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Finn or Bjork ?

Finn or Bjork ?, originally uploaded by pyongbricole.

I visited Bern, the unfamous capital of Switzerland, at the end of autumn, to be exact, during HALLOWEN day. The weather was crips and bright, just a great day to have a walk on a fog-free Bern and take some picture of the newly arrived babies bear at BärenPark.

It's a tradition in Bern, since 1513, to keep a bear at the city center. Later on they build a Bear Pit, still in the city center, and late this year, they renovate the pit and make it an ultra modern Bear Park - BärenPark, where people could enjoy the beauty of mascot of the city.

I once visited the park, sometimes last year, but then I learned that the bear I once saw and feed was passed away and replaced by 2 cuties, Finn (male) and Bjork (female). A week before my arrival, my friend who lived there told me, they "baby" is so cute and chubby. A week later, when I got there, it's ain't any baby, it's a mid-size bear. But she is still cute anyway :) oh yeah, I saw only one, the little boy is kind of shy for the moment, not yet get used to his celebrity new life.

But at least, Bjork did a great job, by herself. She did attracked so many hearts, eyes and cameras too, just by taking a nap in the open field of her bear pit :)

Alone

Leave, originally uploaded by pyongbricole.

by. Edgar Allen Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone —
Then — in my childhood — in the dawn
Of a most stormy life — was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still —
From the torrent, or the fountain —
From the red cliff of the mountain —
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold —
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by —
From the thunder, and the storm —
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view —

Genius

Sometimes I wonder, how genius a person could be? This picture I took onboard Costa Fortuna on my way from Rhodes to Dubrovnik on the wall of thr self-service restaurant. I wonder how, Colombus and friends, been able to draw this map of the world without any help from satelite image. And until now I still can't understand how people could build the giant pyramid without any help of cement or any bulldozers. It proofed one thing, the genuis of human being is beyond the wildest imagination one could has.

It's been a year...

Last year, we took Regina to the Sion's Conservatory of Music open house. That's, actually, the begining of her journey with her cello - Quincy. Today, she went again to the Sion's Conservatory of Music open house, but this time, she's the one who performed in front of the public.

It's quite....strange...to see how she advancing so much in this one-year time. She was such an innocent girl, known nothing about music, shy...and now, how she is growing up so fast (last year she begun with the 1/10 cello, now using 1/8 cello and soon will be changed with 1/4), and most important thing...she's not shy at all to play in front of the public.

Thanks to Sara and all her students who always give their full support to Regina.

I felt like living in North Pole

It's going to be half way through the month of March. We supposed to enter spring by this time. Instead, today we got a blizzard with the gust which made the mercury which hovered on the freezing point felt like a subzero level windchill.

Fresh snow piled up on the snow which was already there since October last year. I love having a white Christmas, but when we start to have 5 consecutive months of snow, I started to feel like I am, actually living in North Pole, except, I have longer sunlight per day during the winter compare to those who really lives in the top of the world.

Happy Valentines!!!

Make a Smilebox greeting

No Cocktail, only cherries

I supposed to take picture of my Midori Sour with cherries being thrown on it. Unfortunately, the lighting wasn't on my side and I really wanted to take, at least one, good shot that night. So, there goes Julien LOL. I asked him to drank up my midori, once the cocktail gone I had 3 shinny cherries in my cognac cup. Lied them on my light box and there you go... I named it "Mon Cherries" not a proper English nor French LOL, just a mix of both;)

Funky Santa

Santa doesn't always mean a classic jolly chubby old man, look at what they, from left to right - Noa, Sebastien, Kim and Regina, found during our cruise with MSC Fantasia (the inaugural cruise), they found themselves a funky Santa. They ran after him, at first, to ask for present but all they got is this souvenir picture with Santa Javier hahaha

I saw the wonder of the world

Just finished our trip of the day visited pyramids in Giza, the Citadel and Great Mosque at Cairo an at last late lunch on the Nile cruise. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Wish you all a happy holidays!