24 Sep, 2007 in Taiwan by Fili An

As I was walking around Tainan and enjoying the peculiarities of Moon Festival, I got a pre-scheduled call from a popular radio show in Israel’s Reshet Bet called “The International Hour” that discusses recent events from all over the world.
Here’s what went on :
First introduction of the issue - “The day after tomorrow, [...]

1 Oct, 2006 in Asia by Fili An

Yeah, I know, I know. I’m disappointed too.
“We” were all hoping for either an Asian or an Israeli Miss World winner…
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I could never make out the differences between Miss Universe and Miss World, but it doesn’t matter much does it? In the Miss Universe 2006 post some guy pinged back to my post [...]

13 Nov, 2005 in Taiwan by Fili An

"Thai what?" was the question I usually got from the Bangkokians when I told them where I want to go. Trying out "Republic of China" or "you know… that small island next to China" didn’t seem to provide better responses. I think there aren’t too many English speaking foreigners going from Bangkok to Taiwan since [...]