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Surprise surprise.  We’re stuck indoors this weekend because another typhoon has hit Taiwan.  Typhoon Jangmi came knocking around 9pm last night.  Yet another weekend down the drain, and we really don’t have all that many left before we head home.  I was hoping to get out this weekend to find some material for my veil [...]

A lazy day of football in Taipei, Taiwan turns into a moment of pure magic when a rainbow appears out of nowhere and baths the players under its pale colors of light.

Taiwan Photographers is one year old this month and we’re celebrating with some changes! The first and biggest is our move from Blogger to Wordpress. I started out with Blogger last year because I wanted to compare how the two platforms work. But after a year and a lackluster performance on [...]

A la recherche du temps perdu/In search of time lost - by Yu-fen Guo

Lost in You
Fears and tears mingle.
The divine storms strike a dark age
of diaspora, leaving the modifiers dangle,
lost in you, a subject consumed with rage.
When the sky is clear
will the trampled feathers dry
and soar in full gear?
Lost in you, the vista of [...]

Photo by: Odegaard
The final countdown has begun. We leave this Friday for Japan, the land of the rising sun. We’ve talked of nothing else over the past few weeks. While seasoned at traveling, John and I are at a loss when it comes to making any decisions about Japan. We planned an itinerary and it [...]

Photo by: Code Poet
It’s hard to imagine the sacrifices a person makes when they leave home and live abroad, especially if you’ve never done so. Despite emails, letters, cards and phone calls home, I seem to have lost an alarming number of friends over the past five years. This became most apparent during my [...]

Photo: Danz in Tokyo
“It doesn’t take long to be initiated into Tokyo’s madness: the city’s sheer level of energy - fuelled by consumer culture in hyper drive - rubs raw against ancient tradition. Sightseeing can either be a sensory assault that leaves you elated or an encounter with understatement that leaves you in awe; [...]

What the frack is going on with Yahoo these days?  This last week has been very frustrating because I’ve only been able to access my account at certain times of the day.  This started about a week ago.  I’ve been locked out of my account every day.  We’re also locked out of our joint Yahoo [...]