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SMoments Qijiang-Sanhui

From a great guy Jeremy that once surfed on my couch here in Chongqing I adopted idea to capture sound of a specific place and then add it to pictures. This way making a short video consisting from pictures and sound present on the site. Here are first two tries. Options set on defaults when creating the movies/slide shows.

First one is created in Windows Movie Maker – Qijiang

• more options to adjust (duration of each capture individually, synchronization with audio, quality, output folder,…)
• lower quality
• faster conversion
• smaller file

The second one in Picasa “Create Video Clip Presentation” icon – Qijiang2

• larger file
• thus longer conversion
• and better quality
• more user friendly & very limited options

Random Chinese food

Looks: 2

Smell: 2

Spiciness: 4

Satisfaction Factor: 4

Overall: Once more

Price TAG: 10 RMB

I am here in China already 4 months…And after that time you simply get used to different standard…like the take away food. It is not packed and delivered in separate boxes full of advertisements…You get always the same paper cup everywhere you go and half of the sauce will leak before you get home. Not to mention they put even the soup into the paper sup. It is almost like going to Starbucks and taking away soup instead of coffee in your paper cup.
This particular one consisted from fried cabbage, fried red spicy peppers and some kind of meat. Pretty spicy and half of the meal remained in the cup, cause it was literally bathing in oil. The rice was good though and I ate at least the whole cup of it. Can beat up the hunger but will nit satisfy your taste buds at all. Maybe next time they will be better.

Random Chinese food

Looks: 2

Smell: 2

Spiciness: 5

Satisfaction Factor: 2

Overall: No

Price TAG: 12 RMB

Once after work, I was really hungry and searching for some fast food to fill me up. Flor took me to one of her favorite food stalls or a local Chinese fast food – Lai de quai. You can get this fried meat or vegetable on sticks in there, or just a simple soup. Or…this famous spicy noodles. For just 4 RMB you can get fast, spicy and for someone definitely delicious noodles. Unfortunately not for me. Not only they were spicy the way I don’t like (too hot and no other taste), but also I felt the noodles like spongy wet worms mingling in my mouth. Not a pleasant experience. I made it through the half of the noodles just because I was really hungry. The only thing making it a little appealing was the fresh coriander on top of it. No more thank you very much.