Visit to Xinjiang, China ( 24th September, 2006)

Some of the images captured during my recent visit to Xinjiang, Urumqi. Roadside stalls selling BBQ lamb meat on skewers and noddles with vegetables.

Morning breakfast stalls, selling oil fried pancakes and soya bean soup, corn soup and peanuts porridge.

A common breakfast is the mutton dumplings, chives dumplings and mutton noodles soup.

The season is going to autumn and leaves will be falling soon. Weather is still fine and cooling at max 26 deg C and night is 8 deg C.

A Perfect Society

The authorities are calling for good spoken and written English. Its about time. First of all, the teachers must be taught to speak and teach the language at a standard level.

Its still baffles me, the last alphabet – "Z". Should it pronounce "zee" or "zet"?

We were taught "zet". But it seems that the former pronunciation is more common. The problem should be solved at the basic level, that is, teach the teacher to be better trainers. Its about time for proper English.