Betel nuts are commonly eaten in South East Asia, and in Taiwan there’s quite a sub-culture of this… Take a look at this excellent video. In Chinese, the term for the sales girls is “Betel Nut Princesses”! You’ll see how they dress!
Over Chinese New Year, a rare spectacle took place in Taiwan. Over 700 visitors on a cruise from Hong Kong visited Kaohsiung in mid-February. It seems that Taiwan’s receiving a lot more cruises from Hong Kong these days, as Hong Kong’s Star Cruises reopened in 2007. In fact, in 2007 there nearly half a million…
Our little business has been using the same phone for nearly three years: a base system with two handsets that are wireless. It’s a traditional analogue signal telephone system made by Philips. Just as we were clearing up for Chinese New Year, the units became less and less functional, and the base unit developed a…
http://weblive.hichannel.hinet.net/web/index.jsp is the link… You’ll need an account with Hinet in some form and some help if you can’t read Chinese! I find CNBC gives slightly choppy sound quality, but other channels seem fine, but it’s a good way to see the business news without relying on the crappy cable system here. If you have…
Ability Office I might try Christine out on this program and see how she handles the tables… it might be worth trying out the software to see how it. The only problem I can see is it can’t handle Chinese, I think. I’ll try it out! Could be a good cost effective solution to MS…
Well, to my surprise, my wife has managed to watch two whole series of Seinfeld (Seinfeld – Season 3 and Seinfeld – The Complete Fourth Season) without chinese subtitles, and indeed on occasion, without any subtitles. She thoroughly enjoyed them, and I must confess so did I. The series really begins to reach some magic…