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Sunday, April 10, 2011
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Project 365 - Well speaking of 365, it's been almost that long since I've written. I have to say life has a way of slipping through your fingers, doesn't it? But now I'm...
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Kaohsiung with Mom, Day 2! - On Monday we woke up in Kaohsiung ready for another day of sight seeing. We took Mom to the rail museum and gardens that we visited over CNY with Stanley, ...
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Tsai praises late independence icons - TRIBUTE:Tsai memorialized Ng Chiau-tong, whom she described as a mentor and father figure, and Deng Nan-jung, who self-immolated when police tried to arr...51 minutes ago
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Lukang Travels 2 鹿港旅遊 2 - 20120211 燈會周邊玩 來逛龍山寺 品嚐上元圓 摘柳丁 新賞玻璃廟 http://youtu.be/SMMSx8zj4YA 20120210 Lukang Travels http://youtu.be/molV-QLLR9c 丁家大宅 Ding Mansion 孩提咖啡 Haiti Coff...
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Daily Links, Feb 27, 2012 - The Daily Links, which are actually weekly links, have returned..... *BLOGS*: - Courting the Fantastic: Taiwanese monster movies. - Pat Cowsill blog...1 hour ago
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Newly Opened Xinzhuang MRT Line - A new MRT line opened up recently in Taipei. According to the brochure from Taipei Metro that I picked up, it is called the Xinzhuang Line. It’s orange in ...2 hours ago
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Moving Sale - We are moving out of Taiwan and we are selling our stuff out. Iron $400, Heater (Brandt 800W) $400, IKEA office chair $1000. Call/text Ondra on 0912 439 76...2 hours ago
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Author, scientist Chen Chih-fan dies in Hong Kong - Focus Taiwan 2012/02/26 Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) Renowned author and scientist Chen Chih-fan died Saturday in Hong Kong at the age of 86, with people from bot...3 hours ago
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Author, scientist Chen Chih-fan dies in Hong Kong - Focus Taiwan 2012/02/26 Taipei, Feb. 26 (CNA) Renowned author and scientist Chen Chih-fan died Saturday in Hong Kong at the age of 86, with people from bot...3 hours ago
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elfsmirk: juliacole: azizwoo: Reflections Portraits by Tom... - elfsmirk: juliacole: azizwoo: *Reflections Portraits by Tom Hussey* Tom Hussey portrays old people looking at their younger reflectio...3 hours ago
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Tainan Century Ride - After a couple weeks with little to show for it, I was finally able to use my long weekend to lay some miles down on the bike. It was the perfect opportun...
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The Chinese Character Enthusiast - For those of us from the English speaking world, Chinese characters themselves are often a big piece of what makes Chinese an interesting language to learn...6 hours ago
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Enough! - Ok. I've tried to be positive and upbeat, and to remember how raging hot it will be eventually, but I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! WInter: you HAVE to stop NOW!...7 hours ago
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Three Falls - Northern Taiwan is blessed with waterfalls both big and small. Here are three of the more easily accessible ones. Let me take the opportunity to remind you...8 hours ago
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You Talkin' to Me? - Spend an hour in Taipei and you'll definitely come away with this impression: the city is awash with taxis. Taipei has a world class transit system and ye...10 hours ago
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Erlin 二林, Changhua County - *A small hidden Confucius temple* *Erlin* 二林 is a small township in Changhua County, located close to Taiwan's western coast and next to Lukang and not to...13 hours ago
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Crazy Fire Feet Massage - [image: crazy fire massage - Xiamen-011.JPG]This has got to be the strangest massage I’ve done yet, and I’ve been to all sorts of weird things. While visit...13 hours ago
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Microsoft Research Asia-Pacific Internship Program - Microsoft Research Asia-Pacific Internship Program Official Site Organizer: Microsoft Corporation Facebook: Here. Official Program Objective: "Microsoft Re...13 hours ago
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Yang wins SBL All-Star Game MVP - [image: 1432751789] Taiwan Beer backup shooting guard *Yang Yu-ming* had 21 points, including five three-pointers, to win the 2012 SBL All-Star Game afte...
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226: C'mon, gods, gimme a break - February 26, a date that rings of some historical importance in Japan (see February 26 Incident 二・二六事件), but here in Taiwan it's only the second day of an ...
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No Apology, No Way - Not too long ago, my sister told me about an incident at work in which both she and a Taiwanese coworker had independently made mistakes on similar projects ...18 hours ago
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Upmarket university food: Living One - Recently I had a work lunch at Living One (地中海幸福料理), a Mediterranean restaurant set in a former canteen on the edge of the National Taiwan University campu...19 hours ago
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Paul Auster - I just finished reading Auster's *Sunset Park*. Like everything I've read by Auster thus far, I loved it. One of the most impressive things about it is the...
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Magically back in working order ... - Oh, how I've missed a camera that fits nicely in my pocket! Falling upon February 2012: Photos taken with my Lumix ...
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Yongle Street 永樂街, Changhua City - *Changhua's shopping street* *Yongle Street* 永樂街 with the flowery translation "Forever Happy Street" is Changhua City's famous shopping street (find it on...21 hours ago
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We Need to Talk About… Integrated Britain - Posted in British politics Writing in the Guardian Comment Is Free, Dr Matt Goodwin discusses the government’s latest strategy on integration, following ...23 hours ago
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Green Mars - Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Published in 1994 Published by Bantam Books ISBN: 0-553-57239-3 *Green Mars* is the middle book in Kim Stanley Robinson's...
