Bali Video

Here's the Bali video compilation. It's about 3 minutes. The first 2 minutes have some cool Balinese music (with dancing). The last minute is of interest to the readers who are sailors.

Tibet Video

Here's some video I shot in Tibet with my Canon Powershot S70 digital camera of nuns praying, monks debating, monks eating, and monks reading scripture out loud. It's about 2 minutes in length.

Chinese New Year Video (updated)

I moved the videos of the Pudong waterfront at night and the Chinese New year fireworks to youtube. The connection is much better. Have a look. I'll be uploading some video from Tibet and Bali soon.

Chaozhou Part 4

Finally finished writing up Day 4 of our trip to Chaozhou in January. You can see it over at our Live Journal site here.

There are about 25 photos including this one of John pointing to an faded slogan that says "Long Live Chairman Mao".



I guess I should also include a photo of Sun-Ling. So here's one of her at the bottle shop.

Watching the weather

The summers are great for weather watchers like me, especially in this era of The Weather Channel, www.noaa.gov, and internet access to local time-lapsed weather radar loops . We can follow the distant hurricane or local thunderstorm by the minute second with pin point accuracy. Not to mention digital indoor-outdoor thermometers and "weather band" radios.

Until last week I had thought that Shanghai had no local radar. But after some net surfing, I can now somewhat follow local thunderstorms from the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau radar, There's no "loop" and the range is huge but it's still weather radar.

Also, I've been tracking western Pacific cyclones at the Weather Underground. How about Typhoon Ewiniar!!!???? For 15 day forecasts I use Accuweather.