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Transformer - Excavator

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Transformer - Excavator in SANY exhibition hall in Lingan, Shanghai. Great!

It does work!

With Prof. Su Jiancheng

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A very smart guy!!

Pudong view from Northern Bund

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24-01-2012

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今天大年初二。

中午大家在一起吃饭的时候，谈起了以前的生活。奶奶说，小的时候，她有很多首饰。有一次在街上想吃梨，身上没有钱，就用戴着的一个金戒指换了一个梨。

Tiber

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Memory

Vanya zimoi

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in Heshun, Yunnan, PRC.

New years

2012-01-03T07:13:00.002+04:00

How I celebrated the New year's Eve in recent years:

New year's eve from 2004 to 2005:
I was riding on a tramway from DAS to metro station "University". Only 3 passengers were in the wagon.

New year's eve from 2005 to 2006:
I was sitting home (ul. Rustaveli 15A, Moscow) with Peter.

New year's eve from 2006 to 2007:
I was (we were, with Peter, Garik, Lyssat, Ilya, Artem, Bachya) drinking alcohol on an inhabitant island off Labuangbajo, Indonesia, then jumped into the sea after the coming of the New year.

New year's eve from 2007 to 2008:
I was (we were, with Peter, Garik, Lyssat, Ilya, Bachya, Andrey) singing, dancing and shoutting in the surburb of Nairobi, Kenya.

New year's eve from 2008 to 2009:
I was drinking champagne offered by Turkish Aiilines with Peter on the flight routing from Istambul to Beirut.

New year's eve from 2009 to 2010:
I was (we were, with Duan Bing, Volodya, Wang Keyan and Alexey) at home (3-ya Mytishinskaya, Moscow), eating delicious food cooked by Wang Keyan, after the return from ice-skating in Sokolniki Park.

New year's eve from 2010 to 2011:
I was sitting with Ivan at Borispol airpot, Kiev, waiting for the flight to Athens next morning. Arrived from Moscow by Aerosvit.

New year's eve from 2001 to 2012:
I was home in Yuxi with my parents and Ivan. We drank champagne "Martini". Ivan lost his cell phone on a taxi on the road from home to Walmart, but we quickly found it on the next day.

Now I am sitting at Kunming Wujiaba Airport, waiting for the flight CA1404 to Beijing.

A pretty winter day with parents in Yuxi

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Sunshine, blue sky, trees, reed grass, super clean air

Urbanization

抬头看看高鼓楼，帽子掉的沟沟手。

初一去烧香，十五才下楼。

My air journey in 2011

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January:

Moscow-Kiev-Athens-Kiev-Moscow, Aerosvit
Moscow-Beijing-Kunming, Hainan Airlines

February:

Kunming-Beijing-Moscow, HainanAirlines

March:

Moscow-Prague-Paris, Czech Airlines
Paris-Budapest, Easyjet
Budapest-Berlin, Easyjet
Berlin-Prague-Moscow, Czech Airlines
Moscow-New York, Transaero
New York-Chicago, Jetblue

April:

Chicago-Boston, Jetblue
Boston-Washington D.C., Jetblue
New York-Moscow, Transaero
Moscow-Rome-Florence, Alitalia
Risa-Ibiza, Ryan Air
Ibiza-Barcelona, Ryan Air
Barcelona-Rome-Moscow, Alitalia
Moscow-Urumqi-Kunming, China Southern

May:

Lijiang-Xishuangbanna, Capital Airlines
Xishuangbanna-Kunming, Xiangpeng Airlines

June:

Kunming-Beijing-Kunming, Air China

July:

Kunming-Beijing-Kunming, Air China

August:

Kunming-Shanghai-Kunming, Spring Airlines

September:

Kunming-Hong Kong-Moscow, Hong Kong Airlines

Octerber:

Moscow-Hong Kong-Kunming, Hong Kong Airlines
Kunming-Beijing-Moscow, Air China

November:

Moscow-Beijing-Kunming, Airchina
Kunming-Shanghai, Air China
Shanghai-Moscow, Aeroflot
Moscow-Beijing, Aeroflot
Beijing-Bangkok, Thai Airways

December:

Bangkok-Kunming, Thai Airways

Bangkok memory

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Phaya Thai area

Along the railway

Ladies and Gentleman in Wat Pho

Budda, Guan Yun Chang and Lotus.

Chan

Khaosan street food

Pieces of Ayutthaya

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Wat Chai Wattanaram

Wat Phutthaisawan

Wat Ratburana

Nerusuan Road

Grandparents' home (Hotel)

Oleg's host in Beijing

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The great view of CBD and the east 3-rd ring road.

day

night

MAKS2009

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Steam maker

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Photo was made by me, august 2011 in Shanghai.

The Shanghai Financial Center is making the cloud.

Summer dreams

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I know not by what power I'm made bold,
But still you flout my insufficiencies,
The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.

My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody,
My tongue your tongue, were the world mine?
And I will sing that they shall hear that I am not afraid.

together in Moscow

2011-06-28T19:50:00.001+04:00

3-ya Mytishinskaya

Pisan enthusiasm

2011-05-21T18:43:00.016+04:00

Everyone intends (or pretends to) straighten the leaning tower in Pisa, Italy.

Have a look!

ooo!
photo by Hong Yu

yyy!

photo by Hong Yu

eee!

photo by Hong Yu

Memory

2011-04-24T14:19:00.003+04:00

Photo of my family at my 4-year-old birthday.

