Oh, Beauty!

Don't know where to pass next month with great pleasure not only for body but to gift the greatest joy to your eyes? I'll tell you the place.

Vietnam; Ho Shi Min and Njachag.
There you will find not beaches, restaurants, nature, historical places or what else from the classical tourist's kit. You will find all the most beautiful girls of the globe there. "Miss Universe 2008", the 57-th show, where on 14 Gune you will have the possibility to see aboout 80 of the girls.

To have something to do in the time when they wait for the final play, the girls exhibit national costumes. I, sincerely, did not understand if those are really national costumes but I think it was beautiful to see them. You can see the photoreportage clicking Here and than on the thumbnails under the great photo.

I liked Miss Thailand:

Photo from «Etoday.ru»

Cameron Highland in 2003, Pahang

I accidentally dig out my old photos on Cameron Highland - 2003. So I decided to share with all of you, and it might bring back some of yours fond memory...:)

We (family members) rented the whole express bus together with tour guide to Cameron Highland trip on September, 2003.
We taken a break at Ringlet, the first town we reached. Some pictures of Ringlet during 2003. Wonder any changes now??



Then follow by the Bharat Tea House (N4°27.242' E101°22.147'). The view was beautiful! I cannot forget the enjoyment having a morning tea over the scenery here! Cool breeze and the greenery scene in front of you by the cup of tea in your hand really make my day!!

The path to the Tea Plantation

Beside the tea shop, there was a small grocery shop. I wonder it's still there today?!

The MOBILE vegetables seller

After the tea, our tour guide brought us to one of the garden near by - Rainbow Garden Centre.
Basically, it's just a garden full of several of Cactus, flowers, orchids, plants & etc...




It took about an hour after the Garden, we proceed to check-in to the Golden Wing Apartment (N4°29.540' E101°23.317') at Bringchang.

The apartment was clean & spacious. Too bad I didn't take any photos, I wonder why?
If my memory serve me well, one unit cost us RM400 per day with 3 BIG rooms, kitchen, dining hall & living hall. The temperature was between 18° - 20°C.

When everyone settles with their luggage, it's lunch time!
Free & easy session till night for the first day....

Related post :-
* Cactus Valley, Brinchang - Cameron Highland
* Lata (Waterfall) Iskandar at Cameron Highland

My Cameron Highlands Trip - September 2009
* Rosa Passadena Hotel at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D1)

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Giant Butterfly at Taman Daya, Johor Bahru

Spotted this BIG Butterfly at Taman Daya (residential area) somewhere close to a child care center.
This rare species always appear around this area? I believe only the residents here can tell.

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Hidden Chinese Temple at Bkt. Gambir, Muar Johor

Tien Yun Temple located at Bkt. Gambir.

Main Entrance

As usual, the Bodyguard of the temple

I was follows my brother in-law to this new temple (just build not too long ago), too bad I forgot to bring my GPS to log down the coordinates. Because it's located inside a deserted area, there is no proper tar road access to it. The entrance of the road is at somewhere along the Seng Kang Road, which is not far away from the junction....if you are come from Bkt. Gambir town.
Along the laterite road, you can see the navigate signage everywhere until the temple.

Just feel like a hidden temple.

I snap some photos for sharing......

The Main Deities of the temple

On the left side, the man made beautiful pond.....

Just opposite the temple, there's a 30 meter tall "Kuan Yin" statue.

The Deity located at the left outside the temple

Behind the pavilion above, you can see one row of the Deities represent the Chinese Zodiac.


I will get the GPS Coordinates next time I visit it.

Related post :-
Foods of Bukit Gambir, Muar Johor.
Bkt Gambir - 100 Years old village at Muar, Johor
Village Life at Bkt. Gambir, Muar Johor
Village's photos - Muar Trip
Some photos you might not see it today......(Pt.2)
Restaurant Double Lim (Assam Fish), Muar. (CNY 2008 Trips)

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How To Stand Relocation

The independent life of every person begins with the own home. And the change of life is the change of home too. So we all have to stand this problem later or earlier. That is why we need Property Town Information to make right decisions in these periods in our lives. It doesn't matter you rent or buy a house or a flat.

There are different sides to consider when you look for your own home. How to chose the realtor, where to look for loan, and how to choose the deal too.

