Happy new year

Three years ago i spended new year in Roquebrune/France next to Monaco.Here a pic of me while soring for many afternoon hours the Côte d'Azur under a trusty Ozone Addict.

We wish all our readers a happy new year.

Good luck for 2011

Sascha,Michaela&Daniel

Danny's dog story update

Since the mother of our little dog(Danny as a die hard Ben10 fan named him Ben)had been poisoned,the whole bunch have very limited survival chances.
So all six of the litter had been given as their last chance to another neighbor,who is firm with dogs.They are all in a critical shape right now.

A freezing morning

When you're used to 25-28 degrees after sunrise in can feel quite cold when it's suddenly only 22,what was the case this morning.My both weared thick jackets on the way to school while i thought i schould have taken mine,too.
Now at 8.30am the temperature is back on track and we're defrosting.:)

Merrry Christmas

Dear readers,

we wish all of you a blessed Christmas fair.

Dog poisoning

Two of our landlords dogs got poisoned,father and mother of the puppies we got offered.Suspected is by the way a thief,who is roaming the area here at night.
The family is very sad about that and we searched the net together to find the best food replacement for the mothermilk to keep the bunch alive.
That is solved so far,they get rice porridge and other adequate nutrition.

Christmas at Life International School

Here some impressions of yesterday's Christmas party at scchool:


The direct Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6XxKESqZi4

Another Cambodian speciality

While our morning meeting "J" showed us another cambodian speciality.
This is made of different rice strains and fruits,who allready developed a slightly alcoholic vine,mixed together with fresh coconut.We bought two bags for 50ct. and really enjoyed the snack with a flavor we never tasted before.

Morning meeting

Here my both with one of Danny's schoolmates while a refresh break of playing.We did meet in a big empty parking lot right next to the Victory beach,where the kids can run around.
The father of Rian,Danny's schoolmate is a nice guy,who sucessfully imported cars from the US until the economy slowed down."J" speaks through many years in Boston and California very well english,spended much time in both worlds and preferes to live in Cambodia.

The dog pic

That's Daniel's new friend.'The little boy still can't walk by himself and opened the eyes just a few days ago.

K&S stocks sold

The chart of the stocks makes me recommending to sell.I sold mine for 53,90 € today with allmost 8% gain in 11 trading days.
So this chapter is closed and they made it at least half the way of my prediction.Maybe they even go further,hard to say.

A elephant in town

Yesterday in the early evening when we went together for evening shoping,we suddenly saw a elefant with it's mahout on top right next to the main road.Danny was just flabbergasted and fascinated while standing only 3 meters next to this juge animal without a fence between.Many people from all sites stopped and watched.
Unfortunately we left the camera at home.:)

Danny's dog

It seems that we finally found a little dog for Daniel.One of or neighbor dog's got half a dotzend puppies.Danny can get the white one with black spots,once this cute 2 weeks old dog baby is old enough to get seperated from it's mum.A pic will follow soon.:)

The neighbors

The Cambodians are imho a very social volk,who are sitting at the weekends together infront of many houses and are just celebrating something.So after a few months in "our" road we hardly make it back to the house or away without getting asked to join.We really like that and appreciate their kindness.But the thing is,once they got you in their garden,they require you at least to drink three bottles of beer with them.To drink as an allmost non-alcoholic three bottles in a row in tropical heat is just something i try to avoid.:)
But today there was no way to reject the invitation of our opposite neighbor,the school director.So i was sitting with nine other men together at his sala and we had a nice time.With us was the owner of a restaurant at Hawaii beach(he's trying to sell),who did speak very good english and interpreted.
Also with us was the manager of the only bungalow set on the paradise island Koh Rong here infront of the coast.(Check Youtube videos of Koh Rong)
I managed to have to drink only two bottles and really enjoyed the time.:)

