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 it more general and a lot more complicated to express something personal. But, anyways, turns out there is one. Cool.

So, dad…

Here are some great memories from our trip together to Australia:

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While visiting the Taiwanese Chinese new years party a week ago with a Taiwanese student friend from the Hebrew University - Wen, I finally had the chance to meet Ruby who I know through her Taiwanese blogging about Israel and Violet who’s an Israeli-Taiwanese girl studying Mandarin Chinese through blogging in Chinese about her life in Israel. Later on that week, Violet’s mother Wendy - a Taiwanese living here in Israel - invited Ruby, Ruby’s Israeli boyfriend, Wen and myself to have a Taiwanese style lunch at her apartment. I was naturally ecstatic.
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Even though it’s been over 12 years ago I still remember it quite clearly. My friends and I would skip class to go play some basketball and hang out and David would ignore our social pressure and go play the piano. Back then, we couldn’t really get it, it was almost social blasphemy to prefer playing the piano over shooting hoops with the guys, but David kept on going with his 10+ hours a day venture into the world of music. I’m really proud of him. Of all the friends I have I think his story is the most amazing one and I am honored that he’s my friend. Down here in the blog, for almost a year now, I …