Here’s a little avant-garde weirdness from Tokyo Design Festa.
She’s from Taiwan and was one of the performers at the Design Festa - vid coming up soon on that!

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Check out this Chinese dude doing some pretty cool MC Hammer moves.

I don’t know what is cooler, him or the woman behind him who seems to be totally unphased by what is going on around her.

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Hong Kong’s first branch of the Toilet Restaurant of Taiwan was opened recently, complete with its toilet-shaped seats, commode-shaped dishes, and urinal-shaped cups.
The photo below shows the restaurant’s most popular item: pork ribs in black pepper sauce.

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This is S.H.E., a music group from Taiwan that consists of three young women named Hebe Tian, Ella Chen, and Selina Ren.
Ever since their debut CD in 2000, the members of S.H.E. have produced hits in pop, rock, R&B, and other genres, and they have received an impressive number of music awards. In addition […]

The China Daily is reporting that a woman in Taiwan who had undergone breast enhancement surgery three years ago had one of her bosoms deflate after being stung by a bee.
The report claims that she was shocked when her right breast wenrt flat two days after being stung.

As just about everyone probably knows by now, a China Airlines jetliner exploded into flames earlier this week shortly after arriving at Naha airport in Okinawa, Japan from Taiwan. Luckily all 157 passengers and eight crewmembers escaped unharmed.
Shortly after that, I saw video reports on TV news programs in Japan in which the president to […]

A dance studio in Taiwan is teaching housewives and other women the art of stripping to music. The purpose of the classes is to: “help women appreciate their bodies, discover their ’sexy charms’ and boost their self-confidence.”

“All women want to feel sexy, charming and attractive. I tell my students that they are dancing for themselves […]

A ceremony was held in Taiwan recently to mark the changing of that name of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall. People for and against the name change gathered at the hall, scuffling with police and with each other, and doing what they could to demonstrate their feelings about the name […]

Tainan County, Taiwan ended their New Year celebrations with a bang recently by setting off an 8.1-mile-long string of firecrackers in an attempt to make it into the Guinness World Records.

Taiwanese university students establish a Nazi group to promote national unity, strength and reduced immigration.

After instant ramen noodle king Ando Momofuku passed away in January, some blokes in Taiwan came up with this idea for a roadside shrine to the Noodle King.

Rest in Peace, Ando Momofuku! (aka Wu Bai-fu)

South African documentary maker Tobie Openshaw has spent seven years talking to, taping, and photographing betel nut girls across Taiwan. According to Openshaw, modern betel-nut girls are neither under-aged nor abused as is often claimed. Rather they are mature adults who have made a rational decision to cash in on the relatively high returns they […]

Ella Lu, who often writes about what’s happening in Taiwan in the Japan Times, has an interesting article about how some young Taiwanese are coming to Japan to be married in traditional Shinto ceremonies.
Apparently, Taiwanese wedding ceremonies are loud, festival-like and very expensive. The Shinto ritual, on the other hand, is more solemn and […]

After sitting around until 3:00 a.m. waiting for the site to come back on line after it decided to drop off the radar screen for a while, I am simply too tired to post anything.
In the meantime, here is a photo of some models in Taiwan with radishes painted on their legs to promote the […]

National Taiwan University in Taipei is gearing up for the Miss Bikini World beauty pageant that will be held there on December 21.

No time to post a proper article just now, so here is a photo taken earlier this month at the Taipei International Travel Fair

These two women are part of the delegation sent by the Department of Roads, Transport, Information, Communications and Tourism of Mongolia’s Ministry of Infrastructure.

Apologies for the light posting yesterday, but I was out all day for work-related, meetings and Sunday I spent the evening with Mrs. JP, Mr. Pink, and Mrs. Pink at Tokyo Dome where we watched the final game of the Asia Series between Taiwan’s LA New Bears and Japan’s Nippon Ham Fighters.
All of us fully […]

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Who designs these things?

In this recent photo from Taiwan News, a model poses with newly launched audio products during a press conference to promote the upcoming 2006 International Hi-End Show.

City Council members in Irvine, California found themselves the objects of the ire of the city’s 2,800 Taiwanese residents thanks to a poorly-thought-out sister city agreement with China that expressly stipulates non-recognition of the existence of Taiwan.
The sister-city memorandum with Xuhui District in Shanghai, signed in late May, included promises not to send official city […]