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18 Taiwanese men hold orgy party on TRA train - Trains in Taiwan are usually pretty clean. There’s garbage collectors who run through the trains every hour or so and I’ve yet to walk into a carriage and ...1 day ago
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第92-C-1號任務，1945年4月2日，目標：新營 - Source：AFHRA via Academia Sinica 美國空軍歷史研究部(AFHRA)徵集成果 1945年4月2日，18架隸屬於美國陸軍航空隊第312轟炸大隊旗下388與389轟炸中隊的A-20輕型轟炸機，從菲律賓呂宋島起飛執行第92-C-1號任務，轟炸台灣新營一帶的鐵路設施與車輛。上面的照片是由3...1 day ago
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so what..... Happy Sunday anyway... - *-So what that is has been NON STOPPED rain.....* *-So what if I will be drenched by the time I get to church....* *-So what if Juju and I will be STUCK indo...
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I won’t stand for that! - Unless, of course, we’re talking about standing up during a meeting in order to make it go by more quickly. At least that’s what we thought. Recently, Taiw...1 day ago
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Seoul: Jjajangmyeon (짜장면) - ** *Jjajangmyeon* (짜장면) is a popular Korean dish of wheat noodles topped with a thick black soybean paste. It usually contains diced meat and sliced cuc...
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DOCK - I just heard a new technology coming out called "DOCK", which means that your can turn your smart phone into a notebook. How it functions is that when you pu...1 day ago
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Kallima inachis formosana Factsheet - Kallima inachis formosana Factsheet Originally uploaded by ToddinNantou1 day ago
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Kallima inachis formosana - Blue Wing Surface with Wide, Orange Bands Kallima inachis formosana is one of about 5,000 species of butterflies belonging to the Nymphalidae Family. Its c...1 day ago
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London Street Performers - MIND BLOWING - These super amazing street performers were found along the London South Bank (just past the London Eye). It was a beautiful, sunny winter's day in London whe...
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The myth of the eight-hour sleep By Stephanie Hegarty FROM The BBC - "Ekirch found that references to the first and second sleep started to disappear during the late 17th Century."2 days ago
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Salubrious Selection: Konjac Loofahs - Being eco-friendly means trying to be consciencious about every single thing you use, which is why I was ecstatic when I found out about this marvelous l...
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CZECH ~ Czech Falcon Movement FDC - Czech Falcon Movement 150 Years FDC, posted on February 15, 2012 from Prague to Taipei with arrival postmarked on February 23, 2012.
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Last day in Taiwan - This will be my last blog in Taiwan. As i sit in this Taipei internet cafe Jordan searches for places to use his AMEX. Unfortunately it39s the only card he...2 days ago
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National Museum of Taiwan History - *I am delighted to offer a review of the National Museum of Taiwan History (Tainan).* *This piece is written by guest blogger **Taiwanxifu,** an Australian...
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Smartphone Users' Fickle Taste for Their Apps - The Atlantic reports that people with iPhones or Android (they are being diplomatic here) phones may download a lot of apps, but they...2 days ago
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Taiwan’s surveillance radar could come online without ‘space tracking’ - The powerful SRP, which is expected to come online later this year, could be blind to the stars above The US$800 million early warning radar system that is...
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Remembering Y.R. Chao: 1892-1982 - Y.R. ChaoNovember 3, 1892 – February 25, 1982 Today, the thirtieth anniversary of the death of the brilliant linguist and all-around interesting guy Y.R. C...2 days ago
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Taiwan airlines target mainland’s airspace - For Asia Times Online www.atimes.comTAIPEI – Taiwanese airlines are arguably among the main beneficiaries of closer Beijing-Taipei ties. They were the few ...2 days ago
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Lucid Virtu MVP: What it is, and why you’ll want it on your motherboard - [image: image] One of the real standout features of our Z68 series motherboards, was the inclusion on Lucid’s Virtu software on several models. For thos...
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Bekannter ausländischer Gastwirt bei Mopedunfall schwer verletzt - Der Betreiber des Carnegie's, wobei ich jetzt nicht parat habe ob US-Amerikaner, Kanadier oder anderweitig aus der angelsächsischen Welt (Update: Engländer...2 days ago
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Old puerh, plain mini cups, new combination - Change is a natural part of life. This is also how we keep our daily routines interesting: adding small variations. They can be tests, technical improvem...
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Paiyun continued... - Paiyun continued... It may surprise my some of my friends (if they were really listening to me in the last couple years), but I do have a life beyond figur...
