FOOD JOKES- THE FORBIDDEN LOVE IN BEIJING. AUTUMN LEAVES OF THE MAPLE TREE.

FOOD JOKES- THE FORBIDDEN LOVE IN BEIJING.

AUTUMN LEAVES OF THE MAPLE TREE.

Cindyrina’s heart throb- she found Forbidden love in Beijing- his food menu is cute

My heart is with Toronto’s autumn leaves- a magnificent beauty of the maple trees that produce maple syrup for us.

Nature’s gifts for all of us, the stunningly beautiful maple trees in autumn.. about a week’s time, the leaves will fall- ready for winter..so mesmerizing! I must have this image published before fall is done.

My very special thank you to Lee, for his kind thoughts in sharing this magnificent beauty with all of us… have a wonderful day always Lee. 

The yellow leaves maple tree was published just before this post. The maple trees autumn leaves are very striking, especially when the tree trunk and branches are of deep black color.

GUEST POST:

My very special Guest blogger for this post is Cindyrina or Rina from Malaysia. A very special thank you to you Rina, for your willingness to do this guest post for me. You have always made me laugh a lot when reading some of your blog posts ha ha. Do visit Rina at: http://www.princesscindyrina.blogspot.com/

BEIJING, THE FORBIDDEN CITY

The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty (14 & 10 emperors). It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum.

For almost 500 years, it served as the home of 24 emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of the Chinese government.

The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 and is listed by UNESCO  as The imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasty and also listed as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

“The Forbidden City" referred to the fact that no-one could enter or leave the palace without the emperor's permission - wiki extracts.

Let’s read more from Rina..
A Forbidden love, found in the Forbidden city.

ABOUT ME;

Thank you Wan for giving me this opportunity!

Glad to know you Wan in this Cyber world… 

I am a Management Consultant by profession for almost 3 years now. I tell lead companies who are interested to change from the traditional ways of managing business into a modern and dynamic management approach. I hired many people and fired many too!

Yeah! My profession sounds boring and too serious.

When you visit my blog (http://www.princesscindyrina.blogspot.com) , I don’t even sound like one of those serious professional but more towards a crazy and lunatic person hahahaha… Yeah! That’s me for sure… 

I love travelling to other countries alone, to explore different cultures and experience others lifestyle.

MY GUEST POST:

“A FORBIDDEN LOVE” AT “THE FORBIDDEN CITY” IN BEIJING

Recently in September, I went to Beijing. Apart from experiencing others lifestyle and culture I also wish I could find love in another country. Most of my ground travel and exploration in Beijing  were self prepared- mostly using MRT and walking.

For  the Great Wall of China exploration, I hired a  local English speaking travel agency for a day. My tour group was joined by tourists from other countries, consisted of one couple from USA, one family from France ( husband and wife and their 7 years old son), Belgium man, French lady and me from Malaysia. 

I am not naturally good with kids and never interested with kids at all. Basically I am an ice queen when it comes to kids. 
There you go- a seven year old French boy, totally madly deeply in love with me.

He followed me around and always tried to look for me when I am far behind from the group. Even his dad and mummy were worried about him. His Dad kept telling everyone in the group that his boy is falling for me deeply. He refused to stand or walk by his dad or mummy’s side.

 He tagged along with me and as usual I just ignored and totally with my ice queen snobbish act. Sometimes I will just give him my cold smile. 

Of course deep inside my heart, I felt touched with his cute and adorable smile. He even snapped many of my photos with his dad’s   iphone and his mum’s camera, during lunch where he sat across my table eating his white rice with just ketchup! Huh! Rice with ketchup ????

THE COOLEST RECIPE IN COOKING VARIETIES BLOG SO FAR- ha ha ha

My wish came true!

I found love in Beijing.

But my! l dream love….

7 year old boy…totally sinful for that huge gap!!!

Mum & Dad need to hold his hand most of the time 

Enjoy my young lover snapshot from behind…..never thought of taking many of his photos because most of the time I was so embarrassed, because that small boy was totally into me and kept staring at me…Goshhhh!!!!! 
What- with me???? 

There you go- Dad need to hold Alan’s hand to go down the stairs at Underground Castle 

Dad still holding Alan’s hand…mmmmm Alan can’t climb further due to his minor age and lack of strength.. ha ha ha

cooking varieties said: HI ALAN-  FORBIDDEN CUTIE PIE !

He kept holding his Dad ‘s Iphone and snap my photos…… from behind seat..

He left his parents, just to be with me by sitting opposite me and start his paparazzi style of photography….  ha ha ha

He said nothing else but did introduce himself as Alan to me with his thick French accent during our first stop…

When I said my name is Rina his pronunciation make me startled…. 
Huh Ghino????

 Ah!!! That is so wrong my dear Alan!!!!   Nevertheless, sooooo romantic.....

Best of the day is he ate rice…with just ketchup and nothing else….huh???

And his Dad did mentioned Alan’s  favourite is Hamburger!!!!

But Alan ate rice for Ghino's sake- how romantika......

Dad totally told me Alan is too young to fall in love and I totally got it Dad!!!…..

cooking varieties said:  
OUCH  Rina! I think you did not visualize specific enough on your potential love finding.  In your prayer, you should have spelt the age group you wanted to meet.. I know you did mention “cute’ you did not say handsome or charming - ish issh  ishh…  see what you got-   he is so cute with that cheeky twitch on his mouth, yay , adorable, expensive smile eh! Your prayers answered with perfection ha ha ha.

Great lesson learnt: When you want to ask from God to meet you up with your true love, be specific, ask properly ok.. .don’t be shy to quote the “age group” and never blunder and use the word “cute” again.  ha ha ha – disasterous..

So The Forbidden city of Beijing turned out to be The Forbidden Love city for Rina Ghino and Alan boy.

When Alan got startled and said Huh ! Ghino? Wow, what kind of feeling/ emotion  was he expressing huh? I wonder, wonder-  I wish I am good at analyzing for you Rina. Anyone, help us here please…. I am so curious and I cannot get curious, I will die standing..

 A consolation for you Rina is that, he is the one broken hearted, not you- luckily… ha ha ha, my stomach muscles ache so bad these days, due to so much laughter everywhere. Ouch !

Yes, at first  I thought  your recipe is gonna be an exotic chicken burger with “blue color fries” at the side and one scarlet  red apple (as in adam’s or steve job’s  apple)- yum yum.. Alan’s meal together gather with you..

 OUCH !  Tomato ketchup over White rice! Hey, this is even more romantic- a scarlet and white series.. like a shadow (untouchable) .. Forbidden Love… Ghino, romantika-  I wish you the best of luck next time… skip the French people and blue French fries ok.. Skip Beijing too. 

Go to the Bahamas instead.

Here Rina, this image is for you, I did a digital art on one of my foodie photos- tomato ketchup and rice, hope you like it for keeps . ha ha ha

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