Alice Kok 郭恬熙

Screen shots of videos from India

Screen shots of video from Tibet

His Holiness The 17th Karmapa 第十七世大寶法王

Around the Potala Palace in Lhasa, one of the most stunning scene is that one can find many of these artificial mushrooms all over the places. At first glance, they seem to be implanted there for decoration purpose except that these decorations are in fact functional. Under the lovely appearance of a benign mushroom, two loud speakers are installed inside in order to boardcast popular Chinese music songs, as if the Potala Palace is one gigantic karaoke park for the hitest songs in town. China has indeed moved on, instead of broadcasting Communist Party doctrins, we seem to find that the Pop culture of the capitalistic life a much more powerful weapon to convince.

在布達拉宮的旁邊, 人們可以發現周圍都是這些看似是用來裝飾的蘑菇, 每十來米就有一個。看上去是蠻可愛的, 只可惜, 他們的真正作用卻並不是裝飾這麼單純, 藏在蘑菇之內, 其實是兩隻擴音器, 用來不停並十分大聲地播放在電視上都可以聽到的中文流行曲。彷彿神聖的布達拉宮就是一座巨型的卡拉ok公園似的, 將代表西藏最高權力的聖殿給變成了一個庸俗無比的娛樂場所。

On the road!

媽...你認得我嗎?

Byru (比如) - 300 km east from Lhasa (拉薩)

Hotel room in Byru

Q: As we can see, there is a stove in the room. Do you know what do we use as material to make fire in this wonderful room?
問題:大家都可以看到, 這間優美的酒店套房是有火爐的, 想唔想知道係用乜來燒的呢? (答案在本版找)

A: Exactly. The answer is bull shit.

答案:對!就是牛屎!

Nimu (尼木) - 500 km from Lhasa(拉薩)

Guest house in Nimu 在尼木的客棧

Pelbar (邊巴) - 800 km from Lhasa (拉薩)

In Pelbar there are three lakes with three different colours; yellow, white and black...but I have arrived in the wrong season when the lakes are already frozen....
在邊巴有三個很漂亮的三色湖, 黃色、白色和黑色...只可惜, 我們選了冬天這季節來看...都結了冰, 什麼顏色都看不出來。

This one should be black...
應該是黑色的湖。