A friend came by from northern Taiwan to visit my little Tainan pond on the worst possible weather. For a while forecast was predicting a comfortable hot sunny day, but then it suddenly turned and rain started pouring like I’ve
Kaohsiung’s Dream Mall
I have mixed feelings about malls. Although I’m not a passionate shopper, and almost feel uncomfortable with the endless options of ways to acquire fashion, the mall provides me with an opportunity for wandering and watching people where everyone else
Tainan’s 2008 Dragon Boat Festival
Tainan’s 2008 Dragon Boat Festival was held yesterday at the Anping Tainan Canal with both the NCKU IIMBA students and NCKU Chinese Language Center participating. The Duanwu Festival is a Chinese traditional and statutory holiday. It is a public holiday

Touring Tainan made easy : The Tainan tourist guiding boards
Till recently those signs were rare being just in the tourist spots in Tainan like next to the Chikan Towers, but it seems that in the past few weeks Tainan city tourism bureau has been putting them all over town,
Touring Kaohsiung County : Meinong Hakka folk village
Meinong (美濃鎮) of Kaohsiung County (高雄縣) in southern Taiwan is an area famous for its traditional Hakka folk culture with over 90% the population of Hakka ethnicity. A few weeks back I went with John to explore a bit more
60 years of Israeli independence celebrated at the Tainan County Holocaust museum
The Tainan County Bao An Holocaust Museum had a ceremony to celebrate Israel’s 60 years of independence. I went there twice before to help them out with their request to learn how to sing some songs in Hebrew. Arriving there

Tainan’s Cosplay : Cosplay Anime dolls and figures #4
First part of the NCKU Cosplay event is on “Asian Pop Culture : Gorgeous Japanese Cosplay @ NCKU-Tainan-Taiwan“, second part is on “Anime comes alive : Stunning Naruto Cosplay Costumes at NCKU’s Cosplay Event #2“, third part is on “The

The NCKU Cosplay Event : The beautiful Cosplay Taiwanese girls #3
First part of the NCKU Cosplay event is on “Asian Pop Culture : Gorgeous Japanese Cosplay @ NCKU-Tainan-Taiwan“, second part is on “Anime comes alive : Stunning Naruto Cosplay Costumes at NCKU’s Cosplay Event #2“. Cosplay looks great, and there’s

Anime comes alive : Stunning Naruto Cosplay Costumes at NCKU’s Cosplay Event #2
First part of the NCKU Cosplay event is on “Asian Pop Culture : Gorgeous Japanese Cosplay @ NCKU-Tainan-Taiwan“. Following is the second part including beautiful Natuto Cosplay costumes from the Cosplay event held in National Cheng Kung University at Tainan-Taiwan

Asian Pop Culture : Gorgeous Japanese Cosplay @ NCKU-Tainan-Taiwan
I love this stuff, I really do. This is one of the most magical things I’ve seen here lately. I was always so jealous of the northern folks for attending the NTU Cosplay event that I swore to myself that