"They're planting stories in the press"

Hello, I am a little curious about your work in Liuzhou. are you a professional journalist? How come you have so much time to focus yourself on the municipal construction of Liuzhou,I mean, even at night, you are still working with your camera? It will be very appreciated if you could give me some clue about that.

Well, without going into too much detail, let me just say that I have an incredibly kind and generous boss who allows me a lot of free time. One of the advatages of being self employed.

Focussing on the municipal construction of the city is very simple. What would be difficult would be avoiding it. It is everywhere.

As to me still taking pictures at night, it is very simple. I was walking home after having a particularly nice meal with a particularly nice female friend. I always carry a camera and spotted these hideous lights and so...

Oddly, I think it's quite easy to avoid the dazzling light pole with a height of about 10-15 metres. From my point of view, it's very difficult to avoid running into some foreigners on the streets, roaming around with their cameras on hand. Just open your eyes, they are everywhere!

anyway, nice photos...

What the hell are you talking about?

"Oddly, I think it's quite easy to avoid the dazzling light pole with a height of about 10-15 metres."

They are about 3 metres high and you've never seen them. You don't know what you are talking about.

" From my point of view, it's very difficult to avoid running into some foreigners on the streets"

Your point of view seems to be one of total ignorance. You don't run into many foreigners on the streets and anyway, I have every right to be on the streets. I live within yards of where I took the photo.

Are you trying to say that foreigners shouldn't be on the streets? What is your point? Do you have one?

"roaming around with their cameras on hand."

The fact that I carry a camera is nothing to do with me being a foreigner. I have carried a camera with me almost every day for about 30 years. Most of which time I was not a foreigner. What is your problem?

"Just open your eyes"

Just open your mind.

Well, I didn't mean to irritate you like this, I am just a new comer to your blog, and think you are a very funny guy and you see China in a very objective way.

Not like you, I am a terrible joke teller, it can be proved by your response to my comment. Literally it's not my excuse, but, I just want to describe a pole in an more exaggerated way. And I've never been to Liuzhou, so I apologize for my ignorance about the actual height of the street lamp there.

As to the foreigner part, I admire your courage to take a public bus of china and what surprised me most is that you observed every detail that happened on the bus, even the gossip content from those boresome women. Please don't distort my meaning, I never said that you couldn't walk on the street or take buses or take photos, it's always our big honor to have foreigner friends come to china and enjoy their lives as much as they can.

I have enjoyed your blog with my mind widely open and I guess what I should do now is just shut my mouth. lol

Kate,

I apologise if I misunderstood your intentions and over-reacted. Thank you for your kind words.