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Back from another absence
This time because I was away on holiday. It was FAB! Guess where I went? (Have I told you before?)
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Fear Factor Food: Shanghai and Hangzhou
We were just coming out of the fabric market when I spotted a cha ye dan (tea egg) vendor by the road. Happily paid my 50 cents for it and it tasted good! Snapped a couple of shots here.
Spot what's the matter here:
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The crazy things that go on in this world
Suspected thief robs judge at own trial Fri Jul 14, 2006 08:06 AM ET ( Read more... ) -
Diving at the Anambas Islands
Imagine dozing off on the upper deck of a boat, enjoying the warm breeze. The boat stops and the anchor line starts cranking. You hear links clink against rusty metal links as the anchor goes down and finally hits bottom. Lazily, you open your eyes and chuck away the magazine you were trying to read but ended up using to shade your face from the ( Read more... ) -
Histrionic chocolate quote of the day
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?
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Dunno why, but the science geek in me loves this quote
What is the longest, and the shortest thing in the world: the swiftest, and the most slow: the most divisible and the most extended: the least valued and the most regretted: without which nothing can be done: which devours all that is small: and gives life and spirits to every thing that is great? ... It is time.
--Michael Faraday
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