Taoyuan Nights

Michael Turton recently visited Ming Chuan University’s Taoyuan campus, to give a special lecture about his views on Internet Journalism and Social Activism. Scott Sommers was there too, to join in the fun.
Read more about his experience (and see some wonderful photos) here!
Thanks Michael!

Michael, Scott, Graeme (thanks to Eva Wai).

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.

Taiwanese scooter helmets.

A baby kitten with poo on its face.

Students dancing.

Scene: Mu walking down street on hot day.
Mu: (thinks) Ah! A tea shop. I’ll get myself a nice cup of tea.
Mu: Hey there. Can I have a cup of lemon green tea please?
Guy: Sorry?
Mu: Qing, yi ge li mon lu cha.
Guy: Oh, ok, lemon green tea.
…
Guy: You want some sugar?
Mu: A little bit, thanks.
…
Guy: You [...]

Sunset over Taoyuan.

Pastel mountains.

Taoyuan, the dark city.

Man, I had some awesome games of badminton tonight. As you can tell from the headline, there were several smash!smash!smash!!!! situations which demanded to be punctuated with shouted quotes from “300″, though in fact I just barely managed to restrain myself from actually doing it, mostly. And then several situations involving trickshots played while jumping, [...]

Just saw 300 in Taipei. I think this review describes it much better than I ever could. (Trailers here)

Warner Bros.
For those of you living in Taoyuan, I can confirm that the cinema in Taoyuan city centre has it showing 8 times per day right now, lunch till late, prices from 170 to 220 NTD. [...]

I’ve been looking over my website logs, and it appears there are tons of people hoping to find the meaning of the word ‘Suwadee’ on this site, thanks to Google. I recently used this word in one of my articles about Thai restaurants here in Taoyuan. I suspect “Suwadee” or “Sawadee” is a common name [...]

Some well known bloggers pay a visit to Taoyuan…
Michael Turton paid a visit, reminisced about old-style Taiwan, and indulged in some street-side KTV.
The Bushman pays a visit to a duck and seafood restaurant in Taoyuan.
Prince Roy shares a picture of a garden with zillions of statues of Chiang Kai Shek.
Some spontaenous Tai Chi at [...]

The Nintendo Wii is finally about to reach Taiwan officially! (maybe)
I’m basing this on the reports at Digitimes and elsewhere, that read: “Nintendo’s Taiwanese distributor ‘Hakuyu’ has stated that the new Wii system will fail to make it to the market any time before the Chinese New Year in February.” I also interrogated the [...]