Living in Taiwan

LIVING IN TAIWAN


TAIWAN and CHINA, TAIWAN politics

[5/22/2009] View on Chinese Taipei (Taiwan becoming part of China) ... [READ HERE]

[5/19/2009] China slowly sneaking in (the reunion seems inevitable)...[READ]

[5/05/2009] Pingdong babe in Parliament (who says politics isn't fun?) ...[HERE]

[4/01/2009] President (of Taiwan) handed over the country, and now even the pandas are fake...[READ ON]

[1/20/2009] The Cross of Taiwan. Taiwan's ex-president Chen declaring himself as a martyr. [READ HERE]

[12/01/2008] The Ex-President and the nurse. The greedy ex president has stopped his hunger strike and is eating like a hog in hospital....[READ shocking report HERE]

[11/18/2008] Declaration of silence...
Deciding not too involve via blogging in the recent turmoils... [READ MORE]


[11/14/2008] Big trouble in little China.
Former president in Jail. Arrests among the opposition. Reunion talks with China. [Read more]

[11/11/2008] Taiwan's former president in jail!
[TAIPEI] It is just reported on TV, Taiwan's former president Chen-Shui-Bian has been jailed. He waved his hand-cuffed hands high in the air while he was brought into a police car among a large crowd of people. [READ MORE]


[11/07/2008, Taipei, Bejing] Is Taiwan becoming China? Read more about the recent visit of the Chinese envoy to Taiwan... [READ HERE]

China, Taiwan and the greedy green guy

[08/18/2008] Taiwan's new president on a diplomatic journey ... or wait... is he from China?
And meanwhile ex-president Chen stumbles over 2o Million USD on his swiss bank account ... or even more [READ MORE HERE..........]



EXPAT (SYNDROME)


[8/2009] Blame them for the friggin' weather....(foreigners)...[READ]

[6/02/2009] Naked in the streets of Taipei ... [READ]

[5/20/2009] Being a foreigner in Taiwan ... and Germany ... [READ]

[5/19/2009] Longnose, chieftain, other sweet terms for foreigners...[READ]

[5/18/2009] Hi, I am Bob from Oregon (I must be)...[READ]

[5/14/2009] Shoe fetish day at the Taiwan blog...[READ]

[4/20/2009] Close call (driving at the ghost lake)... [READ]

[4/06/2009] Be a hobby policeman in Taiwan (but don't shoot yourself)...[READ HERE]

[4/03/2009] Why we are happy in Taiwan (ALF is right)...[READ HERE]




[1/22/2009] Fire them foreigners... Work law against foreign workers or employees [READ HERE]

[1/20/2009] I am almost out of Taiwan... my CNY flight... [READ HERE or look at least at the singer...Text in German and English below]

[12/12/2008] Anti-Foreigner taxation in Taiwan
Taiwan government helping itself to a free loan from foreigners... [READ HERE]

[9/18/2008] A disease of foreigners in Taiwan, nobody talks about it, only globalforeigner.com. Read the scary report [HERE...]

[06.2008] Foreign workforce for Taiwan? Why should people do that? [READ HERE]



TAIWAN LIFE AND CULTURE (5000 years and counting)

[5/12/2009] traffic death toll in Germany and Taiwan [READ ON]

[5/07/2009] Taiwan's economy has been hit hard by the crisis....[READ ON...]

[4/22/2009] Sensation: Origin of "dirty Taiwan" revealed! [READ HERE]

[12/19/2009] Fish and Foreigners don't get no .... [READ HERE]

[10/22/2008] German citizen got shot at while driving on the Highway in Taiwan [READ HERE]

[7/2008] [Yilan] Wooden shoe fetish in Taiwan... trip to Yilan in Taiwan (where else?) [read HERE]


[10/10/2008] [Taiwan] Now you need to learn why we in Taiwan have our national holiday on 10/10 but it's actually not really ours... [READ HERE]


[10/3/2008] [Taiwan] Until shortly it was damned hot in Taiwan and will be again, when the typhoons have disappeared. But with the Chinese milk scandal, milk powder with ingredients rather meant for producing glue ... [READ MORE...]

[9/2008] Foreigner murdered in Danshui [READ MORE...]


[9/10/2008] How to drink in Taiwan, without getting hit on the head....[READ HERE]

[7/2008] Does it make sense to label women as utility vehicles? It was done it Taipei... [READ HERE: women's lib pt. 1]

[07.2008] Is Taiwan a police state? [HERE IS THE ANSWER...]

[06.2008 / 2006] Driving in Taiwan ... OR ... The Blue Truck of Death

[06.2008] This is not the real world... strange news in Taiwan media [READ HERE]



SURPRISING TAIWAN

[5/13/2009] Snake in the toilet bowl (really!) [READ...]

[9/25/2008, all Taiwan] Toothpase warns it might hurt your teeth...[READ HERE]

[8/05/2008, Jhongli area, Northern Taiwan]

Taiwan definitely has found an answer to spam email in your mailbox. See which one... [READ HERE]


[8/05/2008, Jhongli area, Northern Taiwan]
High heel wearing "Xiaojies" are everywhere, but what if all her shoes are gone...[READ HERE]


ECONOMY IN TAIWAN
[08/21/2008, Taipei, Northern Taiwan]

Is Taiwan a poor nation? And how many bamboo huts are there?My fellow German countrymen usually have the misconception about my present home Taiwan, it would be Thailand, which leads to thinking, it would be full of bamboo huts, prostitutes and pure workers hardly making a living. While there is [READ MORE.....]

August 2006, Company party...

Just recreated a post of 2006, where the pix had disappeared.
Shouldn't have done it maybe... Today a thing like this would be impossible, sigh.
Good for the girls though, I shouldn't have taken these photos. Really not (red face)... LINK HERE

May 2006...Why are people here

A reconstructed blog post from May 2006, why are foreigners here?... the pics were gone and are back now...[HERE]

May 2006:



WIFE SANK CAR. One of my old time favourites.
http://bobhonest.blogspot.com/2006/05/wife-sank-car.html


And fixed another old blog post. Jesus lives, he preaches in Taiwan.... http://bobhonest.blogspot.com/2006/05/jesus-lives-he-preaches-in-taiwan.html