I’m officially a permanent resident of Taiwan

Today I got my Alien Permanent Resident Certificate (APRC)…

When you go inside, even five minutes of freedom is valuable

Asking a friend about compulsory military service in Taiwan…

It’s not karaoke, it’s KTV!

$15 for five hours of singing your lungs out…

Listening notes

For a wedding gift of Taiwanese vinyl…

On briefly returning to New Zealand

After nearly three years in Taiwan, I revisited my country of origin. These are my thoughts…

A scooter ride to Wutai

Photos of an indigenous township in the Pingtung mountains…

Bond, lots of James Bond

Vintage James Bond posters at a beef noodle shop in Tainan…

Are you Japanese?

A question I didn’t expect on the Taipei MRT…

20,000 km for democracy

People are going to great lengths to vote in Taiwan’s ‘Great Recall’…

A life less insured

Cherishing life and health, and winging it for everything else…

Definitely maybe

Polite uncertainty in a conflict-averse culture…

I like to be humor

Understanding my first joke in Chinese…