Invitation to the Army in Battambang

When i jumped on the motorbite to the way back home infront of the supermarket i came in contact with a Cambodian on the bike next to me.We started taking and i discovered that he is a soldier,working as bodyguard for a General.Yesterday was the marriage of Sihanouk Ville's Governor,that's why he went down here.We talked a while and changed the numbers.Back home after dinner the phone rang and i got invited for another dinner with him and colleges.
So after we met he (won't publish his name without his aggrement)suggested a Khmer restaurant.T%here we went and had a nice evening with 5 other close protection officers.
They was so nice,all of them and invited us to Battambang.We talked of course a lot about the work,good and a lot of bad memories came back.:)
Shooting training was one of my major hobbies while i worked selfemployed in the Investigation-and security service in Germany and Austria.
In Battambang i hopefully can try an AK 47 for the first time-of course i pay the ammo.:)Tried serveral other assault rifles while shooting IPSC (Parcour shooting)training every week in Austria with the local military.
Here a clip aboout the training of an IPSC stage,one mistake trough my slippery fingers which got the slide racking not right by the first time.
The objective of this stage:
After the strartsignal grab the gun,the magazin on the other side,load,chamber a round,shot 6 targets in 4 meter with double tabs,empty the gun,show the range officer and reholser.
The gun was my duty gun and favorite 9mm,a Browning Hi Power from 1969.
This sport really push your limits in the big stages.:)

Wontan soup with rice and vegies

Here comes some more content for the food section:
This evening we had for dinner a chinese style Wontan soup.

The recipe:

48 Wontan's filled with shrimpmeat
1 spring onion
garlic
1 carott
2 packs of asian style soup base
1 liter of water

This dish is fast and easy prepare:
Steam rice while doing the rest.
Bring 1 liter water to the boil,insert the soup base,garlic and the wontan's,bring it back to the boil again for 2-3 min.,in comes the cutted vegies and the rice,continue cooking for 1 minute-ready to serve.:)

Enjoy!

Pancake Sascha style

Today for lunch i tried something new for the family and made pancakes with fruit milk and self rising flower.
Danny is since today recommending this version of pancakes for our readers.:)

I used for 3 dishes:

1 cup of self rising flower(flower with baking powder),
5 eggs
250 ml of fruit milk

Enjoy!

Danny at school again

Danny catched a cold and had to stay the last two days at home.This morning he was fine again and looked foward to go to school.When we arrived there some kids of his class was waiting outside.Danny got a warm wellcome of his classmates while a girl took his schoolbag and puted it away for him.:)

Daniel among wild monkeys

This morning i asked him,if he want to feed the monkeys near the Independence beach with some bananas from yesterday-let's go,daddy!:)
Here the video clip of Daniel's animalcare activities:

The direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqrq_49AHM

The Ochheuteal beach

Here some more impressions of the Oechetal beach and sourounding area.
Musik is from Whitesnake/Here i go again

The direct link to the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ofpmVn2I4

I had mistaken this part of the beach as the Serendipity beach first here in the posting.Sorry for the wrong info.
I''ve unfortunately not so much time for the beaches.:)

A sunday's coastride

The direct link to the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJeg2BEQcfw

The EU-a brainfart of burocrats in heavy sea

It's going faster and faster down south there,as we can read in non-mainstream news allmost every day.

One of the last not so funny things was that the hungarian government nationalized the retirement savings of their citizens for the purpose to pay the enormous liabilities of the country.Unbelivable-an EU state is confiscating public property!
I think as an Hungarian i would be pretty pissed off about that!

Ok,but thats by far not all:

Belgium is tratened to brake in bancruptcy appart without a government steering against it.The devided country is since april 2010 without a functioning government.The country among to the EU states with the highest liabilities.

Spain is maybe going to trow all paymnent belated leasers out on the road from next month on.Affected are also the onces with unpayed mortgages.That won't be only a few,so much is ovious.
Ok,in southern spain it's quite warm and they could sleep on the beach too,but this could intervene the tourism industry,where many politicians with "side income" are invested.(sarcasm off)

In Germany,where 19 % of the working people are in state's duty(all others are the not so lucky ones,who have to pay that)the even beside the head smart government introduced the following rip off's for 2011:

-An "Air traffic tax"

-Tax on tobacco up.

-The healt insurance fee is incrasing 0,6 % to 15.5% of the pretax income.

-Health insurances can add additional costs with unlimited amount to the patient's bill.

-Many social benefits get cancelled.

The same is valid for the majority of other EU states.The taxes get rised,benefits cancelled,more fees and so on.

