pictures i took

I have been busy busy for the last month..no time for anything other than work, work, work. I celebrated Christmas by making a trip to Hong Kong. A totally different experience than Wuhan. It feels much like any other world city. Hong Kong seems to me...

Temples, scenic walks with interesting rocks and of course, the dam. It was a fun trip. Just some pictures I took around the dam a couple of weeks ago. The dam was a dam big dam... Very Engineering. The monument fountain was dramatic.

I changed apartments this week, my new crib is on the 5th floor of the central building of my complex. It has some great views. What I love about the city scape of Wuhan is for a lack of a better word, its syncopated modularity, a rythmn of intersecting...

A friend`s parents invited me out today to see the botanical gardens near East Lake. After visiting the gardens, we went out to lunch at one of those traditional roadhouses. I enjoy those places, a couple of specialty dishes in a down-home atmosphere,...

Inside a Buddhist Temple(see below) Climbing around the rocks in the stream, Lying Dragon Valley Buddhist Temple in one of the historic mountain villages A street scene along a stream. My work trip was a blast, I am really tired now, need to put captions...

Looking at the Yugoslav memorials abandoned in a field made me remember some pictures I took of old New Frontier constructions along the SW waterfront area in DC. These buildings are also in disrepair and also express the modernist utopian vision here...

We had a day to kill before the night train back to Wuhan so we went to Tienamen Square. It seemed to me a very odd public space, sort of broken up, and not too visually coherent. The big road between the square and the Fobidden City did not help. The...

It was very interesting being an American tourist from China visiting Seattle. Visiting tourist attractions in Beijing and then Seattle made me think about tourism, tourist geographies and the exotic. What attracts me as a traveler is really difference-not...

I am on my way to Seattle for the AAG, flying out of Beijing. Cheaper to take the train to Beijing and stay in a hotel overnight than to fly. Since we had one whole day here, We visted the Summer palace...very cool.

A night out on Lumo Lu. I enjoy all the flashing lights, signs, and the hustle and bustle of the street vendors. It is spring, and really fun to be out clubbing.