D.C.

2011-03-30T04:45:00.002+04:00

Generally, I like DC much more, than NYC. NYC is too crowded, too dirty and too narrow.

Chicago is a city avaliable just for summer.

Photo by Hong Yu, DC USA 2011

Meditation

2011-03-07T00:38:00.010+03:00

Aquincum today,with modern trains passing by in every 20 minutes.
Photo by HongYu

It was believed that Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote part of his philosophy in Aquincum (Budapest today).

Limestone portrait of Emperor Marcus Aurelius that was found in Pest.
Photo by HongYu

Some quotations of this great work are listed below. Should take note of that, the Emperor which mother tongue was Latin,wrote all of this in Greek:

- "Do not suppose that you are hurt, and your complaint will cease."

- "Natrue works up the matter of the universe like wax: Now it is a horse, soon you will find it melted down and run into the figure of a tree, then a man, then something else. Only for a brief time is it fixed in any soecies."

- "Soon you will be ashes and bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial."

- "Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he was overtaken by death. And consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and futrue, the feebleness of all matter."

I do really appreciate, that he wrote such beatiful things.

Continued caprice, from ancient Buda with Greek style, about love

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Photo by HongYu at Aquincum

It is an accessory for nekelace that was made at about 3rd century AD. A typical roman year.

This glass paste cameo was found in Budapest. The greek inscription on the accessory as:

"I do not care what people say, love me, and it will do you good."

I do really want this.

Magyar

2011-03-06T01:22:00.012+03:00

Paganism and Christian
photo by HongYu

Szechenyi lanchid
photo by HongYu

For Royal family: It is my city, (I'd use force if...)
photo by HongYu

Hight makes Power
photo by HongYu

Generally, Budapest is one of the most beatiful cities that I'd ever seen.

Other cities of this size (or smaller) with such exiting views can be: Bergamo, Tallin.

These cities are all like this: the most precious part is sitting on the top of a highland that can easily overlook the whole city.

Modern urban life

2011-03-03T23:53:00.003+03:00

Do you really like it?

Photo by HongYu at La Defense, Paris, France

You - wonder

2011-03-03T23:39:00.002+03:00

Photo by Hong Yu at Ogorodny proezd, Moscow.

Another paradise for another god

2011-01-08T23:34:00.002+03:00

It really, like in a paradise, when you look up at the Temple of Poseidon in the Cape sounion, standing at the edge of the bluff, waves crashing below.

Indulge the sentiment like in George Gordon Byron's The Isles of Greece:

Place me on Sounium's marbled steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep...

Wine, Razvrat or Bacchus

2011-01-08T23:25:00.004+03:00

Dionysus, with sexy legs on Parthenon, Athina.

And by the way, the The temple of Bacchus (Roman name of Dionysus) in Baalbek is the most preserved one I 've ever seen.

Birthday - 28й

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Got a phone LG from Ivan Pozdnyakov.

Love

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For the souls daparted.

Alexander lived 3 years, 4 months and 19 days. His father, Quintus Canuleius Alexander, and his mother, Clarina, saw to the making if this tomb for their dear, devotd and well-deserving son.

He is buried here. I beg you, when you pass nearby, to say:" May the earth not weight upon your remains."

from Musem Capitolini.

Bologna

2010-07-24T16:43:00.003+04:00

By local legend in Bologna, one who climbed up the highest medium tower would never graduate from the oldest european universuty.

I climbed up, but I would rather been a student, than a working proletariat.

Smile

2010-06-14T09:21:00.004+04:00

Shining

Iris

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And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything seems like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know your alive

Talk with Li

2010-04-12T21:13:00.006+04:00

I took some shoots mself when I was talking with Li Yangyu by QQ. It is me.

Exciting

2010-03-31T22:13:00.001+04:00

God, I love it!

PRADA

2010-02-08T21:14:00.003+03:00

Victor Prada in Havana
photo by Petr Azarenok

My Grandpa

2009-12-30T23:19:00.002+03:00

My grandpa leaved us in june, this year.

I am missing him, and I really enjoyed his book "Xin Sheng Ji".

Thanks grandpa, thank you a lot.

Boxing

2009-12-26T21:33:00.003+03:00

Once again, my day

2009-11-11T00:19:00.002+03:00

I just got home from MXAT, Now is 11-th Nov., once again my birthday.

In MXAT there was a memory ceremony of 80-year-Jubilee of famous russian actor Borisov Oleg Ivanovich. And the day befor, 9-th Nov., I went to the museum of Kino arts by the invatation of Oleg Vegernikov, an excellent russian violoncellist that works in Beijing Orchestra, saw a film that made by his son named "Mne skuchno, Bes!" (Devil, I'm bored).

The actor in the film Yury Posokhov was a very beatiful and strong balet dancer in the great theater of Moscow, he attended in this film in 1993. By the words of Oleg Vegernikov, they made love once in Saint-Petersburg when the film was shot there. By the way, Oleg Vegernikov play a role in the film, too.

In fact Borisov Oleg died in 1994. I sat in the first row of Malaya scena in MXAT, behind me it is his wife Alla. She sobbed all the time in this ceremony. It is really a tragedy for this woman that she lost her husband and son one after another.

