http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin en yanyin yanyin Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:21:55 +0100 daily 1 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:21:55 +0100 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Camping-in-Shen-Si-Island-October-2010/5153/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Camping-in-Shen-Si-Island-October-2010/5153/     Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:07:14 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-medal/5152/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-medal/5152/ As usual I got up early,went to the kitchen, heated the pie I bought yesterday in the microwave, it was still dark outside and I heard and believed it snowed last night. That was the first snowfall in the Rockies this year. I was a lucky person. As I was eating breakfast, Masa came up and still looked like in the bed-dreaming shape.His hair standed up firmly and he was thinking of something every second, probably the decision he had made which would bring him into a new adventure. You really taking him to the lake? He asked. "No, I told him I could only bring him to the fall, the Athabasca falls, and send him back. He would top up the gas for me."I answered. This was a beautiful wish. But never count on a person who's looking for a lift,in most case he's looking for freebies.When you hitchhike a stranger, hopefully a good guy, please enjoy the companion and laughter instead of peeling off anything from him. If he offered the cash at the end of the trip, take it, because you deserve... Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:31:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Farewell-the/5151/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Farewell-the/5151/ 10.1一大早当我开着租来的车离开Banff前往Jasper的时候，在1号公路口遇到了个敲着大拇指穿着黑衣黑头发的人，我曾经无数次的想象我将处于他那样的状态，但是为了保险起见，我放弃了那样的做法，最终自己成为了hitchhiker的战利品。看到他的时候我很激动，因为车里只有我一个人，我对前面的两百多公里的路途一无所知，第一次在陌生的土地上开着陌生的汽车，找个人作伴因该是比较正常的想法。我没有丝毫的犹豫，也没有考虑好人坏人的问题，只知道那里有个人要搭车。我把车靠过去，示意他过来，他很不可思议的过来打开副驾驶的门。 Do you need hitchhike? Where are you going? Yes, I'm going to Jasper. I'm going there,too. Oh, really? Yes. You need a ride? Yes. Come on in! ah... but... Can you share the gas? ahh~~~I don't... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:44:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Three-new/5150/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Three-new/5150/ 9.30早晨醒来，洗脸刷牙，也顾不得冲凉，维持着昨天来到这里的原样迫不及待地去汽车站找车去Banff。一出门，外面的空气格外的凉。比多伦多凉了一节。我把我能穿的衣服都穿上了，长tee外套短tee再套一件连帽套头衫外面一件薄的运动外套，10月初这样足够应付了。如果要减轻背负的话千万不要带毛衣。该穿什么让我以后再一起总结吧。 照着旅馆前台的男孩给的指示，我走到昨天晚上下车的车站等Train for City Center。每辆列车到达是都会报出行驶方向。当然我坐的车就会报"this train is for City Center"。Hop in,... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:39:41 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-The-morning/5149/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-The-morning/5149/ 9.29傍晚再次搭乘westjet的飞机从多轮多飞往Calgary。据说这个牛仔城在节日的时候特别热闹。可我偏偏选择了晚上抵达这个城市。Calgary的机场虽然小但是很有特色，一个非常可爱温馨的机场。比起多伦多的YYZ简直是魔鬼与天使。因为在多伦多入安检的时候，一个老妖婆硬是把我的背包翻了个遍，还威胁我说要是你对我的搜查不满意可以去@#￥%#投诉！！我无语... 她越翻越起劲，把包里的每一个袋子都打开，把我的衣服捏得乱七八糟。问她在找什么，她轻描淡写的说就是袋子太多了要看看里面的东西。我火冒三丈，我忍着。等她搜完我也喔斯组慢悠悠的把东西一件一件按原样理回去。妖婆简直是妖孽！！！！因为这件事，我对YYZ彻底没有好感。还有YYZ的推车竟然还要投币使用。机场也没有免费的wifi。令人失望的机场。... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:38:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Don-arrive/5148/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Don-arrive/5148/ 9.25 有些疲惫，但是还是起了个早去Direct Energy Center取我的Race Packet。 觉得周五因该人少。本来想走过去的，只有3km的路程，慢慢走1个小时总能到了吧。可是出门前不由自主的去问了下旅馆工作人员，她建议我去Queen St.坐street car。Street car（TTC）没乘过，那就去乘乘看吧。2.75$。 多伦多的公交站点还算好找，抬头望找“TTC”的LOGO牌就是车站了，只是线路牌很小，就一长条框框订在路边的桩上，不仔细看还不知道那就是线路图，但是也看不大明白，因为出来乍到路名都不熟悉，看了白看。还是上车时问司机哪里转车比较实用。拿了转车票，找位子坐下，听着报站广播，到bathrust站下再换一辆Street Car。这里不用担心错过站，只要你不打瞌睡，每到一站前都会有报站，绝对不会不报的。 那个Direct Energy... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:38:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-The-Half/5147/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-The-Half/5147/ 9.24 前面说了，旅馆的前台小姐不让我进房间，于是我决定今天就去Niagara Falls（读音“奈嘎rua fours”， 不要读成“奈啊嘎rua”，这样一听就是外国人）。