Billy, ni jiu zai na li? wo jiu guo bei jing gen xiang gang, wo xian zai jiu zai tai bei.

Meh, sorry, my chinese isn't the best, but I can speak a bit at least... Though I'm not sure i got the pinyin right at some spots, but i'm sure you can figure out what im trying to say

Huan Ying Lai Zhong Guo! Welcome to China!
wo zhu zai Dalian. I live in Dalian.

I just moved from Guangzhou to Dalian. Taipei is a good city. I think you can have a good time there.

Yeah, I like it here, though I really miss my friends (and girlfriend) back in the states...

Having lived in Hong Kong and Beijing, I find Taipei to be about halfway between the two, culturewise. It's very modernized and westernized, as hong kong is, but also has the kind of sprawl that Beijing has. Hong Kong is really compact, but Taipei isn't, in physical area or in mindset.

EDIT: by the way, love the photography.

EDIT 2: If Billy (and the rest of you) doesn't mind, can I post some of my pictures of Taipei and the Mainland here, too?

Where is Dalian - which province? Did you take a new job?

Ibram, you can start another thread if you'd like. Either way, I'd love to see them. :thumb2:

Well should I start a new thread or should I use the thread already here for pictures of China? I'm fine either way, but I dont wanna start a new thread if this one's fine, and I dont want to use this one if billy doesn't want me hijacking it.

Ibram, I am glad that you post your pix here.

Dalian is in Laoning, North China. Now I am wroking as a QA Engineer in an American company here.

In that case, I shall post some this afternoon when I get home. I think I'm going to start with the older pictures I have of the mainland before I post the more boring pictures of Taipei.

I cant wait to see it. Many western friends told me that China is very different from what they thought beofer they came. We all should take the open mind to the wold.

These pictures are in no particular order, except the order I come across them, but...

1.) some of the hills around Guilin, taken from the river.

2.) A bridge that's either underwater or about to be underwater near the 3 Gorges area.



http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6578/guilin228vm.jpg

EDIT: I apologise for the size of the picture, but I couldn't do it justice if I resized it.

Guiling is really beautiful place to walk, hike, see...

Looks like hiking would be pretty hard work, good place to be a bird. :)

Sakura
 

On May, Ist, I went to see the sakura in the LongWang Tang Park, Dalian. It was my first time to see it. Share with you gusy here.

Red sakura

Flower