The ceremony was very beatifully made. Many russian classical actors were in this hall. Some elder famous people in russian film gave speeches to the audience and Alla using amazing words. Someone plays Gitar, others violoncell, piano, and dance. It is really precious, that friends, lovers, coworkers joined together and give his widow a n unforgetable evening.

Citation from Anatolii (in Rus.)

2009-10-16T22:10:00.003+04:00

Citation from the messages the sent by Anatolii to me:

"Я слушаю клипы смотрю в окно заним прекрасная пора подобно музам древних богов, рисует осень красками огня, великолепие природы."

"Я одинокий ветер в поле, гонимый силой своей воли, вступаю в новую борьбу с покоем, разметая кучи, остывшей в дремоте тоскучей, души скопившую хламья. Вся жизнь условная игра победа будет только смелым. Любовь - далёкая луна сияет холодом на небе. Она предательски уйдет. А я всю ночьей восхищался. Глотая воздух мчался в след, а свет лишь отблеск оказался. Но я надеюсь будет бой и будут славные..."

"Я просто маленький актёр в своём спектакле я повеса, а в жизни занимаю место эпизодических ролей. На сцене я надев очки гляжу сквозь розовые стёкла на новый мир цветных людей под светом голубого солнца. Купаюсь в радужных лучах, фонтанов красочного лета. Не затихай..."

Messages from Igor to me

2009-10-16T21:48:00.004+04:00

I've net met Igor before.

One day, when I got cunfused by a conversation with my parents in Moscow, I think the day was 1-th, Octerber, he sent such messages to me by SMS from Viet Nam:

"The world is a looking glass. It gives back to everyman a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you" Gautama Budda.

I didn't know from whom was the message, then I replied thanks. He sent me some hours later another one:

To be close-hearted, is to be fully asleep. Let the Love (the Real Love to the world you live in) shine at your heart, it'll be much easier to live, Yu)

I got so amazing for getting such messages from a people that had never met, because I got these ones on time.

Then some day Igor sent me another one:

Buy the books of russian author Valeriy Sinel'nikov "Vozlubi bolezn' svoyu" & french author Liz Burbo "God osoznaniya" - it will answer the questions you have now.

Anyway thanks very much to the good words that Igor wrote to me.

Thunder of Russian Gods

2009-07-28T22:48:00.005+04:00

Russia has not always been an Orthodox country.

Some people in Russia, like the author of this book "Udar russkigh bogov"(Thunder of russian gods) Vladimir Istarkhov, or my interlocuter think that Jews or jewish cultrue give more negative effects to the world, than positive ones.

I am reading this book. But, as always, just for getting the ideas and thoughts from the author. you know, I get really bored after just reading 50 pages. I feel a strong negative attitude from the author to the society.

And, I should say, that I think, the conception "Nation" (like Jews, Chinese or Russian) is an abstract one - "Nation" is formed by the people, that shared common ancestors with specified physical or mental characters. But conception "People" - as we know, is an universe.

Better to judge the situation in the world from the point of view "Human natrue", than to divide human into different racial group and then to tie all the problems to some nations.

And it is not right for Vladimir to say, that it's wrong for Jews, that they created Christian, Judaism and Communism. Because sooner or later, another group of prople will do the same work.

Beat It

2009-07-19T22:48:00.006+04:00

They told him don't you ever come around here
Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear
The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear

You better run, you better do what you can
Don't wanna see no blood, Don't be a macho man
You wanna be tough, better do what you can

They're out to get you, better leave while you can
Don't wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man
You wanna stay alive, better do what you can

You have to show them that you're really not scared
You're playing with your life, this are not no truth or dare
They'll kick you, then they beat you,
Then they'll tell you it's fair

Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showing how funky strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

- Michael J.

1968

2009-06-02T21:24:00.005+04:00

I started reading a book wroten by Mark Kurlansky (I am not sure if he is a slavian).

The name of this one is "1968 The year that rocked the world".

Evropa

2009-05-24T21:37:00.002+04:00

Political-mental-economic map of Europe.

source: ffffound.com

Bali

2009-04-26T11:17:00.002+04:00

A couple was seeing at each other, enjoying the great view of sunset at Tanah Lot, Bali.

Photo by Peter Azarenok, January 2007.

Where should I live?

2009-03-13T22:11:00.002+03:00

In Russia, In China, or in another place?

Little Leban, Great Leban!

2009-01-17T00:09:00.011+03:00

A land of misery.

A land with charming people.

Me on the Crusader Castle, with Syria at the skyline.
Tripoli, Lebanon.

Medusa, you can make a people stone,
but you are made of stone!?
Tyre, Lebanon.

A Roman Heaven.
Balbeek, Lebanon.

Little Leban, Big world.
Tripoli, Lebanon.

Beautiful scar, colorful history.
Tripoli, Lebanon.

I always think, that god had lived on our planet some time.
Balbeek, Lebanon.

Beirut, Beirut

2008-12-14T17:53:00.005+03:00

Isn't it nice?
Plan to go in the 2009's new year.

Panorama Beirut

And some intelligence from Khalil Gibran:

We measure time according to the movement of countless suns; and they measure time by little machines in their little pockets.

Now tell me, how could we ever meet at the same place and the same time?

