Archive for June 2010

CHEAP LESSON WITH AN ATM   Leave a comment

The ATM (on the right) accepted my card, gave no cash from the savings account and failed to return the card. Meanwhile a young lady behind me was sitting down against a window, reading a book and apparently watching. The Situation.  I’d just arrived from Australia, it was 7pm and I needed cash to pay [...]

Posted June 19, 2010 by fathomTaiwan in My First Taipei Views

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SAMARITAN OF KAOHSIUNG   Leave a comment

Can anyone help me locate the email address for this Kaohsiung nurse.? I’d like to give  her and her friend a reward for the kind services shown at Chi Ching Island (Kaohsiung) back in 2004. The only clue is her email name  ’cherria’ or something similar. Apart from putting a notice in every hospital of [...]

Posted June 18, 2010 by fathomTaiwan in My First Taipei Views

LIN FAMILY MANSION AND GARDENS   Leave a comment

Mr Vincent Lin did a rare and special guided tour of his ancestor’s famous Estate in Taipei.  Even the nearby MRT makes recognition.  The Lin Family Mansion Estate is a treasure of old Taiwan.

POLYNESIANS AND TAIWAN   Leave a comment

I visited the then US Trust Territory of the Pacific as a member of an underwater scientific underwater expedition. Our expedition took us to Nukuoro, in the Eastern Caroline Islands.  These are the only true Polynesian islands in what was then Micronesia. In recent years I have read where anthropologists have traced Polynesian DNA to [...]

Posted June 9, 2010 by fathomTaiwan in Polynesia - Taiwan cousins

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