WuiT #045: Daniel Wallace (part 2)

Filed Under: Great Hidden Spots in Taipei, Foreigners in Taiwan, Generosity.
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I think that Taiwan is a great place to live in as a Westerner, and certainly easier to adapt to than China or even Thailand. However, deep integration seems almost impossible, and it's hard to picture many futures for myself here.
One of Taiwan's problems seems to be its self-doubt, which I see as a positive thing about the country. Taiwan also seems to collect a lot of low quality expats (with many notable exceptions), due to the easy ride that foreigners are given and the good money to be made teaching English.

Daniel

Link: Pictures of Daniel's party.
by Jesús Sandoval

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WuiT #044: Daniel Wallace (part 1)

Filed Under: Long Terms in Taiwan, Chinese Friendship, Blogging or Writing.
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Daniel was originally from London; he gave up his job three years ago and started traveling around the world. We understand that he has been to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and China just to name a few. He had a personal website "Suitcasing", which is under construction at the moment, but you can see the passion he had for traveling.

The interview was done in a very relaxed fashion; Daniel talked about being a foreigner in Taipei, the different mannerism of the people between Taiwan and China, the pros and cons of blogging, the excellent hidden spots in the alleys of Taipei, and his general disappointment in the foreigners on the island.

Due to copyright restrictions, we are unable to play “Englishman in New York” preformed by Sting during the show, the song that played repeatedly in our heads after our interview with Mr. Wallace.

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Daniel 來自英國，三年前放棄銀行的工作，開始旅遊，我們知道他去了馬來西亞、新加坡、泰國、昆明… 他的個人網站叫 suitcasting.com（目前暫時關閉），可以看出他對旅行的熱誠。

訪問在很放鬆的氣氛下進行，Daniel 談到一個外國人在台灣的感受、兩岸華人表現友誼的不同方式、寫部落格的優點與缺點、藏在台北巷弄裡的有趣的店鋪、還有，他對在台灣的外國人的普遍失望…

Daniel 其實是本節目最早的受訪者之一。訪問結束後，他來信表示當天表現的太客氣了，如果有機會重來，他會表達的更清楚。六個月後，我們又在他頂樓加蓋的公寓中見面，他還是很客氣，只是，這次他很直接。謝謝他花了兩次的時間，分享許多有趣的看法。

由於版權的限制，我們無法在節目中播出 Sting 演唱的 Englishman in New York。

WuiT #038: David Reid

Filed Under: Hiking, WuBai.
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If you followed our suggestion from last week and typed in “Taiwan Blog” as a keyword in any search engine, then you won’t be unfamiliar with the title David's Guide to Taiwan, so here is yet another blogger for you this week.

David resides on Banciao of Taipei County, and he asked us to meet at the top of Taipei County Hall for the interview. Although Banciao is only a river away from the city of Taipei, but we haven’t had the chance of visiting it for a while, and the improvements really astonished us. Wide streets, convenient MRT system, merging of the residential and business districts, all these are just some of the reasons why David decided to live in Taipei County.

After we finished the interview, David stayed to take some pictures, clearly another interest of his. We urge everyone to visit his blog site and perhaps bookmarking it, David's blog is very considerate and easy-going, much like his own personality. He has helped many of us in gathering information about Taiwan; it can really assist you in many ways.

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你有試著如上星期我們所建議的，用 "Taiwan Blog" 為關鍵字，輸入任何搜尋引擎嗎？如果有，這個網址必然也不陌生，就是David's Guide to Taiwan.

David是居住在台北縣板橋的Blogger，他約我們到台北縣府大樓的頂樓做訪問，板橋距離台北市僅一條淡水河之隔，但我們已經許久沒有造訪板橋，而當地的變化讓人吃驚，寬闊的街道、捷運系統、郊區與市區的樞紐，這些都是David選擇定居台北縣的原因。

當天訪問結束，David留下來拍照，這顯然也是他的興趣之一。我們呼籲大家前往他的部落格瀏覽，我們也相信你會將它Bookmark下來，因為David的部落格就像他的個性和氣質，非常客氣、友善，他幫大家蒐集了許多關於台灣實用的資訊，對你一定有幫助！

WuiT #037: Michael Turton (part 2)

Filed Under: People you meet, Politics.
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This week is the 2nd half of our interview with Michael Turton.

This interview was actually conducted over 6 months ago, and the reason for the delay is that we didn’t know how do deal with the vast amount of information given by Michael. The interview was originally over 50 minutes in length, and the content also involved political topics, something we did not chose to talk about at that stage ( Because there was already way too much politics occupying our lives).

Right now seems to be the best time to post this interview, and if you still don’t know who Michael Turton is; check out his blog right away.

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本週繼續是Michael Turton的第二段訪問。

其實這段訪問早在半年前就做完了，但遲遲沒有推出，原因是當時我們完全無法處理這樣份量的內容，Michael與我們做了50分鐘的錄音，其中提及政治的部份，也是當初我們不希望在What’s up in Taiwan出現的話題（因為我們生活中真的太多政治了）。

經過這一段時間，似乎現在聽正是時候。如果你還不知道Michael Turton是誰，趕快去訂閱他的部落格。

WuiT #036: Michael Turton (part 1)

Filed Under: Education, Museums, Advices.
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If you type in “Taiwan blog” on any search engine as a keyword, Michael Turton’s personal blog will always be on the 1st page of the results. And on the 2nd page, also on the 3rd page…and so forth and so forth, he is everywhere!

We posted a short 30 seconds promo right before we started running the show last November, and Michael Turton introduced us on his bog in less than 2 hours after the moment we clicked the upload button. God bless the man!

We have been subscribing RSS Feeds from many different blogs for a while now, which of course includes Michael’s "The View from Taiwan". If there are any articles marked unread on display; it’s almost always from Michael, completing this much work all by himself is simply incredible.

Michael has been living in Taiwan as a resident since 1989. He is now married to a Taiwanese wife with 2 beautiful children, and currently teaching in Chaoyang University.

A foreigner (although he probably doesn’t consider himself as a foreigner anymore) that has dedicated this much time, effort and energy to Taiwan makes this particular episode a must, there is no good reason to miss it!

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當你在網路上使用任何一個搜尋引擎，用”Taiwan blog”當關鍵字去找，Michael Turton的部落格永遠會出現在第一頁的結果之中，還有第二頁… 還有第三頁…還有… 怎麼到處都是？

去年11月我們準備開播這個節目時，先在網路上公佈了一段30秒的預告，大概在公佈的兩個小時之後，Michael已經在他的部落格裡簡短地報導了我們，阿門！

長期以來，我訂閱了好幾個部落格的 RSS Feed，當然包括Michael的The View from Taiwan，每天電腦上如果顯示有新的文章未讀，幾乎都是來自Michael 的部落格，我開始懷疑有好幾個Michael TurtonS，這決不是一個人的工作量…

1989年後 Michael 定居台灣，娶了台灣老婆，有兩個可愛的孩子，目前在台中的朝陽大學教書。

這一集是What’s up in Taiwan必聽的訪問，一個花了這麼多時間、精力、心思向全世界介紹台灣的老外，你沒有理由錯過。