As part of my job I try and track things that are happening in the field I’m consulting in. Not that it’s really needed, but it makes me feel as though there’s progress and that I’m going somewhere. There are many tools that I use for that, reading some websites, following some blogs through RSS [...]

We’ve been brought up to believe that the less that we do, officially – the more free time we have. Lately, I’m finding that very hard to prove. Although, on paper, I have a LOT of spare time, I rarely get to all the things I want to do, and I can’t find a single [...]

I don’t really know if the Israelis reading this blog are really that interested in the far-east, but I’ll try and promote this anyhow.
The far-east department at the Hebrew University will be doing an open Far-East day, with main focus on Chinese and Japanese culture. The day will take place on the 22nd of May, [...]

Not very surprising, but I like to listen to Chinese/Taiwanese music lately, so Koish.com or Yekaroo.com are usually playing at the background while I’m in my room. Although we keep doing the same songs in Chinese class, I just can’t get enough of them, even the annoying ones.
I enjoy Chinese/Taiwanese rock bands, the cliche` popcharts, [...]

After so many years, it’s still shocking for me to see how big organizations work, or rather – not work but still pull it off somehow. It doesn’t matter how big a believer you are in some big organization or in the products and projects that this organization is involved with, you still face the [...]

There’s been a decline in things that I’m willing to discuss in this blog and I’m not really sure why that is. I’m more careful and reserved, I think more about the way I put things, and I don’t think that’s a good thing.
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Yesterday was another one of those days in which I couldn’t make [...]

Up there on the top list of questions people ask me about my Taiwan visit is the question of – “what’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen while you were in Taiwan?”.
I’ll have to be honest with you, I don’t like questions like that, questions that sound like “so what was your favorite place?” “what was [...]

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“Hey, hey you…”, I hear somebody calling in English.
I’m sitting down at some cafe place in downtown Jerusalem, reading the daily newspaper. I raise up my head to the girl calling for my attention who just switched shifts with the girl who previously took my order. “Yeah?”
“Your dish. You want…. eh… how you want your [...]