- "Sand and Foam" 1926

"War and the small nations":

Once, high above a pasture, where a sheep and a lamb were grazing, an eagle was circling and gazing hungrily down upon the lamb. And as he was about to descend and seize his prey, another eagle appeared and hovered above the sheep and her young with the same hungry intent. Then the two rivals began to fight, filling the sky with their fierce cries.

The sheep looked up and was much astonished. She turned to the lamb and said:
"How strange, my child, that these two noble birds should attack one another. Is not the vast sky large enough for both of them? Pray, my little one, pray in your heart that God may make peace between your winged brothers."

And the lamb prayed in his heart.

- "The forerunner" 1920

Photo by ZJ

2008-11-25T23:14:00.007+03:00

Oct. 2003
Dashazi, Beijing.
Photo by Zhangjing

Po-Amerikanskiy

2008-11-16T22:54:00.002+03:00

Sergei Elkin

Wooden tower

2008-09-03T22:58:00.002+04:00

A wooden tower in Kaluzhskoi oblast',
photo by Peter Azaryonok.

No comments

2008-09-03T22:53:00.002+04:00

On a shoal near Stone Town

Pollution in Beijing

2008-08-23T12:04:00.004+04:00

Beijing is too hot, too dirty and too noisy to host Olympics.

I do think so.

Matrix

2008-08-10T10:14:00.003+04:00

One day in summer 2008 when we were
walking back from "Karofilm na Sheremetevskoi",
Peter took this photo on the sidewalk.
Marino Rosha, Moscow.

My scanned photos

2008-08-10T10:00:00.006+04:00

End of 2006, Magawish

At the end of 2006, Alex

Beginning of 2008, Stone Town

In the middle of 2005,
Zamoskvarechie

Moscow Biennial of young artists

2008-07-27T16:31:00.003+04:00

Chinese arts in Moscow Biennial of young artists.

Sheep - symbol of sheeplike Chinese people.
The background is the congress hall.
(source: www.afisha.ru)

Harmonious

(source: www.afisha.ru)

China in 1940

2008-05-20T19:30:00.004+04:00

A map of China in 1940.

It is a scanned file, from the "Atlas Mira"(The world map), publishing house "Leningrad", 1940. This atlas is belonged to Peter's father. Now it is lying somewhere in my apartment in Moscow.

I did not see from this card independent Tibet, nor independent Ugur. So we could easily conclude that they had been parts of China 70 years ago.

Have a closer look.

Tibet Issue and China, once more.

2008-05-18T01:31:00.004+04:00

Click to see A westener's view of Tibet Issue and China.

Torch relay

2008-04-10T13:01:00.010+04:00

A few Tibetan expats and some Russian organized a small meeting in front of the Russian federal government to support the idea "Free Tibet" in Moscow , it was disgusting to me, because such country as Russia is not a stage for separatists.

How can charming children know what is "Violence" or "Freedom"?
It is totally brain-wash from childhood!
See the Tibetan separatist stands behind him?
They are just abusing kind Russian people!
Moscow, Russian
Source: www.Lenta.ru

In London and Paris, torch relay, I saw on the pictures and videos some foolish and hypocritical Londoners or Parisians stood with dirty and barbaric Tibetan separatists. Among the crowed - Negro, Arabic, lower income group (you can judge by their bland appearance and behavior). I think most of them even had not been in Tibet or in China, they do not know Chinese and tibetan history and rather they do not know Chinese language, they do not have the right to criticize what is going on in Tibet - they are not qualified to talk about it.

A separatist was trying to beat the bearer and
fetch the Torch from a disabled foil fencer, Paris, France.

Source: www.Tianya.cn

It is funny, that people with unneutral world outlook shout "Free Tibet" to Chinese as the Olympics will be held in Beijing, from this criteria, such barbaric people should shout:
-"Free Northern Ireland" to English;
-"Free Corsica" to French;
-"Free Greenland" to Danish;
-"Free Ural, Siberia" to Russian;
-"Free Quebec" to Canadian;
-"Free Indian Reservation" to American and then shout "Free American South" to Yankee.

A plane with a banner "Tibet will always be a part of China",
San Fransisco, California, U.S .
Source: www.Tianya.cn

Peacock

2008-04-01T22:24:00.007+04:00

These photos were taken by Peter in late October, 2007. In the Singapore zoo.

Peacock, Singapore zoo,
Singapore

Peacock, Singapore zoo,

Singapore

Kunming

2008-04-01T03:02:00.003+04:00

Found several good pictures of Kunming, put it here.

Bird-eye view of KM

Paifang in the downtown, KM,
Yunnan, PRC

Flyer

2008-04-01T00:05:00.003+04:00

A good song from Sergey Lazarev.

He has a good taste in choosing English songs - many of them were rearranged and covered by this Russian pop star.

From Elkin

2008-03-27T20:53:00.002+03:00

No comments
Source: www.polit.ru

It is written:
In Chukotka started voting.
(the farthest northeast region of Russia)
Source: www.polit.ru

Aloe

2008-03-25T19:21:00.003+03:00

African wild aloe is much more bigger than an asian one. Actually I had never seen a wild aloe in Asia, because I cannot tell the difference between a wild aloe and a hemp. First I took the african aloe as hemp, but later I am told that they are the former one.

I had drunk a beverage from aloe when I was in Arusha. It is really a very expensive one but with a good taste, the amell is different from an asian aloe. Asian aloe smells like underarm odour, and asian ones are more succulence than afrian cognation.

