Saturday, March 21, 2015: Fill & Download for Free

Note: Moving forward I’ll be posting updates to my list here.Upcoming hackathons:1) IBM Hack Night - Watson Internet of ThingsCentral Computers (3777 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA 95051)Tue, November 8, 2016 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/ibm-hack-night-watson-internet-of-things-tickets-285397922872) Watson Developer ConferenceInnovation Hangar (3601 Lyon St, San Francisco, CA 94123)Wednesday, November 9, 2016 from 10:30 AM - 11:00 PMhttp://www.ibm.com/watson/developer-conference/3) Redis Modules Hack USAAWS Popup Loft (925 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103)Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 11:00 PM - Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 12:00 PMhttps://www.hackerearth.com/sprints/redislabs-hackathon-usa/4) 3rd Annual Congressional App Challenge: CA-15 HackathonWorkday Headquarters (6230 Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588)Saturday, November 12, 2016, 9:00 AM – Sunday, November 13, 2016, 3:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-congressional-app-challenge-ca-15-hackathon-tickets-282037331255) Developer CampStartup LaunchPad (301 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105)Friday, November 18, 2016, 5:00 PM – Sunday, November 20, 2016, 6:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/developer-camp-tickets-286162289116) Metis / Invisible Institute HackathonMetis (633 Folsom Street, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107)Saturday, November 19, 2016 from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/metis-invisible-institute-hackathon-tickets-290370485947) DanceHackDay 2016CounterPulse (80 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102)Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PMhttp://www.dancehack.orghttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/dancehackday-2016-registration-291288732448) HackCity: Blockchain HackathonDraper University (44 East 3rd Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401)Friday, January 13, 2017, 6:00 PM – Sunday, January 15, 2017, 1:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackcity-blockchain-hackathon-tickets-285087273719) eny HackathonGalvanize (44 Tehama St, San Francisco, CA 94105)Saturday, January 21 from 9:00 AM - 5:30 PMhttps://eny.devpost.com/10) Mod the Future Hackathon- San FrancsicoGalvanize (44 Tehama St, San Francisco, CA 94105)Saturday, January 21, 2017, 9:00 AM – Sunday, January 22, 2017, 6:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/mod-the-future-hackathon-san-francsico-tickets-2727260609911) DeveloperWeek 2017 HackathonPier 27 (The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA)Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 10:30 AM - Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 4:30 PMhttp://www.developerweek.com/hackathon/https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developerweek-2017-hackathon-tickets-2837506157312) #WomenHack - The All-Women Hackathon San FranciscoSaturday, March 18, 2017 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 PMDevbootcamp (633 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107)https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womenhack-the-all-women-hackathon-san-francisco-tickets-27670276542Past hackathons:1) Hack Against ViolenceDev Bootcamp San Francisco (633 Folsom St, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA)Friday, September 16, 2016, 6:30 PM - Sunday, September 18, 2016, 5:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-against-violence-tickets-270965354672) SM Hacks - San Mateo's first high school hackathonOpera MediaWorks (1875 S Grant St #800, San Mateo, CA 94402)Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 2:00 PMhttp://www.smhacks.com3) AT&T IoT Hackathon - Bay Area1446 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102Friday, September 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM - Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 9:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/att-iot-hackathon-bay-area-tickets-274182427024) Airport of the Future - HackathonBlock 71 San Francisco (164 South Park, San Francisco, CA)Friday, September 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 5:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/airport-of-the-future-hackathon-tickets-271722539435) 2016 Bay Area Code for the Kingdom HackathonPalo Alto | Mixbook (409 Sherman Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306)San Francisco | FiveStars (340 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94107)Fremont | Convergence House of Prayer (200 Hammond Ave, Fremont, CA 94539)Friday, September 23, 2016 at 7:00 PM - Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 6:00 PMhttp://www.eventbrite.com/e/2016-bay-area-code-for-the-kingdom-hackathon-tickets-259610491976) Hack Homelessness HackathonThe Tech Museum of Innovation (201 South Market Street, San Jose, CA)Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 8:00 AM - Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 12:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-homelessness-hackathon-tickets-268131679077) Hackathon - "Hack For Safe Campus"PayPal (2211 N 1st Street, San Jose, CA)Saturday, October 8, 2016 from 9:00 AM – 10:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackathon-hack-for-safe-campus-tickets-274535803988) The Small Business Tech HackathonSan Jose Convention Center (150 