Taiwan is a famous paradise for gourmet food. From north to south Taiwan with immigrants from different historical period and fusion cuisine with different aboriginal peoples, there is just countless diversity one could ever discover. Every type of cooking from provincial types from China, to Japanese, American and Europeans style, each has all evolved into a unique style of Taiwan’s dining culture. Among them, the most representative one could never ever miss is – the night market...
indievox (http://www.indievox.com/) was established in 2008 by Po-Chang, Wu, the vocalist of famous indie band, echo. It is a DRM free MP3 downloading and selling commercial platform. Wu uses his expertise in computer science & information engineering and website designing skills. And as he is the member of music bands, he does have profound and personal understanding of the needs from both musicians and users.
<Po-Chang, Wu, by Kingkiang>
Therefore, he has largel...
How could summers ever without music festival, beers and friends?! Just last week, there were two great music venues in Taipei – Music Terminal Festival and Mew from Denmark. So let us have review of critical music events in Taipei this summer.
Free Tibet Concert (http://www.mtf.org.tw/node/55)
It’s an ever-lasting endeavor to support TRUTH and HUMAN RIGHTS. Since March last year, China has violently cracked down on Tibetan people's resistance. And as usual and always, one ca...
In Taiwan, people who love to spend lots of money are usually called “Bai-Guys or Bui-Girls.” As the pronunciation is the same as “BUY”; therefore shopping is called “Bai” as well. Mobile01 is totally such a bai website in every aspect. There are not only 3C forums for users to have in-depth discussion, but also loads of consuming information to fuel one’s purchasing compulsion. There are even immoderate users who take the pleasure to persuade others to place their orde...
Ever since the hot box office sales of last year’s Cape No.7, Winds of September and Orz Boys, Taiwan films have come to another peak moment to be highly anticipated. And this year, with several movies coming, one is surely not to miss any of them!
Baseball Boys (http://baseballboys.pixnet.net/blog)
It’s a documentary film about baseball and those baseball boys in Hualien by Director Ke-Shang, Sheen. In this documentary, Sheen traces back to the force of dreams which might be d...
Shi-Da Road - The favourite area of the artsy people is located in the southern part of Taipei. Therefore, it’s named “South Village” as well. Now it’s like Greenwich in London or New Soho in New York more and more now with more and more artsy concept cafés around. There are many coffee shops here for a long time. Among them, some shop keepers have transformed the idea of café into a multi concept to combine coffee with art.
So next time, if you happen to have a chance ...
How could a BBS site created within university become the NO. 1 community site in Taiwan, even the NO. 32 on global online traffic flow ranking and reach the NO.2 Taiwan online AD sales? With its rapidly growing influence, Wretch has even made Taiwan NO. 1 Yahoo!Kimo merger and acquisition it with an unbelievable high price? It’s all because – the HORMONE of BOYS.
<Wretch loves hot babes>
Wretch was set up in 1999 by a fresher, Zhi-Yu, Jian, in National Chiao Tung...
The term, villagers, is originated from a movie <Hail the Judge> starred by Hong Kong comedy master, Stephen Chow. There’s line in the movie said: “I just pop in with the villagers to see what’s going on here and just stand a little bit front….” Then one time when there was an online disputing on PTT (telnet://ptt.cc) with fellow users quarrelling for irrational reasons, the director of Pttlaw, Junchoon, said: “Those watching ‘villagers’, please step back behind the...
Maybe cleaning is a tedious job. But what if there is a kind of cleaning which presents extraordinary scenery for your eyes, stretches your body to model a fitness line and brings awfully affectionate touching moments for your heart, wouldn’t that just make a great exercise in terms of sports?
<Photos fromTEIA>
Environmental organisations are promoting “Cleaning” into a whole new perspective. Taiwan Environmental Information Association (TEIA, http://e-info.org.tw/) ...
The 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung has just closed on 26th of July. Kaohsiung is the most densely populated and the second largest city in southern Taiwan. The World Games was the very first international multi-sport event to be held in Taiwan. Over the period of 11 days, the games have not only grasped the attention of the whole nation, but also received highly regards from International World Games Association (IWAG) as: “The best World Games Ever.”
<TVCF of the 2009...
