Category: Culture
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Why you should not care about the housing prices in Taiwan
So these days the linked article below is highly popular among the Taiwanese FB users, basically stating 2 true facts: 1.Housing prices in Taipei are ridiculously high. 2.Salaries are ridiculously low. http://m.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/forum/20140215/344671 No disagreement there, but I just cannot agree with the statement that ‘because the housing prices are high the country is doing wrong to…
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Service culture
Last Monday I flew with Swiss from Singapore to Zurich. After 5 hours I had to stand up and walk around a bit. A flight attendant pushed a cart along the aisle and blocked my way. Oh wait actually it was the other way around, clearly I was blocking its way since the first thing…
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Is Singapore a nice place to live in?
So I moved to Singapore 10 days ago. It’s most certainly too early for a review, but since Germany is waiting here is a quick snapshot of my experience so far. So international! So expensive.. and so cheap! So yummy! So easy but also so hard to understand! So authentic! So artificial! So international! Yes…
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How Chinese choose English names
We have all met them, those who give themselves the unimaginable name. Those who involuntarily amuse people when they introduce themselves. Those who don’t care about how hard it is for you to maintain a poker face even if it’s a business meeting. Today I will try to bring some order into this phenomenon by…