Monthly Archives: March 2010

The changes of rural China

Originally published on: Feb 28, 2007 @ 13:31

I am republishing this because I will be going back to this area in May and it will be interesting to make note of these changes in relation to the changes two years ago.

I went for a 4 hour walk down to where I used to live 3 years ago (in Yulin, Guangxi Autonomous Region) I couldn’t recognize anything. All the roads were resurfaced and widened trees cut [...]

Public wireless internet

I am not sure what is the point to charge for wireless internet service at international airports or in any city. It seems as though Kelowna and Vancouver have one purpose in mind charge the visitor and make sure they are not welcome. Why not make it free like Halifax, Tokyo, Narita, Taipei, and Hong Kong. To me wireless internet service should be a free public service at international airports and at designated high traffic areas of cities [...]

Consumption

I often go out to local summer festivals at night to photograph some dancing but instead I became too carried away in something different. What people are consuming, and how much. I had to try a taste of some of the food sold and I thought how expensive it was and the taste was not even so good. So I took out my video camera and started filming people selling, people buying and people eating. The dancing was just different [...]