Category: Travel

Beijing Impression

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.

It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times

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 …

GPS assisted travel

In my home town there is really no place for GPS as our city is so small and the transport system is so efficient that we can always go to one place from another easily. With the help of 3G iPhone and its AGPS, the trip to Boston was my first time to travel abroad with a GPS … and it was really a great device that helped a lot.

Same as a well designed webpage navigation system, it is important to know where you are, where have you been and where you can go. That’s exactly what the GPS could do for me in Boston and it was fast to track the location as well (thanks to the AGPS, instead of typical GPS).

The first pic shows how I could go to the Boston Apple store from the hotel I stayed, as suggested by the iPhone.

And this pic shows it all, the famous Google pin … I know I am in the right place.