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A reason for extra close families in Taiwan? - Our new children (see previous post) won't go to sleep at night unless a parent lies beside them in the same bed. Their foster mothers would accompany them...3 days ago
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Sleep Cycle - I may have discovered the next best thing since sliced bread. It’s called Sleep Cycle, and it’s an alarm clock app that wakes you up at the right cycle of ...3 days ago
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Hiking and Biking Taroko Gorge, Taiwan - I found a guesthouse owner who will drive you up Taroko Gorge to the trailhead of your choice and then lock up a bike at the end of the trail so that when ...3 days ago
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Teaching English in Taiwan Part 2: The Kids - Though I’m sure kids are generally the same all over the world, I found many of the children in Taiwan to be much more respectful than kids here in the Uni...3 days ago
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February 21 - We visited Wesley Church in Urbana and ate at the Bread Company and Cafe Paradiso. Filed under: General3 days ago
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Iphone-agraphy - [image: .] [image: .] *A*fter avoiding it for half a year, I finally created an Instagram account and discovered my new favorite way of frittering away my...3 days ago
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vyxun: staggeringheights: quirkytaiwan: Time magazine reports... - vyxun: staggeringheights: quirkytaiwan: Time magazine reports that China’s state-run media, Xinhua, has called on Jeremy Lin to renounce his U.S. citiz...3 days ago
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Radicals - Bob Morris is right. Not only are the Girl Scouts a radicalized bunch of feminist extremists, but in my opinion they are wayyy too quick in getting the court...3 days ago
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western/french: BUTTER CAFE & CREPERIE - BUTTER CAFE & CREPERIE 法式輕食餐廳 No. 122-1, ZhongXiao E. Rd, Sec. 4, 2F 台北市忠孝東路四段122-1號2樓 (02) 8772-3832 MRT: Zhongxiao/DunHua website: Butter Cafe's FB pa...
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Garbage (2) 垃圾 (2) - Not long ago I was on my way to the Flowing Lake to go swimming, when I saw an old woman parked alongside the bridge that leads into the Deep Forest Park...
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One Moment - In the pursuit of mindfulness, a former girlfriend and I got in the habit of reflecting on our days and sharing one moment that stood out. “What was your m...4 days ago
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What is your bag made of? - Sometimes in my Chinese class my teachers use English to explain a point or two. They all know just enough English to get themselves into trouble and I u...4 days ago
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Fragment 2202 - *It was the Orang Outan.* Chavenet's one line critique of *The Murders on the Rue Morgue* was misunderstood by his contemporaries, not surprisingly, ...4 days ago
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Badlands Country - Apart from some magnificent temples, the occasional fine old town, and a scattering of miscellaneous minor sights, the flat plains and rolling foothills...5 days ago
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Structure of Many Uses - Taiwan Scott sent me this photo of the building on Yang Ming Shan (which we often called "Grass Mountain") that some people at USTDC knew as Hostel #1. Th...
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滿山滿谷的櫻花 - *大坑濁水巷 竟然有整片的櫻花 但我們知道的同時也有許多人知道* *大賽車 全為了 這一大片的櫻花林* *沒有看過這麼多的櫻花聚在一起過* *真可謂 數大 就是美呢* ...5 days ago
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Jet Lag is OVER! - So, yeah, I guess not much in the way of posting has happened from me. Mainly, I'm recovering from jet lag, after having recovered from jet lag, which resu...
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Paradise In Palawan Part 2: El Nido - While our quick stop in Sabang and the Underground River was lovely, it was really El Nido that resulted in our jaw-dropping, heart racing, ‘I can’t believ...1 week ago
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John Visits Taiwan, Part Two - Photos by Hui-chen, MJ Klein and John Klein Welcome to the second installment of my brother’s visit to Taiwan. We apologize for the delays between article...1 week ago
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Lantern festival and back to school - The kids made lanterns at home for lantern festival. There is a new teacher at school so we took her on a bit of a tour last Saturday to Changhua to see t...
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Google Maps and the mysterious case of the missing lake - Apparently over night an entire lake has lost a dimension and now appears merely as a line on Google Maps: [image: One-dimensional lake on Google Maps] ...1 week ago
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Vanishing Turtles, Roller Disco, and Love Letters - Last weekend the family and I went to a festival to celebrate the 9thanniversary of the Science Park. As usual, there were a dizzying amount of food boot...
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Single Shot: Temple Procession, Tainan - Last weekend in Tainan, I happened across a temple procession for a god I’m unfamiliar with taking place in an alley near the Confucius Temple. It was like...1 week ago
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Where’s the beef? American beef in Taiwan - Cows became diseased with bovine insanity back in 2003 and Taiwan with the rest of the Asian Tigers banned imports of American beef and turned to Australia...1 week ago
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See how Chinese regimes systematically destroy other cultures and nations - Everyone in Taiwan should watch the movie, Tibet in Song, to see an example of how the brutal Chinese regime in China would seek to eliminate Taiwan's id...
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The Waiting - Wow, it's been a long and frustrating five weeks. That's how long I've been in the 'any moment now' phase of preparing for our second son's birth. Followin...1 week ago
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jeremy lin is an american - the powers that be in the government/media complex are already using this fantastic young man for their own agenda. Linsanity is just insane now. to watch ...1 week ago
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One of my favorite drinks. ivegotwanderlust: Espresso Con... - One of my favorite drinks. ivegotwanderlust: Espresso Con Panna.1 week ago
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Mandy Coon Runway Collection NYFW 2012/13 - Mandy Coon, a recent discovery of mine, has a completely wearable Fall collection. That’s no easy feat, as most collections I look at want to show off thei...1 week ago
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Kuala Lumpur Trip - This is Kwans Family in front of their house in Johor Baru. A really, really nice family and very caring. And his parents speak english very well... compar...
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Teach by Sand and Sea – Job Opening - Feel like living on an island surrounded by fresh air and crystal clear ocean beaches? Enjoy a relaxed lifestyle in the Penghu Archipelago. Dragon Castle E...1 week ago
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The Art Spa Photographs - Tobie Openshaw and I have been hitting the hot springs around northern Taiwan together for a few years. We’ve soaked in sulfur springs from both sides of ...
