On my arrival at Moondog yesterday, I was a bit surprised to find a bunch of policemen doing ID checks and filming everyone. Of course I realised I'm not living in the West where you could with varying degrees of success ask for any proof that they can actually do this without giving a reason, but I was wondering if anyone else knows the details on this one.

Anyway, I'm convinced that the less the government knows about you, the better. They were unorganised enough to be happy with me just reciting my passport number from memory, so I suggest no one give his real ID number or name.

Joost has been getting complaints from the neighborhood about noise after midnight. This could be a warning shot.

It was not about the noise,this week there is a big meeting in kunming,many high officials will come to kunming.the police that were at moondog was being police.showing there face to the loawais and by that showing their power.they will do this for the next 2 or 3 days all over kunming