W. San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA)Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 6:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-small-business-tech-hackathon-tickets-267293040689) Food Hackathon + Forum: KIDS HEALTHswissnex San Francisco (Pier 17, San Francisco, CA 94111)Friday, October 28, 2016 at 5:00 PM - Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 9:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-hackathon-forum-kids-health-tickets-2826694920610) AT&T VR/AR Hackathon - San Francisco1446 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103Friday, November 4, 2016 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 6:00 PMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/att-vrar-hackathon-san-francisco-tickets-2856715914211) Emojicon 2016 HackathonBespoke at Westfield Mall (845 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103)Friday, November 4, 2016 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 6:00 PMhttp://2016.emojicon.co/hack12) health++ : Stanford's Inaugural Health HackathonStanford University - Li Ka Shing Center & Huang Engineering Center (Li Ka Shing Building, 291 Campus Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94305)Saturday, November 5, 2016 - Sunday, November 6, 2016http://healthplusplus.stanford.edu13) Hack Reality: VR Hackathon with Samsung Accelerator645 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CASaturday, November 5, 2016 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 5:00 PMhttps://hackreality.splashthat.com/14) AWS + Intel Hardware Hackathon - SF EditionAWS Popup Loft (925 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103)Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 9:00 PMhttps://www.hackster.io/hackathons/aws-intel-hardware-hackathon/SF/infohttp://www.eventbrite.com/e/aws-intel-hardware-hackathon-tickets-28441518347

Like many of the early Christian saints, it is uncertain whether Saint Januarius ever really lived although interesting and somewhat different legends grew up around his life and presumed martyrdom. Wikipedia says:The earliest extant mention of him is contained in a 432 letter by Uranius, bishop of Nola, on the death of his mentor Saint Paulinus of Nola, where it is stated that the ghosts of Januarius and Saint Martin appeared to Paulinus three days before the latter's death in 431.The legend of his blood liquefying developed slowly and in stages. Wikipedia says:Saint Januarius is famous for the miracle of the annual liquefaction of his blood, which, according to legend, was saved by a woman called Eusebia just after the saint's death. A chronicle of Naples written in 1382 describes the cult of Saint Januarius in detail, but mentions neither the relic nor the miracle. The first certain date is 1389, when it was found to have melted. Then, over the following two and a half centuries official reports began to appear declaring that the blood spontaneously melted, at first once a year, then twice, and finally three times a year.It supposedly liquefied in the presence of Pope Pius IX in 1848, but not that of John Paul II in 1979 or Benedict XVI in 2007. On March 21, 2015, Pope Francis venerated the dried blood during a visit to Naples Cathedral, saying the Lord's Prayer over it and kissing it.The three most recent popes to visit the Cathedral to see the blood liquify would have been accompanied by sceptical observers and reporters, which may be why the blood decided not to liquify. Wikipedia records a number of hypotheses about the constitution of the blood and adds that the region has a long history of blood liquefaction legends, diminishing the veracity of the Saint Januarius phenomenon:Although Naples became known as "City of Blood" (urbs sanguinum), legends of blood liquefaction are not a unique phenomenon. Other examples include vials of the blood of Saint Patricia,[where?] of St John the Baptist in the monastery of San Gregorio Armeno, and of Saint Pantaleon in Ravello. In all, the church has recognized claims of miraculous liquefying blood for seven or about twenty saints from Campania and virtually nowhere else. The blood cults of the other saints have been discontinued since the 16th century, which noted skeptic James Randi takes as evidence that local artisans or alchemists had a secret recipe for manufacturing this type of relic.CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Januarius takes a carefully sceptical position, indicating that the effect continues to the present day:Eighteen times in each year, i.e. (1) on the Saturday before the first Sunday in May and the eight following days, (2) on the feast of St. Januarius (19 Sept.) and during the octave, and (3) on 16 December, a silver bust believed to contain the head of St. Januarius is exposed upon the altar, and the reliquary just described is brought out and held by the officiant in view of the assembly. Prayers are said by the people, begging that the miracle may take place, while a group of poor women, known as the "zie di San Gennaro" (aunts of St. Januarius), make themselves specially conspicuous by the fervour, and sometimes, when the miracle is delayed, by the extravagance, of their supplications…Rarely has the liquefaction failed to take place in the expositions of May or September, but in that of 16 December the mass remains solid more frequently than not.Probably the most serious difficulty against the miraculous character of the phenomenon is derived from the circumstance that the same liquefaction takes place in the case of other relics, nearly all preserved in the neighbourhood of Naples, or of Neapolitan origin.

