Great Masjid/Mosque of PekanBaru
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Lined Roast-Corns
Location: Berastagi, North Sumatera, Indonesia
Actually, nothing so special about roasted-corn at this place. What makes it counted is you can have it right after it’s lifted from the stove while it is cold around. Since Berastagi is placed at the high ground, sometimes we need something to make us warm. For me, a roasted-corn and a cup of hot coffee is quite satisfying. What about you??
Taxi Stand
Location: Front lobby of Hotel Millenium, SIngapore
Literally, it means taxi which stands. Then again, it’s just a spot where guests of the hotel can wait for a taxi to get them to whereever they want to go. The interesting things about this view is that, i dont see it everywhere in my own country even for something that similar to it. I guess it’s true, that different pond is filled with different fish. Different government, also different way to manage the city space.
Night of the Sketcher
Location: Jam Gadang Park, Bukit Tinggi, West Sumatera
Some people do have an art talent. Like this man (and some friends of him) actually sketch people faces based on the photograph given to him. Not for free of course, but not so expensive either. For not more than fifty thousands rupiahs you can have your photograph sketched (well actually you can bargain it for twenty or twenty five thousands rupiahs). For that amount of money, it’s surely a good deal. Since the result of the sketch itself is quite good and impressive. Perhaps i’ll sketch myself next time i have the chance to visit this city.
Foo Lion Statue
Foo Lion Statue, Location: Hotel Millenium, Singapore
Chinese guardian lions, also called Fu (Foo) Lions, lions of Buddha, or sometimes stone lions (??, Pinyin: Shísh?) in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China, which is believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, temples, emperors’ tombs, government offices, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), until the end of the empire in 1911.
Lions of Fo are always created in pairs, with the male playing with a ball and the female with a cub. They occur in many types of Chinese pottery and in Western imitations.
Pairs of Chinese guardian lions, also called Chinese stone lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures, with one sitting on each side of the entrance, in China and in other places around the world where the Chinese people have immigrated and settled specially in local Chinatowns.
In Tibet, the guardian lion is known as a Snow Lion and similar to Japanese shishi. In Myanmar they are called Chinthe and gave their name to the World War II Chindit soldiers. (source: Wikipedia)
