| Name |
Email |
Homepage |
Rating |
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| Elliott |
ketlau@zebra.net |
N/A |
Prodigious |
| trying to find out about competitive swimming and International Bachelorate at TAS. Help
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| kiTTy |
kiTTy1kiTTy@webtv.net |
N/A |
Prodigious |
| Hello Kohn, Aloha from Hawaii! I found your site while browsing through "sites like mine"
from the Geoguide. I must say that for a young man of your years, you certainly have "good taste". The
appearance of your site is most impressive, (HOW LONG DID YOU WORK ON THEM INITIALLY?) as
are the CONTENTS. I found the page of your personally composed midis so good that I have bookmarked it
for future enjoyment! I also enjoyed your selection of jazz midis as it does contain a few of my own
favorites-Spyro Gyra's Morning Dance, Spain-I personally enjoy Al Jarreau's vocal rendition 'Take 5' which I
think is any jazz enthusiasts' staple. Do you enjoy listening to the Pat Metheny Group? To sum it all up, I think
that you did a great job of producing your page(s) that your parents did a great job of producing a fine young
man. Congratulations upon your graduation from TAS ~ best wishes in your future endeavors...
Sincerely,
kiTTy
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| KohnMan's Response |
Actually 'So It May Secretly Begin' by Pat Metheny Group is one of my favorite Jazz piece. However, I couldn't find their album in Taiwan. But if any of you out there who has similar Jazz taste as I do, please gimme suggestions on what Jazz album I should collect! :) It's so hard to find people who likes Jazz now-a-days though :/
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| aileen hsu |
aileenhsu@usa.net |
N/A |
Prodigious |
| Hi Mong-Nan! Really kewl page esp the F-L-A-S-H! thanx for putting ck and my pic at ur
ktv b-day:) and the "nice" caption! haha! yep, we are flower eat! KEWL JOB:)
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| Richard Heider |
richard@world.heider.de |
http://litefaden.com/ |
Prodigious |
| On your page (http://www.oocities.org/Tokyo/7031/taiwan.htm) you are commenting on
national extremists saying "They declare that once Taiwan is independent they will kick all the Chinese Pigs
out." It sadly seems that every country has to many people, who are still thinking, that seperation is a solution.
I am afraid these things change only slowly. Anyway, with your Taiwan information you have made an
important step in "globalizing" those people away. ;-) Information ist the key of understanding and you gave
me at least some interesting for planning my visit to Taiwan this summer. Richard
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| Michael Chan |
maximumrage@oocities.com |
http://members.xoom.com/MR100/ |
Prodigious |
| I needed information on Taiwan and a quick search in Yahoo led me here. I must commend
you on an excellent site. Althought short, it provided the concise and to-the-point information I required.
Do you currently live in Taiwan? I have many questions to ask you since I am planning a trip to Taichung.
If you have the time, please do me the honour of replying. Thank you. Michael Chan President Mercurial Designs
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| Brenda Chou |
brendachou@hotmail.com |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| Hi Kohnman! I really have to say that your personal homepage was the best one I've ever seen.
I woder ya just an 18 year-old young man, well done! I found out that your homepage were pretty interesting
and I just couldn't let it go, especially the "love thought" part that was really touching! Before this, I always
thought that students in TAS are pretty open, whatever is thought, clothing or etc...., but your writing were
really changing my point view -- a lot! As ya said, ya really proud of yourself to being a Taiwanese and
I have the same felling with ya as well, especially when I saw the Taiwan's flag were flutting in the breez in
somewhere around the world, at that moment I just felt that "I am the king of the world" (Don't laugh!)
Well-well that's what I fell about this "country" (still confuse!) and your homepage! Hope ya doing everything
fine and wish ya have a great summer time and get yourself a dream-girl! Love > Peace Brenda.C Perth
7/5/98 3:30 AM
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| Alex Wang |
alexwang@kuohua.com |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| u'r homepage is pretty good. Nothing else to say
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| Peter |
pemao@mci2000.com |
http://www.oocities.org/Vienna/Strasse/8184/ |
Prodigious |
| Thank you for making such a great Page about Taiwan. I love it and will continue to visid it.
