• Travel

    First trip to Anping beach & Old Fort

    First, I like beaches; therefore the first place I want to visit in Tainan is the beach. Then I opened the google maps and find out that from my dormitory to the beach is about 9 km. Because I don’t know how to take a bus there and I only have a bicycle, so I went there by bike. It took around one hour to get to the beach. Overall the beach is clean, but the sand is not white. So quite there, I only saw a few people fishing and play in the water. The next destination was Anping Old Fort or well known as Fort Zeelandia. Built by…

  • Foods

    Yule Street

    The most famous street among NCKU students I think is Yule Street. Located near the university and has many food stalls makes Yule street is the busiest street on lunch and dinner time. I used to buy some foods in this street during the early weeks living in Tainan. Almost all the stall have English menu for the meals, and it makes the international student like me have no problems to buy some foods here. There are various foods and beverages such as fried rice, noodles, steak, milk tea and others, in the average the price is affordable. These are a few foods I bought in Yule street If you…

  • Living

    First Impression of Tainan

    After a week living in Tainan and finished all the requirement for the university, health check in hospital and apply for Allien Resident Certificate, this is my first impression of Tainan City: So many motorcycles like in my city Traffic is better than my city, no traffic jam even in rush hours The roads are so wide I still need to adapt to the food’s taste Save to ride a bicycle on the road The city so clean Hard to find trash cans, so I need to bring my trash home

  • Study

    New Journey

    Today I started a new Journey, studying at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Tainan, Taiwan in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. Why NCKU? NCKU is one of the best university in Taiwan, number 4 in Taiwan and 222 in global rank. Lies in the centre of Tainan city, the main campus has eight campuses with an 83-hectare area. The other campuses which are separated from the main campus are Kuei-Jen campus, An-Nan campus, and Dou-Liu campus. Total campus area approximately 186-hectare. Establish in 1931 as Tainan Technical College, NCKU has 45 bachelor’s programs, 106 master programs and 59 doctorate programs today’s. If you want to know better…

  • Study

    Study in Taiwan? Why not?

    The Republic of China or commonly known as Taiwan is one of the favourite destination countries for Indonesian migrant workers. Based on data from BNP2TKI, Taiwan ranks second in the destination of migrant workers after Malaysia. The reason is because of the salaries for formal and informal workers in Taiwan are quite high, and the cost of living in Taiwan is similar from that in Jakarta, so a lot of money can be saved or sent to families in Indonesia. Aside from being the destination of Indonesian migrant workers, it turns out Taiwan is also the destination of continuing education, for undergraduate, master and doctoral degree even Chinese language learning…