I visited Seoul for a business meeting. The gate in the photo was burnt by a mentally-sick arsonist several years ago, the government has been rebuilding it with a lot of problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Namdaemun_fire



And at the Gimpo airport while returning home:



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Very classy airport look, Barbie. I find airport looks are some of the best celebrity styles to emulate. I follow some on Pinterest. https://www.pinterest.com/shereetbradford/airport-style/ https://www.pinterest.com/travelblahblah/airport-style/

Quote from: Lyric on March 27, 2015, 08:45:15 AM
Very classy airport look, Barbie. I find airport looks are some of the best celebrity styles to emulate. I follow some on Pinterest. https://www.pinterest.com/shereetbradford/airport-style/ https://www.pinterest.com/travelblahblah/airport-style/

Oh. Thanks for the link, Lyric. The site asks me my Facebook account, and I will later try again.

Today my little daughter wanted to hike a mountain here. I thought it is a nice idea as it is spring. We drove to the entrance of the mountain located at 1,280 meter (4,200 feet) altitude. It was a sunny day, but the mountain was far different. Rain started.



We saw several plains of snow, which was not yet melted away.



In the top of the mountain (1,700 meter, or 5,577 feet), we could take some hot ramen. My feet were completely wet.



When returning my home and campus, we realized that clouds are only in the top of the mountain. Below the mountain, it was still sunny.



I nearly caught a cold, but it was funny to hike in a winter mountain with my little daughter in spring.

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The walk looks fun, if a bit scary. I love the dense mist in the first picture. If you aren't familiar with it, I think you might like Pinterest. In the states, at least, it's one of the top social media sites these days and has a strong feminine appeal. Users create "boards"-- pages with lots of thumbnail images. Images can easily be posted from most any web page or uploaded yourself. I could easily spend hours a day there if I'm not careful. I follow boards about fashion, hairstyling, movie sets, science fiction and have started a few myself.

Quote from: Lyric on March 31, 2015, 08:50:34 AM
The walk looks fun, if a bit scary. I love the dense mist in the first picture. If you aren't familiar with it, I think you might like Pinterest. In the states, at least, it's one of the top social media sites these days and has a strong feminine appeal. Users create "boards"-- pages with lots of thumbnail images. Images can easily be posted from most any web page or uploaded yourself. I could easily spend hours a day there if I'm not careful. I follow boards about fashion, hairstyling, movie sets, science fiction and have started a few myself.

Lyric,

Thanks for your information. Yes, I just registered using my Facebook account. I am going to look around!

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Yesterday, just one-day trip to Seoul to have a meeting.



In Seoul, I can see a few young girls as tall as me. I notice that the average height of women here has increased substantially.

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I am visiting Kyoto, Japan, with my son and daughter.
Kyoto is the most beautiful and well-designed city among all cities I have traveled so far.
This is an ideal place as human habitat.

Tomorrow I am leaving for my hometown.
It takes just about one hour from my hometown to Osaka, but sometimes takes 3 hours in immigration checkpoint. When arriving at Kansai airport on Tuesday, a lot of passengers from flights that were delayed by the typhoon poured out to the immigration desks, jamming the entire airport.





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you are quite the shutterbug, Barbie. I always enjoy looking at your photos, thanks for sharing them with us.

Looking very lovely in Kyoto, Barbie. I really like the blue print skirt and black top look. The sandals are cute, too.

Quote from: kittenpower on August 29, 2015, 10:17:24 AM
you are quite the shutterbug, Barbie. I always enjoy looking at your photos, thanks for sharing them with us.

Thanks! I like to expose and express myself.

A smartphone application called self-timer camera lets me be able to take 10 photos by 1 second interval. I choose the best one from them. I have several 2-tera byte external USB hard disks, and no problem in keeping all of them. Also, a few of my friends are professional photographer, sometimes taking photos for me.

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Quote from: Lyric on September 02, 2015, 10:29:53 AM
Looking very lovely in Kyoto, Barbie. I really like the blue print skirt and black top look. The sandals are cute, too.

Yes. People seem to like that skirt, as it is longer. The flat sandals were broken yesterday, and I already ordered another pair. I looked for the same design, but no longer available.

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You are very classy, and I adore your style and.. Maybe I'm a bit jealous.

Quote from: Kitty Pryde on September 11, 2015, 11:17:17 PM
You are very classy, and I adore your style and.. Maybe I'm a bit jealous.

Thanks! But I tend to wear radically. I try to tone town it to wear more conservatively. My close friends also recommend me to wear modestly.

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Barbie, quite simply you are a knockout! Very attractive.

Thanks for sharing

Quote from: westin21 on October 13, 2015, 09:56:32 AM
Barbie, quite simply you are a knockout! Very attractive.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks!

I am now in Qingdao, China. Air pollution here prevents me from going out for sightseeing. Just staying in the hotel, and walking out just for lunch and dinner.



It is difficult to access to Google or Youtube here. And the internet connection is very slow to most of the US sites. But the internet speed here to portal sites of my country are unbelievably fast. Surprising...

Hopefully I can dare to go out for sightseeing, but the air pollution does not seem to be alleviated soon.

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Because of severe air pollution, I just stay at the hotel, except going out for lunch at a nearby food court. Probably no chance of going out for sightseeing....



Here, hotels and restaurants provide some Korean-style dishes, which I like.



I like any kind of hot soup.

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That's a nice pants look, Barbie. Those pants are not at all masculine looking. I see you did go back to your usual short skirts soon, though. Gotta show off those pretty legs.

Quote from: Lyric on October 22, 2015, 10:24:23 AM
That's a nice pants look, Barbie. Those pants are not at all masculine looking. I see you did go back to your usual short skirts soon, though. Gotta show off those pretty legs.

Lyric, you predict better than me!





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Just returned from a 10-day trip to Washington DC area of the US.

I visited my old work place located in southern Maryland.

 

I also had sometime to visit northern Virginia and the National mall of the DC.

 

I had some time to run along the Lake Accotink Trail in northern Virginia.



While returning home, the security was really tight in Dulles airport. The security girl touched the areas all around my breast area, not to mention asking me to take off shoes. Fortunately, she called me as ma'am, despite the apparent M mark in my passport. Another security guy seemed to be overwhelmed with my unusual height with 4 inch wedge heels, but he was anyway kind.



The best thing in the States was that all men who stared at me smiled happily. I do not know  the reason, but I could read some satisfaction in their smiles.

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Ummm... because you're cute?