同样照着小抄，来到中央火车站找GO Transit，问了些人才明白售票处是在地下一层。在多伦多有2种公共交通工具，出租车不算哈，TTC和GO Transit，TTC是市内的公共汽车和地铁的组合，朝一个方向去汽车转地铁或地铁转汽车买一次票在换乘时出示在前一个交通工具上问司机要的换乘票就好了，2.75$，比上海的贵啊。而GO Transit是去近郊或邻近地区的火车加汽车的交通方式。去瀑布的话，旅馆每天早上都有组织一起过去，你也可以自己去，坐greyhound或GO Transit或自己开车都可以啦。最简单的就是跟这组织一起去比较省心，做greyhound想必比GO Transit省时间，但是GO Transit比greyhound要便宜，大家各取所需，怎么去都是可以的。GO... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:36:24 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-did-enjoy/5146/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-did-enjoy/5146/ 9.23日 乘晚上11点多的飞机去多伦多。 留在我脑海里的温哥华是温和的Asian的高高低低的慢悠悠的。不知道再次的访问会是怎么样的感觉，两礼拜后就该知道了。 逛完了stanley park后就回HI Vancouver Central取寄存在那里的行李。拿着地图去找airporter的上车点。我傻，那时还不知道可以坐Canada Line去机场。不过要是知道了，那张回程的airporter票就浪费了。反正我有的是时间，我可是提前了5个小时到达了机场的。没啥，就是没有力气再走路了，背着个沉沉的大包在市区也没地方落脚了，早点去机场吧，机场有手推车有厕所有吃的有看的还能正大光明的坐着发呆，因为我在等灰机！  5个小时随便怎么样都能把机场逛个遍了。 这里是YVR国内抵达出口处... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:34:47 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Hello-Toronto/5145/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-Hello-Toronto/5145/ 9.23是个晴朗的日子，早上在旅舍吃了自助早餐，有面包黄油牛奶麦片面包muffin微波炉烤面包机水果橙汁自来水奶油咖啡机，任你自由组合搭配，想怎么吃就怎么吃，可以吃到你撑死为止，但是要排队。餐厅很小，四五张桌子。不过，我见到眼前这么堆洋早餐，没有什么胃口，还傻傻的拿了片面包问别人“do you think I should bake this?"... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:29:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-The-Stanley/5144/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-Canada-Episode-The-Stanley/5144/ 9.22 Shanghai-Hongkong-Vancouver  很兴奋，因为不知道香港机场是什么样子的，也不知道坐十几个小时的飞机是什么感觉。(感觉很麻木） 迫不及待的想上飞机。 很怀念起飞和降落的失重感，这回可以感觉六次。 好奇窗外的景色是什么样的，听说能看到挂在天空中的星星，嘿嘿，真的有唉。 在很高很高的天上平飞时，没有云也就没有了参照物，感觉好像在天空中停住了，外面的星星离你很近，伸手就能抓到一般。 不过这次飞机上一张照片都没有拍。因为没有看到有人在飞机上照相，所以不好意思照。不过似乎不怎么看到人们拿着相机在公众场合拍照。因为那样做对别人不礼貌。如果是一个人旅行，这个问题更为突出。 从香港到温哥华飞了将近12个小时。... Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:09:39 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-to-Canada-1/5143/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-real-marathon-trip-to-Canada-1/5143/ Followed a "loose fat pacer", I made history by running 7 laps non-stop. Today is my dad's birthday ! We put up a small celebration. My mum's will be next month. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:04:39 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Back-on-track-again/5142/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Back-on-track-again/5142/ Saturday workout at the same old place. Walk-jog to the track. 500meters one lap. I found it was easier to have someone to lead you when you run. That's why big race has pacers. 6 laps on the track and 1.5k street walk and run. My body is getting used to the running routine, it's good. I start to feel less hardship as I run the same mile when I started. And I have the strong wish to do the extra mile before closing the day's workout. But I don't want to overdo it. The rule is start slow, build the mileage. Unfortunately, the guy I followed falled on his chest as he tried to avoid the couple taking walk. The track was quite narrow. Poor guy, so embarressing. I lost my pacer today and be the lonely runner, because no one ran faster than me. Sat, 23 May 2009 18:45:40 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/4k-I-guess/5141/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/4k-I-guess/5141/ Ok, so it seems I will be running the half marathon every 3 years (when I will be running the "full" marathon I am thinking... ...) .  A week ago I registered for the Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon. Another every-three-years challenge for myself. And I always talk to myself I should do better than the last time. So far I've kept to my word very well. I hope I can make it in 2 hours this year. However I know well that I would not achieve this without proper training. So today starts training. There are 4 months to go until the race day and I can almost see something .   Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:31:09 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Running-half-marathon-in-September/5140/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Running-half-marathon-in-September/5140/ shi ba ra ku de su ne ! Hey what's up? Seems I'm only talking to myself, but the fact is not so. I know every day there were people stopped by this page and realized the site was no longer updated since last year.   However the site counter shows that this blog is still alive! Glad to know this, which agrees with writer's thought. You know, writer's block kind of stuff, you never know when you can get through it. For me, it took 6 months. OMG, I can't believe I am back now!   Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:15:46 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/shi-ba-ra-ku-de-su-ne/5139/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/shi-ba-ra-ku-de-su-ne/5139/ Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:32:03 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/my-new-video-about-marine-turtle/5138/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/my-new-video-about-marine-turtle/5138/ For the first time in four years, I went to the theater to watch a film. The name of it was "TRANSFORMERS". A big name huh! Last time in cinema was in 2003, I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl with my dad. He was quite fond of the film, considering it an exciting and enjoyable experience, and I totally agreed with him.   This time the screening started at 21:45, I chose the seat at the box office, happy to see only a dozens of people bought this hour. So I thought it would be cozy to watch a film in a screening room with a lot of empty seats. But it was a Hollywood hit as I was awaken to realize when I saw people swarmed in, filling the seats around me few minutes before the film began. Disappointed, plastic bag noise, cell phone light, chatty people, and on top of everything, I would have liked to fight with the man sit in front of me for my right to see the subtitle. The man stupidly had a long neck , his head sticking out like a... Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:41:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/awesome-and-awful/5137/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/awesome-and-awful/5137/ I have the good reason for the bad quality of this video, because I’m not professional. I simply enjoyed the process of making it. For another thing that the footage was captured off DV by USB wire, which resulted in such a bad pictures. You may be familiar with the lines, yes, it’s from Garden State, Zach Braff is one of my favorite actors, so I make him the father. The son is perhaps an unknown future star.   If you have trouble reading the dialogue, remember other people is too confused by this. The story is meaningless, so don’t take it seriously. I hope you enjoy this video as I do! If you don’t like, just stop it.   Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:35:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Another-video/5136/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/Another-video/5136/   Video weekend! I know it's pretty much the same trick as the last video, but with different subject obviously. This stack of letters is made possible with the help of my penpals from different countries and DW radio. May this video here motivate you to write a letter to that precious friend or "special someone!" Music by Ryan Farish Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:40:40 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-lost-art-of-letter-writing/5135/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/The-lost-art-of-letter-writing/5135/ Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:16:37 +0200 http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/A-video-experiment/5134/ http://www.blogigo.com/yanyin/A-video-experiment/5134/