The charming side-streets of ShangHai – XinTianDi 新天地

Panda Kindergarten - ChengDu Panda Base, SiChuan province

AnHui province.

Alan Dawa Dolma sings one of the most beautiful Tibetan Buddhist songs called Laydrei (Karma), in her angelic voice ...

No English subtitles, but easy to follow. Directed by Gao XiXi and starring Liu YiFei and Rain. A beautiful romantic film (15+) ...

HeiLongJiang province, with Katherine's Journey to the East 阳离子东游记, with surprise guest - Charlie ...

Born in TianMen, near ZhangJiaJie (think of the movie Avatar), HuBei province, she became interested in the guitar and started lessons at age six, with a penchant for heavy metal ! PinXi made her public debut in October 2015, at the China (ShangHai) Musical Instruments Exhibition, invited by the JOYO company as a guest performer; this is the first clip seen here - playing Cross-Ozielzinho. This montage also includes 'Angel of Darkness' by Andy James (age 9; PinXi, not Andy ;). Don't miss it ... Her favorite quote : Believe in yourself. PinXi exhibits that no-hesitation / no force expression strived for in the finest calligraphy, in which the hand and brush are as one. In Chinese this is known as Wu Wei or Wu Wei Wu - loosely translatable as action without effort.

With XiaoQianFeng ...

Featuring the timeless and heart-wrenching Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb (wow - don't miss this) ... Dark Side of the Moon (1973) - begins, and ends, with the pulse of a heart (this acclaimed album is like one awesome track). When you have a free hour, listen all the way through to what many regard as the greatest music album ever created. Features Time and Great Gig in the Sky (wow) ... So much time lost, chasing this and that; and then it's all over, before we really began.

Bonus film - a highlight from the Chinese New Year Gala show 2022 ... Robot chefs ...

Four mates set out for a stroll ... well, actually a walk - a very, very long walk ... across a myriad of disparate and stunning landscapes ... and discover that home can be, in many ways, wherever we happen to be right now ... Places visited include: Urumqi, Kanas, Burqin, Kuytun, Yiling, Salimuhu, Narati, Xinyang, Korla, Kucha, Aksu, Kashgar, Tashkurkan, Taklamakan, Karakoram, Turpan, Hami, Dunhuang, Jiayuguan, Xian, Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming, Guilin An awesome film ...