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Thailand 1st Post-Coup Election - the Return of Thaksin?
2007-12-23 14:51:00 As the election booths were closed earlier today following the first election after the Coup of the Thai Military - the smoke is slowly starting to clear up. It looks now like the Allies of then deposed former PM Thaksin Shinawatra are headed for a victory. This would come as a double blow to the Military ... More About: Thailand , Post , Election , Return
Javanese Food - a simple and healthy cuisine extraordinaire
2007-12-16 14:36:00 As mentioned earlier - people around the world love and crave Asian food. I’m not talking about your standard Chinese Restaurant. There is more to experience and taste out there. Let’s start to introduce some of the many delicious dishes you can find around this vast region. Where to begin? As I’m currently residing in Bali, Indonesia ... More About: Food , Cuisine , Simple , Healthy , Sine
US feels the Heat at Bali Climate Conference - horrifying numbers!
2007-12-10 09:36:00 Currently the 12th UN Climate Change Conference in Bali , a follow-up meeting of world leaders to decide on a successor agenda for the Kyoto Protocol (which was ratified by 172 countries but expires in 2012), is receiving a lot of media coverage. Kyoto was the first international treaty to pledge to legally-binding commitments to reduce emissions ... More About: Heat , Numbers
Anthony Bourdain about his passion for Asian food
2007-12-04 14:26:00 Our friend Anthony Bourdain is surely a unique character. He is an honest and down-to earth guy - fully respectful of other cultures or traditions - yet he speaks out his mind if something is horrible or brackish. They don’t call him “Rogue Chef” for nothing. And he is practically a living Nomad. He enjoys to travel ... More About: Food , Passion , Asian , Asian food
55 Nations - Stereotypes that will Ruin or Make your Day
2007-11-26 12:53:00 Inspired by an idea of Mon earlier on this post, I searched the net far and wide to find the most common stereotypes about Nationalities. Generalizations about cultures or nationalities can be a source of pride, anger or simply bad jokes. Some people say that in all stereotype there is some basis in reality, as they ... More About: Stereotypes , Nations , Make , Ruin , Stere
Psychic predicts devastating Sumatra Earthquake for 23/12/2007
2007-11-23 08:29:00 As it wasn’t enough that Sumatra was horribly affected by the Tsunami of Christmas 2004 - with more than 150.000 people perished around Aceh alone - things could get bad again. While the reconstruction of the region from the devastating effects just recently came close to completion, even the separatist rebels in Aceh made their peace ... More About: Earthquake , Psychic , Vasta
Mixed Relationships in Asia - a Status Quo
2007-11-19 16:32:00 Asia is a melting pot of different cultures, religions and values. Ever since Marco Polo made his way to this part of the world, people had their own ideas, misconceptions or prejudices without even knowing some basic facts first hand. Some of those prevail even today, especially about mixed relationships. With this I mean relationships between Asian ... More About: Relationships , Asia , Status , Mixed , Status Quo
Site Maintenance - up for something new?
2007-11-18 10:40:00 I’m currently upgrading the site to the latest Wordpress Version (2.3.1). Therefore you might see some funny effects or a non-complete site layout. Don’t worry though - it’s not your computer, but mine being responsible for that. I hope everything will be back to normal by tomorrow. Will take a few hours though to check, if everything ... More About: Site , Maintenance , Tena , Some
20 Tips to get 100.000 Visitors in just 11 months?
2007-11-12 15:16:00 Being in the same lucky position just recently, I was asked by many readers, if there are any tips and tricks to share. Okay, here we go. I started out as a true-blue beginner to blogging, just learning things along the way. It’s truly amazing, what one can learn in a very short time about webpages, ... More About: Tips , Visitors , Months , Month , Mont
Krakatao Volcano erupts once again!
