Chiang Kaishek memorial

This post was first posted on my Learning Chinese blog on 24/03/2006.

Here are some pictures I took of the Chiang Kaishek memorial compound in Taipei.

Taiwan Pictures

This post was first posted on my Learning Chinese blog on 10/03/2006.

Here is a couple of pictures I took in Taiwan. The first one is of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The building is based on the original National Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The museum holds what is probably the greatest collection of historic artefacts anywhere in the world. Mainland China claims they were stolen from China and should be returned, but Taiwan claims that they were rescued from the communists. I tend to side with Taiwan on this one. I think very little of the collection would have survived the Cultural Revolution in China if they had stayed there.



The second picture is of a Chinese Garden that is located next to the National Palace Museum.

The View from Santosa

This post was first posted on my Learning Chinese blog on 27/02/2006.

Here is a picture I took on a trip to Singapore. It is a beach on Santosa Island. You can see that Singapore is a busy shipping port by all the container ships ruining the otherwise relaxing view of a tropical sunset.

Pictures of Singapore

This post was first posted on my Learning Chinese blog on 19/02/2006.

I finally got around to scanning in some pictures.

This first picture is of the Singapore skyline, which I took on my first trip there. The picture was actually taken from the Singapore cable car.



The second picture here is of the cable cars heading toward Santosa Island, which is a large theme park/ holiday island. You could spend at least a couple of days or more exploring Santosa before you saw it all



In future I might put some more pictures or movies of Santosa on here.