Living in China for more than two decades, I took many photos from which you can get an insight into China. The following photos ( 2013~2017) range from big cities to rural villages, from day to night, from factories to religious architectures, from daily life to special moments. The logic of the photos is mainly based on time.Hongkong. Jan 23, 2013. Disneyland.Hongkong. Jan 24, 2013. Hongkong Ocean Park.Guilin, Guangxi. Feb 5, 2013.Guilin, Guangxi. Feb 6, 2013.Guangzhou. Feb 23, 2013. Shishi Sacred Heart Cathedral:Most people who go to this church for religious reason are from Africa. There are many people from the south of Africa living in the northwest of Guangzhou.Zhongshan, Guangdong. Apr 6, 2013. My junior high school, as well as my parents and sisters’:This is a blackboard for homework.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Apr 6, 2013. This is my little town.Zhongshan, Guangdong. May 1, 2013. LRT from Zhongshan to Guangzhou.Let’s have a look at the various trains running on the ground.On the way back to Guangzhou from Chongqing. August 5, 2015. Red-covered train (红皮车) is a kind of slow train.Train to Tonghua from Shenyang, Liaoning. March 10, 2017. Green-covered train (绿皮车) is a kind of slow rain too.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 3, 2017.Okay, now back to 2013.Guangzhou. June 20, 2013. A classroom in my university.Guangzhou. Dec 25, 2013. Also a room in my university.Guangzhou. July 24, 2013. View from the classroom.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 29, 2014. My grandma’s village.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 29, 2014. My grandma’s house. People in the village usually stick the spring festival scrolls.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 30, 2014. View from my old home. Most of people living at my little town are from other provinces. They come here for work but usually go back home for Spring Festival once a year. So the town is a bit quiet that time.This is the same street! It will flood every time when it rains hard. Every time! Pic taken on Apr 4, 2016.Just a day later on Apr 5, 2016. View from my new home at the same town.The same home, the same town. May 28, 2017.Okay, back to 2014:Guangzhou. Feb 27, 2014. There are various kinds of dormitories in my university but you cannot choose where you want to live. This one is very broken, without elevators or air conditioners ( they installed air conditioners in 2016). The old desks and chairs are just changed.Guangzhou. June 26, 2014. Spicy Sichuan food. Tasty but not good for stomach.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. August 25, 2014. Dishes cooked by my mother. These are the dishes we usually eat.Guangzhou. Sept 13, 2014. A canteen in my university. At lunch or dinner time, it is rather hard to find a seat.Guangzhou. Nov 19, 2014. Huadiwan of line 1 of Guangzhou Metro. This station is actually very special because most of the metros cannot be seen from high place. You’ll know what I mean after seeing the photos below.Guangzhou. Dec 28, 2014. Lijiao of line 3 of Guangzhou Metro. The most usual kind with screen doors and running under the ground.Guangzhou. Oct 4, 2015. Jiaokou of line 5 of Guangzhou Metro. This kind goes in the sky.Guangzhou. Nov 21, 2014. Inside the metro. Don’t ask me why there are so few people. Because I can’t even breathe when it’s crowded during rush hours, let alone take a photo!Guangzhou. June 8, 2015. How about this one?Liantang village, Guangzhou. Nov 15, 2014.Some place between Zhongshan and Guangzhou. Nov 21, 2014. Taken on a bus.Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou. Nov 30, 2014.Lijiao, Guangzhou. Dec 4, 2014. City psoriasis. Actually I find it kind of good-looking there haha.Gangding, Guangzhou. Jan 18, 2015. A famous place to buy and repair electronic products.Zhuhai, Guangdong. Feb 22, 2015. Jintai temple (金台寺).Guangzhou. March 8, 2015. Let’s take a photo!Guangzhou. May 5, 2015. The ‘legendary’ Guangzhou railway station. It is said that the station is very dangerous with lots of thieves and robbers. I've not met one but I experienced a crazy delay of 7 hours!Pic taken on July 31, 2015. It says, delayed about 6 hours and 58 minutes (约晚点6小时58分).Guangzhou. July 2, 2015. This one is epic! It says, I won’t wash my car. I’m just waiting for the rain（哥不洗车，哥等下雨）.Zhongshan, Guangdong. July 22, 2015.Guizhou. August 1, 2015. Taken on a slow train.A meal on train. Too spicy for me but it was tasty.Unknown. August 1, 2015. A place in the southwestern of China.Chongqing. August 2, 2015.Chongqing is a mountainous city where there are many ‘layers’ in the city so GPS map of 2D is useless. The front door of a building is on the first floor and the back door is very likely to be on about the 10th floor, even though both doors are on the same horizontal line. Always very confused when taking an elevator, I’ve also lost my way quit a few times. So, Chongqing earns a title of ‘ 3D magical city (3D魔幻城)’.Chongqing. August 3, 2015.The piano stairs.Spicy food again.Shantou, Guangdong. August 8, 2015.Xiamen, Fujian. August 8, 2015. Typhoon just arrived.Guangzhou. August 30, 2015. Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province. I guess they like the books with similar colour being together.Dongguan, Guangdong. Oct 24, 2015. A cloth factory.Huangpu port, Guangzhou. Nov 28, 2015.Guangzhou. Dec 15, 2015. A 3D printing rose.Hongkong. Dec 27, 2015.Dafen, Shenzhen. Dec 28, 2015. Dafen village is famous for its commercial oil paintings. The price is low as many of the painters are actually the ‘workers’ who are hired to paint the same paintings selling well repeatedly every day at a small house. One of them told me he was made to learn painting only for a month by his boss before painting the paintings sold to others.Guangzhou. Jan 1, 2016. New year’s concert by Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at Guangdong Performing Arts Theatre.Zhongshan, Guangdong. Jan 18, 2016.The same street. May 28, 2017. Building more.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangzhou. Feb 2, 2016. Also my grandma’s village.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 5, 2016.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 8, 2016. A traditional food named Jiandui (煎堆).Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 9, 2016.A sunset at a village named Qifenghuan.Dachong, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Feb 9, 2016. Some sacrifices for spring festival. The two fish will be released to the river, Xi River.Dachong, Zhongshan. Feb 10, 2016. My sister’s hamster :DDachong, Zhongshan. Feb 12, 2016. My town is famous for mahogany industry.Guangzhou. Feb 23, 2016. Suddenly curious about eBay, though I couldn't and cannot live without Taobao and Tmall. And when I tried to create an account of eBay, wow, Droste effect! !Guangzhou. March 26, 2016. A night bus.Pingyuan, Meizhou, Guangdong. June 14, 2016. It stormed every day when I stayed there. But I really love this quiet and clean place. Also the food, haha.Guangzhou. June 23, 2016. On my graduation from South China Normal University.Haizhu District, Guangzhou. June 24, 2016. The 8th Guangzhou International Buddhist Items Fair and Incense Culture Expo.Guangzhou. July 7, 2016. A factory of facial masks.July 11, 2016. ‘You have to love something meaningless to live a meaningful life’ on a package box.Guangzhou. July 20, 2016. Ice ballet by Imperial Ice Stars