Saturday, March 22, 2014

Add a new page with specific labelled posts to your blog

1) Go to your blog dashboard, and select Layout
2) In the Layout screen, click on 'Add a Gadget'. (You can reposition the added new gadget later.)

3) In the gadget list, select Pages

4) Then click on '+ Add link page'

5) Give your new page a Title, and then enter the Web address (url) that will list your posts with specific label.

The URL would be 'your blog address'/search/label/'your label'

For example, for my page, which shows all posts with the label 'Tools', the url is:
http://travel88.blogspot.com/search/label/Tools
6) Click 'Save link' and out from this window
7) Click 'Save' to complete the addition of new page
8) The new gadget is listed as 'Pages', I drag the 'Pages' to just above my blog posts. You may place it anywhere you like.
9) This is how it looks like:


Sunday, March 16, 2014

Existence

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
- Soren Kierkegaard (Danish philosopher)


Wednesday, February 12, 2014

One day at a time


The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

Friday, November 22, 2013

Thursday, November 14, 2013

the life in your years

In the end it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln



Thursday, October 24, 2013

山色空濛雨亦奇


水光瀲灩晴方好,山色空濛雨亦奇。
欲把西湖比西子,淡妝濃抹總相宜。
- 蘇軾 

Photo: The West Lake, China (2006)

Thursday, October 17, 2013

It's what you see that matters

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau


Photo: 2013 @ Taiping Lake Gardens (Malaysia)

Thursday, October 10, 2013

桥上看风景

你站在桥上看风景,看风景人在楼上看你。
明月装饰了你的窗子,你装饰了别人的梦。
《断章》卞之琳


Scanned Photo: Taken in China, 2002

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Monday, September 16, 2013

坐看雲起時



Photo: (措那湖 Tsonag Lake) Taken in 2012 while travelling on Qingzang train to Lhasa.

Sunday, September 08, 2013

How you remember your life

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombian novelist)


Photo: taken in Tibet, China in 2010

Monday, August 12, 2013

what lies inside of you

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Thursday, July 25, 2013

雞公碗

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde


Saturday, July 20, 2013

一粒米中藏世界

一粒米中藏世界;
半邊鍋裏煮乾坤。

[据说:四川峨嵋山洪椿坪(原名千佛禪院)有此副對聯]


Tuesday, July 09, 2013

There are always flowers for those who want to see them

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse 

Photo: Taken at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia in 2013


Thursday, July 04, 2013

To see a World in a Grain of Sand / 一沙一世界,一花一天堂


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

一沙一世界,一花一天堂。
无限掌中置,刹那成永恒。
- (英)威廉·布莱克 [徐志摩 译]

Photo: Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (June 2013)

Friday, May 24, 2013

看天上雲卷雲舒

去留無意,看天上雲卷雲舒
明 陳繼儒 《小窗幽記》


Photo: June 2012 @ Tibet, China

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A cup of coffee


“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ”
- Jean Kerr (American author and playwright)



Monday, May 13, 2013

做自己,還是做罐頭?


The title of this blog post is actually the title of a book I came across last week.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

不亦樂乎

學而時習之,不亦說乎?有朋自遠方來,不亦樂乎?
- 《論語》


Sunday, April 28, 2013

Afraid of the Light

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato


Thursday, April 11, 2013

When the tide goes out

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
- Warren Buffett


Photo taken at Namtso Lake, Tibet in 2012

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

old wine to drink

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon