Writes of Passage

I love autumn.

2011 Nov 24 at Shadow Lane, etc.
2010 Nov 3 at Great Neck
2010 Oct 23 at Great Neck South High
2009 Nov 12 at Kissen Park

Bayside, NY

In 1988

“Oakland Lake is a 15,000-year-old spring-fed glacial kettle pond located in Alley Pond Park. The lake, once known as Mill Pond, became known as Oakland Lake, named for the 19th century estate on this site called

My 2011 China trip

• 3/19: tickets on CX, US$ 1,575.20 pp; JFK-PEK, PVG-HKG-JFK
• 6/13: getting the visa, $140
• 6/17: pick up the visa
• 6/27: Mon 10am – JFK- 北京 Beijing (6/28, 晚上 6:30pm)
• 6/28: one pc luggage delayed; stopping on the road
• 6/29: lunch; Panjia Yuan 潘家园; Peking Opera
• 6/30: tea house, crop top shirt; Zhongguancu St; DaLi Restaurant;
• 7/1: shop Tiger’s daughter; cell phone; ICBC; (Capital Theater 首都剧场)
• 7/2: the Grand Epoch City 天下第一城 DiYi Cheng; tennis
• 7/3: Grand Epoch City 第一城 DiYi Cheng; tennis
• 7/4: studio pics; tea at Peninsular Hotel; bath house Morley Holy Club
• 7/5: Sun Changling; Xiaoyi birthday
• 7/6: Nan LuoGu Xiang 南锣鼓巷; fire cupping;
• 7/7: Hefei 合肥, Huangshan 黄山
• 7/8: Huangshan
• 7/9: Xidi
• 7/10: Hefei museum, Pan Yuliang 潘玉良
• 7/11: lunch with Wang Zhen; pick pictures; bath at Yihai;
• 7/12: eye Dr; TGIF; fish head 鱼头泡饼 biz meeting; Olympics
• 7/13: tennis at Keda; bath at BiZhongHai; hospital
• 7/14: ICBC bank; Don’s Mom; shopping with Di; dinner with Guo Yuan and her son
• 7/15: tennis at 党校/Haidia; bath QingHua Chi 清华池; dinner with family for Jimmy; wine in China
• 7/16: National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square – Liu Bingzhang; Louis Vuitton Voyages; Mao’s Snow; dinner with Hou; ice dance: Sasha Cohen, etc. rained .. gave umbrella
• 7/17: Auntie Spalding; Canzhen Hutong; ballet
• 7/18: working at the hospital; Canzhen Hutong; book store; school being strengthened
• 7/19: 三味书屋 Sanwei Shuwu, a book store; the Chinese partner  – the meeting
• 7/20: meeting Aunties Sun & Fu; suite at court; ice wine .. 金鼎轩
• 7/21: picking up portrait’s CD; Wangfujing; 798; dinner at Hou’s house
• 7/22: TJ; Italian Street; Kailuan
• 7/23: TJ, old mansion sold .. Kiessling Restaurant 起士林餐厅; hotpot dinner Valerie and her husband
• 7/24 Sunday: Swan Lake bath house
• 7/25: Zoology Institute; tea house; dinner with classmates
• 7/26: with cousins: 6am shopping; breakfast; cemetery, tea house, Qianmen 前门
• 7/27: 天坛; family dinner by Don’s Mom
• 7/28: fast train to Shanghai; 七宝老街; dinner with Yishi, Xu Yan ..

July 28 – Aug 4 Shanghai 魅力江南八日游 – 济贫团

• 7/29 Fri Beijing-Shanghai, 
  

Nexus Holidays offer a tour that was hard to refuse: 6 nights of 4 stars hotel plus 3 meals a day, all for US$49 per person. Kid under 18 adds additional $200; plus tips for the guide US$48 per person ($8 x 6 days). P.S. This kind of tour becomes a main stay.

I first learned it from my cousin Don in VA which offered it at US$99, then my cousin Sophie in LA told me it’s only US$49. Since I’ve never traveled with my Jiujiu and family so I decided to join them even it’s inconvenient my already booked/planned schedule.

We took the newly minted CRH Beijing