Last Sunday, my daughter and her boy friend cooked an Italian dinner for the family with a very formal service menue on the table. The menue had it, Primo: Buccatini alla Carbonara (long hollow pasta tossed with crisp pancetta, fresh grated parmigiano cheese, Italian parsley and egg yolks. A Roman speciality favored by Sophia Loren). [...]
Yesterday was October 10th in Taiwan. There, for over 50 years, the day has been called “Double Ten’s Day” which supposed to be like the Forth of July in the USA, a national birthday for the Republic of China and greatly celebrated by the KMT(China Nationalist Party) Government, and even continued untill yesterday. In hindsight, [...]
Today is September 11th. 5 years ago terrorists of Bin Laden connection hijacked commercial planes and collided headon onto the twin towers of World Trade center in New York. The hideous act sadden and angered American People and peoples all over the world. 5 years quickly gone by, but the world is not any better. [...]
On September 8th, yesterday local date here in Taiwan, a “Taiwan National Flag” was raised in the open square before the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, attended by some ten thousand people. An organization active for an Independent Taiwan called for the people to remember that September 8th, 1951, when the Peace Treaty was signed [...]
42 Sumo wrestlers came to Taiwan yesterday. Their combined weight is said to be 6288 kgs. Each wrestler’s huge body shape needs special accomodations and that would make many very busy as it should. The visit is the first time since the end of the WW II in 1945. Their visit has arosed great interest [...]
August is full of days quite memorable for me. It was on August 24th, 1957 when I was admitted to the USA with a “student” visa in Honolulu, Hawaii. After 19 years studying and working and having a family there, I came back to Taiwan with my family. For my children, they came to Taiwan [...]
Today, August 15th, is remembered by many here as a lost opportunuty to be free-ed from colonial yokes for the people of Taiwan. The Emporor of Japan, Hirohito, announced over the national radio 61 years ago that he had accepted the demand of the Allies to surrender unconditionally. With that grave and brave act, it [...]
The government of Taiwan (Republic of China) announced at local time 11:30 pm, Saturday, August 5th that it regrets having to sever ties with Chad and called off Premier Su Tseng-chang’s planned visit to Chad as special envoy of President Chen Shui-bien to Chadian President Idriss Devy’s second inauguration on August 8th. The Premier was [...]
Today, August 8th, is celebrated as Father’s Day widely here in Taiwan. In the USA, it is the second Sunday of June for the fathers, like the second sunday for the mothers. The 8th month’s 8th day, å…«å…« in short, is pronounced Pa Pa (or otherwise Ba Ba), hard p sound, it rhymes with 爸爸 [...]
Wang Chien-ming 王建民, a Taiwanese pitcher helped the New York Yankees rout the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6-0 with a complete game two hit shutout on Friday last week, July 28th in New York and his popularity is soaring not only among US fans, he cheers and moves Taiwanese all over the world. He is [...]