of the UK in Guangzhou Opera House.Shenzhen. August 11, 2016. The headquarters of Huawei.Zhongshan, Guangdong. August 27, 2016. Pizza cooked by my mother. Before & after:Zhongshan, Guangdong. Aug 30, 2016. Dashi, one of the most crowded metro stations. In rush hours, people have to queue outside the station to get in.Guangzhou. Sept 11, 2016. A meeting for the 4th international photography biennial of Guangzhou.Guangzhou. Sept 11, 2016. Sean Scully’s artworks exhibited at Guangdong Museum of Art.Dachong, Zhongshan. Sep 15, 2016.Guangzhou. Oct 21, 2016.Zhongshan. Oct 29, 2016. Birthday celebration.Shenzhen. Nov 5, 2016.Huizhou, Guangdong. Nov 5, 2016.Huizhou, Guangdong. Nov 6, 2016.Pati, Haizhu, Guangzhou. Nov 20, 2016. A place full of bars and cafes.Nov 21, 2016. This is the back cover of a collection of Yingchun Zhu’s modern poems, The Designing Wordsmith (朱赢椿《设计诗》). Just like the style of his poems, the prices are quite humourous and poetic, listed in various currencies: 3.69 UK dollars; 4.22 Euro; 4.67 Swiss franc; 5.63 AU dollars; 5.83 Canadian dollars; 6.06 US dollars; 36.42 Egyptian pound; 43.24 ZAR… 127360.28 VND.Guangzhou. Dec 3, 2016. A new book launch at a book shop named Fangsuo (方所).Shenzhen. Dec 4, 2016. The headquarters of Tencent.Guangzhou. Dec 27, 2016. A shopping mall.Macau. Feb 2, 2017.Guangzhou. Feb 10, 2017. Milk is on the top of tea.Guangzhou. Feb 18, 2017. A movie cinema in Yuexiu District.Guangzhou. Feb 22, 2017. A supermarket in Baiyun District.Guangzhou. Feb 26, 2017. Inside the Guangdong Provincial Museum at Zhujiang New Town.Guangzhou. Feb 28, 2017. At a halal restaurant. This kind of halal restaurant is usually named ‘Lanzhou beef lamian restaurant’. Besides noodles, they serve rice too. In fact, the lamian restaurants are so popular that you can find them even at a small town.This is the menu. Taken on May 19, 2017.Have dinner there again haha.Panyu District, Guangzhou. March 1, 2017.This photo was also taken in Panyu District on Feb 28, 2016.Zhongshan, Guangdong. March 5, 2017. Building asphalt roads.Ningbo, Zhejiang. March 10, 2017.Yantai, Shandong. March 10, 2017.March 10, 2017. Failed to see the location. Just some place above the northeast.Shenyang, Liaoning. March 10, 2017.On the way to Tonghua, Jilin by slow train. March 11, 2017. Sunrise above the snowy field.Ji’an, Tonghua, Jilin. March 11, 2017.Ji’an, Tonghua, Jilin. March 13, 2017. The river is Yalu. And the hills over there belong to North Korea. The local of Ji’an told me that Chinese ( from mainland China) can go sightseeing in NK without passport or visa but you have to stay there for more than one day, while mobile and camera are not allowed to be carried with you. Actually I felt very surprised by the convenience of Chinese visiting NK. I don't think that's good news lol.Benxi, Liaoning. March 14, 2017.That's ginseng field.And the cuisines in the northeast of China are soooo amazing!Panyu, Guangzhou. March 26, 2017.Guangzhou. March 29, 2017. A fire station.The same fire station. This was taken on May 27, 2017.Kashgar, Xinjiang. Apr 7, 2017. This pic was sent by my Uyghur friend, Abdu, to me. Not taken by me. Not sure if he likes being seen, I put an A there.He sent me this pic too, taken in his hometown Ili, Xinjiang.No matter what religion they believe in, all the students of universities of Urumqi, Xinjiang cannot pray in university. If found, he will have troubles but things are different in different areas of Xinjiang. I asked him whether they felt angry about the restriction but he said no. Besides, some names actually cannot be used yet he himself doesn't know why either.This is his notebook. He can speak Uyghur, Mandarin and a little Turkish. Three of his roommates are Han and the other two are from Kashgar and from Hotan respectively. He teaches his Han roommates Uyghur and I learn a little Uyghur from him too.Jiedong, Jieyang, Guangdong. Apr 14–15, 2017.Tea fields.Tea processing.A grumpy cat!Shanwei, Guangdong. Apr 16, 2017.Guangzhou. Apr 25, 2017. ‘My mummy won't worry any more that I don't have a seat lol (妈妈再也不用担心我没座位了哈哈哈）’. He carried his own chair to take a metro. Maybe he bought it just now.