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北京的春天

malietian — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:09:53 +0000

难得今年的春天，没有沙尘暴。真的不错。

Hello world!

malietian — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:11:40 +0000

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Lambs

malietian — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:04:00 +0000

Just for everyone who loves lamb:

The first idiot question I’ve asked today

malietian — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:26:38 +0000

I came to my favorite breakfast place – KFC and asked the cashier:
I wo7uld like the French Hamburger法风烧饼, the style with bacon.
The cashier seems puzzled and then said with a weired smile: we don’t serve that. Only with chicken.

Then I realized immediately I’ve made a stupid error: I am now in a Muslim Province – NingXia

Ticketing Broadway

malietian — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:11:24 +0000

One of the important reasons for me to choose NYC as my vacation destination is to experience what the Broadway is. I’ve watched STOMP in Kuala Lumpur, TPTO in Shanghai, Cats in Ottawa, Aida in Beijing. but all were the tours. I really want to have a feeling of the center of Broadway.

So, this time, after spending 500 Bucks for the flight tickets, I arrived in Manhattan, the Time Sq, and the heart of Broadway!

I’m not going to talk about the show itself. It’s never enough unless you’ve been to the show. Just something about purchasing the tickets.

The first night (Nov 24) was the West Side Story. The ticket was bought on Broadway.com when I was still fighting with my work, a week ahead. $121 for the ticket and another $36 for the service fee. yeah, the extra 25% surcharge was totally paid to Broadway.com. Seat is not too bad. A102 in Palace Theater. That is the first seat to the right of middle, at the second row of Orchestra. The only problem is, the stage of Palace Theater is higher! I can see the face of each actors but not their feet!. Dancing is a great part of WSS, and it was too close.

If you’ve been to Time Sq. now you will see a rad-lighted stair platform at the north part of the square. That is a very good spot for taking photos of "I’ve been here". And actually it is the roof of Tkts disconnect booths. So the second day, and after returning back from WTC site and wondering what to do, I came to Tkts. This time I choose South Pacific, totally unkown to me. I’ve got 40% off and only paid $80. The seat is not bad. Currently the show is at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre of Lincon Center, where the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Empire State Building (also here), the revisit to Financial Street and harbour tour, I returned back to Tkts, and tried Avenue Q, this time. for 40% off with only $50, with also a good seating.

Not all the broadway or off-broadway shows are listed in Tkts. But for a tourist who just want to select any of the shows, there are still a good selection shows with good last minute tickets. And, if you want only buy one ticket, the the chance of good seat will be much more.

Phnom Penh – Day 3

malietian — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:47:34 +0000

Visited the Royal Palace and the Silver Pogoda. Lunch in Origima (Japanese), Bought a phone card (The one I am using to post this blog) Did a River Boat Tour. Had dinner in Noodle Boat House. Picked up friends in airport in the night

Phnom Penh

malietian — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:42:42 +0000

Arrived in Phnom Penh at night 1st Oct. Next day, move from Riverstar to Riverside. Took the walking tour until National Museum. Had Lunch in Sorya Mall. Had dinner in Malis.

Test from phone

malietian — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:36:13 +0000

After one month membership of GoTone I found I only used 20% of my GPRS package. Now it’s time for mobile blogging!

The BBQ

malietian — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:53:34 +0000

How about a BBQ at the river bank?

Star Trek

malietian — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:11:21 +0000

I just could not get the mood to Star Trek, at least before having watched the trailer for "Star Trek" (2009). Either because most of them were too old or because the newer was too bad. And one big defect is, why they don’t have a seatbelt in those spacious seat in the bridge of USS Enterprise? That also the reason I prefer Star Wars.

I’m not the trekkie, and I did not like Star Trek until this morning. I watched the "Star Trek" (2009).

The trailer and teaser released earlier gave me the impression that this is a really cool movie. And the spending 4$ on the big screen in Beijing UME is really a wise deal. The cast, the story, the editing, the direction, and the effect and plus the sound/music, I must say, it is really let me start to think about following the coming two sequels.