace is situated right at the city. So what do we do after walking up like few hundred meters up the palace, I took photos…. of myself again. This time thank you Kenny for helping me shoot these series.

But before that I would like to have your eyes upon this layer of sticks. Yes, they are part of what the palace walls were made of. Made from wood and those papers you see stuck between the wood are Yuan notes (China currency) with the occasional of other countries currency. Well, it seems mostly locals donate their money to the preservation of the temple/palace this way.

Now after what seemed to be a long time of taking scenery and the palace itself, I just had to do a jump.

Kinda miss the long hair though. Is like I have a ponytail at the back. Well, if I wanted to tie, I could though. Now after all the walking, it’s time to go out the exit and we were surprised that we came out from another door.

Hmmm.. Potala Palace, if I were to go to Tibet again, I don’t think I would bother spending 100 Yuan to go up this palace again. Seems all you need is to visit it once. Finally it’s time for lunch. I miss modern food and decided to get something I used to drink. That’s when I called for Sprite. Guessed who was on the Sprite container.

JAY CHOU?????? Really =_=”" Sprite ambassador?

It got me thinking, why do people collect Coca Cola cans, but not Sprite? Then I find that it’s useless thinking these kind of stuffs. After what seemed to be a long rest, it’s time for the next temple to visit. This time another temple which cost us 40 Yuan. Why is every temple costing so much?????

Since we got used to temple structures all the temples almost look alike, I decided to scout for some main architectures and designs of that temple. This was what I found then.

Shot using the 55-200mm VR, I got this shot. Seemingly a zoom lens was put into proper use that time. Nothing beats posing with the background of the whole temple though.

I see Bruce Lee in Tibet~~~~ not… darn it was hot and I was squinting my eyes. What are those decorations or ornaments made of? They’re made of Gold! Yes…. real GOLD.

Of course I wasn’t the only person on top the temple worth shooting at. (paiseh *shy*) There’s also the occasional monk climbing on top the roof to go on to the other side of the building.

Unlike the houses and temples in Malaysia, the roofs here are mainly flat. No tiles. From far, the red garment makes it look like Spiderman was climbing up the wall. This monk seems to capture my eyes and I decided to capture it at the moment.

Now what about Tibetan people? All these time, it was architecture and scenery, what about the people? This is how a Tibetan woman from afar looks like.

Yes, this shot was taken during lunch time on the top of a building. Look at the Tibetan woman below. I think I need a 600mm to get close enough.

Of course, other than Tibetan woman, there are the occasional tourist from other parts of China. Suddenly I feel much at home.

A Female Tourist from China

Ngek Ngek Ngek Ngek……

Signing off – till next time.

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Yes, it’s me again after a long lapse and disappearance from the Internet world. Why did I disappear? Not that I want to, but it’s because I don’t have Internet access after the 6 or 7 days drive from Lhasa all the way to Chengdu. There are many many things which I’ve experienced during that long hours of driving and sitting in the jeep. There are many road blocks, check points, countless scenery and lots of other weird and crappy things.

Though I wouldn’t want to fit it all in this page, as a matter of fact, I will divide my purpose of writing in this blog as to purely funny and weird experiences with some gathering photos. The full part of my trip will be put on to another blog as to not make this blog a travel log instead. So prepare for the whole new experience and a whole new interface for the new blog which I will announce shortly after doing some major changes. There might also be a short competition and interaction for readers to play with.

Chengdu I didn’t get to take any nice photos but I’ll be back to Chengdu once I booked the new flights from AirAsia with their new flights to Chengdu opening in October 2009. When will that be? I ain’t sure yet.

So how long more till I am back in Malaysia? Beats me. Depends on the weather and the vehicle and the road. So what do I do now? Keep blogging with words? Not really, just that didn’t have the photos to blog now. Till next time.

ps : Blogspot, Twitter, Facebook is blocked here in China. So that’s why I can’t visit other blogs. Take care over there people. Can’t wait to access these applications too.

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A few days ago, or rather 3 days ago. This blog Weird Weird Denial and it’s other blog owned by the owner Daniel was down and thus it badly affected my ads network and also to readers who read the entries here.

In this time of trouble, I was actually wondering why does this has to happen when I am overseas, somewhere internet access is very scarce and not able to check all the time. Lucky that one of my friends who came along with me to Lhasa, Tibet, China brought a laptop and I was able to fully diagnose the problem due to a preliminary check up by Exabytes. Though what I did was to modify the .htaccess to include the missing parameters.

I am glad that it was all sorted out.

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Anyway here’s a glimpse of what the only thing nice to shoot at Guong Zhao. I am not able to update properly due to this isn’t my own PC or laptop so this is the best I can offer right now. I hope that you all will be able to stand my short short glimpse of updates until the time I am back in Malaysia which is about 22nd of September 2009, which is the 2nd day of the Hari Raya Puasa holidays.

If you’re wondering how I look right now, let’s say I can tell you that I have left a beard and mustache grew for 1 week, which makes me hairy. But once back to the hotel in Lhasa, it is all gone now and me being young again.

I have an idea or rather a different perspective, now I am thinking of shifting this blog to a new domain. Considering Google has penalised this with no page rank, I’ve decided in the coming future to start writing my travel logs in another whole new blog with a whole new identity. How’s that?

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