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 3, 2017. Anren is a national-level poor county (国家级贫困县).An abandoned house.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 6, 2017. A temple for Shennong.So many languages on the board at this small town where lots of old people even cannot speak Mandarin. I bought a bottle of water from an elder vendor with the help of a seemingly younger vendor over the street.There are some China’s flags hung with the religious flags.Anren, Chenzhou, Hunan. May 7, 2017. Nature time.Anren , Chenzhou, Hunan. May 7, 2017. A train station! The population of this small town is so low that even on Sunday it is still so empty.Panyu, Guangzhou. May 16, 2017. Recently I often go for a walk along the river bank after dinner. People jog, dance, fish or walk a dog here.Huangpu, Guangzhou. May 17, 2017. The advertisement at a bus stop is being changed.Guangzhou. May 17, 2017. A metro station. Almost everything can be paid through Wechat and Alipay by mobile. I don't really remember when I withdrew money from ATM last time. Half a year ago?Shenzhen. May 18, 2017. China Smart Home Expo and IC Expo.On the sea.Compared with Guangzhou and Hongkong, Shenzhen is kind of a new-built city full of dazzling skyscrapers and green trees where most of the people are young and open minded from different parts of China and even the world struggling for their dreams so that you can blend into this city as a member of it immediately without facing much discrimination. Meanwhile, it gives me a feeling of ‘floating in the air’ as the city lacks a ‘root’ like duckweed. Tourists may barely find its unique historical architectures travelling through the most parts of the city so that what they remember is usually new skyscrapers and busy traffic.Building modern architectures does not ruin a culture, but the old classical ones should be protected. Building a skyscraper is easy, but creating a civilisation is not. Shenzhen can be such an excellent city not depending on its tall buildings but on the people, on the location.Now China is developing too rapidly, building this and that, here and there. Several years ago when I studied in university and went home once a month, I got lost at my hometown! On a new street only about 2~3 km away from my home. The bus had changed its route. The buildings looked both familiar and strange. I even asked the way! After I told that incident to my parents, they felt surprised, amused and a bit angry while my father said: ‘laugh die people (笑死人, extremely laughable)! Nobody will believe it if I tell them!’. Many eastern towns get addicted to new skyscrapers and wide roads but fail to preserve its unique place so different towns look similar (actually the central government has realised that problem and put forward some policies about 特色文化小镇). It does enhance the living standard of people but that may make the people from the certain place confuse who they themselves really are. Especially now the level of globalisation is so high and also it seems globalisation is a kind of westernisation (now I realise modernisation doesn't mean westernisation). I’m afraid I will feel very confused about my identity as I’ve not studied my culture deeply but got exposed to western culture too much. To balance that, I’ve been trying learning more about my own culture and other different cultures. It sounds a bit ridiculous but it’s true. BTW, till now, I’ve not been abroad. Hopefully I will go sightseeing abroad this year to feel more various cultures in person and also see how brainwashed I am LOL.Guangzhou. May 20, 2017. Higher Education Mega Center South metro station. 