Some interesting issues in Tibet
In the coming blog entries, I'll be writing about
1. Money and religion - how people have resorted to directly bribing the gods by sticking bills in the buddha statues' hands, between their fingers, into their robes.
2. Culinary experience - how to cook fresh food badly. How some people manage to turn your food into poison.
3. The Potala Palace Labyrinth - why Mission Impossible: 3 can never be filmed in the Potala Palace.
4. Norbulinka, the Dalai Lama's Summer Palace - A place of simple luxury.
5. Octagonal Street Shopping - how I managed to get something at RMB 50 when the initial price was RMB 600.
6. Clarified yak butter - the food of the Buddhas. Why we rejected Tibetan style rooms in a hotel.
7. Village kids, town beggars, scenic spot robbers - the state of the underprivileged in Tibet.
8. Pushing away girls beg for money by blocking your paths.
9. Shotun Festivities - How to climb two hills in a day and not die.
10. Staying beside the Potala Palace for 6 nights - How it feels to have a high class neighbout.
11. Karaoke Disasters - they only happen at night.
12. The Tibetan Slo-Mo - How they made me blow my top.
13. Songtsen Gampo
14. Dalai and Panchen - the confusion.
15. [This pertains to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and Lhasa Gongga Airport] How to be wayang kings and queens - the case study of No Action, Talk Only (NATO).
16. Do & Me Singapore-style Fried Chicken - how food we disdained in Singapore saved us in Tibet.
17. La Mei Hua (Winter Cherry Blossoms) Tea - Saviour for the eyes
18. Three steps and one full body postration - Just show me the money!
19. Aviation Achievements - the Chengdu - Tibet leg.
20. (I'll fill in some more when I think of them!)
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