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The 5th GDUT Food Festival

calcifer — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:29:21 +0000

Be noticed that this Saturday is the 5th Food Festival of GDUT, I decided to be pretend as a student again. Yep, this festival is a traditional day which begin from the first year we come to this new campus district in such isolated island. So as the first “troop” here, I won’t miss such remarkable and … tasty~ festival
(related to the Asian Game? God knows….)
I have to admire my little GDUT fellows, this festival is much more bigger and more developed than the ones in our times. And nowadays, not only the chefs from those canteens is the main actors of the show, but also our students. The talent students can show their cooking skills and gain little benefit too. Most of those stalls were run by the students, they got many different and funny cool things. Some take out their traditional hometown special product, and someone fetched new funny fashion candy or drink. I really want to gain two more arms so that I can get and taste more delicious things~~

As the old opponents to the student army, the “canteen force” is more professional and strong. All the Canteen sent their “elite” members and representative works to compete to win this game.

Come to see what we got~

We wouldn’t be so gentle that just taste these two things of course. But we don’t really have enough hands to handle our camera in such crowed pedestrian flow~~~~~

If you are confident of your stomach and didn’t eat the breakfast, then you could come to joint the Big Eater competition. As in GDUT, This Big Eater competition has another special to the transitional single challenge, the couple challenge! In this mode, the competitor must find his girl assistant to play together, the boy can’t take the bread but the girl. And to be a nice gentleman in front of his lovely girl, you know that, no one would eat like a monster. Then, this game turned into a warm and funny game for the lovers

Remember to write down what you feel on the message board.

Asian Sports Village Under Construction

calcifer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:28:27 +0000

The Asian Sports Village is one of the most important projects of Asian Games construction. As the countdown in my blog’s sidebar shows, there are only about 360 days left for the opening of 16th Asian Games. And we must have several months for preparing and testing the “hardware” situation and also let the athletes get acquainted with this brand new town. Then there would be only half years left for this construction project. So how does the Asian Sports Village project process? Can it been finished well before the time comes up? That would be the problem we are concerned right now.

Today is a G’day. Tough it’s still quite chilly, but the sunshine is very nice~ I have a chance to go to Asian Sports Village for some reason about my work. So I also took a glance in passing.

Maybe these are the living area:

Nightclubs

I love those roofs~~ They are so stylish with Canton folk characteristic.

This building maybe some meeting building:

And what’s it?

Then we came to a “big guy”

This must be one of the sport studios. It’s so huge and beautiful. I can’t wait to imagine that how beautiful it would be when it is finished.

OK, because I have my work to do, I have no time to wander around very parts of this large building town. So it’s just a small horn of a hug iceberg. How majestic The Asian Sports Village will be is still make me so curious.

Add a Small Lovely 2010 Asian Games Countdown in Your Site

calcifer — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:45:03 +0000

There is less the one year left for the 16th Asian Games at Canton, 2010. To be a Cantonese, we have our duty to support it with our effort.

I browse the official website of 16th Asian Games (http://www.gz2010.cn/en) which obviously found by the support of NetEase. In my opinion, this website is quite well and enough “official”. Maybe that is the reason why many web design fans blame it as no creation and passion. But integrally speaking, it’s quite simple(simple is the best) and has enough function as a news issue website.

The most attractive thing caught my eyes is not those news and pictures, but a lovely countdown flash on the top of sider bar. It’s a small flash animation with a funny cartoon dragon board keeps rowing forward.

As I am so loved with this small flash animation, I decided to “steal” it to the side bar of my site.

After checking the source code in firebug, I found that piece of code quickly:

>="Player1258246398430" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
      width="257" height="136" 
      codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0">
              ="src" value="http://swf.news.163.com/2010/yayun/lh/countDownEng.swf" />
              ="wmode" value="transparent" />="quality" value="high" />
              ="Player1258246398430" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="257" height="136"
                          src="http://swf.news.163.com/2010/yayun/lh/countDownEng.swf" 
                          quality="high" wmode="transparent">
               >
>="www.gz2010.cn/en" href="http://www.gz2010.cn/en">>
>

PS: Remember to resize the width and height if you want to fix it into your site. And the value of width and height in the param tab is very important if you want it work perfect for Opera user.

