Taoyuan Nights

One of my friends in Taoyuan has started writing movie reviews on his website as a way of improving his writing skills. He’s only got a couple up so far, but I thought it was worth highlighting a Taiwanese/American film that he recently wrote about. Personally I found this film tedious, perhaps because I’m missing […]

One of the biggest problems I face when shopping in Taiwan, is that prices magically start rising as soon as people see me. Mobile phones, hard disks, you name it - prices often shoot up to 50% higher than what they would otherwise be, particularly for high value items such as electronic goods.
Heck, I’ve […]

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 […]

A rambling mixture of gossip today.
The film “Hot Fuzz” is debuting currently in the UK. By the same people that produced “Shawn of the Dead”, and ‘Spaced’, this film could perhaps be described as a comedy about a top London cop being transferred to a rural village police force, but it’s probably more accurate […]