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| Davie |
tennis_nut@hotmail.com |
http://members.xoom.com/cbcguy/ |
Prodigious |
| This is one of the best personal pages I've ever come across. You must have spent a
lot of time on this. Keep up the good work. One more thing, what's wrong with being abc? I'm
cbc (Canadian). People don't have a choice about where they're born or move to as a child. I
can speak chinese but if a person can't, is it really his fault? Not really. And "banana" is
such a mean term to use. I hate people that use that term. Oops! I've gotten off topic. Nice
work on your page. Check out mine but it's a worthless piece of junk compared to yours of course.
Bye!
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| Heikki Ahonen |
heikki.ahonen@sci.fi |
http://Fwww.sci.fi/~koala/ |
Prodigious |
| Really nice page and lovely music!
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| Fansheng |
linfs@ucla.edu |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| Hello there, I happened to come here while I was looking for something fresh about
Taiwan. Your page is fabulous and I can imagine how much efforts you put on it. I like your art
design and page arrangement. Also, your honesty about your partisan status and political thought
is honorable. I need to admit my political view is quite different from yours. But it doesn't
mean I don't agree with everything you say on this page. (Actually I was touched about how you
showed your love to Taiwan in articles) But I just cannot accept some points you mentioned. First,
you said KMT should still own the territory of mainland. This is not true no matter what kind of
viewpoints you're having. Therefore, the reasoning of not supporting Taiwan independence based on
this point is erroneous. Second, you simply divided Taiwanese people into 3 groups and implied
Mainlanders contributed more than others did because they were mostly well educated...this is not
true either. After terrible war of a decade, most people came over were soldiers. Very few of
them were really educated (except some VIPs in KMT). In the mean time, many Taiwanese
intellectual and elite were killed, imprisoned, and For brain-washed. And Mainlanders occupied
most positions of higher social status (so that they seemingly contributed more) Third, if you
consider yourself as Chinese, you're Chinese. If African Americans consider themselves as
American, they're American (no one will call them African) So if some people just consider that
they are not Chinese but Taiwanese, they are surely Taiwanese. This is only about identity (it's
personal) and has nothing to do with patriotism or nationalism. Fourth, the worst mistakes you
made is, you said these 3 groups were living in harmony few decades ago. However, the DPP has
been trying to emphasize that the Mainlanders are not truly Taiwanese but Chinese Pigs. I suggest
you to read more about Taiwanese history. The conflicts of these groups (actuall more than 3) of
people started long time ago (actually in the harmony time you mentioned, long time before DPP
founded, Unfortunately, many events and stories were concealed in history. I don't want to) I
can't actually change the way you think. I believe there's no right or wrong in one's political
views therefore I have no comment on what you believe and what you preach. I'm just hoping to
see a statement that is based on something closer to the truth. I am not a DPP partisan or
diehard but a normal Taiwanese. Regards, Fansheng |
| KohnMan's Response |
I will comments on the response that you made. First of all, what will happen if a country loses it dignity. Are you suppose that we should just bow to the Mainland Chinese that we lost? Of course the view that the government holds right now is unrealistic, but at least it is the last thing that we can hold onto. By giving it up, saying we no longer have claims on China only means we subdued to the Chinese threat.
Second of all, the 228 incident is a process toward democracy. It was unavoidable. There is no overnight democracy anywhere in the world. The political advancement of the Western countries were developed through ages of blood shed and centralized rule. How do you suppose Taiwan to jump from a Post WWII Japanese colony to a democratic country overnight? If there was no centralized rule from the government, Taiwan willbe a chaotic nation and could never be as successful as it is right now. You have to expect some governmental mistakes while it tries to stablize the society. At least it was not ages of bruetality or genicide like Bosnia. KMT was not right at the time, it killed innocent people, many of them emminent scholars and politicians; it was a mistake. But it's time to move on now, because the ruler has died and now it's a new age, you should look forward instead of background. Grown out of the provincial miseries to work on the bright future.
Thirdly, it would be sad if the African Americans forget about their roots. Have you not realized how unified the African Americans are and how much they hold onto their past? A black person from Boston is a Bostonian who is an American, orginally from Africa. If you are from Taipei, you would be a native Taipei, who is a Taiwanese, orginally from China. As you go up the scale, you can be called as native Taipei, Taiwanese, Chinese, Asian, a Human being, or even a species in the universe.
