With Leela almost going on a year since we found her up in the mountains of Miaoli, we figured it was time to start investigating our options on getting her neutered. Thankfully we hadn’t had to take too many visits to the vet thus far. Apart from the usual vaccinations a puppy needs and some [...]

A few weeks ago I had the good fortune of stumbling across one of Taiwan’s $20 coins. Somewhat of a rarity and wanting to keep it as a lucky coin I tried to clean it up with an old toothbrush but to no avail. Despite my efforts, it still looked like a dirty beat up old [...]

When we first found Leela in the mountains of Miaoli County she was small and cuddly and fitted nicely inside a bicycle pannier. And then she grew…and grew… and grew. At around 11kg I decided she was getting too big for my bicycle pannier and constructed a bucket DIY pannier for her that gave her [...]

A search-engine works by cataloguing content available on the internet by third-party publishers. Some of those third-party publishers may indeed by subsidiary companies of the search-engine itself, but by and large the content is produced and hosted by publishers and web-hosting companies that have nothing to do with the search-engine company indexing the material for [...]

Late last year when my girlfriend came home with a box and Hank the budgie popped out, I was more than a little nervous. Small things that flap around and move erratically irk me but after getting used to him and his antics, Hank became a welcome addition to my daily writing routine. Perched on [...]

One of the most difficult decisions I knew I had to make before moving Taiwan was what to do with my pets. With a heavy heart I decided to give my goldfish to the pet store I frequented in the hope they’d find a new home in someone elses aquarium. I don’t know if that [...]

The annual Taiwandeful Taiwan Blog Awards are on again this year and voting has opened today. OzSoapbox is up for the Central Taiwan and General categories so let’s see how I go this year. Last year I ranked 11th overall so I’m curious to see if there’s any change. Like last year at the conclusion [...]

When we found Leela the in the mountains of Miaoli County, one of the things I knew I had to accept was that sooner or later she was going to grow too large for my regular Deuter Rack Pack bicycle panniers. Enjoying her time as a small puppy being carted around in one of my [...]

One evening my girlfriend came through the front door positively out of breath. She looked like she had run a marathon and was carrying a box. ‘I’ve got something to show you’ she said, ‘it’s a bird I found’. My eyebrows went up as I expected her to pull out some dying roadkill she’d plucked [...]

Like most Asian countries where half the population live on the internet in their spare time, in Taiwan blogging and social media are huge. Largely closed off to the internet population at large (for now, the web is still dominated by English), these countries tend to evolve a unique internet culture of their own. Looking [...]