As I was walking around with a Taiwanese local we came across this wonderful toy shop full of old Taiwanese games. The special thing about this shop, we soon realized, was this adorable old Taiwanese lady who gave us alot of her time and demonstrated some amazing game skills.
Let’s start with the easy stuff :
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In the past year of studying with NCKU, some of the international students of the student council were continuously making an effort to help the university go global. We’ve offered practical help and endless suggestions as to what we think the school can do to improve in that area. One of those areas was international [...]
Through an Israeli blog on stamps I came across this fascinating story about a stamp that was issued in Communist China on November 1968 called “The entire nation is red”. Have a close look :
There’s an interesting story behind this (source) :
The stamp was quickly withdrawn from circulation because Taiwan, which is claimed by the [...]
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 [...]
