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4日星期三

Pictures Around the World 01


Rangoon, Burma: Family members of prisoners wait for them to be released from Insein prison





Trondheim, Norway: An aerial view of a landslide that ripped through a rural area




Beijing, China: An ice fisherman waits for a catch on a frozen lake




New Delhi, India: An old man smokes a beedi wrapped in a rented quilt






Depok, Indonesia: A customer looks for used goods at a 'Mall of Junk'


Nordreisa, Norway: A dog walks around dead herring on a beach at Kvennes



Wuhu, China: A woman at work in a garment factory





Asuncion, Paraguay: A pet titi monkey sits on the left leg of its owner






Muscat, Oman: An Omani horse rider shows his skills during the annual Royal Horseracing festival



Innsbruck, Austria: Bjoern Einar Romoeren of Norway at the Four Hills ski jumping tournament




Pyongyang, North Korea: thousands of North Koreans gather in Kim Il-sung Square to hold a mass rally in support of their new leader, Kim Jong-un





Tana Toraja, Indonesia: a man uses a machete to kill a buffalo during a Rambu Solo ceremony in Sulawesi province. The traditional sacrificial death ritual was held by the family of a local woman and 200 buffaloes and 500 other animals were slaughtered to feed to guests





Pilar, Argentina: wellwishers show support for their president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, outside the hospital where she will undergo surgery for thyroid cancer





Sofia, Bulgaria: men dressed as soldiers parade in front of the Alexander Nevski Cathedral during celebrations marking the 134th anniversary of Sofia's liberation from Ottoman rule





Hyderabad, India: a visually impaired student writes using Braille at Sai Junior College for the Blind on the 203rd anniversary of the birth of the French inventor of the system, Louis Braille