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Don standing by a grand piano on the top floor lounge of Pan Pacific Hotel Photo by assistant L. "What would you like to hear?" Wu asks behind me, "piano pieces!" without thinking I reply. Satie's piano flows in the air, and then it brings me back...

Shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, USA Are you ready to shop for Black Friday holiday?

Eggnog, holiday drink by Chef Mary Soh  All photos and styling by Don Schumann The original work was an advertisement for Franz Collection Inc. running throughout greater China Thanksgiving spirits

One of my favorite column articles, also my favoritest season, original in mandarin language, perviously published in a major periodical back in late 90's

Enjoy my own setback in Jiau Xi cold springs, Taiwan If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down Tim Tebow

Chùa cầu As a symbolic gesture of peace the Zen-inspired bridge was originally constructed to connect the Japanese community with the Chinese quarter

Boasting one of the world's largest privately-owned lagoon, it also offers colonial-style rooms on landscaped grounds

Temple of Literature (Vietnamese: Văn Miếu) in Hanoi, northern Vietnam Hanoi 12th-graders are crowding here to find spiritual elements in the hope of increasing their chances at the upcoming national college admission exams

During my academic years, even though I had quietly and purposefully fled home choosing the least-wanted and farthest school in southern Taiwan, also to avoid drawing more unnecessary battle lines

A Japanese girl at a (Japanese owned) private beach in Guam I had first heard of the term of "3S" was from the Japanese (upper class) family social gatherings some 25 years back

Turm der Stadtpfarrkirche Fulda, Hessen-Kassel, Germany Take a closer look at the German great inventor's hometown in Fulda

This hotel was the first Sofitel Legend property in the world

The accommodations not only provisioning all nutrimental diet in a nutrigenomics mind-set and coming up with with programs for the improvement of man's estate

The modern day presentation from Max Brenner, an Israeli chocolate shop chain, I had first come across Deploying cacao beans and chocolate infusions in dishes was popular that ancient Mexicans had snapped it up

All are cell phone photos in this entry Forewarned is forearmed?

One of my beloved dogs, Owen, at Anza-Borrego Desert, SoCal Why Some Men Have Dogs And Not Wives?

I had been repeatedly staying at this hotel whenever I visited Manila over the last few years

Chocolate parfaits and cakes on display at Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila IKEA Taiwan recently announced that its chocolate almond cake products have been taken off the shelf due to reports indicating that it contained traces of the E. Coli bacteria, on 3/8/2013

I would never imagine this dog trick happening right in front of my eyes

Picture of Table arrangement at a 5-Star hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand One woman detained, 10 questioned in probe on deaths of couple in New Taipei

They refer it as Ma Ma Noodles here in Taiwan instead of Ma Ma Cup . I had heard so much about it year in and year out locally, all to the good?

Following the horsemeat, it's the eggs

Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe’s widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat

All photos taken by cell phone, on 3/24/2012 It was the first time I had heard of this Chinese term of DinGuan buddhist temple (定光佛寺) during the first visit to Cebu, Philippines, in January 2006

Stunning white sand beach Model by Kelly Hair by Jun Nan Makeup by Zu Yuan Style by A Jin & Xenia A friend handed me a tiny glass bottle with white sands in it as a welcome gift. I soon spotted it without my friend's realization

The latest crime report will only make it harder for Mexico to shrug off the incidents of crime in tourist towns as isolated and rare

I always find it so mirthful to this day (in this post all are cell phone pictures) How to Get Along at the Office Is it sagacious or outright foolish??

Bún nem nướng (Vermicelli Salad Bowl with Vietnamese BBQ Pork Meatballs), my first bowl of Vietnamese food in Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area   Nearly 90 percent of rice vermicelli noodles in Taiwan are not primarily composed of their main ingredient, rice, but are instead a mix of other edible starches

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 1/4 最美麗的衛星城市 席撒查那來 Si Satchanalai Most Beautiful Satellite City 泰國 席撒查那來 Si Satchanalai, Thailand Interviewed accounts orally: Don Schumann Co-Editor: Arlene Kao (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 2/4 幸福的黎明 素可泰 Sukhothai The Dawn of Merriment 泰國 素可泰 Sukhothai, Thailand Interviewed accounts orally: Don Schumann Co-Editor: Eagle Yang (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 3/4 水上的都城 大城 Ayuthaya Floating Capital City 泰國 大城 Ayuthaya, Thailand by Don Schumann (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

沐浴在泰國佛教光輝下的泥土 4/4 紅土築起的鍚蘭風古都 甘潘霈 Kamphaeng Phet Ceylon-Style Ancient City Built by Red Earth 泰國 甘潘霈 Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand by Don Schumann (My apologies to all English speakers for posting original published article in Traditional Chinese. Please make good use of your internet translator!)

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