Tibet, China - 2012

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)

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

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)

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.

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》

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

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

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

The past, present & future

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
- Zora Neale Hurston (American author and anthropologist)

To be yourself

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An instant out of time

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. 

- Dorothea Lange (American documentary photographer and photojournalist)

[Photo taken in Ipoh, in Feb 2013. The old Lido cinema was located further down the road.]

Afternoon Tea

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- Henry James

[Photo of Ang Ku Kueh, which is soft sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped with a sweet filing in the centre. Normally the skin is red in color]

Books and Meals

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The love of food

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw

To see a world in a grain of sand

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]

Ricoh 500G, a failthful old camera that I have owned for more than 30 years. It certainly has brightened my days a lot and accompanied me when I was learning photography. This is my second camera. It certainly look old with some reasonable wear and tear after all these years.

Candle

Tibet revisited - 2012 [Qingzang Train Ride]

I never expect myself to revisit Tibet again so soon, i.e. just two years after my last visit in 2010. In any case, it was still a very fulfilling and enjoyable trip, with a bunch of good friends.

Here are some photos taken while taking the train from Chengdu to Lhasa, during the part of journey which covers the highland railway, and commonly known as Qingzang Railway (or Qinghai-Tibet Railway).

This is a high-elevation railway that connects Xining (Qinghai Province), to Lhasa, (Tibet Autonomous Region), in People's Republic of China.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai%E2%80%93Tibet_Railway

Qinghai Lake 青海湖

Golmud Station 格尔木站

Cuo Na Lake措那湖

Approaching Lhasa 快到拉萨咯