Zhongshan Park (中山公園), is a lovely little park just off of the Forbidden City in Beijing that used to serve as the imperial gardens. Now a public park, it offers the visitors some peace and tranquility with lots of gardens,
Hulishan Fortress : Xiamen
Being the lovely and prosperous coastal Chinese town that it is, Xiamen naturally has some strategic significance and that obviously lends to some interesting history. There’s not much available in English on Xiamen’s role in many of the conflicts China
Ontario Legislative Building : Toronto
Toronto hosts the legislative assembly for the Canadian province of Ontario, or the Ontario Provicial Parliament. To catch the show in action, I made my way to the Ontario Legislative Building in Queen’s Park. Inside, lucky me, a tourist tour
Museum of Contemporary Art : Chicago
I usually tend to like things that I don’t understand. At times it almost seems as though the more I don’t understand about something, or someone, the more I’m attracted to it, or a person. There’s also something quite frustrating
Villa Marmarine : Recommended Siquijor Accommodation
Villa Marmarine was something special. I don’t normally mention the accommodation I stay with, since with my budget it’s usually nothing very exciting to write home about. But, every once in a while I do come across a lovely surprise
Lai Tai Flower Market : Beijing
My father has a thing for flower markets. Of all the places I took him around the region, I believe the places he was most impressed with were the flower markets we visited. The Hong Kong flower street market in
University of Chicago : Campus Walk
A couple of weeks ago I took off to attend the Association for Psychological Science 2012 conference in Chicago. During that visit, I made sure to visit some of the local universities, some of which are definitely among the leading
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum : Washington DC
If there’s one thing that Americans have and most of us don’t is a successful history of space exploration. Though us living in HK are receiving reports that the nearby uprising superpower is quickly catching up, they’re 40 years late.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History : Washington DC
If you’re interested in knowing more about American history, then what better place than the National Museum of American History, right? Back in high-school I was a history buff, there was even a point in time when I thought
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History : Washington DC
When it comes to museums, there’s little that does more than dinosaur skeletons to get your juices running, and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC probably has some of the nicest collection of them lot. With over