But first of all you have to plan your relocation. Are you ready to begin the process? Begin with planning of all the event from the first to the last point. Make your ideas clear thinking about next points: What do you want to buy? What do you need to have in your house? What is it dedicated for? How much time you have to make the decision?

You see, these are important questions. When you have your ideas clear from the first day, all process will cost you less time and health.

Next question you have to ask yourself is about your financial possibilities. There are many innovative loan programs today, they allow to buy a house practically to everybody who has stable monthly income. Attention! You have to think about the closing of the loan costs too! And it will be more complicated if you have bad credit. But you can find a solution in this case too.

So, once you are ready, you can begin the exploration of the avilable properties information.

Shilin Street Snacks Shop @ City Square, Johor Bahru

I heard about this place - "Shilin Stall" quite sometimes ago....it's just only try it recently. It's located at the lower ground floor of City Square Shopping Complex, Johor Bahru.

The oyster vermicelli (mee sua) was good! But you can't compare the original I had before....
We also order the "Tien-Pu Rak", but seem like totally different from Taipei??

Oyster Vermicelli

"Tien-Pu-Rak"

Anyway, the prices are reasonable in the shopping complex. The only problem I see is the traffic and the parking. It will be crowd during the weekend......

Related post :-
ran Queen ran King Taiwan Foods Cafe, Tmn Molek Johor Bahru
Taiwan Beef Noodle (Malacca Trip 11-12th Nov 2007)
Taipei Trip 2007, 25th - 30th June

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Temple of Serapis In Pozzuoli

The second place of my interest in Pozzuoli was the Temple of Serapis. I was very impressed by this excavation because you can see here very clearly how the level of the sea changes here. But I have to begin from amphitheater. Because I told you last time about it.

I did not know before that this town is situated on the mountainside. The railway station is in the high part and I had to go down about 10-15 minutes to reach the other railway that went in the direction where was our ritrit.

The first time I lose about an hour to find the right way to do and walked around these streets with the sea in front of me. But it was not very nice walk. Because... See the next photo.


Finally I found the temple and made the photo fron the auto-bridge. If you look with attention, you can see me too there.

Click on the next photo and look at the great columns. You see they are "eated" by the sea organisms. It was time when they were under the level of the sea. But first they were in a high place of the greek town. This town is possible to see if you take a boat.

This temple was not a temple but a market- or slaughter- place. And you see one of the rooms on the next photo.

Finally here you can see that the sea is about 100 meters far from this place today.

Foods of Bukit Gambir, Muar Johor.

There are some foods I'm going to highlight here. I will not say they are superb delicious, but I say they are "Special"! That's mean you can't find the same recipe elsewhere.

Every morning (especially weekend), peoples love to have a Kopi-O (black coffee) with toasted bread in this famous coffee shop (N2°12.937' E102°39.496') located at Tmn Mulia, Bkt. Gambir.

At the same roll, but corner coffee shop (N2°12.963' E102°39.531') located at Taman Mulia, Bkt. Gambir has various hawker foods. I am the regular customer of the Bak Kut Teh & Wantan noodle.

The Bak Kut Teh serves in claypot with thick herbal soup. Worth a try! Within the same shop, the Wantan mee (noodle) is special of the noodle. I can't find elsewhere with this type of noodle. Both are resonable prices because of this small town.

There's a shop (N2°12.800' E102°39.317') ONLY selling Bak Kut Teh along the main road (just after the Police station). I rated it : Above average.

If you fell hungry during the midnight, you can try this Yap Kee Prawn mee (noodle). The shop (N2°12.688' E102°39.231') located at the back of the 7-Eleven convenience stall of Bkt Gambir. They open 6pm and close at 2 or 3 in the morning. Special recipe.


That's all I tasted before. Please let me know if there’s any other good food around this area.

Related post :-
* Bkt Gambir - 100 Years old village at Muar, Johor
* Village Life at Bkt. Gambir, Muar Johor
* Restaurant Double Lim (Assam Fish), Muar.
* Leng Kee Bak Kut Teh, Muar, Johor
* Salty Shrimp at Panchor, Muar - Johor.

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Earning Money With Internet

I write ot so often about money making possibilities now and nobody remembers today that this blog began with many posts about it. First of all, because those I personally passed through were scams. I was new in informatica, in internet, I had not friends interested in this things and there was nobody who could tell me something about this business. So, passed these little troubles and tragedies, I wanted to tell my experience to others that are so as I am.

