Everyone that has been to Taiwan knows that most people live off of instant noodles and tea. Here is a video of a man on a scooter eating his instant noodles and drinking some tea.

This is a show that I have seen on TV before while scanning the channels for anything remotely intelligible or interesting. I usually flip it as soon as the girls start babbling in their high pitched baby voices. Anyway, I think the name of the show is I love the Mafia, as the [...]

Driving in Taiwan can be chaos, and you never know who is going to be creeping out of the unknown to cut you off or be in your space. There was a large bus dropping people off, and I was accelerating into a traffic circle (which is one way) with a bus blocking my [...]

There’s a lot of truth to be learned by this song. Read the lyrics and give the video a peak. It’s a hip hop song and video from Chigga SpellOnYew
It’s the azn nigga fuck the rest
Dallas to New York jigga, we the best
Vietnam to Japan to Mongolia
Philippines to Taiwan to Cambodia
Korea, ah ah, [...]

Here is a video of the Peace Festival 2008. Our friend Chienni McCullough shot and edited this. Thanks Chienni!

Talent show eh? Perhaps lack of talent would be a better way of saying it. Obviously these girls dont take themselves seriously as they are performing some sort of parody of hip hop dancers.
I’ve seen shows that are worse than this if you can believe it. The phenomena of the talent [...]

Here is a video that i have put up before, but only recently added it to Youtube. It is of a strange ceremony/party made for a god. The woman strips a man down to his undies and then gets on him and grinds him. It’s a short clip, but the photos at [...]

If you live in Tainan, you’ve seen this place a thousand times. It lies just west of the train station, a stone’s throw from the exit, across from the police station on the circle. It is a place that might choose to overlook, yet I find it interesting because of my experiences there. [...]

It’s amazing it has taken me this long to go to a baseball game in Taiwan. I’m a big baseball fan and still follow MLB in America. Some friends of mine have been going to games recently in Tainan and invited me along to see the last Tainan home game for a while. [...]

I have to admit, I am getting a bit sick of all the attention that the new direct flights Chinese tourists are getting. It also feels like new KMT government is also presenting this (as a stepping stone for future closer ties with mainland China) as the cure of Taiwan’s economic ills and I [...]

I was surfing the net the other day and saw an interesting video about the adoption process of an Amerasian in Korea. Rick Smolan, a photographer, was assigned to photograph the offspring of American GI’s in Asia, of which there were something like 40,000 at the time. The video is of him speaking [...]

Walking down the street.

Searching. Wandering along.

Nowhere. Somewhere. Anywhere.

Everything is the same. Perception has reverted.

Tea anyone?

‘caveat emptor’- let the buyer beware
One would think that to find true knowledge, he/she must go to the source. While it is true that Taiwan and it’s many masters are a vastly important ‘living archive’ of the martial arts, my personal opinion is that while the quality of [...]

Article and photos by Joseph McKinney
July the First; another Canada Day. But this year in Taiwan it came a few days early (Saturday, June 28th on Baishawan Beach in Taipei County). The Canadian Society in Taiwan held their annual Canada D’eh bash which was by all accounts a success.
The family and I were able [...]