Pandas, Pandas & More Pandas....

I hope everyone likes pandas because following are 41 shots of pandas that I took during my recent visit to China. I will also be posting a video clip of a panda, if I can find it.

If anyone wants copy any of these shots, feel free.










































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Feng Shui

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
4. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.
5. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don't judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk
15. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.
16. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
17. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
18. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
19. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
20. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice
21. Spend some time alone.

Patience and Wisdom

Oh to have both patience and wisdom.........

My Apologies

As you may or may not be aware, I am working on a new project and it is driving me crazy. I know exactly what I want to do, but with my limited knowledge of programming and constantly running into problems, I'm almost ready to give up on it. However, giving up is so completely against everything that I believe in.......so I guess I'll just keep driving myself crazy until I get it right.

Therefore, my posts have been few and far between. I will keep posting, but just not as frequently as I have.

Please be patient with me.

BTW, if anyone out there has an in depth knowledge of self hosted WordPress and would be willing to share their knowledge, you might just be saving a life.

Hubei Chime Bells

Located on the East Lake, Hubei Museum is one of the best-known museums in China, treasuring up numerous State-level historic and cultural relics.

The Chime Bells Hall in it displays mainly the relics unearthed from Zenghouyi Tomb.

In 1978, 15,000 articles were excavated from the Zenghouyi Tomb in Suizhou, including bronze ritual vessels and weapons, horses and carts, articles made of bamboo, lacquer, gold, jade, bamboo tubes, coffins, and musical instruments.

Exhibited in this hall are very rare items such as the chime bells, the crane standing on the antler, gold cups and jade plates.

The Zenghouyi Chime Bells are the most historically important relics. The complete set includes 65 bells hanging on a three-tiered rack weighing over 2,000 kilograms. On the bells are gold-plated inscriptions about music. Each bell can emit two tones. After over 1,000 years, the bells still sound perfect, ready to play melodies local and foreign, classic and modern.

The pictures of the actual bells were taken by me, however, the video I found on YouTube. The bells being played on the video are replicas.