Fourth of all, the worst mistake you make is to seperate the different groups in Taiwan. What do you expect if tomorrow the US government order all the African American to leave US and go back to Africa? Or the Asians back to Asia? For centuries, there have been clashes between different races, so are you supposed that the government segregate the people? Unity is the key to power. By seperating groups of people, you are making yourself into a fatal deadlock that will only lead Taiwan to death. Even when there is differences, you should tolerate and accept, not to incite such seperatist ideologies! I pity your thought. It is pathetic and inconsiderate. How do you expect a person like me, whose father is a native Taiwanese, and mother a second generation Mainlander? Do you call me a Chinese Pig that should return China? As long as oneself believes he or she is Taiwanese or American, and willing to sacrifice for that nation, it does not matter where the person come from. You have to tolerate and to accept in order to win. |
| Hermione |
hermivyk@mbox5.singnet.com.sg |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| Hey Kohn, just got a chance to skim thru' this cool homepage but I'll look at it more
thoroughly when I've got the time. But still, it's pretty intriguing. Very Taiwan, huh? Btw,
regarding Alex Chen's fashion show, I'm gonna say I love his designs. Although I've only seen a
few cuz I've got limited time, I'm gonna view all of it tomorrow. Hey, where can I give my
comments about his designs??
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| Tien-tien Lai |
tlai@bowdoin.edu |
http://www.geocities/CollegePark/Dorm/9007/ |
Prodigious |
| Hi! This is Tien-tien Lai. I'm Aileen's friend here at Bowdoin College..you visited
my web page too! :-) I love your web page. It's really cool
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| Theresa |
mulderssister@hotmail.com |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| I spent 1972 in Taichung when I was 11 years old. My father brought our family there while he had more training in linguistics. He speaks fluid Mandarin Chinese. I loved Taiwan - the people are very kind.
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| Betty Wang |
b-wang2@nwu.edu |
N/A |
Prodigious |
| Hi, this is Betty, as in the girl that allegedly "beat you up" in elementary school I must say I'm inpressed with your web site Kohn Man :) I'm only learnign how to write HTML
myself. :) Keep in Touch :) love, Betty Wang
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| A Taiwanese |
taiwan@independence.com |
http://www.gati.org.tw/ |
Wortheless |
| Why should Taiwan not be independent from China? Statistice in Taiwan shows that the
public by large supports the independence of the island. Why should TAiwan be a part of China
anyway? Who are you to decide the future of Taiwan and make justification upon what is right and
what is wrong? People should speak for themselves. I pitty you that you are one of the few
society rejects of Taiwan.. You should not host such a web site called Taiwan or Formosa.
Shame on you...
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| KohnMan's Response |
I am replying every single sentence that you posted.
1) Taiwan is independent from China (saying that Taiwan is not only means you are stupid)
2) What statistics?! be specific and provide otherwise stop BSing
3) Bad sentence.
4) You heard of Freedom of Speech? I am not deciding, I am saying what I think. So are you.
5) You are contradicting to yourself -> "People should speak for themselves" That's what I am doing here, so are you.
6) Name calling? This doesn't prove anything other than you are a low down loser who can't accept different opinions, go home read more books.
7) I have all the right to host a website about Taiwan. First, I have the passion to this country. Second, I have all the statistics to prove my points. You need to read more books, definitely not those biased ones.
Overall, I do not post messages that have no content rather than name callings. You have nothing to prove that what I said
is wrong, nor can you prove that you are right. However, I am posting this message anyway just to show that people like you: provincial thinking, self-isolating, pompous loser are the real problems of Taiwan. Also, normally I do not insult guests of my homepage, but you are an exception. | |
| John Tian |
jtippetts@bigplanet.com |
N/A |
Prodigious |
| I just want to say I love your site, you have done an outstanding job. I just want to
let you know that I totally agree with your response to "A Taiwanese" on your political views
about Taiwan.