Peter took a shot from the second floor to an aloe when we were staying in Manchlodge in the Stone town. Have a look!

Aloe in Manchlodge, Stone town,
Zanzibar, Tanzania

Flies

2008-03-17T15:56:00.003+03:00

Kvashino, reg.Sonlnechnogorsk,
Moscow oblast', Russia

Dead flies are hanging on a sticky tape. Peter took this photograph.

Goose-Cristal

2008-03-16T12:51:00.006+03:00

St. International,
Gus-Khrustalniy, Russia

About 320 KM from Moscow to the east, in Vladimir oblast, lies a small city named "Gus-Khrustalniy". The meaning of the name in russian is "Goose-Cristal". I lived here about two months. I like this quiet place. People here are more friendly, than moscovite.

The city was founded in the 1770-s, because this place is rich in siliceous sand stone, water and forest, so people built here more than 10 glass factories. But, unfortunately, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, most of them got bankrupt. And many of them had fallen into a state of neglect, in the center of the city, and everywhere in the suburb.

In Gus has the only Cristal museum (The museum of glass) in Russia, many beautiful glass productions with a history more than a century are exhibited here. Anyway, the life in the city is better than majority small russian cities - convenience, jobs. But the average of price of food in Gus is rather higher than in Moscow! A cauliflower of medium size commonly worth 3 Euro - This is about one and a half times dearer, than in the most expensive city in the world.

The museum of glass,
Gus-Khrustalniy, Russia

Zanzibar

2008-03-16T11:16:00.008+03:00

A good place for rest, but for budget travelers - a little bit too expensive to stay or hang around. Administrative center - Stone town, I like it better than any other places of interest on this island. The beach here in Stone town is not clean, rather to say, a bit dusty, but you can enjoy the Arabic architecture when you walking along the winding paths through the town. One can easily get lost in town, if weak in sense of direction.

Beach at sunset, Stone Town, Zanzibar,
Tanzania

I like the Indian quarter here in the southern part of the town. Indians are very smart people, got to know with an Indian woman in a small, clean restaurant. Here in this district has a Chinese restaurant, too. Boss of which is a Zanzibar-born-Cantonese, he speaks in chinese such words just like "Hello", "Thank You" and "See you". It is a fairly good and not expensive place to dine, with a big assortment of chinese fusion.

Stone Town, Zanzibar,
Tanzania

Nungwi is a small and very poor village in the northest part of Zanzibar. It lies in the center of the triangle, that formed by the sea around him to the east, north and west sides. To the east part the sea tides are smaller, and you can see the dead corals, that stands there by the coast many millions years and extends many kilometers to the south. The north beach of Nungwi is flat, get 500 hundred meters off the coast, the water is still shallow. To the west, along the coast is a tourist resort, so many hotels and restaurants. Price here is very high, but just walk off 200 meters from the coast to the village, you can have a dinner that from potato, salad with delicious fried fish and omelet that 10 times cheaper in a local snake bar than in the resort. The western beach has very big tides when turning high.

Nungwi, Zanzibar,
Tanzania

Nakshi Nakshi

2008-01-26T12:51:00.000+03:00

"Nakshi Nakshi" in Swahili means "Decortion (necklace, rings etc.) for girls".

We hired a jeep and travelled from Arusha to Mwanza through Tanzanian national parks Ngorongoro and Serengeti, Plus Peter was our guide and driver. He was so green that did not know the way. Anyway, he is a good and happy guy. He was playing the song "Nakshi Nakshi" when I entered the jeep to fetch something for camping in Serengeti national park, not far from the headquater of the park. The melody was so nice, I remembered it, and wanted to buy a album with this song.

When we were in Mwanza, he wrote down to me the name of the singer and some good songs from him. I like it very much, too.

Here is the link to Youtube®, that can see and hear the tanzanian song "Nakshi Nakshi".

Arusha

2008-01-25T18:14:00.000+03:00

After a 3-day-visit to Nakuru I went back to Nairobi again. Around the 4-th, Jan.

I got a Matatu class lux, and got out in Westlands in Nairobi. I wanted to go to Kisumu from Nakuru, but there was no transportations due to the situation in the whole country. I decided to leave for Tanzania.

With the help of a taxi driver, luckily, I found a tanzanian shuttle bus that was heading for Arusha and waiting for passengers near the Jevanjee Gardens on street Monrovia. After some time, we drove to the south with a full carriage foreigners - Chinese as me, Russian, Belorussian, Germans, Kenyans, Tanzanians, American and a big group of tourists from South Korea.

Close to the borderline with Tanzania, I saw some Maasai towns and many Maasai people. Their clothes and decoration were so beautiful and variegated. And the bodily form - so neat!

Travel guide "Lonely Planet® Tanzania",
on a background of Arusha National Park.
Arusha region, Tanzania

It took us about 40 minutes to pass the borderline in both side. After about 5 hours from go-off, we got to Arusha, and found a church-run hostel called "Centre house hostel". A charming tanzanian girl named Veneranda in this hostel pleased me with Tanzanian immediately.

A small country church,
on the backgroud of Kilimanjaro.
Nairobi road, Arusha region, Tanzania

The following days I spent in Arusha National Park, and by the Nairobi road to some Maasai settlement. Arusha is a good place that it attracts many expats to live here. Here has my favorite chinese restaurant in Tanzania - Everest, chef cook of which from province Sichuan, China.

