It's just another world..

When I first came to Taiwan, I looked around and wondered about the style of houses here. Actually, they are very simple, but they do not have good designs of architecture. The shape of the houses are always square and high. You cannot find houses with Europe styles or any other styles of houses. The houses are not large since the land here is so expensive. The lands here belong to government. Taiwanese will get some difficulties in finding a very large area to build their houses. Their house will not have any yards for children to play. Actually, they will have a yard upstair, on the highest levels of their houses. Can you imagine it? How boring people will stay inside?!!

Most of Taiwanese people using glasses. So, they will have two more eyes besides their real eyes. If you come here, you must be curious why most of them using it even they are still small kids. There are many assumptions to analyze it. First, Taiwanese people have unique eyes, small and slanting. Perhaps, it makes them difficult to look something well. Second, Taiwan is not a large country. Taiwan is smaller than Indonesia if we consider about the area and islands. Perhaps, it causes Taiwanese people has no a very large sight so that it makes them usually see a narrow sight. Third, Taiwanese people likes to read a lot, especially comics. Since they were young, they are customed with reading many books. It causes they have narrow sight, too. Four, television can be the reason for it. If people always watch television without a good distance, it can also damage their eyes. Five, Taiwanese people likes to face with their computers a lot. They can stand to see the screen of the computer the whole day every day. This habbit can be influenced to their eyes, I think, since computers have some effects to someone's eyes. What do you think?

Taiwanese people like baseball a lot better than any other sports. I do not know the reasons why they like it so much. If there is a competition about softball, every newspaper will make headlines about it and every channel of television will show it, too. . Moreover, every people will give their supports for it. It was ever happened during the last World Cup of Football. Most of Taiwanese did not care about the competition. There are no crowded of people watching together or even talking about the games. Do not ever hope that Taiwanese will give their supports to one of the football teams in the world, although they are very famous. They favourite player is Wang. He is the most famous softball player in Taiwan. If you ask to Taiwanese people, they really recognize this guy, including the kids. Unlike Indonesia, most of Indonesian people likes soccer a lot. You can meet people- kids, adult or old people- play soccer everywhere and everyplace. This game was taught to them since they were very young. It is very common if you meet very little kids play this game in front of or sometimes inside their house. Perhaps, we could analyze why people like this game so much. First, this game was from the previous collonial (Dutch and England) that came to Indonesian many years ago and made it popular until now. Second, Indonesia is very large. It is easy to find a field or a large area to play since when people play soccers, they need a large space to play. Third, Indonesia has a lot of population. A team in a soccer game will need at least eleven persons to play. So, if there are two teams to play, at least there should be 22 persons to play. In Taiwan, it is very difficult to find a field or a yard, even in someone's house. So, it is really difficult for kids or adult to play soccer. If they want to play on the street, it is not easy, either, since the street here are crowded with many vehicles.

An interesting thing I found when I joined the trip to Hoalian is during the traffic jam on the street to go upstream. There is only one way direction to pass by since the street is not so large. It is impossible for two buses from different direction to pass. But, it happened during that day. There was a mistake in communication between the driver and the traffic sign. Here, if vehicles want to pass, especially bus, there will be an announcement sent to the driver telling whether it is available or not for them to go. A misscommunication happened that time. Finally, there were some buses from different direction meet in the middle of the street, in a cave. Terrible! So, how the drivers solve this problem? Each driver has a communication tool so it makes easy for them to communicate each other. They were communicating and discussing to solve it. All the passangers are still inside the bus. None of them go out from bus. There were no quarrels among the drivers or the passengers. They tried so hard to solve it without being angry. Finally, one of Professor, he is one of members of Traffic Bureau, he tried to help in solving this problem. The driver still used the communication tool to give some suggestion or asking something. The driver in the front will transfer the idea to the next driver behind them. They communicated one another and tried to move slowly by slowly with the command from Professor Wang. At last, the buses can pass without any accident happened. Professor Wang explained that a street is always designed for two cars. It must be have 3 cm distance left. So, it can make the two buses pass. But, of course, it needs to be very carefull and also excellent drivers to drive. Otherwise, the accident cannot be hindranced.