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Big things are happening.  And of course, you know me.  My motto has always been, “Go big or go home!”  I’m always one for taking on new challenges and leaping into the unknown and now I’m doing so with a very dramatic change in careers.  I’ve taken on a job as an editor with an [...]

The Mira Department Store at Core Pacific City Mall (京華城)(also known as The Living Mall) in Taipei hosted the 5th annual Taipei Toy Festival early last month. The show, which ran from July 10-13th, brought thousands of insatiable toy collectors of all ages and uber-cool vinyl toy designers from around the globe through its doors. [...]

We were sitting in a travel agency in Taipei on Sunday night when my boss called to tell me I had Monday off. Typhoon Fung-Wong was heading our way with a force to be reckoned with and was due to hit central Taiwan sometime that night. By 1:00am we were experiencing heavy rain [...]

Hmmm….indeed. Where did my vacation go? I was off for a week and like all vacations, it flew by in the blink of an eye, BUT, I took loads of photos and there are good things coming down the pipeline.
John and I started the weekend off with an event I’ve been anticipating all [...]

Twitter is busting at the seams with news about the earthquake that hit the southwestern province of Sichuan in China today. And once again, the popular micro-blogging platform seems to have beaten everyone to the punch for providing breaking news, links and photos about the event.
Robert Scoble tweeted heavily about the quake and has just [...]

I think any ESL teacher will agree at some time in their teaching career, they’ve taught students with some pretty strange-sounding names in their classrooms. Several students in my classrooms have been no exception. I’ve had students with names like: Killer, Hebe, Pepsi, Happy, Apple, Coors, Banana and Ice. I’ve taught an [...]

USA TODAY : Photo released by Xinhua News Agency at Jinan Paomaling Wild Animal World in Shenyang, China.
I saw this picture in a Chinese newspaper today and I couldn’t resist a Google search for more information.
In Shenyang, China, at the Jinan Paomaling Wild Animal World, an ordinary farm dog is used to nurse four baby [...]

Wow.  I just read this morning on China View that China has blocked LiveJournal bloggers.  I was a little skeptical at first, although not overly as China is well known for its cencorship practices.   Live Journal actually announced the block yesterday and sited that the block wasn’t initiated by them. 
I checked a few other sources to confirm the story and by [...]

The search for talent continues for America’s next superstar and this time, American Idol is in New York. Let me tell ya, folks, the freaks are out! I never really tuned into shows like American Idol and Rockstar until we moved to Taiwan. Turns out, reality TV and talent searches are just as big over [...]