If you are going to wear mask to visit Beijing, then you'd better not take it off during your stay, cos your breath may be a potential threaten to Beijing air. Thanks for your cooperation~

With the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics is just a few days away, the air quality is much improved, but we cannot ignore that in some of the recent days the major Olympic venues of the whole city were barely visible. However, some Chinese officials excused those days which didn’t come up to the standard were the result of the fog. And even some experts said the colour of sky was not the standard to judge the quality of air”. WTF! If it is not colour, then what is that? The data you bullshitted to lie to us?!

Million of cars have been pulled off the road, and thousands of construction sites and factories have been temporarily closed down. It’s no doubt that our government has been implementing a series of emergency measures in order to fulfill the promise made when Beijing bid for Olympics. There is one thing I wonder why haven’t those officials done anything before that? Are they more concerned with hosting the Olympics than our health or what? I just hope our government really can do something simply for our own sake rather than a vain showing off to foreigners. God bless us the pollution level won’t go back to where it was after the Olympics and the air will continually improve.

Have u "heard" the three minutes collective wail, it's obvious silent but never in our heart. The "sound" was across the whole country as air raid sirens and car horns sounded the exact time when the earthquake hit China one week ago, and we can also see the half-mast flags everywhere.

That's we are, the unbeaten race in the world.

Hope our god could hear the sound and see the scene as well, bless us!

&*(%$#~^

Is anyone there? I need help! You are receiving the distress message sent by Miao just after 11:30 am on Saturday, May 3, 2008. I suppose the date is still correct...

I've got trapped in the center of "sick city", 250 miles west of the safe area - zone 3 in Pacific. I repeat......

I've been here for about 65 days since I left London. The pollution here has still been adding up over time in the air that deadly reduced the visibility, and my detecting probe shows the level has already raised to the top 5!

Whoo...Whoop...I'm in a very bad condition, lack of clean food, water and even the air for breath...Oh no! The black rain comes, I gotta go now...

^%$!~^)%#@

Hey, guys~ I've just come up with a brilliant idea . why not just light up ur LV, which I think is a much better way to relieve ur anger than boycott Carrefour . If u dont think that's enough and really wanna do something more to show ur patriotism , hmm...  have u been to the 2008 Beijing Automobile Exhibition yet? I'm pretty sure u could see lots of French cars there.

I’m back, Beijing~

Since last time I updated my blog after I traveled to Greece, I haven’t written anything here, and the reason is that I had been devoting most of my time to the Dota career till my visa expired in the UK.

By the way, have you ever heard the word of Dota? It’s about teamwork, technique, effort, luck, pleasure, pain… and everything you do on the way to win. Why not just experience that by yourself, and don’t feel degraded while you are at it, but be proud as you are enjoying the life in your own style.

Let’s back to the topic. As soon as I stepped into the plane home, I began to worry what kind of job I can find just like everyone does. I don’t think anyone wanna be constrained by the work pressure, but we have to face the reality. Actually, I was aware that the pressure of life must be great for me, and quite different from the UK. I do miss the days over there, my college life, also the relaxing time in Birmingham, including the travelling around the UK, Switzerland and Greece, and Bible study with Sam and Bev, the Dota play, but only a pity that the time passed too fast.

I have been busy in finding jobs and experienced the taste of failure, so I didn’t get around to doing my own things, and my room is still in a clutter now. What makes me feel even worse is the environment in Beijing, the miserable climate, the bad air quality, the dirty road, the crowded city, it seems everything is sick without any hopes… However, it’s still my hometown, isn’t it? I know I can’t just take a pessimistic view of everything. Actually, it’s not my business and I only hope those big guys could be trusted to expedite these matters and issues.

Thanks to Jehovah’s favor, I finally found a job, but it is just a start…

Hello~ Athens! The legend of early civilization.

10月3日

每新到一个地方，第二天总会起的很早, 不知道算不算一个好习惯，雅典自然也不例外。起床掀开窗帘，hmm......

也许可以说是错落有致的建筑风格吧，哈哈。不管怎么样，今天的阳光充足，这才是我来这里期待的。 

由于提前网上订的船票需要去指定的地方取，出了酒店后也就没闲逛而直奔地铁。话说雅典的地铁，真是和地上有天壤之别，这里的站台不仅干净而且宽敞，不像伦敦感觉那么的不舒服 。

出了地铁后，在取票的路上随手拍的，典型的雅典报摊，卖些杂志饮料什么的。还有随处可见的狗，似乎都是没有主人的，很懒的说。

取完船票后，准备按计划去雅典周边的德尔菲Delphi, 路上碰到了一个很热心的雅典人，而且英文也不错，他带我们到了车站。在路上谈话中发现老外一般总认为见到的亚洲人使日本或者韩国的，以前出去旅游也有碰到不少，问我是不是日本来的。看来我们伟大的祖国还需要把强大二字深入世界人民的心中才行~

另外说说雅典的公交车，真的很特别，他们不能在车上买票 。买票必须在站台附近的亭子里，里面有专门的人售票，而且雅典每个站台旁边都会有这么一个小亭子。难道是为了解决就业问题？

去Dephi的计划是一大失败，我错把要下车的站当成终点站。在车上的时候gf感觉到不对劲，因为坐的时间太长了，问了一下才发现多做过了3站。我们赶紧下车，但找不到Taxi, 没有办法只好去等往返的车。我们到了去Dephi巴士的站台，发现晚了5分钟，车已经走了。之后去售票的地方问了一下，下一趟巴士要3个小时后......哎，没有办法，因为去Dephi的路程也要3个小时，所以我们只好放弃了。这样今天的计划只能改成逛雅典市中心了。回来的路上虽然有些心情低落，但还是照了些照片。

回来后差不多中午12点半，我们下午的目的地毫不犹豫地指向传说中的雅典卫城! 

