It’s cold in Chicago, minus 13 degrees celsius. I think the last time I was in the same cold condition was probably 25 years ago, and I hated it. But the Chicago city is a great city … not as crowded as New York, but with equally great hotel, food, museums, parks and shopping. I’m lovin’ it.
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It’s really not easy.
May be I have not spent enough time in Beijing, or I simply didn’t know where to look for. It’s not that easy to find the old Beijing, in the post-Olympics days. But still there are lots of places that I wished I could spend more time and took more pictures. What I managed to do was to keep taking photos, and selected some to process it with Virtual Photographer plug-in … and here is my old Beijing.
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To prepare for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing has undergone some massive changes. Therefore, even though it’s not my first visit to Beijing but the modern Beijing is still very new to me.
What surpised and touched me most about the city was not the high-tech buildings, excellent highways, impressive Olympics games venues, and renovated tourist spots; but instead, it was how I felt about the people there – they are confident, happy, proud of themselves and their motherland. In addition, I can tell they are very determined to build a better country for their future and next generation. Isn’t it one of the reasons why we wanted to host the Olympic games ?
Click the photo to see some more Beijing photos, hosted in Facebook.
17th Floor – the Smokeless floor.
Today the China astronauts retuned to earth safely and completed their 3-days space-walk mission. I think no matter how you see China, we have to agree they did a great job in year 2008 so far. And no doubt there are also a lot of problems along the way, but seriously, they are improving – in a pace that no other countries in the world can ever dream of.
No doubt the Government needs to find ways to produce better goods, and quality food. And the Government needs to help the poor and unfortunately people.
Give China some time, and give China a chance. Go, China, Go …
M.Y. Lessons Learnt 