高樓低廈,人潮起伏,
名爭利逐,千萬家悲歡離合。

閑雲偶過,新月初現,
燈耀海城,天地間留我孤獨。

舊史再提,故書重讀,
冷眼閑眺,關山未變寂寞!

念人老江湖,心碎家國,
百年瞬息,得失滄海一粟!

徐訏《新年偶感》

2012年1月13日星期五

Pictures Around the World 08

Blackpool, England: Fishermen brave wind-whipped waves on Blackpool promenade

Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica: An Adelie penguin on the ice

Titanyen, Haiti: A woman who lost both her arms in the January 2010 earthquake attends a memorial service at a mass grave site

Sagar Island, India: Hindu pilgrims perform rituals at the Gangasagar festival. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims arrive for the Gangasagar, which culminates in a dip in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal



Sagar Island, India: Workers arrange straw mats before delivering them to temporary camps for the Gangasagar pilgrimmage and festival

Sagar Island, India: A Hindu pilgrim offers prayers after taking a dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal


Islamabad, Pakistan: A worker arranges bricks at a factory

Islamabad, Pakistan: A man combs a rubbish tip for items that can be sold to a recycling factory

Kabul, Afghanistan: Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri, the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of the Qur'an, turns a page of the book

Moscow, Russia: A soldier from the presidential regiment guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just outside a snow-clad Kremlin wall
Nairobi, Kenya: Pedestrians cross a bridge on the Nairobi-Thika highway

Arequipa, Peru: A biker competes during the 11th stage of the Dakar rally from Arica to Arequipa
Tauranga, New Zealand: The stern section of the container ship Rena sinks after splitting away. The ship had been wedged on a reef off the east coast of the North Island since October

Beijing, China: A woman performs stretching exercises under rows of red lanterns in Ditan park