I haven’t been around for too long, but I do have the feeling that things are different now than they were when I started paying attention to the English language Asian & Taiwanese blogospheres around 3 years ago, and I have to say – I think there’s something great going on in our tiny Taiwan [...]

To make up for what I missed in the first time I’ve been to Kaohsiung and Zuoying (“Touring Kaohsiung’s ZuoYing Lotus Pond – Tiger Dragon Pagoda, Emperor of Dark Heaven, Confucius, and Old City FengShan“) I revisited that area again with John.
Parking down next to the Zuo-Ying Lotus Pond we noticed the other side of [...]

Tropical weather usually doesn’t really allow for an authentic autumn-spring look, but, riding around Tainan city the past month I came across a few beautiful autumn-spring spots.
Next the Tainan City Council:
   
And in Dong-Fong road, next to the university (by email):
   
In Tainan… who would have thought?

347 is a special number, Buddha knows why, so Tainan decided 347 years for Koxinga’s conquest of Taiwan is a good occasion for a grand event to celebrate freeing the island from the Dutch. Koxinga, otherwise known as Cheng Kung (/Gong) is an extremely important figure in Tainan, almost if not already at the position [...]

This was one surreal afternoon I wasn’t excepting.
Turns out the small Holocaust museum in Tainan County’s Bao An is doing a ceremony to celebrate 60 years for Israel’s independence and so they invited me to help them out. I didn’t really imagine I’d turn into a Hebrew teacher anywhere in Taiwan, teaching Taiwanese how [...]

Last weekend, while I was driving down Nan Men road I noticed there’s a market there that I haven’t paid attention to before. Turns out it’s the Tainan flower market, where one can find a great variety of flowers and plants for dirt cheap. I parked my scooter, walked around a little and took some [...]

Today, while attending a lecture about IP in Taiwan (“Taiwan under siege”) I came across one of the older Banyan Research magazines that NCKU publishes. Strangely enough, I saw a familiar Israeli face staring at me with a commentary about the education system. Here are some highlights from the “Education revolution needed – Education system [...]

Over a month ago, my father alerted me that Reshet Bet’s Israeli Connection midnight radio show that broadcasts interviews with Israelis all over the world had an interview with an Israeli Chinese language student – Shani Weinstein – who’s living in Taipei to learn more about her life in Taiwan. I visited their website [...]