19 May, 2008 in General videos, Tainan

It is. Tainan’s a fascinating place and if you’re living in Taiwan and haven’t been to Tainan yet, I strongly recommend that you come.
What’s to see and do here? while visiting the very impressive Tainan Science Park last week we were presented with a great package of English language Tainan promotion videos and [...]

20 Mar, 2008 in Blogging

It’s strange how things happen in a way you don’t really expect them to.

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14 Mar, 2008 in Movie reviews

The Israeli “Betipul”, translated as “In therapy” , is one of the best TV dramas I’ve seen. Over a year and a half ago I described how overwhelmed I was with this show. I thought it was so powerful it knocked me off balance and occupied my soul. Even though it’s been a while [...]

6 Jan, 2008 in Blogging

Not that anybody would find it interesting, but I’ll do it anyhow so I could look back sometime in the future and laugh at those numbers.
2007 has been the year when Fili’s World turned from being a blog completely unknown to anybody into a blog that’s almost completely unknown to anybody. Somehow, because of [...]

8 Aug, 2007 in Friends & family

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 [...]

22 Jul, 2007 in General, Taiwan

"Thai what?", she stares at me with a silly look. "Sima… Sima! over here! did we ever have anybody go to - what did you say that country was again? Thai wand, he says… what’s the capital of Thai wand?" and then I hear that Sima girl proclaim - "I checked, there’s no such country".
Yep, been there [...]

15 Jul, 2007 in General

 It’s hard not to feel excited…
 

It’s hard not to feel excited
Jacko Eizenberg and Maya Rotman for the Israeli Idol 5 (Hebrew lyrics)

 
It’s hard not to feel excited,
it’s all really happening,
lights,
an old dream becoming true.
 
To take a deep breath, try and accept
all with love.
I wish that it would happen
fast
 
Sometimes I go crazy, because deep inside I already [...]

6 Jul, 2007 in Blogging, China

Chinalyst is hosting the Best China Blog Awards. The awards are split into a few China blog categories and you can cast one vote for as many blogs as you want. I believe this is an excellent opportunity for some Chinese blogosphere link-love. 
Although there are many wonderful China blogs out there that I follow regularly, here’s my personal [...]