Category: Travel

Finally I can really do snowboarding

Posted by xinquan – March 5, 2011

it’s my third year now doing snowboarding in Japan. It’s become more and more fun after you can control yourself not falling over.
occasionally even if you fall over, it does not hurt so much anymore.

The fresh air and the feeling of shuttle back and force to this boundless snow world do makes me forget the busy life in Tokyo.
Japan is one of the best countries to do the snowboarding i think, there are a lot of snowboarding resorts and the temperature usually is not too low so you can enjoy the sport not worrying too much about the weather.

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Okinawa in winter

Posted by xinquan – February 19, 2010

First trip to okinawa is in winter. a bit chill
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France vacation

Posted by xinquan – October 20, 2009

Bonjour !
I am back from France! It was a great holiday!
Yummy food, especially the Olive ! I start eating Olive after I come back!
Friendly people, however they always trying to teach you how to speak French not English. it’s France@_@
I am absolutely astonished by the beauty of the nature here in France. I have never see such a blue sky in my life.. This is a raw picture that I took in South France I didn’t do any Post process. you just can’t believe it if go there and see by your own eyes.

The Blue Sky in France

Almost everything is *old* in France. but people don’t care. They appreciate the well-preserved historical stuff. I stayed one night at my friend’s friend house. That house is built 200 years ago. But a young couple live there. I can’t image this would happen in China. More→

Snowboarding and Night bus

Posted by xinquan – December 11, 2007

It was just happened without knowing where i was going and who exactly I was going with. I was just told from my friend that there was a good deal of snowboarding ski trip pass. I accepted and it turned out that 11 people joined the group. And it was a lot of fun. Village, snow, mountain and hot spring. But also the nightmare – the night bus though, at least for me.

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Cute deer in the Nara park

Posted by xinquan – November 25, 2007

I love animals and especially those deer wander around the city streets which makes the city blend with natural. The second day of my kansai trip was Nara that I have been looking forward to since long time ago. It only takes about 40 mins from kyoto to nara by the ＪＲみやこ路快速. There are lots of tourist information in the exit of the train station. Turn right after you get out of the station, cross one road. Comes with the main street of Nara, which I guess it might be the biggest street.

It is such a small town. We did not book the hotel in advance. But it doesn’t take long for us to find one even it is the busy season when we went there.

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3 Days in Korea

Posted by xinquan – June 17, 2007

Having spent 3 days in korea(most time in Seoul), I find that there are considerable japanophiles here. Although Japan occupied korea several decades before, it turns out not much korean hate japanese. So many Japanese stuff here, japanese resturants, Japanese signs everywhere, japanese TV channel, … I even got a warm help from three korean girls while I was trying to find a hotel in gumi. They thought I was japanese once.

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A fragment of old memory

Posted by xinquan – December 18, 2006

I’m thinking of this for a long time and finally decided to share this video which is made by me. Whilst I review this video, I always feel that it just like all these things are happened yesterday. I have not seen the most of the people in this video for a quite a long time and I know I may never meet some of them again in my life. So I just share this video, and hopefully they could see it as a good recipe of bad mood. I hope you may also lift the corner of your mouth while you’re watching this video, my dear friends.

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An Excellent Dentist Service in Tokyo

Posted by xinquan – September 2, 2006

Bad luck but also could say good luck. The bad thing is that I have to go to see a dentist in Japan. As you can image that it would be awkward for a foreigner who does not speak Japanese at going to see a dentist in Japan. People here rarely speak English, which is totally different from I image before I came here. While the fortunate thing is that I found a Chinese speaking dentist via James. He is very kind and the dentist is also very nice person.

She was so nice that gave me a small surgery on my broken tooth and setup a temporary one for me. She told me that it’s more expensive if I do orthodontics in Tokyo. Though one month left is enough for me to take this surgery and absolutely she could tell me to do the surgery in her dentist clinic. Instead, she told me that my tooth got phlogiston and it took more than 1 month to do it. So I’d better take the surgery in China then setup a ceramic tooth. To my most surprise is that she refused to receive any fee including my temporary teeth. I would like to really appreciate her professional and kindness!

For her kindness, I would like to post advertisement for her clinic:
東京都江東区塩浜2-5-23-201
塩浜齒科醫院

Dinner with Jessica and Jose

Posted by xinquan – July 29, 2006

With pretty much mixed up of combination of feelings in Tokyo and lots of training class and work during the daytime, almost 5 weeks no writing blogging. Finally I got some motivation to add something here. I will try to write things in a reverse order since me landing on Narita airport. My elementary school teacher taught me that is called cut back. Ok, let me go head.

Now just came back from dinner with my current manager and colleagues. Although I felt somewhat uncomfortable because of alcohol, I have a very good time in my deep heart. We went to a Japanese restaurant and have a good plentiful Japanese food. We talked much and I learned a lot because what we are talking with is senior people, haha. The interesting thing is that Jose (currently my boss’s boss :) is learning Chinese. So most of our talk is in Chinese and simultaneously translate it into English again for him. Here I would like to say a little more about my manager Jessica. She is so nice not because of everyone told me whilst I mentioned her, but the feeling when you talking and hanging with her and this feeling makes me very comfortable, of which I would like to build.
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C++ training

Posted by xinquan – July 29, 2006

4 days C++ training just finished yesterday. I was extremely impressed by the instructor’s deep insight and great knowledge of C++. As before I join Morgan Stanley, I thought I had a pretty good knowledge of C++. After this class, I find that still long way to go for me.
To be continued…