2007-11-09 07:29:00 Volcanoes are a fascinating species. They are usually huge and quiet and suddenly can become very grumpy. That’s when they start to spit out smoke and ashes. But when they really are in a bad mood - all hell can break lose. There were plenty of Volcano warnings recently in Indonesia, with Mount Kelut on Java ... More About: Volcano
Jakarta Post interviews Bali Bloggers
2007-11-05 16:44:00 The Jakarta Post published today an article on how Blogs and the Internet can help to promote Bali as a travel destination. It shed some light as well on the positive and negative effects of Online Media as Journalists, Blog Experts and Amateur Bloggers , who happen to live in Bali, were interviewed. Surprisingly I was asked ... More About: Interviews
Nomad?s Snippets: Hileud and Nurul, Google PageRank downgrade
2007-11-05 11:34:00 I wanted to take the chance to hand out a bit of link love and introduce the sites of 2 Bloggers in Bali, who I know personally: Hileud is a young and talented Sundanese woman, who writes in both English and Bahasa Indonesia. She is very good at using Wordpress and besides her great content is ... More About: Google , Pagerank , Google Pagerank , Ager , Gera
Swimming with Dolphins - a Dream come true?
2007-10-31 13:16:00 Some people dream of flying to the Moon. Others dream to retire early. Other humans would give an arm and a leg, if they could fulfill their dream of Swimming with wild Dolphins . While at least the first dream is quite unlikely, if you are not happen to be Charles Simonyi, or any other Billionaire Employee ... More About: Dream , True
Website Unavailability Problem!
2007-10-24 16:23:00 For the last 2 days nomad4ever.com was experiencing constant Access Troubles. You probably saw the following errors (if you could access the site at all): X.500 Internal Server Error, Website not accessible - or MySQL Wordpress Database Errors In General - ultra-slow loading of Website or some pages not shown at all I want to apologize to you ... More About: Problem
Funny Aliens: Don?t pee at the Holy Bamboo Tree!
2007-10-24 14:47:00 While I know funny kind of signs aka “Don’t pee in the elevator - Fine 2.000$!” from Singapore; I wasn’t aware that other countries are worried about their citizen’s hygienic toilet behaviors as well. It came a bit as a surprise to see a similar sign at Bali’s beautiful Water Temple - Pura Ulun Danu - ... More About: Funny , Aliens , Bamboo , Tree , Holy
3 Secrets to Early Retirement (and Life like a Nomad forever)
2007-10-21 16:26:00 Most people still believe that they are dependent on what Government pension plans or their previous company will provide for them when they are ready to retire. Or that they have to work until 65, 68 or even until they drop dead to the floor. That debt, cost of living and steady consumerism and expenses ... More About: Life , Retirement , Secrets , Forever , Early
The Ancient Mystery of the ?Plain Of Jars?
2007-10-16 13:39:00 Maybe you noticed already, that I’m a fan of Laos. This has a number of reasons, one being, that Laos is today, what Thailand was 20 years ago. It’s a laid-back secluded country, with lot’s of mysteries, unique activities and quirky originalities. Can you imagine a place on earth, where huge stone jars are scattered on ... More About: Plain , Mystery , Ancient , Myst , Jars
What a Poor Fisherman Can Teach You About Retirement
2007-10-12 18:00:00 One day a rich Westerner who had made sqillions from speculating on the stock market was strolling along the beach and saw the fisherman pulling in his boat with his meager catch. The rich Westerner stopped and remarked “not much of a catch today”. The fisherman replied “yes not much” but explained that his small catch ... More About: Retirement , Poor , Fisherman , Fisher , Tire
Smoked a Joint? 10 Years Jail! Killed 200 people? Get FREE BBQ!
2007-10-12 16:37:00 Today is the 5th anniversary of the Bali Bombing in 2002, where 202 people got killed. It was a sneaky attack, with a suicide bomber storming into the Paddy’s Club in Kuta, setting off his TNT-filled vest, devastating the Club. The survivors who made it to the outside weren’t better off: Outside was a parked Van, ... More About: People , Free , Years , Jail , Killed
Why can?t Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and others coexist peacefully?
2007-10-10 06:22:00 If you think in stereotypes - religion is one of the thinnest ice to walk on. Watching the World News these days, it’s hard to not think in stereotypes, as you could come to the belief, that all Muslims preach Jihad against Christians , Christians can’t accept the existence of other religions besides their own and ... More About: Buddhists , Buddhist
nomad4ever.com reaches 100.000 Visitors - thanks to YOU!
