Jinwen University of Science and Technology student Lin Chia-hsuan (林珈萱) and 48 others were winners at the Outstanding Award of Technological and Vocational Education ceremony in Taipei on Friday.
Lin earlier this year won a gold medal, with the jury’s compliments, at the IKA Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart, Germany, said the Ministry of Education, which organizes the awards.
Her fondant sculpture featured life-like Thai dancers with great attention paid to their to stances, facial expressions, hand positioning and even clothing, resulting in a very life-like portrayal of the dancers, the ministry said.
Photo: Yang Mien-chieh, Taipei Times
Lin said that she has never visited Thailand and got the idea for the piece after watching a video on Thai dancing.
She found their dance and clothing to be of great interest to her, she added.
She spent six months sculpting the award-winning piece, sometimes spending up to a month on a single figure, Lin said.
She had difficulty preserving the piece and transporting it to Stuttgart for the event, she said.
Fortunately, there was minimal damage during transportation and she could make repairs on-site, she added.
Hungkuang University student Wang You-hsiang (王宥翔), who also won gold at the IKA event with compliments from the jury for his vegetable sculpture, was another to win on Friday.
Wang sculpted a pumpkin to portray a pantheon of common deities in Taiwan, including Zhong Kui (鍾馗) — who specializes in exorcising evil spirits from houses — and Taishang Laojun (太上老君), one of the top deities in Taoism.
Wang said he had only attended one international event prior to the IKA’s and he was stressed as the trip to Germany loomed to the point that he was about to give up.
However, a friend convinced him to attend, he said.
Wang said he practiced sculpting for 18 hours a day in the run-up to the event — doing little else other than sculpting, eating and sleeping.
Gold medalists are eventually forgotten, but Wang said he would never forget the experience and skills he learned.
He thanked those who had supported him and given him confidence.
LOUD AND PROUD Taiwan might have taken a drubbing against Australia and Japan, but you might not know it from the enthusiasm and numbers of the fans Taiwan might not be expected to win the World Baseball Classic (WBC) but their fans are making their presence felt in Tokyo, with tens of thousands decked out in the team’s blue, blowing horns and singing songs. Taiwanese fans have packed out the Tokyo Dome for all three of their games so far and even threatened to drown out home team supporters when their team played Japan on Friday. They blew trumpets, chanted for their favorite players and had their own cheerleading squad who dance on a stage during the game. The team struggled to match that exuberance on the field, with
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. The single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, saber-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. A single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 800,000 to 400,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, sabre-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Whether Japan would help defend Taiwan in case of a cross-strait conflict would depend on the US and the extent to which Japan would be allowed to act under the US-Japan Security Treaty, former Japanese minister of defense Satoshi Morimoto said. As China has not given up on the idea of invading Taiwan by force, to what extent Japan could support US military action would hinge on Washington’s intention and its negotiation with Tokyo, Morimoto said in an interview with the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) yesterday. There has to be sufficient mutual recognition of how Japan could provide
RSS