wonderland

松月绕

皓月挂苍松，

松清月色明。

松风水月，月与青松，

月映流泉松绕藤。

白头翁举杯邀月，

长松下，可惜松月趣无穷。

松生幽谷月横空，

月吐明珠松化龙。

松涛月下浮云静，

月照松梢更有情。

老翁笑指松间月，

堪喜松月在一处逢。

刷拉拉，月华影里松风起，

惊得那松鹤宿夜欲飞腾。

乐陶陶，望月在松前把瑶琴弄，

弹一曲《高山流水》水月与青松。

口赞道秋月光辉明如镜，

松枯不朽大夫名。

霎时间，月转星光移松影，

松根月下护仙灵。

喜孜孜杯中映月欣吐月，

笑哈哈恍如松动欲浮松。

枕松卧享松间梦，

梦入仙桥步月宫。
醒来时，风清水静，

月光松影依然在，

猛回头，见松自青青月犹明

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I listened it many many times...still love it..

Ally: when it comes to mushroom, how many types you know?

B: en...(seems like a bit confused about the question)

ally: in china, we have many kinds of mushroom. Shiitake mushroom, straw mushroom, enoki mushroom and etc. When I translate it, do you have any idea what it is?

B: ah...I only know mushroom

Ally: in that case, I only need to translate it to mushroom no matter what it really is.

Next day...

...............................................................................................................................

Ally: salted fish, finely chopped mushroom, minced ginger, garlic clove..

C: wait ... what kind of mushroom?

Ally: Er...

C: i need to know what kind of ....

.................................................................................................................................

conclusion: you never know the next foreigner you will meet. It's better to recite all kinds of mushrooms' name...

once we build part of chinese garden "master of net" into the exhibition hall of Metropolitan museum of art in New York. It is pretty well-known in 1980s, and many may heard it before. Unfortunately, Ally knew it just a few days, it is discoveed while ally reading 陈从周's book. Ally googled it and found some pic taken in the museum , it is called 明轩. wow...what ally could say, it is really impressive and surprising. It imitate the whole courty yard including stone floor, famous well-known half-pavillion, rockery, plant, uptilted roof, moongates, window lattice-work. Moreover, it also pay attention to the daylight which was shining down from the glass ceiling. Light and shadow is always a major moving element adding to the still architecture. see the pic below

http://www.hfyz.net/teacher/footmarks/usa/New%20York%202010/Metropolitan%20Museum%20of%20Art/Metropolitan%20Museum%2028.htm

Chinese gardening is an organic thing. Undoubted this immitation is very successful. Not to mention "master of net" garden is one of the best which boasts for its proper propotion, elegance, delicacy...白墙青瓦,绿竹红花...enterring into a reinforced concrete and steel building and found this 宛自天开 garden, you cannot helping admiring chinese people's creative and Chinese aesthetic value. One day if i decide to visit New York, this garden receding in modern jungle should my main imputus.

ally found some pic about garden (master of net) taken around the same period of 1980s. hereafter is the link:

http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/home/3wangshy.htm

巴比伦的空中花园 may be same as this one in New York. aaa....I want its book

during the lunch, we chated a little bit our travel funny story.

Hereafter is about ally:

when ally took a trip to Cambodia, sth horrible happened to her. On the last day, she returned back to Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, and would take an early flight back to Guangzhou city next morning. Since there was only one day left for this city, so Ally and her friend seemed a little bit rush. Originally they planed to visit royal palace.

To save time, Ally just followed cabbie’s suggestion and casually choose a small hotel to check in. Then rushed out and hailed a motorcycle. Everything looked perfect except that Ally suddenly found out she forget the hotel’s name, not to mention she didn’t grab hotel’s info card. Damn it! Ally checked with her friend, obviously they could become friends mainly because they are kind of having similar personality. So both of them had no hotel info, they tried instructing motor driver to return. The most “lucky” thing is : driver did not speak English. Err.. more correctly, they could speak but only limited to bargain price and the sightseeing spot. After long and frustrated conversation (mostly we used body language), it was still unsuccessful. Ally was tired, hungry, and even cannot help imagining that she might end up with calling police. More marvelous thing was it started to rain. You never know what God’s instruction is until you experienced all terrible thing. The garage owner save ally when she went into just for a shelter fr the rain. Owner is a Chinese Cambodian, it just took him a min to fix our problem. He is out of question the greatest saver in Ally’s life.

Ally went nowhere after returning back to hotel. She was exhausted and her heart was not strong enough to continue exploring this city after being through such dramatic tragedy.

as of today, there is still no one can beat the garage owner in Ally mind. Ally still can recall the minute when she realized he can speak Chinese and Cambodian, tears almost runned down ally's eye. At that moment, he was the god with a ring of light over his head.

X growled: it is so unbearable (someone is complaining the noisy working environment)

Ally gave her a shiny smile and comforted her: wait a few min. Guys will calm down once boss is back to her desk.

X continued to groan: where is she? Cannot wait to see her immediately

Ally grinned and said: definitely she will show up and save you, it just about time. Imagine that she will ride a white horse while waving a knife to rescuer you from a horrible dragon.

X followed my suggestion and fancied a bit in her mind, suddenly she burst into laughter and said: Ally, did you just say knife instead of sword? You are so creative!

Ally stunned. Pls give ally a hole in the floor to hide herself.

 其中一个院落, 几秼垂丝海棠,还有一棵深红的茶花. 三四月时最适宜住在这个院落. ---春雨红花,秋风碧树!

有是真不需要多,就如人说: 嫣然一笑竹篱间，桃李漫山总粗俗

穿过弄堂的正门 

门扣是bronze bat which means 福

 石门眉上铲掉的letter, you could tell how cutural revolution affected our tradional architecture.

 只恐夜深花睡去，故烧高烛照红妆...实在是开得太灿烂了, 不怪得古人都说...

曲径通幽 

竹林深处有人家

 细微之处见精巧

 entainment room

as Lonely Planey said, they recommends Buddha Air as to mountain fly since it coms more closer to the mountain. out of questions, I select this airline to make my dream come true.

one of my dream is seeing Everest as close as I can. Since I am of having phobia of height, so I don't think I can develop interest of climing moutain. Ha ha.. but i can see it from plane. Pls forgive me for the blur of the pic. The plane's window is too small to easily catch it, especially it bring me so much awe when I suddently see it. 

Like Buddha Air's slogan: I did not climb Mt Everest...but touched it with my heart!

I attended the exhibition hosted by Norway consulate yesterday. Though it's subject should be introducing Norway's architech, it turned out to be a tourist seduction. Calling on people here to take a trip there. At the main entrance, it post a big introduction about Norway. One outstanding sentence is : one of the most richest countries in the world.

xiao Lu 马上叹气, 为什么他们怎么有钱??(不是感叹句, 是确确实实的疑问句,还愤愤不平的望着我, 要我给个能安抚的答案)

Ally 马上翻白眼, 回道:你问点有营养的问题, 好不! 不说远的, 就广州也有很多人很有钱. (问了, 答了, 难不成金子就会从天而降!)

xiao lu: 不知道他们领事馆还请不请人?(大概是以为他们工资应该不低, 反正就吆喝自己是世界最富有的国家之一了)

Ally回到: 恩..你还是考虑一下德国领事馆吧, 听闻他们的清洁阿姨是开车上班的, 月收入五千. (你怎么都阿姨强吧!norway领事馆的这次展览规模也忒小忒简单, 看来还是不成行, 个人感觉)