2007-10-02 13:36:00 nomad4ever.com reached the 100.000 Visitors mark today! I want to thank all my Readers for their Interest, Comments and Support over the last 11 months! You fantastic people bring this Place alive! I’m very happy that so many people are interested in this small Niche of Travel & Lifestyle and hope you guys continue to come ... More About: Hank
Mel Gibson - Wild Party in Bali after attending Alcoholics Anonymous
2007-09-30 15:45:00 And then there were the reports about Mel Gibson visiting the Island of the Gods, letting his hair down like Mad Max during his best times. Actually attending a seminar of Alcoholics Anonymous , it didn’t appear to be his motto later on that evening. He was seen taking part in wild table-top dancing and heavy binge ... More About: Party , Bali , Wild
Life of Single White Caucasian Males in Asia [PIC]
2007-09-25 16:00:00 Found that picture in this week’s issue of the ‘Lombok Times’ and it reminded me, that I still owe you guys the 2nd part of Sex, Lust and Foolishness in Asia . Unfortunately the article - which was 90% done - was a victim of my recent computer problems, as Draft Articles in my Zoundry Blog ... More About: Life , White , Single
Never Trust A Money Changer?
2007-09-24 08:24:00 I usually don’t use Money Chan g ers at all. Other than the ones at Singapore’s Changi Airport or big, official Banks with receipts and all I just don’t trust them. It’s what you read and hear, that most of the time people get cheated or aren’t paid the agreed rates or simply have less money at ... More About: Trust
Are You A Pretender?
2007-09-24 08:14:00 Keep you in the dark You know they all pretend Keep you in the dark And so it all began… Send in your skeletons Sing as their bones go marching in… again The need you buried deep The secrets that you keep are at the ready Are you ready? I’m finished making sense Done pleading ignorance That whole defense Spinning infinity, boy The wheel is spinning me It’s never-ending, ... More About: Tender
Hitler got it all wrong?
2007-09-13 22:51:00 When Adolf Hitler chose the Swastika Symbol for his National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as NSDAP or the Nazi party, he was actually already a failed Politician. He was involved in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch (Coup) of 1923, but got arrested 3 days later and had to spend 8 months in jail. There ... More About: Wrong
Funny Aliens: Too much Smoke in Laos
2007-09-13 19:38:00 There was this guy who painted this picture to mark the toilet entrances for male and female in Vang Vien, Laos . He obviously smoked too much Marihuana, as he couldn’t remember, which side was for which gender. Nothing unusual so far. Not in Vang Vien. But laziness comes with it as well. So instead of starting all ... More About: Funny , Aliens , Smoke , Liens
Nomad?s Snippets - De-Clutter your Life, Travel Story Sites
2007-09-10 22:19:00 Wanted to share with you quickly some interesting reads I found recently on the web: The Case For De-Cluttering Your Life Right Now Over at Brave New Travel er, which always has great, original and inspiring write-ups about travel in the 21st century, Jenn DiPiazza wrote a great article about the ‘hoarding and gatherers instinct’, which is still ... More About: Story , Sites , Tory
The Magic of the Chocolate Hills
2007-09-08 11:34:00 On the Philippine Island of Bohol, just South of Cebu in the Central Visayas, there is a ‘Magic al Place on Earth’. An Area of low, conical and dome-shaped hills, known as the Choco lat e Hills . They are an unusual geological formation which is composed of almost 1.300 perfectly cone-shaped hills of various sizes (30-120 meters high), ...
Experiencing Flight Turbulences? Pray or Crash!
More articles from this author:2007-09-03 20:24:00 I know that religion is a controversial subject but a powerful force in the lives of many. Just sometimes a little prayer is all that it takes, right? Here we go again. Oha - I’m proudly presenting the official prayers for all major faiths, to prevent your aircraft from crashing down. It’s up to you to decide, ... More About: Crash , Flight , Peri , Pray , Erie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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