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The Infallibility of Tsai Ing-wen - “Dr. Tsai” (as she is called by her foreign disciples), totally missed the topics that are important and most Taiwan people feel strongly about. Instead sh...1 week ago
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March Group Hikes - We’re got a couple of great hikes coming up in March. The first is on March 9th to 11th and we’ll be heading the Shuiyang Forest and the Thousand People C...1 week ago
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Reason for Tsai Ing-wen’s loss: the campaign team? - It’s good if the DPP’s internal post-election review can be evidence based rather than just another competition of ‘who shouts the loudest’. One area that ...1 week ago
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The Taiwan Photographer - You have arrived at the personal blog of photographer Rich J Matheson. If you are looking for my professional site, please go to The Taiwan Photographer. h...
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new (light) verse - (to the tune of, well, i guess it's obvious) Heaven, I’m in Seven, with its drink and groc’ry choices quite unique and I seem to find the products that I s...1 week ago
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NPUST Lake - beautiful park setting - The university on the other side of Neipu has a beautiful lake and path near a forest. It's so peaceful. I wish I could go there more often.
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[ 倫敦餐廳 ] Clos Maggiore - [ 倫敦最羅曼蒂克的餐廳 ] Voted the most romantic restaurant in London, I think this place does live up to that reputation. Hidden off a main street at the corner of...1 week ago
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SURPRISING VISIT TO A LUXURIOUS CAR DEALER - DAYTONA GROUP - There are always some surprises happen during the trip. The day before we left Johannesburg, SA., we saw a McLaren dealer just cross the street from our hote...1 week ago
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The ESL Educators Guide – Tips For Teaching To Specific Groups of ESL Learners - Teaching English as a Second language can be a challenge for any native English speaker, even those with TEFL training. This month, the ESL Educators Guide...1 week ago
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Bikers and Pin-ups! - Check out the photo booth I did at a recent Bikers and Pin-ups party in Taichung City, at TC18.1 week ago
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In the bathroom... - Gemma called out from the bathroom yesterday, "Mom? There are these little boxes in here, and they have an O and a B on it. What ARE they?" Uh.....1 week ago
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Kind words from a Scottish reader - Via LinkedIn, a reader in Scotland (who writes about his travels in Scottish Gaelic) s told me: You may be interested to know that in my opinion your Brad...1 week ago
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Feb 15, Nunchuk Cafe in Taichung City, Taiwan - Nunchuk Cafe in Taichung is a cross between an urban coffee house and a creative space. It's my favorite place in the city to relax.1 week ago
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EPA's new system to tackle illegal dumping; is anything really going to change? - Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) announced it has established a new Illegal Dumping Management System to combat the ongoing pro...1 week ago
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Happy Heart's Day! - Photo Courtesy of My Student Nelson Yu Guest Heart Thursday Skywatch Friday
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Taichung Art Museum and Tunghai University - On Day 2 of our Taichung visit, we saw Luce Memorial Chapel, on the campus of Tunghai University. Very curvy, soaring architecture, so different from most...
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Pork Bone House 豚骨家 - Profile Pork Bone House offers authentic Kyushu Ramen, made by real Japanese people, to the vast number of hungry patrons around the Xihu MRT station. They a...
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Cambodian sandwiches and dolphin rape (Num Pang) - For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for me to kick the inevitable bucket from heart disease... sorry. I'm still around. Just so busy w...2 weeks ago
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Cultural Revolution Cookbook author interview - Last month I wrote about this book. Read an interview co-author Sasha Gong did with US–China Today. She talks about life during the Cultural Revolution, an...2 weeks ago
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The Accident - Okay, I know no news for awhile. Well ,that has been because things have been pretty stable. Nothing really to report. Well, that changed last Sunday. On t...2 weeks ago
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GigaNews == PowerUsenet == usenet.net (and how to access their Hong Kong IP) - I’ve been using GigaNews for a while now, mostly because they have a server in Hong Kong which is much, much faster than using US based servers from Taiwan...2 weeks ago
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Facing history - Sayaka Chatani's recent post mentioning the idea of running a history/critical thinking summer camp for high school students from Japan, Korea, China, and ...2 weeks ago
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Art in Kaohsiung - Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve updated! I have been both sick and busy, so it took longer than I expected to submit this post. I spent a week (Chinese ...2 weeks ago
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Syndromes and a Century - Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century แสงศตวรรษ is really two films—with overlapping (but different) characters and dialog—set in two differe...2 weeks ago
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Mandarin Chinese , 2012 Taiwan Presidential Election - Many countries are running Presidential Election in the year of 2012, including Taiwan! :D Let's learn Election Mandarin! *Lesson Structure: * Intro: P...2 weeks ago
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Unconditional love - Perhaps my favorite parenting podcast is Leading Edge Parenting with Sandi Schwartz. I get so much more than parenting advice from it, like this poem she i...2 weeks ago
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The Secular Media vs. Religious Liberty | NewsBusters.org - Read this the way it was written at TheBellSite .com Read this the way it was written at TheBellSite .com I just read a good article about the current adm...2 weeks ago
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‘Taiwan from the eyes of a foreigner’, by Nick Kembel: BOOK REVIEW - *‘Taiwan from the eyes of a foreigner’, by Nick Kembel Not yet on Amazon.com, published by www.tsais-idea.com.tw* *- Review by Trista di Genova, The Wild ...2 weeks ago
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Madonna, the Real Queen: 2012 Super Bowl halftime show - When Madonna talked to the audience in her interview with Anderson Cooper, she said "I have eight minutes to set it up and seven minutes to take it down ...2 weeks ago
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Taipei Lantern Festival - Year of the Dragon - Two years ago we went to the Taipei Lantern Festival and had a great time. We decided to go again this year after hearing that the lanterns were to be esp...
