Saturday, July 12, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Sleeping Giant
"Ici repose un géant endormi, laissez le dormir, car quand il
s'éveillera, il étonnera le monde"
"China is a sleeping lion, let her sleep, for when she wakes up, she will shake the world"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
1803
“Napoleon said that China is a sleeping lion, and when she awakes, the world will shake. The lion China has already awakened, but this is a peaceful, pleasant and civilized lion,”
- Xi Jinping
March 27, 2014
"China is a sleeping lion, let her sleep, for when she wakes up, she will shake the world"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
1803
“Napoleon said that China is a sleeping lion, and when she awakes, the world will shake. The lion China has already awakened, but this is a peaceful, pleasant and civilized lion,”
- Xi Jinping
March 27, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Today is a good good day
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Dijon I have packed everything, including your favorite carrots in the saddle bag! Let's go to conquer the world! |
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Are you serious? Are you seriously insane? |
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Once I hopped on, Dijon was walking so fast. Everything became blurry... |
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We were walking around in the jungle |
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We saw a big tree |
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Stop Dijon Stop. Let me take a focus picture. |
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We walked by the lake. Dijon stopped to get some carrots. |
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A big meal after the trail ride. Carrying the heavy Sandy is very tiring ... |
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Saturday, February 8, 2014
In pain with my invisalign
My plastic surgery ---> invisalign
I always wanted a braces growing up but my family can't afford this treatment. So I grew up and work hard and finally paid for it with my own money! Now I got invisalign which is better than the metal braces. Yeahhhhh!
I always wanted a braces growing up but my family can't afford this treatment. So I grew up and work hard and finally paid for it with my own money! Now I got invisalign which is better than the metal braces. Yeahhhhh!
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wearing invisalign with zero makeup. pardon my look. |
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my overbite |
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with invisalign before going to bed. |
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I have white bubbles on the surfaces of my teeth to hold the aligner. Never know this part before getting the treatment. |
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
My day with my mom
Today is a very special day for me! My mom decided to bring me to my health and dental checkup. My mom says that I'm going to spend a lot of her money and she needs to work harder in the future.
The vet says I still have a strong heart for my age (9 years old) and a very nice coat but he found out a rotten tooth. So I got scheduled for a dental cleaning and extraction. They even draw my blood today! I keep whining...
Then my mom needs to go back to work so I follow her. Ta taaaaa.... this is the place she works.
My mom is busy working on people's faces, eyebrows and lashes. I feel like I need to support her business, so I put on some makeup to look better. See I got eyebrows!
She works till 7:30pm today. We pick up our dinner on our way home. My mom doesn't cook at all but she will buy my favorite food - we got beef short ribs!
The vet says I still have a strong heart for my age (9 years old) and a very nice coat but he found out a rotten tooth. So I got scheduled for a dental cleaning and extraction. They even draw my blood today! I keep whining...
Then my mom needs to go back to work so I follow her. Ta taaaaa.... this is the place she works.
My mom is busy working on people's faces, eyebrows and lashes. I feel like I need to support her business, so I put on some makeup to look better. See I got eyebrows!
She works till 7:30pm today. We pick up our dinner on our way home. My mom doesn't cook at all but she will buy my favorite food - we got beef short ribs!
Saturday, January 18, 2014
The last empress of China
I can't get the story of this woman out of my mind - the last empress of China - Empress WanRong, after reading her biography. She was born in 1906 and died in 1946 when she was about 40 years old.
Wan Rong was young, beautiful, well-educated, fluent in English and well-mannered. Pretty soon she captured the heart of the Emperor after the marriage.
Her life was easy and comfortable as the empress in the forbidden city.
After a few years with the fall of Qing Dynasty, she was expelled from the forbidden city along with the Emperor Pu Yi and Concubine Wen Xiu. Three of them living in a mansion. Wan Rong was active in the upper class social life.
Concubine Wen Xiu soon divorced Emperor Pu Yi, leaving just 2 of them Pu Yi and Wan Rong in the royal marriage. For 2000 years of Chinese history, Wen Xiu was the first concubine to divorce an Emperor. It was a great humiliation to Emperor Pu Yi. Pu Yi started to blame Wan Rong for forcing Wen Xiu away and causing him to be humiliated publicly.
Her emperor husband ran away to the north east of China to get help from the Japanese to regain the throne as the emperor. Wan Rong soon went to the north east to pursue the same path as her husband.
Both of them were controlled by the Japanese and the marriage fall apart. Realized that they are not going to regain the empire back, Emperor Pu Yi physically and mentally abused Wan Rong. She was to be blamed for everything. Empress Wan Rong was addicted to opium because of her loneliness and neglect of her husband.
After the WWII ended, Wan Rong tried to run to Korea with the help of her sister-in-law but she did not succeed. She was captured by the communist army and thrown into the prison.
Before she turned 40, she died of opium withdrawal and starvation. Her body was found in a pool of bodily fluid and buried with the rest of the prisoners.
The ending was so sad. After the failure of the royal marriage to the last emperor, Wan Rong was mentally ill, living in despair and starting to have hallucination about the glory and luxury of her empress life in the past, when the emperor was very in love with her.
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She married the last emperor at 16 years old. |
Her life was easy and comfortable as the empress in the forbidden city.
After a few years with the fall of Qing Dynasty, she was expelled from the forbidden city along with the Emperor Pu Yi and Concubine Wen Xiu. Three of them living in a mansion. Wan Rong was active in the upper class social life.
Concubine Wen Xiu soon divorced Emperor Pu Yi, leaving just 2 of them Pu Yi and Wan Rong in the royal marriage. For 2000 years of Chinese history, Wen Xiu was the first concubine to divorce an Emperor. It was a great humiliation to Emperor Pu Yi. Pu Yi started to blame Wan Rong for forcing Wen Xiu away and causing him to be humiliated publicly.
Her emperor husband ran away to the north east of China to get help from the Japanese to regain the throne as the emperor. Wan Rong soon went to the north east to pursue the same path as her husband.
Both of them were controlled by the Japanese and the marriage fall apart. Realized that they are not going to regain the empire back, Emperor Pu Yi physically and mentally abused Wan Rong. She was to be blamed for everything. Empress Wan Rong was addicted to opium because of her loneliness and neglect of her husband.
After the WWII ended, Wan Rong tried to run to Korea with the help of her sister-in-law but she did not succeed. She was captured by the communist army and thrown into the prison.
Before she turned 40, she died of opium withdrawal and starvation. Her body was found in a pool of bodily fluid and buried with the rest of the prisoners.
The ending was so sad. After the failure of the royal marriage to the last emperor, Wan Rong was mentally ill, living in despair and starting to have hallucination about the glory and luxury of her empress life in the past, when the emperor was very in love with her.
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An actress played the role Empress Wan Rong in the movie "Last Emperor of China" |
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