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| Ingrid Hsu |
ingridwh@uclink4.berkeley.edu |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| okay, so I was tempted to prodigious. . . yes, not ego boost for you, but hey, in
anything there is always room for improvement right? I really enjoyed scanning your website,
although I still haven't found what I was looking on the web for, namely the chinese characters
for Taiwan, but, hey, there's always time when one is avoiding homework. Actually, I really
should get back to it. I do have a midterm next week in CS. Anyway, before I do, I would like
to introduce myself (oh, and mention that you had a grammatical error somewhere - I believe in
your bio - where you put "I is" instead of "I am"). I'm Ingrid Hsu, 18, and attending UC
Berkeley. I'm Taiwanese too. . .well Chinese if I don't care about the political stance, but
since my parents are from Taiwan, I suppose it would be more accurate to say Taiwanese-American,
especially since I've lived in the US all my life (well, specifically San Diego). I've gone back
to Taiwan a couple of times (oh, and know of a couple of people who attend the American School)
so, frankly it was pretty neat seeing some of the sites I haven't seen for a while. I was
looking up the Chinese characters mainly because I belong to TSA (Taiwanese Student Assoc.) and
we're putting on a ITASA (intercollegiate taiwanese-american student association) conference this
weekend. But enough with the acronyms. Anyway, keep up the good work. It's definitely pretty
good. Although I don't know if you want the shortcut bar to extend beyond the width of the+page.
On a final note, maybe I'll make my own website some day, and have you critique it.
Adios. Sayonara.
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| gary hilbun |
amwolf@bayou.com |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| Taiwan love must have some American spice added to it. Yes! It is diferent and rfreshing
but still just a little reserved for me.Love is not a cautious walk in life but a leap of faith.
Pain of rejection holds back the heart and anger chokes the flow of love.Water and love seek
their own level.The smile and the touch are the two keys that open the heart. One must become
skilled like the hunter. Know what you seek and were to find it.Love is the only true challenge
in life and requires knowledge, strengh and edurance to overcome. Love will let love seek its on
destiny.
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| Wakai |
wakai@home.com |
N/A |
Prodigious |
| Hey man, I really like your home page. Most home pages I come across I only look at
the pictures, perhaps even steal them, but yours I actually read the information. I am visiting
Taipei August 3rd and likely staying for a year to teach English and learn Mandarin. I am from
Toronto, Canada. I am taking the next year off from university to visit Taiwan. I would like
to meet some one like you to show me around, help me get good deals on electronics and not not
get taken my the venders, anyways drop me a line at wakai@home.com
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| Arjay |
wahooranch@yahoo.com |
http://www.oocities.org/heartland/garden/7747 |
Intriguing |
| Hi there I am in Florida-usa single white male. The mentioned homepage is a site for
adoptees; birthparents serahcing it has a free club under the "community" button. I enjoyed my
visit to your site. Maybe someday I will meet a tye female to share the rest of my life with.
God Bless your friend Arjay wahooranch@yahoo.com |
| Joel Collins |
N/A |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| Good job Kohn! I am from the U.S. and I had the wonderful opportunity to visit my aunt
in Taiwan. I spent 2 weeks there, and had a great time. The people of Taiwan are fantastic. I
met some really great people. The sights are very beautiful there. Your homepage brought back
some good memories. I hope to return to Taiwan again someday. I've been practicing my singing
so I can do a little better when I try KTV again...lol Remember, when you are in Taipei, eat at
"Grandma Nitti's Kitchen". They have great food, and the people there are the best. Peace! |
| Joey aka Kast |
joeykast@hotmail.com |
http://go.to/joeymark/ |
Prodigious |
| what up homie, you really coo, i'm glade u made this web site for our home country.
that's really coo, i love taiwan, it's the bomest place in da world, i think u feel the same way
too, anyways i live in canada right now, and i really miss taiwan, taiwanese food, taiwanese
friend, stuff like that. peace out, TAIWAN FOREVER |
| diamond dave |
davebreeden@baptistmail.com |
N/A |
Intriguing |
| CLASS OF '64.......STILL TICKIN'. Great work on your site!!!
But keep in mind you young whipper-snapper......had we known what a computer was back then,
we the class of '64 would've..............uh, what was I saying? Good luck, dude.
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| Randy Carpenter |
laohu@gte.net |
http://www.oocities.org/Tokyo/Shrine/2418
|
Prodigious |
| Great Site! An excellent visual tribute to Taiwan and its people. Randy Carpenter
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