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The Lantern Festival - The Lantern Festival (元宵節) falls on the 15th day of the first Lunar Month. The Lantern Festival marks the first full moon of the Lunar New Year and symboli...3 weeks ago
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Blogging Taiwanease: 台灣易喜亞來了! - Blogging Taiwanease: 台灣易喜亞來了!: 大家好! 我有一件小事要請你幫忙… 我在去年9月時推出一個新網站- www.taiwanease.com (感謝大家的支持, 使用人數日日暴增), 我們有「英文論壇」、「分類廣告」、 「台灣吃喝玩樂+食衣住行資料庫」(iPhone app 下個月就...3 weeks ago
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Open Mic at Titty Tea - Better late than never. Here are some photos from this past summer's Open Mic night at Titty Tea..... Before Open Mic at Titty Tea, we went to have dinne...3 weeks ago
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Eleven months until Christmas! - Oh boy! It's February already! Let's see, what've I been up to.. Answer: not much! Last week was our Chinese New Year vacation, and due to my lateness in tr...3 weeks ago
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Backpacking sketchbook 6: South - finally! - What a relief to get going. We flew to Pakse, jumped on a songthaew and got out of Pakse as soon as possible. Thank God we weren't stuck there! Our journey...3 weeks ago
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Taiwan’s likely new interior minister: Not your typical politician - With the government (Executive Yuan) facing a major reshuffle, Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源) looks set to be Taiwan’s next interior minister. That sounds like good n...3 weeks ago
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Boredom Survived or Chinese New Year Break at Home - For a Taiwanese person Chinese New Year break (a week of vacation from work, school, etc.) is full of meals, mahjong, poker, sightseeing, etc., with extend...4 weeks ago
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Republic Lost - 狗急跳牆 *To be driven to extremes (lit. a cornered dog will leap over a wall)* At Gtown, I had the pleasure of being guided through the intricacies of Americ...
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Dad's herbs - My parents live in an apartment in Kaohsiung City. This, however, does not hinder my dad from planting some herbs, both for fun and for food, on the top ...
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Tips for the Wet and Cold Months in North Taiwan - Word to the wise. If you've been trying to keep up the same Western habits for winter that you had in your home country, you've been doing it all wrong! W...
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Wheels - Wall at Buddhist Temple Taroko National Park Hualien County Taiwan 台灣 花蓮縣 香蕉 太魯閣 太魯閣國家公園 2010.09.02 © Alton Thompson 唐博敦 Alton's Images
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MJ116 New MV: Just Believe - OMG! I have just finished watching the absolute best music video ever done by a Taiwanese music group. If you know me already, you know this is a very bo...4 weeks ago
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Groundbreaking Taiwanese movie director falls short in bid for Academy Award nomination - On Tuesday, January 24, 2012, the final Academy Award (屆奧斯卡) nominees were released out of Hollywood. Notably missing from the final five nominees for the ...4 weeks ago
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Vacation! Heartily Needed for Rejuvenation! - Chinese New Year approaches. We RailOrderBrides have an exciting vacation planned to Japan. We will be moderately out of contact for a week and a half. I p...4 weeks ago
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Englishman writes blog about self - The Journal of a Recovering Taiwanaholic may give some insights for those among us who have been here too long and are ready to return "home".4 weeks ago
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The Relationship Between Prayer And Action - One of the core values of the Christian organization I work for which has based me here in Taiwan is that “PRAYER IS THE PRIMARY WORK OF THE PEOPLE OF GO...5 weeks ago
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Rex, Matt, Tyler - I know it’s been a while, but I had a moment and saw this in the comments section of the site. This post just kills me: We are three friends from Chicago, ...5 weeks ago
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A Semester of Russian and a Glass of Bulgarian Whiskey - When my company manager informed me that there was going to be a special employee luncheon to celebrate Chinese New Year, I looked forward to it as an oppo...5 weeks ago
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Haiti - two years on - Also see another version of my slideshow in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2012/jan/12/haiti-two-years-on-audio-slidesho...
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Taiwan next? Parliament first! - Democratic elections aims to making democracy 'work' in that they provide a mechanism through which each citizen can contribute on an equal basis to collec...1 month ago
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Broccoli Parmesan and Feta Soup - I served this Broccoli Parmesan and Feta Soup at our Christmas Eve dinner last year and it was an absolute winner. I wish I could take credit for this more...
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Urban Kaleidescopes - After work tonight I started fiddling around with Photoshop. It was immediately calming. I started to play around with layers and to arrange mirror image...1 month ago
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New Meta Tag Function - Hello All,Just a quick note to let you know that I have added "Meta Tags" for keywords and description to all fotozon home pages. Click here to edit your ho...1 month ago
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Chen Coming to America - Reports have it that lefty Wei-Yin Chen has agreed to a 3 year deal (11 million +) with the Baltimore Orioles. The deal is pending Chen passing his physi...
