[-] For bubble tea fans in the Burnsville/Savage/Prior Lake, SW Twin cities, MN area: The Spice Thai restaurant has bubble tea on the menu now. Flavors were strawberry, Thai tea, taro, coconut and one other I can't remember at the moment.....I had the Thai tea one Saturday night and it was great. http://community.livejournal.com/bubbleteafans/156833.html bubbleteafans @ 2006-05-22T14:15:00

[-] Yep I-m goingto switzerland. Hanging out in Rome one more day Monday/ have no idea what ill do but I will be a little more productive than i was sunday. gardens or ostia antiqua (like pompeii but betterpreserved)

take night train to Bern

Tues
Met a girl,Min; from korea who is my age who was also going to grindelwald:which is high in the alps.

Bern, then an hour train to interlaken and then an hour train to Grindelwald,

Wed
Took the cable car up to First with Min. I dragged my feet becquse i didnt want to pay that much: We werent very prepared with winter gear but it was suprisingly warm amid all the snow. then after a half hour it was alll green. incredible views all the way down once we got out of the snow and fog. My hostel is magical . great food. swity very expensive, but i hqvnt noticed too much because my hostel gives free breakfast and a four course meal if you pay 12.50 cfh about 10 US:


Thur Train to paris. grindelwald to interlaken,then int. to bern, then bern to geneve, then geneve to paris.

got to paris without much incident: am pretty tired; havnt slept well the last couple days: still hqvent figured out what im doing the next 3 weeks: i finally contacted some people four days ago but understandbly havnt heard back:

Grindelwald> Tues, Wed - http://michelleinchicago.blogspot.com/2006/05/grindelwald-tues-wed.html

[-] Yep I-m goingto switzerland. Hanging out in Rome one more day Monday/ have no idea what ill do but I will be a little more productive than i was sunday. gardens or ostia antiqua (like pompeii but betterpreserved)

take night train to Bern

Tues
Met a girl,Min; from korea who is my age who was also going to grindelwald:which is high in the alps.

Bern, then an hour train to interlaken and then an hour train to Grindelwald,

Wed
Took the cable car up to First with Min. I dragged my feet becquse i didnt want to pay that much: We werent very prepared with winter gear but it was suprisingly warm amid all the snow. then after a half hour it was alll green. incredible views all the way down once we got out of the snow and fog. My hostel is magical . great food. swity very expensive, but i hqvnt noticed too much because my hostel gives free breakfast and a four course meal if you pay 12.50 cfh about 10 US:


Thur Train to paris. grindelwald to interlaken,then int. to bern, then bern to geneve, then geneve to paris.

got to paris without much incident: am pretty tired; havnt slept well the last couple days: still hqvent figured out what im doing the next 3 weeks: i finally contacted some people four days ago but understandbly havnt heard back:

Grindelwald> Tues, Wed - http://michelleinchicago.blogspot.com/feeds/114824178265274364/comments/default

[-] Well, this is my blog, it will be mainly about tea, but you never know when something else might slip in, so don't think it's a "tea blog", it's just a "mostly tea blog".I plan on taking lots of pictures and doing some experiments with tea... oh and making fun of lipton... haha, LIPTON! Anway... yep this is it, yay for rabbit! http://rabbitsrant.blogspot.com/2006/05/and-here-it-is.html And here it is!

[-] Well, this is my blog, it will be mainly about tea, but you never know when something else might slip in, so don't think it's a "tea blog", it's just a "mostly tea blog".

I plan on taking lots of pictures and doing some experiments with tea... oh and making fun of lipton... haha, LIPTON! Anway... yep this is it, yay for rabbit!

And here it is! - http://rabbitsrant.blogspot.com/feeds/114823173807846818/comments/default

[-] shplabam! This is a test of the rabbit operating system... *beep* *beep* *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep* thank you for standing by, if in the event of an actual emergancy, please drink tea! http://rabbitsrant.blogspot.com/2006/05/just-little-test.html Just a little test...

[-] shplabam! This is a test of the rabbit operating system... *beep* *beep* *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep* thank you for standing by, if in the event of an actual emergancy, please drink tea!

Just a little test... - http://rabbitsrant.blogspot.com/feeds/114814927929857491/comments/default

[-] I've been reading Drifting, a book of poetry by Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts'o). The book was awarded with Taiwan's prestigious literary award, the National Literature and Arts Prize in 1989. The poems have been translated to English by the author. The work is accessible, beautiful, and and filled with vivid imagery. Tea is an important image in this book, and I'd like to share one of the more sensual poems with my fellow tea geeks. **********Love Poems of Tea1If I, the boiling water,And you, the tea;Then your fragranceHas to depend solely upon my plainness.2Let your dryness inside meSoftly uncoil and stretch;Let me dissolve Imperceptibly, your tension.3I have to be hot, even boiledBefore we consume each other;We have to hide, see and holdeach other in waterto decide a tea color.4No matter how capriciously you drift;Gradually and slowly(O' gently)You will into me submerge--Deep.5by that moment the most bitter tear of yourswill become a best sipof my fragrance.Cheung, Dominic. Drifting. Green Integer: Los Angelos. 2000. p. 18. http://cuppablog.blogspot.com/2006/05/tea-poetry.html Tea Poetry

[-] I've been reading Drifting, a book of poetry by Dominic Cheung (Chang Ts'o). The book was awarded with Taiwan's prestigious literary award, the National Literature and Arts Prize in 1989. The poems have been translated to English by the author. The work is accessible, beautiful, and and filled with vivid imagery.

Tea is an important image in this book, and I'd like to share one of the more sensual poems with my fellow tea geeks.

**********

Love Poems of Tea

1
If I, the boiling water,
And you, the tea;
Then your fragrance
Has to depend solely upon my plainness.

2
Let your dryness inside me
Softly uncoil and stretch;
Let me dissolve
Imperceptibly, your tension.

3
I have to be hot, even boiled
Before we consume each other;
We have to hide, see and hold
each other in water
to decide
a tea color.

4
No matter how capriciously
you drift;
Gradually and slowly
(O' gently)
You will into me submerge--
Deep.

5
by that moment
the most bitter tear of yours
will become a best sip
of my fragrance.


Cheung, Dominic. Drifting. Green Integer: Los Angelos. 2000. p. 18.

Tea Poetry - http://cuppablog.blogspot.com/feeds/114813524261970243/comments/default

[-] but still i haven't watched MG 1, MG 2 lng :D http://of-tea-cups-and-melodies.blogspot.com/2006/05/recalling-meteor-garden-days.html recalling the Meteor Garden days