In the jungle

Our afternoon Jungletrip

I took a day off the screen today and suggested the family a motorbike trip trough the National Park nearby.
Danny was allready under his helmet when i had finished the question.:)
So we started at 2pm,arrived at the park close to 3pm.
There we stoped for a picknick just in the middle of nowhere.
The Nationalpark is located near the airport.The never ending road through it should lead to to a nice beach at the coast.We didn't make it that far,but Danny insisted that he don't wan't to drive back,because he likes it so much there.His facial expression was quite funny when i asked him with a smile,if he really want to sleep in the jungle.:)
So we went back and arrived before the sundowner at home.
All in all a 100km. ride,done relaxed in 3 hours both ways.

The direct youtube link to the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TF2nz4ECN4

Aloe Vera

We was searching around quite a while to get an Aloe Vera plant.We did not find a single one anywhere in Sihanouk Ville.So we ordered seeds via ebay.They are since today allready on their way to us.
I also went through the net for cloning technics for this particular plant.Very easy to clone,so we will give some free ones to neighbors as soon as this very usefull plant grows here at home.
The locals call it translated "Crocodile tail plant".
Little injuries like moskito bites,a scrach or a sunburn can be treaten with just cuting off a pice of the plant,cut away the skin and apply the gelly content straight on the wound.It emidiately chills the wound,decreases the pain and cleans it as well through antibacterial effects.The healing process itself escelerates,too.
One of the best natural "Bephanthen" you can grow in your garden in warm climate conditions.

More info's about the plant at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloe_vera

A nice place to relax

Our postal address

Mail to:

Our Name
Postbox 9588
Postcode 18000
Sihanouk Province
Cambodia

Traditions

Today when we talked to a young Cambodian woman she complained about the lack of freedom for girls like her in the very conservative Cambodian society.
For instance if she would be seen close with another guy her reputation would be destroyed and she would reach the status of a "bad girl."
The good girls have to stay at home and wait for a wonder or a nice guy falling from the sky.She had allmost tears in her eyes when she said that.
She continued how unfair that is because nobody would blame him and so on.She with 18 years is not allowed to go out at night or date a guy.
Wow-of course thats hard.
She said she is looking foward to more western lifestyle coming in he country.:)

So much first hand about the domestic emancipation status.

Tea boosts immune system

On 21 April 2003 the Brigham and Women's Hospital released details of a research project which indicated that theanine may help the body's immune system response when fighting infection, by boosting the disease-fighting capacity of gamma delta T cells. The study included a four-week trial with 11 coffee drinkers and 10 tea drinkers, who consumed 600ml of coffee or black tea daily. Blood sample analysis found that the production of anti-bacterial proteins was up to five times higher in the tea-drinkers, an indicator of a stronger immune response.

(Source:Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tea

Derivate financial instruments

For instance options,futures and stock purchase warrants are considered as Derivate Financial Instruments.
To explain more details about this topic to a novice would take to much,but only so much as introduction in the field:
So there are buy as well as a sell options on different commodities available.That means that you can trade both directions if you're clear about a continuing trend.
I learned about the trading of options on different underlayings like sugar,wheat,pork bellies and also currencies by a Hawaiian friend of me while we lived in Chumphon/Thailand.
The trading of currencies is a very interresting and lucrative field,if the trader is knowing what he's doing.That was at first unfortunatelly not the case with my hawaiian friend and he lost 70% of his trading capital within a couple of months.
For him as a quite wealthy guy it did't matter and he just grined about it.

I'm observing this market as well because it's in close context.

It's alarming how fast the prices for any commodities are heading north.Sugar gained from 17$ to 28$ in 2010,oat from 200 to allmost 300 just for instance.
If this trend continues ....

Daniel this morning

Danny in the playroom

This pic was taken yesterday while we played with Danny's cars.He have a seperate room in the house only for his toys.A room free of furniture,just cushins on the ground and space to play.

