Kyoto Kiyomizu-dera Temple 音羽山 清水寺
The temple has been a site of religious importance for over 1,200 years and is even featured in classic JapaneseContinue Reading
Category: Travels
工作不忘娱乐 All work and no play makes J a dull boy.
National Treasures – Zhang Zeduan “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” (Northern Song)
A wonderful long scroll depicting the most prosperous era in China history. This is the original.
Chasing Dragons (c. 1900s)
Given the recent K-pods addiction problems, let’s see how our forefathers tackled the opium problem.
Treasures – Mural Tomb At Xincun Village, Yanshi District, Luoyang (Xin Dynasty)
The tomb raiders would have been scared out of their wits when they walked through the tomb door.
Coolies that Moved the Nation (c. 1900s)
My dad was one of those that came as part of the Chinese diaspora. And he came, and he started a family, and he settled here. And he never returned to his hometown.
Treasures – Tomb Brick, “Ascending to the Heaven” (Eastern Han)
“He saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.” Genesis 28:12-13 (NIV)
Treasures – Straits Chinese Panel Belt (c. mid 20th century)
SIngapore is a melting pot of cultures and people, and Peranakans are one of the successful results of that amalgamation.
The Day Time Stood Still
On this day in history in downtown Dallas, an assassination shook the world.
Treasures – Mirror and Watch With Elephant, Birds, and Automata (Qing Dynasty)
Time may change me /
But I can’t trace time
– “Changes”, David Bowie