Just up the road here in Sanzhi 三芝 is the childhood home of Lee Teng-Hui, President of Taiwan from 1988-2000. Until yesterday it was a very quaint old house, still part of an active community. But then came torrential rains on Saturday, and yesterday morning one-third of the roof collapsed…. Not looking good! Continue reading And the roof has fallen in!
92 today, and so we celebrated with a yummy sashimi and seafood meal and of course a great big birthday cake! Congratulations and best wishes to Rev. Hsu and all the Hsu family ~ ah, yes, all my very good friends! Continue reading Happy Birthday Rev. Hsu!
In Freedom Plaza in front of C.K.S. Memorial today, the military were rehearsing ready for Armed Forces Day on Saturday September 3. So the last thing I expected to see up by the Memorial itself was possibly the world’s largest Doraemon made out of pinwheels or small windmills, thousands of ’em, all blowing in the breeze! And sponsored by JCB Credit Card Co. It’s really quite amazing! Continue reading Ah, Taipei ~ City of Surprises!
There’s red everywhere! Flame trees (delonix regia) were first imported to Taiwan during the Japanese colonial era, and have been named Tainan City’s official tree. It’s flame tree flowering season ~ this is the one outside Advent Church, and even on a dull day, they still look amazing! I just LOVE red! Continue reading Flame Tree Season in Taiwan!
Yes, introducing one of my most delightful former students, Amanda, who spent 2 years of her early life with us at St. James’ Kindergarten, Taichung ~ and she’s now a student of art history at Tainan National University of the Arts. All grown up and going places! This summer Amanda is an intern at the National Taiwan Museum in Taipei, another wow! Her family are great friends of mine, and a few weeks ago, her mother took my visitors, Harriet and Nicky and me to visit the Rainbow Village in Taichung. So with a bit of encouragement from Amanda’s mother, I … Continue reading The No. 1 National Taiwan Museum 國立台灣博物館 Tour with Amanda Lai 賴盈伃 ~ YES!
!!!!!!!!! Garbage trucks on Saturday inadvertently disrupted a performance by the New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra in the National Taiwan University Sports Center when they started loudly playing prerecorded tunes that signal waste collection, sparking outrage from classical music fans attending the event. Source: Garbage trucks disrupt classical concert – Taipei Times Continue reading Garbage trucks disrupt classical concert – Taipei Times
Actually Coffee Stand is 3 doors along from Good Shepherd Church, Taipei at 台北市士林區中正路519號 and stands out – of course for the coffee – but also because it is built into a half-demolished building. The building used to extend right up to level with the white line down the middle of the road in front, but 20 years ago the end of the building was removed to make way for the road. So the upstairs of the building has a half-demolished look about it, but hey, that’s the attraction! Y’know, I’ve been walking past this building for years, and never noticed … Continue reading Coffee Stand @ Good Shepherd Church, Taipei!
It’s all happening in Taiwan lol! Thousands-strong crowd races through streets in surreal but unauthenticated clip Source: Pokémon Go May Have Just Shown Us What the End of the World Looks Like | TIME Continue reading Pokémon Go May Have Just Shown Us What the End of the World Looks Like | TIME
Check this out! This wall art at Tamsui Sports Center is made of lines and lines, rows and rows of black sticky tape! Amazing eh?! Continue reading Sticky Tape Wall Art!
Catherine Lee 