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Leave your guns at home, kids. - This past holiday season, my Christmas Wish was for every gun to turn into a Kiss Gun. Last week was a perfect example of people who would have benefited f...
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Pink heater - These days are freezing! Living in a subtropical country, we have winters without snow but our winter is so humid thus awfully cold. Aside from warm comfor...
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Bali 2011 - Our trip to Bali was everything I wanted it to be....relaxing. Well, it probably wouldn't have been considered relaxing by most people's definition but fo...
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Change in the time of sunrise throughout the year - I heard someone announce the other day that now that we are past the date of the winter solstice, the length of the days will increase by one minute every ...
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Chinese New Year Tree - Happy 2012! Our Christmas tree has been de-decorated for some time, but was sadly languishing in the corner of our living room, looking somewhat bare and e...1 month ago
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Jerome Keating's complementary books, educating foreigners and locals on Taiwan - *A Taiwan Tetralogy* Most works on Taiwan try to fit the many aspects of its diverse past under one roof, too often ending up belittling one, championing...
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In summation: my trip - One of the main things I got out of my recent trip was a reassessment of my relation to the US. Perhaps over the extended period of time I’ve spent in Taiw...1 month ago
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100 years of revolution - This post has been cross posted at Zhuangzi in the Modern World as “On Revolution.” “Revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a scien...1 month ago
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Sun Moon Lake - On our trip to Sun Moon Lake with my friends, can't help to just relax and enjoy nature's refreshing beauty.
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! a little late :) - So I should have posted pictures a while ago of my apartment once all my furniture got here in September, but I let the busyness of the school year keep me f...
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Christmas in Taiwan - May I start by wishing everyone here and back home, a very Merry Christmas! This Christmas has been very different to what I am used to. At home, there wou...
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Where did last year go? - Wow, I just looked at this blog and realized I haven’t written anything since that bad experience at the hotel. A Year ago! The good news is I don't get pa...2 months ago
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Calling an angel... - I had the pleasure of living in Montreal for one year, way back in 1996. Ok, well, to be honest, my husband and I couldn't endure the bitter cold days of a...
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FOR SALE: Boxed Christmas & New Year's Cards (NT$385ea) - I posted our extra Christmas cards on Tealit and again, the photos aren't loading. So... I have three extra boxes of Christmas cards and a few boxes of c...
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Little Europe - Over the years, the hot neighborhood for expats to hang out in has shifted from the center of Taichung to the Canal District and now into the neighboring a...2 months ago
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Movin' on up - If you've been checking this blog periodically over the past several weeks, you no doubt have noticed a lack of activity. The reason is quite simple: for a...2 months ago
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November's Report - Here is the report for November, hope you like the Read Wow! November has been a jam packed month, with many rescues and quite a few adoptions as well as wo...
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Meditation in Motion: Ying/Yang - Intention is settled and at peace. Mind is calm relative to the body. Inner core is calm relative to outer extremities. Body is calm relative to the immedia...2 months ago
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Would you dare? Haha engrish (Taken with instagram) - Would you dare? Haha engrish (Taken with instagram)2 months ago
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Meyer Christmas Newsletter 2011 - Hello friends and family! Thanks for saving us time, paper, and postage by coming to our blog to catch up with all things Aaron and Rika in 2011. If you d...
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Destry Rides Again - *Destry Rides Again. Dir. George Marshall. Perf. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger. Universal: 1939.* This is definitely in...2 months ago
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Cue the Satire-Epiphany: Forbes Pulls an NY Times, Publishes Idiocy - Really, journalists? You're making me reconsider the merits of censorship. Someone has to filter this nonsense. The latest idiocy from a major newspaper or ...2 months ago
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Christmas cookies at Family Mart - Yum! Snickerdoodles and Ginger Spice cookies at Family Mart. So if you don't feel like baking your own Christmas cookies, buy them here.
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EWCP Christmas 2011 - Christmas Day, 19:00 - 23:00 Location: Daan MRT area (7 min walk from station) ...2 months ago
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American Freedom Fighter visits imprisoned Taiwanese democracy leader - *Missionary pays secret visit to Chen Shui-bian in Taipei jail today, gives him his memoirs of KMT's "White Terror '' days* *(Got this story in my e-mail....2 months ago
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Christmas Outreaches!! - Always a good time of year to hold some special events to tell folks here what Christmas is all about. Page invited some kids over to bake some Christma...
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School Music Group - 基隆市100學年度學生音樂比賽瑪陵國小，這是我們20年來再次的參加團體的性的音樂競賽，對一個指有46人的小學校來說，參加一個有節奏有旋律的音樂表演是非常的困難的。這次競賽我們跟信義國小並列優等雖然沒有拿到代表權到全國比賽，但是這樣的成績讓我們有更進步的空間，也代表我們努力的成果。要感謝蔡、巫兩位老師兩年來的...2 months ago
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PESSOAS E LUGARES in Barcelos, Portugal - If you happen to be in Portugal at these coordinates- 41°32′N 8°37′W. And need to get an Art fix. You can see an installation by me in this group show orga...2 months ago
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Taiwan’s best blogs in 2011 - Taiwanderful recently announced the 2011 Taiwan Best Blog Awards. To enter your blog you need to make sure you are registered at Taiwanderful before 10 Dec...2 months ago
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Diving in Red Sea - November 2011 trip to Eygpt and Red Sea. Diving sites are in and around Soma Bay, between Hurghada and Safaga.2 months ago
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An NCCU Video - Came across this cute video developed by a German exchange student at NCCU and filmed by Student Ambassador, Hilary Lee: Filed under: Uncategorized2 months ago
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Cultural misappropriation - I really enjoyed this post by Jade on Wai-Taiwan: “Someone Else’s Stew.” It’s a nice piece about the cultural appropriation that all visitors take part in ...2 months ago
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Adventure: 31 of the Best Birthday Quotes - For my 31st birthday, I decided to assemble (with the help of great quotes.com) 31 of the Best Birthday Quotes: a little humor, a little wisdom... just a l...
