Taoyuan Nights

Someone once said, history never repeats, but it does rhyme.
Here is what happened in Tokyo and Hong Kong when their property prices zoomed in the way that Taipei’s have. I believe that in ‘house-price-relative-to-earnings’ terms, Taipei has recently exceeded the heights of these graphs.
So, dear reader, I show you a possible - indeed, […]

Scott Sommers has trapped Taiwan’s bloggers on his blog. Now, it’s up to you to rescue them. Bravely find them on the page using your mouse, then lead the bloggers of Taiwan to freedom via the Escape Zone!

Click here to begin!

(Apologies, Scott… it was too tempting)

My mum came to Taiwan for 2 weeks recently to visit me and see a little of the island.
She had a great time - all my friends were really nice to her, and helped me to show her some cool places. I saw a few new places myself, too..

Mum, Leila, Ethan, and their children, shopping […]

ETFs - Exchange Traded Funds - are something that I’ve suggested to all my friends, as a wonderful way to invest money in the stockmarket without having to learn much about shares, and without being screwed over by typical mutual fund charges.
An ETF is just a form of index tracking fund, that can be […]

The Financial Times today published an article by Nassim Taleb which points out the sheer stupidity of the bulk of modern financial ‘theory’.
NNT is one of the few authors in Finance I take seriously; the others being Warren Buffett, and Benjamin Graham. His books, ‘Fooled by Randomness’ and ‘The Black Swan’, are must-haves […]

I believe this vehicle to be the preliminary field test of a new, twin-barrel, single-turret ’stealth tank’ designed to merge almost invisibly with civilian traffic in Taiwan.
The alternative explanation is simply too stupid to be true.

And yet people wonder why I travel by bus rather than scooter.

Take a look here. Thanks to www.re-discovery.org!

Sunset over Taoyuan.

Pastel mountains.

Taoyuan, the dark city.

I did. :)

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Everyone (on TV) seems to have gone bonkers yesterday, as the Shanghai stockmarket dropped 8% during 1 day’s trading. Hong Kong, Asia, America, London, Europe dropped too, in knee-jerk reaction as people freaked out… all the talking heads on TV shows started murmuring about doom and gloom, how this could be the end…. time to […]