China
The West Lake
上有天堂，下有苏杭。 There’s heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou on earth.
You’d think it’d be easy to row the boat but I tried and failed miserably. It is much harder to steer than it is to actually move the boat. That man is strong and barely flinched as you can see, casually smoking [...]
A Week of Sunrises, Sunsets and lots of 白酒
Visited 张家口 (Zhangjiakou) last month on a photography excursion with the China Photographers Association. Temperatures were below zero and we woke up for sunrises every day and took photos of sunsets every evening. There will be a Seasons of Zhangjiaokou exhibition held and I hope some of my works will be [...]
Spring Festival
Is it raining outside? Afraid not. It’s just endless fireworks day and night since the eve and it’s still going on. We went to Chaoyang Park Temple Fair (庙会) to rub off some of the festive atmosphere. Entrance was 15rmb and I don’t quite understand why this counts as a Spring Festival [...]
Touch my Toes
This is my kitchen. My new IKEA chopping block and knife. That’s me, standing on a wobbly stool that the tenant left behind. The door of my front-load washing machine left ajar with fresh dirty laundry in the queue. This could have been a better picture if I had paid more [...]
X: Goodbye, Europe
Realised I left out a lot of information about my Europe trip after going through the digital footprints on my laptop. Particularly fish and chips from North Sea Fish near Passfield Hall, with vinegar instead of mayonnaise. My last couple of days in Europe were spent getting wasted every night with [...]
burabura has moved
to http://burabura.me!
I am moving to China this Sunday and since WordPress is banned over there (read: the Great Firewall of China), I’m transferring burabura to my own web hosting. A little ironic that a has-been web designer is now using off-the-rack blogging solutions, free themes and free hosting when she’s perfectly capable of scripting and [...]
臺北/九份 Apr'09
Jiufen (九份) reminds me of somewhere in Japan (I forgot)… You’ll need to take a cab or bus to reach here as there isn’t a train station. Lots of food, souvenir shops and tea houses with smashing views. They say it’s easy to identify the tourists, especially Singaporeans, because we’re usually in shorts/berms and slippers while [...]
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