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全線預備！ Ready down the line! - Part 2 - *Continued from Part 1.* "Morale sound off!" (「精神答數!」), the officer of the day yelled. We chanted out the cadence based on Chiang Kai-shek's list of qualit...3 months ago
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Taipei Gay Pride Festival 2011 - Taiwan has one of the largest gay communities in the whole of Asia, and in turn hosts one of the largest pride festivals on the continent. Taiwan was in f...3 months ago
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Busted - Well today was a new adventure in the life of an international "criminal" expat. Ok so I have not been perfect: Indonesia asked me to support the Policeman...3 months ago
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All Hallows Eve 2011 - [image: All_Hallows_Eve_Refuge-10][image: All_Hallows_Eve_Refuge-11][image: All_Hallows_Eve_Refuge-12][image: All_Hallows_Eve_Refuge-13][image: All_Hallows...3 months ago
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Dropbox: Sign Up and Save the World! - Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) is a great way to store your files online where you can get at them from any computer with internet access. It is really easy t...3 months ago
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Night in an aquarium - The National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium is the biggest aquarium in Taiwan and it’s located in Checheng, Pingtung County just about 20 km from ...
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How to do an East Coast Ride (for beginners and visitors to Taiwan) - The community over on Forumosa has helped a visiting cyclist from Japan put together a three-day ride on the East Coast, which is where Rank recommends that ...3 months ago
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咖哩先生眼裡的------我的老婆 - 我的老婆 現在我只有一位能天天面對面看得到的家人, 那就是我老婆.她的名字叫'尤鈺茹.' 我們家裡面還有第三者,但是我們要等2月才可以看到她. 因此我現在只要介紹我的老婆. 我老婆怎麼形容呢? 如果限制我選兩個字我會說'特別.' 我來給你們介紹一下她的外表, 個性, 跟興趣. ...3 months ago
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Oct 31, Traditional Chinese Clothing in Taipei - I am looking for traditional taiwanese dresses, where can I buy them in Taipei, thank you (Marie) Answer Marie, these are the qipao workshops I have3 months ago
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Tired, but still Inspired! - Today was one of those days where one feels a little overwhelmed by life: - 3 meetings - errands down the street - laundry piled up on the couch to...3 months ago
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How to be in one place at one time - They make speak quickly, but they don't bite! I was recently asked, "Annie, is it possible for these foreign students, who do not speak a word of the local...
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New address: www.bikingintaiwan.com - I will now start to post to bikingintaiwan.com. The site is up and running, but the design is non-existent. I've changed to WordPress and need to learn how t...3 months ago
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the everyday stuff - Cultural differences come in all shapes and sizes. And, one of my favorite cultural differences is keys (I've blogged about them before). They are so dif...
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Stupid Foreigner: Hate yourself too much to enjoy your luck - The two guys in question were called David and Swen – although we guessed there were plenty like them. David and Swen were friends of John’s who he alwa...4 months ago
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Taiwan Drivers are not terrible: Discuss. - So... lots of foreigners say that drivers in Taiwan are crazy. And, OK, they are. But I would also argue that they're extremely skillful. To wit: the scoot...4 months ago
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2011 Lunar B-Day - It's that day of the year again. I wonder why we celebrate this day by having a cake with a question mark lit on top, pretending we've lost our ability to co...
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The Expat is now on Twitter! - Hi everyone, Been a while since I’ve updated, I know. However, I have some news: I’m no on Twitter. You can see my feed on the right side over there. —->...4 months ago
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Ladies or gents? - Here's a confusing one: Is this the *men's* or *women's* restroom? The Chinese says "*Men, do not enter*" (more literally: "Men: halt!") But ...
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Too Bad He Is Gone - Not very well since I got a cold. But it is ok…I know I will be fine soon ( as usual. ) Sorry to know that Steve Jobs is gone. Although I did not buy any p...4 months ago
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Test - Let's see if this works. Finally managed to put back most of the disappeared pictures.
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xiao wulai waterfall - Beginning of this month we took Susan to see Xiao Wulai waterfall in Taoyuan county. Drive up there wasn’t pleasant. All the twisting,turning, going up and...5 months ago
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365 Project August Wrap Up - The end of holidays means a return to routine. The majority of the photos in this project have all been mined from the same area of Taipei, close to my hou...5 months ago
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Jinan Military Region Leadership Visit to the United States - A People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military delegation led by General FAN Changlong [范长龙], commander of the Jinan Military Area Command, began an official v...
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Treasure Hill Arts Village - You would never expect this quaint little neighbourhood to be tucked away behind the hustle and bustle of Gongguan. Treasure Hill was formerly a settlement...