Today I'm interested to build my own serious business that could give me indipendance, but I think that little sources of money are always comfortable and if they are many, these sources, they can give us even interesting adds. That is why I accept if my friends give me this possibilities.

Time ago if you was a member of an affiliate program, you had to cover your referral link because those who is not new in this searches are very clever. They did not sign up with your referral link but went directly to the "mother"-site and you remained without your honest % from the money distributed from the site. The person that did it, did nothing good for himself, he/she did that the site owner could take this coin-percent in own pocket.

Fortunatelly today the technology made this step forvard and there are possibilities to avoid this problem. But the best possibility is that to partecipate on the paid program you HAVE TO BE "presented" by an other person. So you HAVE TO TURN to the person where you found the link and you have to use the referral link. It's really great. So, you don't need lose time to arrive to the page that says you: Now insert the link of the friend that told you about this possibility. You can directly click MY referral link.

Today I want to present you 2 new programs that give you possibility to earn some coins more -your "pizza money", at place to ask everybody who enters your blog to give you some coins for coffee.

First is a search engine for your browser at base of Yahoo! Works actually with IE and FF. You make your searches with this SE and they devide their money with you. Payment methods are PayPal, UK Bank Transfer, International Bank Transfer (IBAN). I tryed a similar program with Agloco (and others), but was never paid by it. Sincerely I don't know if there is somebody more fortunate as me, but I read a communication that they were not successful. I don't know about this program, seems that it counts my searches. Well, will see. Why do it gratis with other SE-s if I can have some coins. I wanted to try it.

Here is MY REFERRAL LINK

The other program I joined latelly is ZenZuu.com. It's a new social network that is actually in Beta and promises to divide 80% of advertising income between active users, that means "to logs in his/her “REP” account a minimum of 30 times a month. These log ins can be done once a day, several times a day, or within one hour". They will open a Marketplace where you can sell your goods too. Seems interesting. There are members that offer you other programs to work with. So, it can be interesting for you too. And the most interesting is that you can't lose your referrals because they need you.

Here is MY REFERRAL LINK

Roman Amphitheaters In Campania/Italia

The most known Amphitheater is logically Colosseum in Rome. It's the largest ever built in Empire and belongs to the greatest architectural works of Romans.

But it's not the last. Third largest and better conserved in time is the amphitheater of Pozzuoli (photo from Wikipedia). This one was used for sea-battles too.

Here, in Campania there is the second large amphitheater too, that of Capua, a town situated not so far from Pozzuoli and Naples (not more than 20 km, I think). In Nocera and Pompei there are amphitheaters too.

Well, that of Nocera was built after the scuffle in Pompei, so it has to be built between 60 and 65 aC. Archeologists think it has to be LARGER as those of Capua. And because I just told you that the amphitheater of Capua was second large in the world, so imagin the importance of Nuceria Constantia of Roman times. They say, there was an other in Salerno too, but today it's difficult to find it.

Now if you want to think about this quantity of enormous amphitheaters in a relatively little zone. About 60-70 km from Nocera to Pozzuoli and to Capua. And there is an enormous theater with -as they say- really great acustic in Nocera (it's in the same conditions as Necropoli actually, read: Roman Necropolis Of Nocera Superiore)...

I think that Roman Empire had it's end because they did not work and did not make babies, they passed all the time to make feasts.

The amphitheater of Nocera is actually under earth. I read about projects to begin the excavations, but I'm not sure about it because I did not find the precise date of this "great event".

Here I post some photos of the amphitheater of Pozzuoli that I visited during ritrit. It was closed because of first morning hours when I arrived there and I have only external photos.

If you click on the photo and see the original size, you can imagin better the size of this building. And it's beauty.

Here you see the modern sitting steps. I think it's used for different plays today, so as they do in Pompei. Personally I had not this possibility to assist a performance in ancient amphitheater else, but I think it's a great idea to continue the use of this buildings.

Here you see the internal enormous corridor. I think it was not for visitors. There is possible to see (if you enter inside) the places where there were lifts for animals, rooms for gladiators.

This photo I had to make too light that you can see the down part. In the light of the first morning sun that part was too dark for my camera.
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Pozzuoli. The City On The Volcano