Luv it! Hope they make more.
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Thatās like the price of a one-way ticket to Manila.
Hereās another Idiot I like.
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Itās almost worth the trip every six months or so. But traffic is like Taiwan 10 years back. Just awful, white knuckle from the airport to Makati.
Thatās also two of those books in Eslite.
Making my way though this fascinating book.
I never heard of this before:
Iāll try to get some more of the backstory here.
Cool.
Breaking the Chains of Malice that Bind Nations
In Taiwan, the expedition is referred to simply as the āMudan incident.ā I was invited to speak at an international symposium held last 24-25 November in the village of Mudan in southern Taiwan, where the killings and invasion took place. Even though the Taiwan expedition was the first overseas troop deployment by the Japanese government during the Meiji era, few people in Japan today are aware of it. For this reason, I would like to report on the symposium. Perhaps most interesting is the fact that it was organized by members of the Mudan tribe, whose ancestors were both aggressors and victims during the incident.
The first day began with a program in the town hall. After conference organizers presented each panelist with a vest on which the Mudan crest was emblazoned and set wreaths of flowers upon our heads, the townās mayor offered a few words of welcome and then two beautifully dressed shamans offered a prayer. Next, a group of primary school students, arrayed in brightly colored ethnic costume danced and sang, and a group of teenagers performed a musical arrangement using traditional instruments. Following these performances, Professor Matayoshi Seikiyo of Okinawa University talked about various documents he had collected over many years of researching the incident.
Then conference participants and local residents embarked for a bit of fieldwork. We boarded a large bus that transported us to the location where the 54 Ryukyu islanders were murdered, to the beach where the Japanese army landed and established its staff officer headquarters, and to Shimen, where the decisive battle took place.
Is this a tourist spot? It should be!
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I just started reading Harry Potter in Chinese. Itās actually surprisingly readable. I was a bit scared at first but Iām enjoying it a lot.
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The traditional Chinese translation of the series is really good.
Howās your Chinese? Which I know is a difficult question to answer 
Just asking because it might be good practice for me, but I assume itās still well out of my grasp.
I know roughly 3500 to 4000 characters, and have completed book 5 of the Chinese course they use at University.
Im studying C2 level Chinese.
Iād say my Chinese is roughly equivalent to a 14 or 15 year old Taiwanese person.
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Ok yeah youāre like a little bit ahead of me
And by that I mean quite far
Yeah, to give you an idea, I recently did a job interview entirely in Chinese.
Also, got offered the job afterwards.
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I would read it and others if in pinyin.
You mean pinyin only? No characters? Thatās horrible.
Characters and pinyin.
Childrenās books have zhuyin in them.
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yeah safe to say your chinese is better
one day ill catch up u better watch ur ass
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Lol, å ę²¹ć
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Guilty as charged. I donāt even cook.