待续...... 

Boom!!! I'm fed up with the weather in the UK...... Cloudy, Rainy, Windy. So~ the story of Greece starts.

10月2日

今天起的很早，也许是比较兴奋的原因吧，毕竟是要去享受阳光的。出家门-Birmingham火车站-Leicester转车-Luon火车站-机场Shuttle Bus, 大概2个半小时路程到了Luton机场。没有托运行李再加上Easyjet的Check in online，的确方便了不少，可以直接去安检，登机的时候也是Boarding Group A。当然这也是我准备的很周全, lol

本应该是12：40的飞机，结果晚了半个小时才起飞，但也无所谓了，因为一路好心情。其实我很不喜欢坐飞机，时间长，又无聊，真难想象当时怎么打法那3个半小时的行程的...... 飞机渐渐接近雅典的上空了，从窗口向外看，真的能用万里无云来形如，灿烂的阳光，地面一栋栋的房子看的也很清晰。完全不像英国，起飞的时候花了很长时间才穿过云层，之后就就是看下面黑云和白云的区别而已。

Oh, yeah, 雅典到了。和英国有2个小时的时差，到的时候是当地时间下午6点半，也没有感到很热（不过之后几天有的受了）。出了机场大厅，看到一溜儿的出租车，没想到竟然全是大奔，当时的第一感觉是雅典这里够富有的，其实后来才知道也就机场这样，估计是为了撑门面吧，毕竟是首都。

机场到市中心的交通很方便，可以选择bus或者metro。由于我很讨厌坐coach，会晕车，所以直奔metro而去。大概1个小时，在Victoria Square下车（和英国的站名竟然一样）。这时已经天黑了，首要任务自然是找事先订好的酒店位置，满街的希腊文，完全看不懂的街道名称。只好问一下当地人了，这位老大爷看上去很热心，就他了，可惜不会英文。这时旁边的一个年轻人过来，还好他知道我们酒店的名字，比划了半天我们才知道具体的路该怎么走。到了酒店，在reception碰到了一个中国旅行团也在check in, 大多数是老人，聊了一下，才知道他们是要欧洲游的，已经去了很多地方了。真是不错，这才叫晚年享受生活。

到了客房，才发现这里有空调，大惊小怪？因为英国住房似乎从不需要这个东西的。很累了，冲了一个澡后就睡了，准备第二天开始在希腊享受可爱的阳光。

待续......

ps.这天唯一的两张照片：

打发签证的一天^-^

为了赶火车，6点就起床了。先冲了个澡自然也精神了不少，之后随便吃了点，检查完材料就出门了。

英国9月每天早上7点多还是挺冷的，幸好不久前买的廉价羽绒背心比较防寒。到了火车站，站台上那一片的人呀....毕竟上班时间，可以理解。等了10多分钟，车来了，虽然人很多，但我还是毫不犹豫的抢了个座，其实自打来了英国，我就不知道什么叫谦让了。在之后....2个多小时的车程+看了无数遍的车外风光，除了无聊真不知道还能怎么形如了。

伦敦到了，马不停蹄的就赶去做地铁，Bakerloo line 转Central line ，别看伦敦地铁那么复杂，可这两条线我可是在熟悉不过的了。从Holland Park下车，出来后右转，3分钟后发现方向走反了，掉头看了看自制的希腊使馆地图，这才顺利到达了目的地。

希腊驻伦敦大使馆签证办理处简介：总共一层，20几个椅子，坏掉的饮水机，坏掉的电子叫号牌，3个办公窗口（其中2个是摆设），还一面镜子和一张桌子，洗手间。

我的预约时间是12点半，到的时候11点20......等吧。我前面几个老外就没一个顺顺当当办好的，不是缺材料，就是没复印件，更有甚者连预约信都没带，你说还来个什么劲呀。怪不得签证官态度一般，都是这号来签证的，哎，气的，网上明明把材料和注意事项写的很清楚。

1个小时不好等呀，上个洗手间吧， 一开门，male的out of order.......。之后，一个英国老头进去了，10分钟才出来，难道他去的是female的？

终于轮到我了，先来个hi, 之后也没废话，签证官要什么就给什么，几分钟就搞定签证了。出去的时候，其他人都用差异的眼神看着我，呵呵，准备充分而已。

今天的主要任务完成了，这也才刚刚发现今天伦敦的天气真的不错，可以说是难得。之后去为了附近的Holland Park, 真是一个很nice的公园，绿树成荫，都是来遛狗的，还能不时的看到松鼠。陶醉了半天后发现公园挺大，迷路了，还好有警察叔叔在，问了之后找到了去地铁站的捷径。

既然来了伦敦，就免不了shopping一下，在Gap买了件shirt, H&M一条围巾。之后呢，麦当劳Big Mac buy one get one free, 从网上打印的Voucher。回家了。

但愿希腊一直好天气!

Happy Valentine's Day!

         Be sweet in the sweet day ^-^

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