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KenDing Weekend Trip | August 20 2011 - A group of us taxied down to Kending to eat some food, scoot around and take in the night life. Ka Wa Bung Ga! Raymond and Terry. Me scootin with ...
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Your best friend calls you and tells you he/she's really sick? How do you show you care? - [image: 4] TypePad Conversations » Answer this question!5 months ago
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On the leaving - So, after 7 years, I’m leaving Taiwan. So this is the last blog entry from Taiwan. Not that I’ve actually published anything in several years, but what t...5 months ago
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OpenVAS 4.x/5.x from SVN source - Didn't see any around. so here are my notes. Build instructions for Debian and ubuntu. Assuming pcap, libc, gcc are already installed. build libraries firs...6 months ago
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Yongkang street - YongKang street is just a short street, with its total length not over one kilometer, although it have a high density of great food and culture. Start ...6 months ago
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Hsinchu on foot - If you’re planning a stay in Hsinchu, you can have all your transportation fees taken care of for the price of a train ticket (which is around $390 for the...6 months ago
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Month 1 complete - So, I've finished my first month of triathlon training. I have to say though I haven't stuck completely to the schedule (seen below). It'...
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I'll Be Seeing You - Saying good-bye is something I should be getting better at, and I think I am. Instead of "Good-bye." I choose, "See you soon." Yesterday, I took the long ...
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Finally! - With the summer not bailing out on us and life being a bit less hectic, I was finally able to get the training close to what I was doing when we were in T...
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It’s been a while… - Yes, it has been a long time since I’ve blogged about anything. In the time since my last blog, I’ve taken Cruisy offline – yes, that’s the end of it. If y...6 months ago
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Ma Ying-jeou government under fire again - *As time moves forward, Ma's administration moves backward* A group of 39 observers of Taiwanese politics from around the world -- many of whom were part o...6 months ago
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FHF Borneo Posts - Borneo Dispatches - The Inaugural Issue Borneo Dispatches 002 - Kopstein's Bronzeback Eating Lizard Borneo Dispatches #3: A Day at Bako National Park Bo...6 months ago
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How to Use Blogsy - A very important thing to know about Blogsy is that there are two sides - 'Rich Side' and 'Write Side'. You are on the 'Rich Side' now. To get to the 'Wr...7 months ago
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Expansion of my "Actionated" view of the World - Sometime I think I get caught up in my own world so much that I forget what the average person in the world looks like, or acts like, or even what kind...
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Home for the summertime! - I arrived in Chicago Wednesday evening after a long day of traveling from Taipei. My seat on the airplane was the middle seat of the middle row. Not a comf...7 months ago
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Bond. James Bond. - BY Mr. X - Our first week of summer! Great job students. One day you will set up a tent and remember everything you learned. The "air goes out the door"! Bond. Jam...7 months ago
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News Roundup: Taiwan High Speed Rail in Trouble - Energy * * Months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the debate surrounding nuclear energy in Taiwan continues unabated. In June, several Taiwa...
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Hopes: People in Legal Field Fight for Justice for General Public - To Ya-ying twenty years later, How are you? What kind of job are you doing right now? Are you sharing part of your income with public welfare organizations...7 months ago
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J.Y. Interpretation 687 - On May 27, 2011, the Justices of the Constitutional Court issued J.Y. Interpretation 687. It asks:對故意致公司逃漏稅捐之公司負責人一律處徒刑之規定，違憲？Holding:中華民國六十五年十月二十二日制定公布之稅捐稽...8 months ago
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Z68, Newer Better Faster - Not only does the Z68 platform combine the advantages both the P67 and H67 platform together into one, GIGABYTE has also included some unique Z68 only fe...
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Perennial Tea Ceremony - There are spring tea, summer tea, fall tea and winter tea. To promote the tea culture in Taiwan, “Perennial Tea Ceremony” (Perennial, literally means four ...8 months ago
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Born in the USA - A little happier than the picture headlining my previous post, no? And yes, that is a balloon on our mailbox–not to be confused with the Mickey Mouse ba...8 months ago
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KaoHsiung I - Lotus Pond Ok. So I haven't posted in forever and I really should have posted this way back in April, but here goes. It was a quick trip, and hopefully I...
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6/12 Family Day : Ice-skating and Barbecue!!! - It's been really hot lately so I think it would be best to go ice-skating on Sunday. We can meet at Taipei Arena at 11:30a.m. and skate from 12:00 - 2:00p...
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Pink Dolphins and Kuokuang Petrochemical in the New York Times - The internationally listed Dacheng wetlands which Kuokuang wanted to turn into a petrochemical complex.On June 5th an article titled "Activism Gets Rolling i...
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New Blog Time - http://skagwaydreamin.blogspot.com/ Follow me on a trip to Alaska. Or not, it's your life.8 months ago
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Assorted Links - What's more fun than telling long-distance friends how much nicer your weather is? Doing it graphically! My most recent bookmark: WeatherSpark. E.O. Wilson...8 months ago
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New Blog About Down Syndrome - I've just started a new blog called *"**The Deal With Downs**"*. I invite you to check it out and subscribe if you like. Thanks.9 months ago
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All Girls Baptism - Three ladies from the community group and three of our university fellowship students were recently baptized! Please pray we as a body of believers can co...9 months ago
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