Weather here is very good, not hot, nor wet, and no mosquitoes. It is a little hotter than in Nairobi. Anyway, the climate reminds me like home, in Yunnnan province.

Nakuru

2008-01-24T14:04:00.000+03:00

There are very few attractions worthy of the name in Nairobi itself, so I went to Nakuru after spending 2 nights there. As the location of Nakuru National Park and Menengai crater, Nakuru lies just two-hours' drive to the northwest of Nairobi. The Nakuru National Park is famous for observing the flamingo while the Menengai crater is A major volcanic crater in the East African Rift.

Lake Nakuru, Nakuru National Park, Kenya

I tried to find a transport that goes for Nakuru in Nairobi, but all bus stations were closed. Finally I found a small Matatu(means minibus in Kenyan swahili) station in east Nairobi with big difficulties. It operated during the chaos. I sat on a Matatu, the minibus with 15 seats waited about another one hour longer to collect full carriage of passengers.

Menengai crater, Nakuru, Kenya

In Nakuru I saw some refugees there. They were sitting on trucks with their furnitures - moving home to a safer place, as they considered. My taxi driver in Nakuru told me that the house of his mother-in-law in Kitale was burned down by the mob. In this small city I met two chinese worker occasionally on a street near the Matatu station, they were from Uganda after the end of their work contract there.

Matatu class Lux (10 seats instead 15 as common ones),
Kenyatta lane, Nakuru, Kenya

David, my taxi driver in Nakuru,
a father of five children and a supporter of Kibaki,
whose mother-in-law's house was burned down,
Menengai crater, Nakuru, Kenya

Nairobi

2008-01-24T13:18:00.000+03:00

I was walking on the quiet streets of Nairobi, 1-st, Jan, 2008. During the first chaos after The Presidential Election in this country.

I lived in the Lavington area in the western part of Nairobi. First we took a matatu to Westlands, and then walked to the down town. This part of city is considered a prestige one so it was very clean here.

Str. Loita, Nairobi, Kenya

After a 40-minutes' walk from Westlands we got to Central Nairobi. Like other big cities, many skyscrapers here. Every store and company was closed, I could not buy any things, even drinking water. Finally we found one with defense.

The only opened restaurant this day in center - Trattoria on Kaunda street. I had a lunch here.

Just on the opposite side of where I lived in Lavington there was a chinese restaurant, a chinese family was running it - the wife as a cashier and manager, the husband as a chef cook and a grandma as well with some local guys as servants. The chinese family went to Kenya 6 years ago. Many expats here having supper in this good restaurant.

Mosocw in the Christmas

2007-12-27T17:58:00.000+03:00

A great and beautiful city, but no snows - global warming causes less and less snowfalls, rather in late December.

In the Christmas Eve I spent the time with 3 polish from Hospitality Club walking in the center. The next day I met a chinese friend in the best and correct chinese restraint in Moscow - "Druzhba" .

Polyanka, Moscow
on the roof of the building "Young Guards"
source: russos.livejournal.com

Rotation, circle.

2007-12-27T00:26:00.000+03:00

The new year is coming again??!!!

My god!

My portraits

2007-12-17T02:16:00.000+03:00

These portraits were taken in summer, 2005.

Payon metro "Belorusskaya", Moscow.

I was standing in the kitchen. Str. Gruzinskiy val.
The sun was setting, but it was rather brightly and hot.
This apartment is very close to station metro "Belorusskaya",
(also the train station "Belorusskaya" and prospect "Leningradskiy")
but it is too noisy here - I couldn't sleep peacefully even at night.

The Sparrow Hills, Moscow.

It is also called "The sight-viewing square",
a historical and classical place for foreign visitors, for expats,
and also for moskvichi.

Hedgehogs

2007-12-15T02:58:00.000+03:00

The ship sank, three hedgehogs are bickering after this:

the left one: I cannot stand any more!!
the right one: Pffffffff (the sound made by hedgehog).
the middle one: Don't think to sit down. And you, stop making sounds!

Yellow and Blue

2007-12-11T23:41:00.000+03:00

Yellow and Blue are not just the colors on the national flag of Ukraine.

The photo was taken on the Bohai Sea, China, at the place of juncture of the Yellow River and the sea, see how much silt the Yellow River carries!!

Chef-d'euvare from Peter

2007-12-09T01:07:00.000+03:00

These pictrues are among the best-love ones of his collection.

My hands in front of VDNH, Moscow

He took the shoot when I was standing on roller on a small square in front of VDNH, summer, 2005.
(I had not fractured my elbow yet)

Place of work, Moscow

Aerodrom, Minsk

Rayon "Iuzhnaya", Moscow

The photo was taken on the balcony in the rayon "Iuzhnaya" of southern Moscow.
Spring 2006, When we were invited to a freak-out.

Alexandria

This photo was taken on an old street not far from the golf of Alexandria, Misr.
We were walking back from the Amphitheater and Pompey's Pillar.
The time is around the Muslin festival "Ramadan".

Pyramid of Menkaure, Giza

The third largest among the Giza pyramid complex, here it seems rather big.

Kasr El Nile Bridge, Cairo

Maybe it is the most artistic bridge cross Nile, around mordern skyscrapers, feluccas, national theater, Gezira island, and, night restrants.
But, when I was walking in this beautifl bridge, the bridge remembers me like walking on the 1-st bridge of Changsha, China, where I spent 4 years in the university.
It is because the scenery looks almost the same - skyscrapers, boats, delta, night restrants.

