Almost everyday I encounter things here in Taiwan that are very different and a bit special about the way that the Taiwanese do things. Here are some examples.

I saw this while driving down a road and I had to stop take a look. This is, eh, indoor Taiwanese fishing. People sitting down indoors around an artificial [...]

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, [...]

Oh, this is exactly the example I was looking for. This week marks the first day of the first lunar month according to the Jewish biblical calendar, which means that Israelis will be celebrating their news years this Wednesday. Since two weeks ago, I’ve started receiving countless variations of "Happy New Year" messages from people [...]

After all this time, my Chinese is still pretty basic. If someone talks really slow and using everyday words with out any slang, weird accent or some Taiwanese, then I might be able to get most of it, or at least give a good guess by combining the words I do recognize with the body [...]

One of my absolute all-time favorite movies is "Lost in Translation". There’s this one scene in which Bob can’t fall asleep and so he opens the TV and looks for something to watch, only to find a bunch the most bizarre TV shows.
After a few sleepless nights and pointless zip-zapping, I give you… Lost in [...]

Now in Israel – Chinese and Taiwanese fight over a Taiwan flag display in one small Israeli folk dance festival almost no one I know has heard of.
Here’s from Taipei Times’  "Dance turns nationalist at Israeli folkdance festival":
 

Chinese performers at an international folkdance festival in Israel touched off a diplomatic flap earlier this month by [...]

Now that I know that I’ve been accepted to NCKU and NCTU in Taiwan, and that there’s the Taiwan scholarship to back that up, there’s the simple yet difficult issue of where I should go. There are so many small details and so much uncertainty that I’m sometimes not sure what the right direction is. [...]

News travels fast. It’s quite extraordinary, really. I never thought that people from all over the world, some of whom I’ve never met, would take interest in what’s happening with me.
So, yeah, it’s true. Taiwan has kindly awarded me the Taiwan scholarship for a 3 years degree, and I now have to choose between [...]