Congratulations to all the winners of the Taiwan Best Blog Award

Congratulations to all the winners of the Taiwan Best (English) Blog Award 2009, and especially congratulations to the Taiwan Matters for winning the political category together with the That's Impossible! Politics from Taiwan.


'Αλισον, who writes occasionally in this blog, is a regular contributor to the Taiwan Matters group blog.  She sees her contribution as an important attempt to balance the mostly biased mainstream media, which often report news and events from China's point of view.


If you want to know all about politics in Taiwan, it's recommended that you check out the blogs led from the "My Blog List" of Άλισον's TALK TAIWAN.

Finding interesting people and things

I am pleased to have found a potential young male writer who can contribute occasionally to this group blog (so far this blog has been dominated by female writers).

And here is his personal blog if readers would like to get a glimpse.  He’s also crazy about snowboarding (not said in his profile) while I like downhill skiing. Hope he can contribute to this blog from time to time.

Accidentally I found a family friend, S. Buseas, in this extra edition of STATUS magazine, being nominated for competing in the manager’s category for the man of the year 2009 in Greece.  I never read this magazine, but it was inserted inside this past weekend’s newspaper.  Congratulations to him for being nominated!

I also found out that many schools are closed because apparently too many students are infected with the swine flu, and since there is no school for some children, my neighbor who is a teacher is vacationing with her kids in the Disneyland in Paris, a little nice November break I envy.  Hope everyone stays healthy and schools get back to normal.

Lastly, an important history from the 70's I found!  I found out one of the reasons why in general the Greeks are anti-American (government).  November 17th is a designated holiday and this post plus the comments left there explained why.  It is a well-written and very informative blog.

The traffic is terrible whenever there is a demonstration in Athens.  Read more on the student’s march every year on November 17th from Athens Polytechnic in downtown to the American embassy in remembrance of the students killed by military junta in 1973.

Merry Christmas with a Greek touch

Wishing you an early Merry Christmas!

Many Greek kids are out carolling this morning (In Greece, they don't do it on Christmas eve, they sing in the morning on the 24th of December), enjoy a few different versions found below, and we usually thank the kids with some money.

school kids' musical group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48b83OfPV_I&feature=related
street performance film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZWSsBd2vPA
nice kids’ group in the countryside http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxswzP0N3es
fits all sorts of taste and great laughter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbuga6uFowo
for kids’ to learn but a bit commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6awMy2SHI&NR=1
but this is what you normally see when you open the door http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPOPTy0YeEg

And an announcement:
Άλισον, one of our contributors, started her blog on Taiwan issues on www.tktw.blogspot.com.

Open for "Business" 開張大“頁”

We have been thinking about creating a group blog to present Greece to the people in Taiwan. Since I got up early this morning, I took the initiative to create this blog. Hopefully, it will become very informative. Enjoy reading it!

我們一直在思考建立一個多人組的部落格，將希臘呈現給台灣大眾。因我今天早起，而主動建立此部落格。希望這部落格以後能提供很多資訊。請享受閱讀它吧!