Just spent the last week on a fact finding and sorting things out trip into Asia.
Taiwan was cool, my first time there, and even though a lot of the country is still under developed, the central areas of Taipei seriously scream out “The Future!”. The whole sense of style in the buildings ( tallest in the World!), and things to buy ( the phones and laptops were light-years ahead of Japan and Europe), really makes it a vibrant city. English level is pretty bad, but many people speak excellent Japanese. Unlike Shanghai, where I found I could read a lot of things, they still use the old style of Chinese writing here, which did cause me quite a lot of not understandings. Certainly an interesting place for the future!
And as usual Hong Kong was nice and exciting, it still has the best nightscape in the World. So lots of future projects to look forward to in that part of the World, and I really have to get back to work on my Chinese!