At last, if you wanna use a Chinese version, just change

value=”http://swf.news.163.com/2010/yayun/lh/countDownEng.swf”

into

value=”http://swf.news.163.com/2010/yayun/lh/countDown.swf”

Then you will see :

If you use Worprss blog, it’s very easy to add this code in the “Widgets” Setting by adding a Text widgets and copy into it. That’s all

Legend of Five Rams and Wandering at Yuexiu Park

calcifer — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:05:33 +0000

As a five years resident of Canton, I am shame to say that I never be to Yuexiu Park to have a look at the Statue of Five Goats by myself before. We all know that the picture of this Statue of Five Goats has been the symbol of Canton for a long time. And do you know the story about these goats?
As the Asia Game is coming, to avoid be ignorant when our guests mention that, I decided to have a visit this famous landscape.

Formerly known as Canton in the West, the city of Guangzhou has a history dating back roughly 2,500 years.

Although the actual origins of the city are lost in the midst of time, the most popular legend tells of five celestial beings riding into the area that is now Guangzhou on five rams and carrying sheaves of rice. The celestials bestowed blessings on the land and offered the sheaves to the people of the city as a symbol of prosperity and abundance. After the celestials left, the rams turned into stone, and Guangzhou quickly developed into an affluent and influential city.

Due to this legend, Guangzhou has gained several popular nicknames: Yangcheng (City of Rams), Suicheng (Sheaves of Rice City) and Wuyangcheng (City of Five Rams).

From wikipedia.org

There are many way to go to Yuexiu Park, by metro is the easy way. After get off the Metro line 2, we arrived the main gate of it.

First stop is Nanxiu Flowers Garden. Maybe those plants are very familiar, I didn’t take many photos.

Then we decided to rent a boat so that we could view the park in another way.

There is a pavilion in the center of the lake, and many elder men have their leisure time there. Look, they are playing Cantonese Opera.

Crossing the bridge… “Warning! Please drive the boats by the side way.”

This is …

Boating is really a physical work, we landed after an hour and continued go to the higher places.
Nowadays, a normal toilet room also has the “Best” title…

Here is a meadow land bowling field. When is meadow land bowling? I don’t know neither… Sounds interesting.

There is a saying that if you hadn’t been to Zhenhai Tower, you didn’t come to Canton. Zhenhai Tower is also a symbol of Canton.

Zhenhai Tower is also the Museum of Canton.

After that, we finally arrived the Five Goats Statue. It’s much bigger than the size I expected. And I knew that it was built at 60s based the legend of five rams. We can see that these goats of statue is so vivid and beautiful.

This image is the most famous picture of Canton. We can see it everywhere, even the electric traffic card:

Commen Bomhax Flower — The Flower of Canton

calcifer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:10:30 +0000

Commen Bomhax Flower , or Kapok is called as ‘hero flower’ and ‘hero tree’ as its bloody red color and very strong vitality. Kapok blooms at the early spring even its leaves haven’t come out. And its buoyancy and moisture resistance makes it ideal for use in cushions, mattresses, and life jackets.
Commen Bomhax Flower were planted widely in Canton(Guangzhou) even from the ancient times. Cantonese use the cotton wool from Commen Bomhax Flower as the stuff of cotton-padded clothes, quilts, or pillows. Also we use Commen Bomhax Flower as the material of Chinese crude medicines.
So Commen Bomhax Flower have a long history with Canton that it becomes the city flower of Canton.
Nowadays, the Commen Bomhax Flower’s red color reflect the passion of new Canton city. And it also become the one of the main element of the propaganda film of the 16th Asian Games.

Thrilling Games , Harmonious Asia

calcifer — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:36:11 +0000

Asian games

The 16th Asian Games will be held in 2010 at Guangzhou.

So friends in Guangzhou or nearby, let’s join it with our strength!
Want to be a Volunteers? click to sign up now!

Here are two publicity film for it: