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Yeah, the ones i was looking at for mate were all language courses but like the 2nd, 3rd, 4th tier unis where theyre learning whatever and just enough english to get their ielts to wherever. Like Forestry University, Communications Uni, BLCU, Finance Uni etc
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Jan 19, 2015 15:26
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Italy had a baby with the Emperor of Japan
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Jan 19, 2015 15:43
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TetsuoTW posted:Jesus, who shat in your biandang? JUUUUUDAAAAAASSSSS!!!!! [audience laughter]
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Jan 20, 2015 03:44
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duckfarts posted:[audience laughter] Your posts???? Not likely  
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Anybody got any hot employment leads? I'm leaving my school at the end of the semester right before CNY. Teaching or non-teaching, I just want to keep my ARC.
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Jan 23, 2015 09:07
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Any Taiwanese TV shows you goons recommend watching?
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Jan 24, 2015 08:47
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Every taiwanese show is a crappy panel show or food travelogue. Or news about mistresses. I just stick to sports or the classic movie channels i get. I was just watching MR VIRGIN, 3 1/2 stars
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man, I haven't watched TV on a TV in like 2 years, except like standing in line at the bank and stuff
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Jan 24, 2015 10:46
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痞子英雄 / Black & White Good acting Okay dialogue writing Decent overall plot High production value Easily available online It's a pretty good show and I highly recommend it. Also, anyone with intermediate to advanced Chinese should at least attempt to watch it in Chinese, most of the vocab isn't terribly complex. There should be English available though. I'm not up on current TV, but yeah a lot of it is crappy talk shows like GoutPatrol mentioned.
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GoutPatrol posted:Every taiwanese show is a crappy panel show or food travelogue. Or news about mistresses. I hope you like the same stock sound effects played over and over again for no reason, because you'll be hearing it a lot if you watch 80% of Taiwanese TV BottledBacon fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jan 24, 2015 |
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Jan 24, 2015 13:46
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Moon Slayer posted:Anybody got any hot employment leads? I'm leaving my school at the end of the semester right before CNY. Teaching or non-teaching, I just want to keep my ARC. Take your release letter to NIA immediately on receiving it. You'll get a six month free extension to your ARC. The next extension will cost you whatever the regular fee is. Source: Just did the same thing, and I'm legitimately here through June 30 while I
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url posted:Take your release letter to NIA immediately on receiving it. You'll get a six month free extension to your ARC. The next extension will cost you whatever the regular fee is. Is there a form or something I need to fill out or do I just take the release letter in and say "hey, I need an extension?" Also, that's a pretty sweet deal. I saw one job I was legit interested in while browsing around today, but if that doesn't work out I think I'll take the next few months off, do some freelance tutoring/editing work, and finally have the free time to take some Chinese classes or at least get a tutor or conversation partner.
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Jan 25, 2015 13:53
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Moon Slayer posted:Is there a form or something I need to fill out or do I just take the release letter in and say "hey, I need an extension?" I think you need a reason for your extension, on paper, if you don't have one they just give you a plain sheet of A4 and a pen and ask you to write a sentence. You also need a scan of your passport, but they also have a scanner there. When I did mine though I already had a job, so my boss filled in another blank paper to go along with mine, not sure if the secnd party is nessecary though.
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Jan 25, 2015 14:10
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url posted:Take your release letter to NIA immediately on receiving it. You'll get a six month free extension to your ARC. The next extension will cost you whatever the regular fee is. Even if you're not employed you can get six months on your ARC free, hardly any questions asked? Seems too good to be true. Ninja: I don't mean to seem overly sceptical, just asking for more details.
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House Louse posted:Even if you're not employed you can get six months on your ARC free, hardly any questions asked? Seems too good to be true. As a note, when I extended my ARC it was the first time I did and I'm pretty sure there was a fee. But again, this could be because it was going through my employer (and he obviously didn't give me any money to pay for it when I turned up). It wasn't much though, it was only around 500-1000NT or something.
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I find NIA to be really chill. You just ask what you need from information, give them what they want and they take care of it. They went through a whole rigamarole to make sure that I got my full time for my ARC fees. It's so cheap, but they demanded to set it right. It depends on what NIA, but I find the Changhua County one in Yuanlin to be very nice. The new 6 month extension thing is pretty nice of them, considering the bad old days.
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Moon Slayer posted:Is there a form or something I need to fill out or do I just take the release letter in and say "hey, I need an extension?" Just take the release paper, smile and be nice. They'll do it for you. The rules changed some months ago. With a release you're given a six month free to be a tourist, find alternate employment, get your poo poo together before you bail. It's better for everyone. So yeah, release papers, proof if ID, be nice, you're good to go. When they ask if you wanna surrender your ARC while you wait, say no. It's the usual 10 working day process so you'll wanna get the ball rolling asap because CNY is bearing down. You'll wanna keep an ID during the interim, just in case. Then when you go back, just hand in the old for the new. E: Just to be clear, you'll have to fill out the usual form. You know the one, name, address, shoe size, etc. Your new extended ARC will say 'other' under 'Purpose of Residence' (lower left) instead of 'shady white sort' or whatever it said previously.  Current ARC, Passport(with more than 6 months), proof of address, termination letter, and you get a no bullshit extension. url fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Reading this is making me miss the good old Republic of China. You wouldn't believe the amount of bullshit I've had to go through just to work legally in the Land of Smiles. First, you have to get up at an unholy hour so you can get to immigration, which by the way is so far removed from central Bangkok that it may not even technically be in Bangkok, before 7am so you can start waiting in line for the doors to open at 8:30am. You'll need to have all of your papers, signed in triplicate, and god help you if you get into the wrong line. One of the more annoying things is that your work permit doesn't supersede your immigrant visa. You'll be under the watchful eye of boy the MoI and the MoL. You can't get the right visa without the promise of a job, you can't get a work permit without that visa, and you can't extend that visa to last a year without having the work permit. Then every 90 days you or your representative have to report into the MoI to let them know you still want to keep your visa and continue working. And none of this lets you leave the country while maintaining your status. Want to spend a long weekend in Cambodia to visit Angkor Wat? Well, please fill in these forms so that your visa and work permit aren't automatically canceled when you cross the border. But the food and temples are really neat!
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Sweeeeeeet. You know, I vaguely remember reading an article about this new law and 6-month rule when I was working at the China Post, but it was a China Post story, so it would have been so poorly written as to be incomprehensible.
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url posted:Just take the release paper, smile and be nice. They'll do it for you. The rules changed some months ago. With a release you're given a six month free to be a tourist, find alternate employment, get your poo poo together before you bail. It's better for everyone. FIGHT!
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Jan 26, 2015 03:13
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duckfarts posted:ARC VS OCR ARC WINS FATALITY
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C-C-C-Certificate Rejected! What app is that? So I can know how to avoid using or recommending it...
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hitension posted:C-C-C-Certificate Rejected! It's not that bad an app for the most part. It easily outperforms,the ones I tried when o was on Android. I didn't use the flash (because glare) and honestly, the text on the ARC is tiny and illegible. 
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Jan 26, 2015 11:46
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Well at least I know my job's not under any threat from computers for a while yet.
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Jan 26, 2015 12:18
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TetsuoTW posted:Well at least I know my job's not under any threat from computers for a while yet. Unfortunately, mine regularly is. Anyways "With Prick... RIP Chen" 
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So uh, any feedback on which restaurant on the top of the Taipei 101 is better for a date night? 
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Insane Totoro posted:So uh, any feedback on which restaurant on the top of the Taipei 101 is better for a date night? I've never been to any of those restaurants. Or to Taipei 101. Or on a date.
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Moon Slayer posted:I've never been to any of those restaurants. Or to Taipei 101. Or on a date. Can't help you there  The three choices are: -Diamond Tony's -Shinyeh 101 -Ding Xian 101
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Looks like we're looking for tech writers again: http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=142248 If you like tech and grammar errors send you into a blind rage, this could be the job you're looking for!
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duckfarts posted:Looks like we're looking for tech writers again: http://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=147&t=142248 What's the pay and hours?
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Insane Totoro posted:So uh, any feedback on which restaurant on the top of the Taipei 101 is better for a date night?
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TetsuoTW posted:The only thing I've ever heard about any of them is that the food's mediocre as hell and they really just get by on the view. I've been to a Hsin Ye or however they loving spell it before and it was OK. Above average. Go to Spice Market on top of the Eslite building. Its a Thai buffet and pretty good. Runs like 800nt/person for a dinner.
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PaybackJack posted:Go to Spice Market on top of the Eslite building. Its a Thai buffet and pretty good. Runs like 800nt/person for a dinner. We should do that poo poo.
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Judging by the presence of tourists and the volume of photo-taking, Din Tai Fung is the place to be at Taipei 101.
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Bloodnose posted:Judging by the presence of tourists and the volume of photo-taking, Din Tai Fung is the place to be at Taipei 101. This is actually true but it's at the bottom so it's not special and romantic. It's the most consistently good DTF I've been too.
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Gotta love DTF.
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Thanks for the info! If you had to take a girl somewhere really nice in Taipei on a date and you didn't mind $$$$ where would you go? It doesn't have to be Taipei 101 I'm also DTF Insane Totoro fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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If I was going to ask her to marry me, I'd take her to J.W. Teres. It's a Bulgarian place, runs around 2k for food per person, 3k for a bottle of wine. It's easily one of the best restaurants I've been to in the world. Owner is a really cool guy, makes his money selling expensive and old alcohols, was formerly an investment banker and decided to open his own restaurant. His place is usually empty because he has a select clientele that frequents and he doesn't need to pack the place. Not to sound like a loving elitist but it's really not for everyone and if you don't have a really discriminating palate for food, you're probably wasting your time going there unless you want to drop another 5k on 40 year old whiskeys. I went to La Festa which was the first Italian restaurant opened in Taiwan by a Michelin rated chef and it was completely bland by comparison. I went to J.W. for my birthday a year ago and dropped 14k, I'll probably do the same thing again in 15 days for my next birthday. If you just want a nice place to have dinner and not spend over 2k for 2 people. I'd go with A Plus, which is a neo Japanese restaurant just north of Renai on Anhe. It's a sake bar which is cool if you're into that. They have really good sashimi, excellent rolls(go with the fried cheese one) and some excellent grilled stuff(the ribs with tomato sauce will melt in your mouth).
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