8:10 AM on Saturday.Panyu, Guangzhou. May 21, 2017. Tear down and rebuild.Panyu, Guangzhou. May 22, 2017. After a Sunday.Guangzhou. May 24, 2017. I feel safe, warm and happy in China.May 27, 2017. I bought the books online in the afternoon of May 25 and got the package today. Actually at some other online shopping websites, if you buy in the morning, you will get in the afternoon.Guangzhou. June 2, 2017. The oldest operating pharmaceutical factory in the world.It build its own museum near the factory. Now the factory mainly produces traditional Chinese medicine.Guangzhou. June 4, 2017. Xinguang bridge.Guangzhou. June 4, 2017. Bachelor’s degree show of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.Guangzhou. June 5, 2017.Sharing bikes. There are Mobike, Ofo, Xiaoming, Bluegogo and many other competitors. You can find a bike by GPS of app and park the bike wherever you like.Guangzhou. June 6, 2017.Guangzhou-Zhongshan. June 24, 2017.Zhongshan. June 24, 2017. At night.Zhongshan. June 25, 2017. Day time.Huangpu, Guangzhou. June 28, 2017.Zhongshan. July 9, 2017. Went back home to see a doctor.Infusion is very common here. People say it'll do harm to health. I don't know. Yet I prefer to take that rather than have a painful fever over and over again and cough for a month.Yuexiu, Guangzhou. July 15, 2017. A shop for haute couture.Anren, Hunan. July 18, 2017. Arrived at this poor county for work again.Anren, Hunan. July 19, 2017.More buildings.Anren, Hunan. July 20, 2017.Conghua, Guangzhou. July 29, 2017.There's a town named Hot Spring Town (温泉镇) in Conghua. Yes, well-known for hot springs, attracting lots of people here for vacation.Day & night:Zhongshan. August 26, 2017. Cantonese morning tea.Taken at balcony from dusk to dark.Zhongshan. August 28, 2017. Zhongshan North Station.Huizhou. Sep 19, 2017.That teapot is 360k yuan.Changzhou island, Guangzhou. Sep 25, 2017.Pazhou, Guangzhou. Dec 28, 2017. Medicine trade fair.Hezhou, Guangxi. Dec 7, 2017.Guiyang, Guizhou. Dec 7, 2017. Guiyang North railway station.Guizhou is one of the most underdeveloped provinces in China. Before visiting it, I thought it was impossible to see so many modern buildings and most people were living at huts on hills. Apparently, I was wrong.Sour and spicy.Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (黔南布依族苗族自治州), Guizhou. Dec 8, 2017.It says:‘Take targeted measures to help people lift themselves out of poverty (精准扶贫); uproot the poverty (拔穷根); build well-off society in every place (同步小康); compose a new piece of music (谱新曲)’.Huishui, Qiannan, Guizhou. Dec 8, 2017.Rice processing machine.Huishui, Qiannan, Guizhou. Dec 9, 2017.‘Fire is disab!ed’Guiyang, Guizhou. Dec 9, 2017.Qiannan, Guizhou. Dec 9, 2017.Huangshan, Anhui. Dec 26, 2017.Fuzhou, Fujian. Dec 28, 2017.Zhanqian Road, Guangzhou. Dec 30, 2017.A road full of cargo delivery companies of the destination to the countries using Cyrillic alphabet.On that road, there's an amazing Caucasian restaurant, though the menu is a bit funny because mistakes can be found in Chinese, English and Russian names. Later it turns out the boss is Georgian.‘Ciknstraqanov’…Thanks for reading the long answer! I have more photos of various topics actually but now feel too tired to upload. Maybe I will upload again, if you think I should.I've been uploading more photos I took with my phone in China. Both old and new. Thanks!