Danny want's me to write:
"I had a accident between a motorbike and a truck.Nobody got injured."(He is so cute)

Our outside breakfast spot-the clip

Last but not least here comes the clip acording to this privious posting:
http://lifeisajourney2010.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-outside-breakfast-spot.html

The direct Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suGwmkUMyQQ

Free investment advice

Would it make sense to you to buy stocks of the biggest german manufacturer of Salt slightly before the real cold part of the winther is there?
In my humble opinion-yes.So i give you as my readers a deep insight in the thinking of a stock investor free of charge.:)
While daytrading i'm buying and selling sometimes serveral times a day the same stocks.
It's totally diffent with the intention to invest for a a longer period of time.You've to bring your common sence into your thoughts.I see the stocks of

K&S (WKN.716200 at any german stockmarket)

near the 60€ by the end of the year.This would be a gain of 20% in 4 weeks,because they are at 50€ now.But kkep an eye at the weather forecast.
I take no responsibilities in your decisions.It was just my intention to give you an idea how to find resonable investments at the right time.

Update:
Four hours after market opening the stocks went upwards and are 1,53% in the plus.Six hours after my recommendation.The Dax itself only 0.2%.
Update 2:
After the first week they are at 53.18 € right now,six % higher and are oviously going further.
Update 3:
In the second week they went up to 55,62€ at their highest,but investors collected their gainings and the Stock ended up at 53,12€ at the end of the week.
The strong support line at 53€ schould bear up and give the investors enough confidence for another try.If not,i would step out at 52,80€ and be happy about allmost 6% in 2 weeks anyway.

Toothpaste

They sell here as well as in the neighbor countries a salt containing toothpaste.We are using this stuff from Colgate since a few days and you can see an effect already.The tooth become more and more shiny white with every time you brush them.
I wonder why they don't sell this product in any western countries i have been.
This toothpaste would perhaps decrease the income of many dentists.:)

Healthy food

Caution:
To many mango's can lead to an addiction you will never get rid of again.:)

Doubts of a daytrader

The Irish estate-and economy crisis and it's effect to the stability of the € is very negative and very hard to predict in terms of the result.The EU will pump so much money in the country that for instance in Germany every citizen from the infant to the grandparents get burdened with 2400€.
Other canditates like Spain and Portugal are waiting allready in the queue.The healing effects of this very expensive enroachment isn't predicctable,what means that the Irish bonds did not gain from this very greatfull,but not voluntary by the public gift of european tax payers.
The US economy is recovering very slowly,the liabilities of the US are frighening.Some counties like California are treatened by bancruptcy.They can't effort to open the schools for 5 days a week anymore in some destricts and so on.

Even Thailand went in a recession,as i heard yesterday.

So a world economy double dip isn't somephing i would totaly exclude and i keep this danger in mind when making my decisions.

The markets,my humble opinion

The 3 stocks i recommended yesterday where pretty the only once's much who outperformed the decreasing market at this day.
Gainigs:
Volkswagen: 2,6%
Thyssen Krupp:0,35%
Lufthansa: 1,57&
Dax minus 0,31%

I would include BMW to this bunch and stay on allert to sell emidiatelly,if the market turns.

The Dow Jones remains quite dodgy,because the Momentun as well as the Cash flow is still pointing downwards while the quote slightly regained,a potential classic bulltrap.My favorite Dow stock these days:Hewlett Packard.

The Dax is aspected by me to see at least the 6900 again,if the Dow Future remanins in the neutral sector until the Wall Street opens at 3.30pm German time.
Addition:
At 8.00 o'clock german time the Dow Future opend 0.7 % in the minus and the other martekts followed this direction.So this trading day is up to now pretty much a waste of time.Yes,sometimes this job is very boring.:)

Fruits in Sihanouk Ville

This was 1,70 US$ at the market.
The fruits here are as everywhere in the tropics outstanding and incredibly cheap.

Water buffalo's along the way

A lunchtimetrip

In this clip you can see some more rural sites as well as the traffic in Sihanouk Ville while we drove to the G.S.T. Guesthouse where everthing here began for us allmost 3 month ago.
Danny said he want to have french fries for lunch after his second breakfast of a fruitsalad and a baguette with jam at home.Why not,i ordered the same.:)

The direct link to this clip at Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-TDsHjLIk

Michaela

Danny and television

When we moved to Thailand for 2 Years allmost seven years ago we also sold watching TV for quite a period of time.In two years in Thailand and 4 years in Austria we did not miss it a bit.
In our house here was the TV allready included and we agreed with Danny that he can watch cartoons for a resonable amount of time the last eight weeks.

