New Year in Albania

Gezuar 2010! Gezuar festat

New year, new target, new motivation!

Knowing

   Experience will direct your judge, will lead to your decision. From the ‘breaking-up’ love experience, many girls naturally complain on the other’s weakness, but not refresh themselves instead. I believe, we can positively take that moment as a learning process: To sharp our characters, to avoid going with the flow, to develop own taste, to set up social contacts and to maintain a stable, positive living.

Happiness in Detail

My life is brilliant, my love is pure:

 

Shanghai

Wonder-wheel: kiss at the top

Wujiang Road: try all typical dimsum

Circus World: watch exciting performance

Musuem of Contemporay Art: Fantastic illusions

Xintiandi: Have lunch and afternoon tea

Quan Jude: Try Beijing baked duck

Raffles City: Yunnan rice noodle

Supermarkets: Grocery shopping

Zoo: Feed animals and play with them

Yu Garden: Walk on Zigzag bridge

The bund: Walk along the river under the sun

P.S. Glad to receive wedding invitation of my close Arabic femail friend. I am heading to it on 6Nov to experience the ‘happiness’ in a different world.

Ramadan

This is the third Ramadan since I have been in Dubai. Ramadan, holy month, religious people will not eat , drink, smoke or sex between sunrise and sunset. They will have a heavey meal, called ‘Sahour’ around 4:30a.m. to support them for the whole day. Around 6:00p.m. ‘Iftar’, eating with family members or friends or colleagues if you are at work. On Emirates flights, pilote has to inform passengers about the sunrise and sunset time so that muslim passengers can prepare fasting or breaking fasting. Special meals are prepared for muslim passengers too. Some people will choose to go ‘Haj’ ( go to Saudi to pray so that all the sins will be forgiven by God. After haj, you will be new-born. ) during Ramadan.  God encourage people to do charity, to help, to live in peace and get close to family and friends. The purpose for this month is to let people who can support their normal daily life feel those who cannot eat,  understand we need to help each other. 

 

Ramadan in Dubai, all restaurants will close till 6:30p.m., no live music in bars or clubs, difficult to find a taxi around Iftar time, grocery on sale. 5 times a day pray in Mosques are more important in this month. There is no laws to restrict Muslim to do so, but most of the muslims are following this.

 

Forget about if these behaviours are only for pretending. Maybe some people will say this is silly, real Islam is to practise good behaviour for their whole life,  not only one month in Ramadan. Somehow, if we can still give ourselves one-month time to give up luxury life and live in peace, it will still be a good beginning.

 

Ramadan Kareem.

Easy Life

Eventually, it is true: If you love somebody, you will take his dream as your dream; compromise yourself and feel happy. If you love somebody, everything goes back to origin, all is for getting closer.

Lazy Holiday-Istanbul

16Jun night, flight landed in Dubai. My 6-day-long holiday is finished. Turkey trip is as excited as the other trips, but the special part is that this time, my honey was with me so the whole jouney was full of laughter and sweetness.

 

Istanbul is the only city located in both Europe and Asia continents, somehow the special location becomes the interesting part for tourists. The transportation in Istanbul is very convenient and cheap, from bus, tranway, metro to boat. The weather there is pleasant, sunny in the day time, cool at night. The food is delicious and the people are hospitable. The traditional sophe dance can make you peaceful from your heart.

 

We booked our hotel in Sultanahmet in Istanbul which is near the Blue mosqu and the other sight seeings. It is an active area, every day full of tourists.  Beyoglu is the famous shopping area with a lot of European style restarants and clubs. There are a lot of lovely restaurants in the open air. Some big sofa and small tables under the tree can become an interesting place to rest yourself. Istanbul trip can not be satisfied without going to different islands nearby. We went to Princes’ island by taking sea bus from Kabatas. Only one hour time, we reached this relaxing place. We rent a bike to ride around the island, along the sea shore and up to the hill. It was a nice day. We played like kids. Kilyos is another ideal place if you like sandy beach, but taking more time to reach. Sea bus, of course, to get off at Seriyer and change bus 151.

 

This is the first time for me to travel with a guy like a couple. There were fighting and arguements, but the important thing is how to compromise to avoid it and learn to take care of each other. Both of us were doing our best to make the journey smoother and more cheerful.

Dreams

Recently my life is occupied with work, training and rest, very busy schedule but quite cheerful. These training days bring me back to the student life I used to enjoy. Continously last last night and last night, I had different beautiful dreams.

 

Last last night: I went to Germany to visit my friend Ariel. She took me to a very nice and peaceful place. I was amazed by the sight seeings. It was a piece of land surrounded by a lake. A lot of different style Gothic architectures, connected to the land with small bridge. It seems very old and depressed inside the castle. Ariel introduced me some of her friends. I saw some people enjoyed sitting under the sunshine drinking coffee and chatting, some were drawing portrait, some were just looking into the distance.

 

Last night: One beautiful girl, wearing a silk maroon dress, swum with a big turtle. Turtle crawled on to the sea bank and found herself a quiet place to deliver babies. The girl was sitting outside waiting. She peeked inside, a lot of tutle eggs around the big turtle. For a while, there are a lot of small turtle crawling out, and swim towards the sea. She was very happy and excited to see this and calling her friends to celebrate.

 

P.S. Training pic