Fili’s world

It’s been a while since it actually took place, but I was busy as the time and I still want to write something about it.  This was the “press release” issued :
Results of the 2008 Taiwan Blog Awards
The results of the 2008 Taiwan Best Blog Awards have been announced. The awards are for English language [...]

The other weekend I was feeling a bit bored, so I decided it was time to chillout in a hotspring. The closest hot springs to Tainan City are at the northern tip of Tainan County, very close to the border with Chiayi County – in Guan Zi Ling. This was my first time heading up [...]

If you’re at all interested in international education or international students in Taiwan, I strongly recommend downloading the Taiwan Ministry of Education Excel stat data-sheet that includes very detailed statistics on the topic (source):
Foreign students are the bridges of a nation to the international society. The number of students studying in Taiwan indicates the [...]

The weather this weekend was absolutely gorgeous with such clear air that you can see all the way through to the central mountains on the east and the ocean to the south-west. I went up to one of the roofs in East Tainan to take a few photos. Although East-Tainan isn’t nice to look at, [...]

A question for you - what’s different with this Google map of Tainan? (captured from the Tainan Directory on a Google map on INCKU frontpage)

Yep, it’s hard to believe but along side the Chinese street names are now Pinyin English street names. Yippi!
At first, it took me a while to realize what was different [...]

A friend invited me to go visit Kaohsiung and so it was my first time to take the new Kaohsiung underground KMRT system. It’s gorgeous, although extremely empty when it’s not rush hours.
You know, this is one of the things that makes me very jealous of Taiwan. Taiwanese tend to focus on the fact that [...]

Having been to Hong Kong for almost a week, this being the second visit to Hong Kong after a one week visit to Hong Kong 3 years ago, I find many of the myths built around Hong Kong to be very inaccurate. Here are some quick out-my-head points of some of the most popular [...]

Last part of my Hong Kong trip includes the visit I had to Central. I was actually planning to go visit Macau that day, but the night before that I met a Turkish someone from Tainan who joined me for breakfast and since he strongly recommended the HK parks, I figured I might as well [...]