Since then ywe see his creativity,agility and his willingness to do somephing on his own exept enjoing entertainment decreasing.
We raised him without TV until he wen't allmost seven and we can say also his ability for concentration was higher at that time.So now we're working hard to get him off the TV again and doing somephing creative.
For instance painting,what he liked to do for hours before he got used to the brainwashingmashine".

DAX expectations for the next week

The German blue chip index,the Dax is somephing like my second home.I love the daytrading and the stockmarkets in genaeral since i came te first time in touch with "the heart of every sucessfull economy" 16 years ago. and even still get very exited if i made only some tenth of a percent sometimes because it just feels so good to do the right thing at the right time while trading in the market.

So right now while Michala is bringing Danny to bed i'm preparing myself for the coming week of financial sucess.:)
At least one hour of chart analysis is necessary to get a solid idea what's probably happen next.
I did a bet that the "Deutsche Börse" will be at least 8-12 % higher by the end of next week.That was when the stock had been down to 47,50€.Now they are at 48,27€.
That means that they would have to go up to 53€.I kinda doubt that and belive i'm loosing this bet.Other stocks are performing much better as the "Deutsche Börse" even while they are far on the oversold side.

I aspect the DAX to crack or at least repeatedly attak the 7000 mark this week!

My favorites for this week:
1.Volkswagen
2.Thyssen Krupp
3.Lufthansa(after they went over the 16,44€))

We will get ourself a little dog pretty soon

I promised Danny in Europe that he can have a dog in Cambodia,once we settled.A Border Collie would be our favorite breed,but this size of dog would require a car.
Piture of a Border Collie:

So we're considering some kind of Terrier or equally in size.Our favorite small one so far would be a West White Highland Terrier.Hopefully we can get one in Phnom Phen.
The "Westie" would fit well in the shopping basket of our motorbike.

Ein Bild von unserem "Freund"

http://lifeisajourney2010.blogspot.com/2010/11/erste-resonanzen-zu-we-are-family.html

Habe hier mal ein Bild von unserem netten "Freund" Hagen Kanawati von Filmreif TV dazugestellt.Gibt einem vielleicht ein besseres Bild über einen Menschen der Dir ins Gesicht lacht und dich link und hinterhältig vor Millionen von Menschen als Idioten hinstellt,der seine Familie nicht ernähren kann.
Das Gegenteil ist der Fall.Habe in den letzten Wochen genug an der Börse verdient um ein halbes Jahr ganz entspannt hier leben zu können und genau das haben wir auch vor.

Recent statistics of "life is a journey"

Dear readers,
thanks for your interest in our life here.
Yesterday this blog reached for the first time the amazing number of 7931 hits per day.
Enjoy your time here with our experiences ,our opinions and just our normal dayly life.
By the way,sorry for misspellings,if give my best as a non native english speaker.:)

Kind regards

Sascha

A marriage right infront of our door

Opposite of our house is living a local family.The father is a school director.I once got invited to celebrate the birthday of him with half a dotzend other teachers.We was sitting in a circle on his "Sala" outside and had a few Anchor(local beer brand brewed here in Sihanouk Ville)beer toghether while his wife and daughters stayed inside.
So now his oldest daughter is marrieng in a trditional cambodian ceremony.Non-foraign teachers don't make much money here in Cambodia,so this very friendly and polite family lives a quite simple lifestyle.
We are looking foward to the further fair and are publishing here a video,if we got the allowence of the family.
P.s.:
We missed the ceremeony,while we was invited at the house of an aquaintance,sorry.:(

The German problem

The Germans are not not the funniest people i did meet so far in life.

My people are in my opinion the volk with the biggest lack of solidarity of the western world,the most impolite manners as well as the majority of the German speaking neighbor countries,what a differnce to all others.

These very jealouse guys also enjoy it to hassle others,talk crab obout their co-workers or maybe just take the neighbor to court for a peanut reason.
If you give a German any kind of power over others you can wake the Ceasar in allmost anyone of them.

That's also the way they drive a car for example,free to the motto "I,Me,Mine".I never will forget the daily egoist war on German roads while i had to live there.

We keep only a few exeptional relationships with this people.