Kuskovo, Moscow

Kuskovo is an old garden for Tsars in the east part of Moscow.
The photo was taken about in July, 2005.

Red Sea, Hurghada

Hurghada is a good place for surfuring, but not a ideal place for snorkelling.
It is too windy here, and too many tourists.

Easy Ride

2007-12-03T23:04:00.000+03:00

I want the good life
But I don't want an easy ride
What I want is to work for it
Feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips
That's what I want for me

I want to let go of all disappointment that's waiting for me
What I want is to live forever
Not defined by time and space
It's a lonely place
That's what I want

I want to know everything
Maybe someday I will
What I want is to find my place
Breathe the air and feel the sun on my children's face
That's what I want

I go round and round just like a circle
I can see a clearer picture
When I touch the ground I come full circle
To my place and I am home
I am home

Seriy kot

2007-12-01T16:12:00.000+03:00

"Seriy" is the name of my cat. In russian it means Gray.

The rave of the cat - British blue. (in rus. Britanskaya golubaya).

She is even smaller than a black Moscow crow!!

Sometimes, when she wants sex, she cries very loudly. Other times, very quietly.

Kot, cup and a fox.

On Bamgok

2007-12-01T15:43:00.000+03:00

Bamgok is an uninhabited island (approx. 450m*300m) out of Labuan Bajo, very close to the islands of Komodo and Rinca, between the The Florence sea and The Sawu sea.

We (7 people) stayed here 10 days. A local guy named Lee helped us. He is a good and cultured guy with a beautiful wife and 4 children.

My Adidas with tropical fruits

Maybe I will be a small fish or,
a sea star in the next life?

A white elephant

2007-11-23T23:40:00.000+03:00

The main stadium of Olympics 2008 - Beijing Bird Nest.

By using the modern Hoisting Technology, a huge cover was built above the court, that spent billions American dollars. Here had risen a big problem - We cannot use this stadium when the sun shines!!! It is because the projection of the girder causes visual illusion - both the sportsmen and the spectators couldn't adapt it.

Archipelago Flores

2007-11-23T22:34:00.000+03:00

A very small island just 5 kilometers from Labuan bajo, Flores, Indonesia - A fantastic paradise. It is not merely a beach with pure sand, multi-colored coral, wild monkeys playing with each other on neighboring islands, some mini-sharks swimming. Once I even admired the happy Floresian guys that were living so close to heaven.

Peter took the first photo on the beach with our chattered boat in the middle of the shot on a black-white film (Fuji acros 100). And the second one, colored version after the use of Adobe Photoshop.

Besakih, Bali

2007-11-23T22:27:00.001+03:00

Peter is my close friend.

And, at the same time, he is a very talented fotographer. Photograph is not his job, it is just a hobby for him. In Russian too many excellent fotographers! Exciting!!

This photo was taken in the temple of Besakih, Bali. When we were walking by this huge, beautiful but empty complex, I felt myself, like a walking bird (not a penguin). Like in other places of this paradise, you can often meet some very charming children and lovely peacefully dogs (not like some vicious dvornyaka in Moscow).

The weather is very clean, and sunny, like other places on the equator. But, Peter likes black-white photos very much, so he took the snap. For me, too.

Caricatures of Sergey Yolkin

2007-11-22T19:13:00.000+03:00

Sergey Yolkin is on of my favorite Russian caricaturists of the contemporary era.

Here is some of his works.

- hen 1: I am going to sell my business.
- hen 2: I beg your pardon! It's unprofitable now! wait until The Easter comes!

The title: Dreadful secrets of Khufu.

Word on the rider: Hamas.
Word on the horse: Fatah.

"Gavno" in Russian means "Shit",
www.gavno.ru is an erotic site.

- Some European leaders in G8 are saying to Bush:
Go and tell him (Vladimir Putin) what we are thinking about him.
Just do not look at his eyes!!!

Come back to Russia

2007-11-22T18:58:00.000+03:00

Ура, наш товарищ Костя вернулся в Москву после длительного путешествия по Китаю через Казахастан автостопом. точное время прибытия в Москву - 04:50, 22-го ноября.

Костя вписался у нас несколько дней в Москве перед путешествием на Восток летом 2007 года (вернее в июне). У него было два огромных рюкзака, третий рюкзак поменьше, и с собой складной велосипед!!! Он сам из Питера, интерсно, что он в Питере живет на улице Руставели, а в Москве я тоже живу на московской улице Руставели. Он даже лучше меня знает улочки Москвы, несмотря на то, что я тут уже больше трех лет жил.

Когда Костик был у нас, мы вместе встретились с Машой Квашонкой - очень интересная, индивидуальная и независимая девушка-автостопщица-путешественница. В тот момент она только совершила свое путешествие по Южной Америке дикарем. Приехала в Берлин, и автостопм добралась до Москвы. Маша - один из главных организаторщв HC в Москве, у неё дома всегда гости из разных стран мира. По её словам, почти каждый день есть хоть кто-то вписывается у неё.

