A few weeks back, during the Beijing Olympics, I wrote an article for an Israeli finance newspaper Calcalist about the upcoming Taiwanese Kaohsiung World Games 2009. It was published on the 13th of August in both paper (attached here) and the website. The editors titled it “The Taiwan ‘Olympics’”.
Following is the Hebrew article, followed by [...]
A few days ago I went to a music festival “Sunset on Sizihwan Bay and fall in love with Kaoshiung” (愛戀高雄). It was the last day of a long running festival going from the 6th of July till the 31st of August, featuring free parking, free water-banana and kayak rides and open performances of some [...]
Feeling hungry late at night? happens to me alot, but luckily – there’s a lot of street food in Taiwan. Anybody for some 小吃? The ones I really like are the “food trucks”. At the street corner surrounding NCKU and important interjections in Tainan are a few semi-permanent food trucks that serve different types of [...]
We need an expat blogger winner in this blogging competition, and there’s no one better to win it for us than Michael Turton.
The Taiwanese Hi-On website is putting on a Taiwanese Politics and Economics blogging competition and someone has already nominated The View from Taiwan. Michael has made it to the second [...]
Went for a very quick visit in Kaohsiung the other day and stopped for lunch at the lovely Cheng Ching lake, stretching out at the north-east side of Kaohsiung with lovely pagodas and parks.
I really missed the endless variety of food in Taiwan…
“Made in Tainan” took place last Saturday at the Anping harbor area in western Tainan. Tainan Bulletin had the following :
14:00~14:50 Sun Of Morning
15:00~15:50 Bugs Of Phonon
16:00~16:50 The Sawbucks
17:00~17:50 Divebomb
18:00~18:50 Mr.Dirty
19:00~19:50 130 Dollars
20:00~20:50 Full House
21:00~21:50 Uli And The Rulers
Tickets:14:00~16:00 ONLY NT100 After 14:00 NT200, includes 1 [...]
Back in Tainan City. Last year, same month, it was awful weather - ~35c and repeating monsoon rains, but now it’s a comfortable relatively dry 30-32c with strong winds that make it much easier to bare.
Need to sort out a few things to take care of my stay here for the next academic year. Can’t [...]
From the gorgeous dry weather in Jerusalem to the crazy summer of Taipei.
It can be extremely sunny and clear…
… and then, in an hour, pouring rain, rage rain, impossible to go out…
Yep, with 29c. Photos taken from the 25-something floor of the building next to the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi [...]
