Looking at her, it’s hard to believe she’s 90. Living all by herself in the hottest, youngest section of Tel-Aviv, my 90 years old grandma is still doing well. Last week, my family back home celebrated her 90th birthday with 4 generations gathered and an evening arranged in her honor at my parents’ house in [...]

After a much longer stay in Israel than I planned, I’m now back in Taiwan. Was great seeing everybody and everything in Israel, even though I did miss Taiwan.

(Photo : My two lovely sisters and I at the Sataf, overlooking the mountains surrounding Jerusalem on a beautiful sunny day)

I thought people were joking around when they told me that the 08/08 of every year is the ba-ba day, or father’s day ("eight-eight" or "dad" in Chinese - 爸爸節 or 父親節). Strange… we never have "Father’s day" in Israel. We used to have mother’s day till a few politically correct politicians declared it "family day", which made [...]

While visiting the Taiwanese Chinese new years party a week ago with a Taiwanese student friend from the Hebrew University - Wen, I finally had the chance to meet Ruby who I know through her Taiwanese blogging about Israel and Violet who’s an Israeli-Taiwanese girl studying Mandarin Chinese through blogging in Chinese about her life in Israel. [...]

Even though it’s been over 12 years ago I still remember it quite clearly. My friends and I would skip class to go play some basketball and hang out and David would ignore our social pressure and go play the piano. Back then, we couldn’t really get it, it was almost social blasphemy to prefer [...]

There comes  a time in every Israeli's life when it's time to join the army. Israeli law sets mandatory service of 3 years for males and 2 years for females. Aside from that, most of those who serve in the army, especially those in combat positions, also stay in reserves till their early 40s, which [...]

This week, I've received a wonderful Chinese-art present from a dear friend. I was very touched and completely overwhelmed – it's absolutely stunning…
(BTW – I have no idea what it says on the painting. Help?)
 

Spring in Israel has turned in recent years into a full-over-blown summer with temperatures sometimes reaching 35c up on the Jerusalem mountains. While I am annoyed by the effect that it has on me, with the needed move to doing things in the cooler nights, it’s my dog that I was really worried about.
Babby is [...]