Time travel is possible; all you need is an air ticket to one of the many villages in China. It is as if time stopped right after the Mao ZeDong and his communist gang took control of China. Last week, I went back to GuTian, China. One of the many districts in FuZhou province.

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China
This is my grandfather’s home village, also known as the ‘Ngan’ village. The weirdest part is, everyone is a ‘Ngan’ in this village.

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China
The Mandarin word highlighted in red reads: “Gender Equality”. Which is rather ironic knowing very well that most Chinese still prefers having a baby boy over a baby girl, which pretty much explains the ratio of 110:100 where baby boys outnumbered baby girls in every 100 birth.

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China
Interior view of the village hall in the ‘Ngan’ village. Sort of like a town hall but on a smaller scale. Build during the Ming Dynasty.

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China
One of the many alleys in the old Ming Dynasty village

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China

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Lots of Communist propaganda.

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China
Tri-bikes like these are everywhere, 2 yuan per ride within the city.

GuTian City and Ngan Village in China
Random image of the GuTian city in GuTian district, with a population of 440,000. Makes me wonder, what is the actual definition of a ‘small city’ in China. Every city appears to be huge.

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Guide Dogs Only Sign

May 15, 2009 | Category: Rumbling | 2 Comments

guide dog only sign board

Which is which? A sign for the blind person to see, or for his/her guide dog to read? Isn’t it ironic? That’s like putting up a no fishing sign in a desert. Perhaps the sign has a deeper meaning to it, maybe what they meant was – only guide dogs are allowed, no people or other dogs allowed!

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A friend of mine once asked me on the possibility of turning back time and how I would like to change my past. If I had a time machine, I would definitely travel back to the past and to remind myself on event X, then things could have been so different from what it is right now, then again, if the future is different from what it is suppose to be, why do I need to travel back to the past in the first place?

I cant change the past, but I can change my future, for better or worst. Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

Fate has it that I’ll never be complete with it, there is no coincidence, only the illusion of coincidence!



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