On my second night at the UK, I was invited by "Suitcasing Daniel" for a small get-together with some of his friends. Daniel , who I wrote about a few times before, is an expat currently working in Taiwan after he was traveling in various places around the world and Asia. Daniel used to write [...]

The Chinese Garden, a community for Chinese-related students, has moved to a new home with a completely new redesign.   About the Chinese Garden : It had all begun in one of the classes held by Lin, the university's Chinese teacher. It had been autumn 2001 in the first-year Chinese course, comprised of students who [...]

Seems like everytime I plan on taking a flight to/through London, something bad happens. Last time it was the September 11th 2001, and this time it's the British terror attack threat. I've just been through the security check at the Israeli airport where they separated those going to the UK from the rest of the [...]

Wikipedia this, Wikipedia that. Those who know me or have been following me for a while know that I adore social web and information collaboration, and that I refer to Wikipedia on almost every topic I want to know more about. For those still not familiar with the concept (?) a Wiki allows every person, [...]

What does it mean to be an Asian? in the "Grace Lee project" – Grace Lee, a very self-aware Korean origin American,  tries to track down other Korean Grace Lees across the US in the pursuit of her own identity. Are all Grace Lees the same? are all Asian American the same? Are all Asians [...]

Jonathan Ansfield, a Jewish guy writing for Spot-on in Beijing, has a very interesting article about the Chinese response to the war currently going on between Israel and the Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Jonathan opens up with a funny introduction of what it means to be a Jew in China : It’s not typed on [...]

(This is the second part of a post started here ) -  – I couldn't help myself, I just had to go take a look. So, on the way back from a really bad day I stopped by to see what the new "far-east market" near Abu-Gush was all about. Coming in, I met the [...]

My sister has been telling me about the "far east market" for a while. This week she brought me the ad they published in the weekend paper "Kol Ha-ir". Looking at the ad, I thought there was something a bit strange about it. -    -  Maybe it's just me, but I have a weird [...]