Теперь про Костя, он тоже парень интересный, побывал во многих странах. Он мне показал свои паспорты (3 штуки за 4 года), много разнообразных виз там стоит. Он сам, или с напарником автостопом (почти бесплатно. только за визу, питание и иногда ночевку) путешестовал по Египту, Сирии, Ирану, Ирдании, Судану, Турции. Да, конечно, надо очень хорошо уметь договориться с арабами, чтобы они с удовольствием пускали в салон своей машины непонятных иностранцев и ехать какое-то расстояние бесплатно. Причем надо учитывать, там в глубине мусульманских стран, почти никто не знает английский или русский. а арабский, тоже мало кто знает.

Вот информация о его перемещениях в пространстве и времени, начиная с лета 2007 года.

Though I am gone

2007-11-21T22:45:00.000+03:00

"Though I am gone" is a documentary film about a tragedy in China, happened in 1966. The producer of this film is an independent filmmaker in China, called Hu Jie.

The hero of the film - a woman-teacher and a vice-schoolmaster in "The Girl's High School Attached to Beijing Normal University", that was beaten to death by her students-Red Guards in august, 1966. Among these girl students - many of them from families senior cadre in CCP. She was also the first teacher in China, that was beaten to death in the "Cultural" Revolution.

The teller of the history - her husband, that had survived from the massacre of Mao.

Though I am Gone (part 1)

Though I am Gone (part 2)

(Film in Chinese with English subtitle)

Этот документальный фильм рассказывает об одной трагедии, которая была 41 год назад.

Герой фильма - преподавательница и вице-директор женской школы при Пекинском Педагогическом Университете, которую избили до смерти её ученицы-поклонницы Мао в начале "Культурной Революции" в 1966 году. Основная часть школьниц - дети элитных семей (вышепоставленных чиновников КПК). Она стала первой жертвой среди всех педагогов Китая, пострадавших во время КР (1966-1976).

Старик в очках, который рассказывает нам про его семейную трагедию, и, лучше говорить, трагедию китайских народ - её муж, переживший во время погрома Мао.

Фильм был снят китайским независимым продюсером Ху Це. Название фильма - "Хотя, я умерла". Данный фильм является строго запрещённым в континетальном Китае. История рассказывается на китайском языке с английским субтитром.

Tanzanian, Moscow

2007-11-21T18:08:00.000+03:00

Today morning I went to the embassy of Tanzania in Moscow in order to apply a visa. Of course for me, it is possible to get a multivisa on arrival or at boardline of Tanzania with Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi (no diplomatic relations with PRC) and Zambia. I do not have enogh informations about getting a tazanian visa at Kilambo (a town near Mozambique).

All visitors wishing to enter United Republic of Tanzania must obtain an visa that will enable him/her to enter the country, except nationals of Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, Brunei, Cyprus, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malaysia, Malawi, Malta, Maldives, Mauritius, Namibia, Nauru, Sao Tome & Principe Island, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Island, Swaziland, Tuvalu, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Planing to go to Dar-es-salaam, Mahale Mountains NP and Zanzibar in the New year of 2008.

"Wherever you visit, the highlight inevitably winds up being Tazanians themselves – with their characteristic warmth and politeness, and the dignity and beauty of their cultures. Chances are that you’ll want to come back for more, to which most Tazanians will say “Karibu tena” (welcome again)."

- Lonely Planet, 2005

Серебряная капля

2007-11-21T17:31:00.000+03:00

Сегодня в очередной раз, ходил в спортзал «Серебряная капля» на Тимирязевской.

Вот, мне очень нравится этот спортзал – почти есть все: тренажёрная комната, бассейн с тёплой водой, тенисная площадь, солярий, парикмахерская, салон красоты, медицинский центр, ателье… самое важное, это очень уютно, домашний зал-тик. «Серебряная капля» сам по себе не большой, всего три этажа:

Первый этаж: проходная, гардероб, ресепшен, солярий, салон красоты, тренажерая комната, стандартная тенисная площадка. Тут сидят добрая пожилая гардеробщица, красивые девушки с улыбкой, и, конечно, тренеры с хорошими мускулами;

Второй этаж: мужская и женская раздевалки, парикмахерская, «пляж одного метра» (сам не знаю что за комнату, поскольку всегда было закрыто), бассейн, душ, туалет. Стоит заметить, что вода в бассейне тёплая, и достаточно чистая.

Третий этаж: по площади 3-й этаж значительно меньше, чем остальные. На этом этаже находится медицинский центр.

В этом спортзале можно купить клубную карту на месяц, полгода, год, и цена доступная – месячная карта стоит 2 500 руб. (будни с 12:00 до 16:00) или 4 500 руб. (будни с 08:00 до 22:00).

К сожалению, клуб закроется к февралю 2008 года. : (

Open my blog

2007-11-19T23:16:00.000+03:00

In the past, I thought it is a waste of time to open a blog, but at last weekend (17-18, Nov, 2007) I changed my mind. I viewed some interesting blogs occasionally, So I decided to open a blog, and, to try to write something interesting, too.

Я сам придумал такой псевдоним себе - "Хлеб и Молоко", объясняю почему: мне очень нравится, когда кушать хлеб с молоком. Сам я китаец и скромный гурман, поэтому кухня китайская, особенно чистенькая, свеженькая и острая, очень нравится. Но, на самом деле, деликатес быстро надоест. Белый бетон(иногда овсяное печенье) с Останкинским топлёным молоком - вечное предпочтение.

Spasibo!