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Here is the latest word on This years Spring Scream Double Rat music and Art Festival in Ken Ting, Taiwan. The info was leeched off of their Myspace page

Spring Scream April, 4 2008 at 2008 Spring Scream Double Rat Music and Art festival Erluanbi Light House, southern tip of Taiwan, Kenting,
Cost: [...]

SpongeBob Squarepants is becoming very popular in Taiwan. The Chinese name for him is 海綿寶寶, or Hai Mian Bao Bao (Sponge Baby). If you haven’t seen him before, it is a funny cartoon about a mischievous sponge and his starfish friend Patrick. It is based underwater and is a good way to [...]

This post isn’t as spicy as the title suggests. It is the name of a bar, and a blatant rip off of the HBO mini series. In a land where cram schools are called Disney and Sesame street (I won’t say these are definitely copyright infringement in Taiwan, but they appear to be [...]

Here is a short video from American Basketball player Jon Sanders, who has made the move to play in Taiwan’s basketball league. He is the only foreigner i the league. Some key points of the video are him speaking of how the refs stopped calling a lot of the fouls on him because: [...]

Teresa Teng is one of the oldest Taiwanese pop stars. She would be about 58 now but she died of asthma while in Chiang Mai Thailand a long time ago. Here is a classic video of one of her songs (the title is unknown to me). It’s nice to see a non [...]

If you look at the inside cover of the back page of the Winter Xpat magazine issue, you will see an advertisement for, you guessed it, TRT. If you know what the Chinese symbol means in modern Taiwanese Chinese I’ll treat you to a betelnut in Tainan. Here is what it looks like:

In the land of rock the guitar is king. Few have dared question its dominance until now.

Mooney Sue

One for the Road

Enter NHKHC. Keys, drums, bass and sax. Part funk, part pop,100% rock. Come experience the revolution in the seedy underbelly of NEW HONG KONG HAIR CITY.

If you like them, have any questions about booking [...]

Here is a photo of a prop for a final presentation of one of my College summer camp classes. The rules were they needed to invent a product and make a commercial for it in English. This group made a magic alarm clock that could do many things to wake you up. [...]

This is a photo I took before my camera defected to mainland China. You will notice two adults, but oddly enough there are an extra set of little legs sprouting out from the center.

Taiwanese girls vs Japanese girls is a funny video about high school girls in Japan and Taiwan (but I can’t believe that they are all high school girls). It shows a photo of a cute Taiwanese girl, followed by a not cute but homely (yeah, I mean ugly but whatever) photo of a Japanese [...]

This is a video that caught my attention the other day and is bound to catch your as well. There are 120 photos of Korean girls (40), Japanese girls (40), Chinese & Taiwanese girls (40). I don’t know if all of the girls in the Chinese (Taiwanese) category are Taiwanese or Chinese, because [...]

Spas are popular places in Taiwan. This video shows the inside of one with a few cute Taiwanese girls in the water. Some spas have all different kinds of water massage jets and pools, as well as possibly weights, play areas for kids, and saunas.
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It has come to my attention that the girls [...]

Happy New Year to everybody. I got my first surprise of the year when a blue truck with loudspeakers parked in my neighborhood blaring an advertisement for an upcoming political rally whose main event was none other than presidential candidate Ma Ying Jiu and a local politician. Here is the slideshow link to [...]

Here are some videos from the (2008) New Years eve fireworks spectacular coming from the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
# 1) An extremely amateur video of the event. Tilt your head sideways for maximum viewing satisfaction.

A better version:

Here is an older news clip of last years event comparing it with [...]