So, it was my turn to celebrate my 33rd birthday at Taipei and I did it twice. Traditionally, Chinese people do not pay a lot of attention to birthdays until they are 60 years old. The 60th birthday is regarded as a very important point of life and therefore there is often a big celebration. […]
It has been five months since I arrived at Taipei and I still remember the sensation of being completely lost in the middle of the city, surrounded by people and signs/posters that I couldn’t understand. Five months and I am half way on the second course. That means that I am able to understand the […]
MXM is the acronym that Telemadrid use for “Madrileños por el Mundo” TV Show. After the visit from the Andalusian people (previous post) it is the time for the people from Madrid to visit Taiwan. Around 50 minutes of TV show. It has been uploaded to YouTube in 5 parts Part 1. You can see […]
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Just by chance I recently found an article about a book/exhibition “Ost trifft West” (aka East Meets West) that depicts the differences of German & Chinese culture using easy to understand images. After almost 5 months in Taipei I couldn’t agree more on the comparisons that Liu Yang makes on various topics. In any case […]
Do not worry… we are not leaving Taipei yet. “Au revoir Taipei” is just the title of a film that we watched recently. The film is a romantic comedy (quite funny indeed) and without any additional pretensions. The girlfriend of a guy from Taipei goes to Paris to study while he remains at Taipei. Obviously […]
I can not recall when or why, Anna and I said “chinita tu, chinita yo” (chinese little girl you, chinese little boy me). After using Google to find the source of this sentence from the back of our memory we found “Chinita de Amol” from a famous clowns group in Spain on the 80’s (“Los […]
We wanted to arrange a flat inauguration party for a while and we just decided to organize it at the last minute on April 10th. It was kind of “trial party” as we want to organize a bigger one in the rooftop of the building in the near future. We invited both people from my […]
Walking around Taipei you can find a lot of restaurant with this sign: The chinese texts says something like “No to US beef.” Other restaurants also display a pro Taiwanese beef image Beef dishes, specially beef noodles are very popular in Taiwanese cuisine. So, obviously, we asked local people and researched on the internet about […]
As you could see from the theme of the Weyia party, this year India is on the ADB map. Although we have a local team in Mumbai I was asked to help a little bit on the organization of the demonstrations for the Convergence India trade show at New Delhi. I went there with 3 […]
