Category: Taipei

Typhoon Taiwan!

Woooo … so I got to live through one of these things. It’s a hurricane by another name. Island wide shutdown and it hit pretty good.

Funny thing is, back home, this wouldn’t have registered that much panic or concern. I think it was a category 3 hurricane. We’ve had some 20+ typhoons this season which is close to a record I believe. Japan got hit pretty bad during this season.

Typhoon came a lot of rain and wind. Last time, it was just mostly wind in Taipei. We got both this time. Taiwan has like 7 different all-round news stations and it was neat remoting through them to see the latest disaster area and zone. Several reporters got swept away during the typhoon and at least 1, maybe 2 fatalities as a result.

Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau

NYT has a lot of great articles the past few days. Too bad I’ve not been able to read them and blog here :(. On a side note, I’ve been made a moderator on Forumosa. I’m the moderator of the Dating and Relationships Forum ;).

Be well,
=YC

Interesting sites

I saw this ad posted on Forumosa today. Pretty cool I’d say!

NY Broadway production company scouting for performers for a new Chinese production of RENT touring China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao. THIS PRODUCTION WILL BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY IN Mandarin-Chinese.
All ethnic backgrounds welcome.Proficiency in Mandarin a plus.

You don’t need to know Chinese, just be up for the challenge.

Please mail headshots and resumes
And demo CDs if available) to:

Creative Productions International
c/o Matt Neufeld
1501 Broadway, STE 1313
New York, NY
10036

Please also send an email to [email protected] to let us know that you are sending us the requested materials.
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Those NYU’ers :).

Another interest site about languages in SE Asia and a bit of the Chinese diaspora history can be found here.

Been super busy since coming back from Malaysia. I’ve been very bad at writing up my trip history and following up with FC’s journal. I hope to in the next couple of days and the weekend. I was supposed to be in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand this week on the company outing but had to stay back to take care of some Taiwan immigration stuff related to military conscription service issues :o.

Thanks again FC for uploading the pics, wanted to know if they’ll go on snapfish in the album? B- just finished uploading 300+ pics from the wedding photographer’s lenses so would like to share that with you. The photog’s VCD is almost done. So let me know how you’d like to see it.

Hope you folks are doing well there.

=YC