But as a boomerang everything comes back to you sooner or later.In this case the country got flooded by totaly unable immigrants who are not willing to work their butt of in order to pay the German paradies for officials which is ruled by lawyers.These guys are behaving totally different and are destroing the society from within.

http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/deutschland/redaktion/auslaender-nehmen-deutschen-staat-aus-welt-am-sonntag-spricht-ueberraschend-klartext.html;jsessionid=839E44B60915B9D4BD9CB9D1D357326D

The State is working hard to conseal the facts and keep the way into desaster running,as long as the money of the tax slaves is comming.
As an example:
more than 31.000 EU burocrats granted themselves 3 income raises in once for doing nothing exept fu... up the economy and creating new useless laws.We don't pay that!!!

The biggest betray of a volk in recent history-the currency union brought so much new poverty over the EU that governments are preparing for the worst behing the curtains.They even legalized to shoot in case of a riot at the people.You don't belive?Just google "EU Verfassung" and enjoy the new socialism coming included the harrasment of people with different opinions and so on.
We will watch this scenery from the sideline,keep on enjoying our lifes and really don't give a daim about it anymore.

Erste Resonanzen zu "We are Family"

Also wir haben ja jetzt schon verschiedenes von Leuten bekommen,die diese Sendung gesehen haben.
Muss wohl ein weiteres Beispiel für die alltägliche suggestive Beeinflussung und Tatsachenverdrehung,der Beschiss der Bevölkerung durch die Medien sein.
Wir haben den Film noch nicht zu Gesicht bekommen,der Verantwortliche von Filmreif TV namens Hagen Kanawati hat uns sogar den falschen Sendetermin genannt,diesen übrigens auch nur auf Anfrage.Dies alles zum Dank für unsere Kooperation mit diesen Heuchlern.

Hier mal ein Bild des Stoffwechselendproduktionsausscheidungsorgans Hagen Kanawati nach dem 8.Bier.Sieht der aus wie 42?
Genau so geht das Deutschsprachige Volk auch sonst im alltäglichen Leben miteinander um-Link,unhöflich und unsolidarisch.Zum Glück sind wir dort weg und vermissen diese Mentalität nicht im geringsten!
Wieder hat sich's mal gezeigt und sich der Eindruck,den wir im Allgemeinen von Deutschland und den Medien dort habe bestätigt.Nicht umsonst leben wir seit Jahren glücklich ohne Fernseher!

Für alle die noch über den Tellerrand hinausdenken können:
Was im Fernsehen kommt is immer nur eine Illusion und die Tatsachen garantiert verdreht-erst recht in Deutschland!!!

Filmreif TV und Deutschland-danke für nichts!

Monkeys on the way to Sokha beach

A trip to the Sokha beach with a bunch of monkeys along the road:

Der direkte Link zum Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwgbdhaGCM

Ernergy problems

The energy in town was now off for 36 hours over the weekend here in Sihanoukville.Neighbors told us that they are working on a direct connection to Vietnam in order to import energy from the neighborstate.
That would perhaps increase the reliability of the energy net by a 1000% and lower the costs for each household,especially for the businesses who have to pay 100% more right now as private costumers.:)

Danny's schoolmates

When we arrived this morning a little to early at school a group of Daniel's classmates was allready waiting outside.We parked the motorbike and a girl was shouting at Danny "Hello Danny!!"-that was cute.After he had layed down his schoolbag infront of the classroom all these kids started runnig around and playing together.
That was a pleasure for us to see,Daniel allready got accepted and integrated in his school environment.

Living costs in Cambodia

Here some info's about foodprices in Sihanoukville:

1 Kilo Bananas 0,75 US.$ (At the market)
! kilo mangos 1,00 " (Streetvendors)
1 Noddlesoup 1.00 " (In kitchens at the market)
2 loaf of porkmeat 1,70 " (In the supermarket)
1 big watermelon 0,75 " (At serveral streetvendors in town)
Vegies for cooking 0,50 " (For three dishes at the market)
1 kilo fish 1,20 " (At the litlle market in town-the fish:Grachin Chuai)
1 baguette 0,20 " (At the international bakery)
1 Donut 0,25 " (Same place)
1 Sugar cane juice 0,25 " (Bakery,vendor infront,with ice to takeaway)

Danny und Nita unterwechs

Danny wurde heute von der Nita gefragt,ob er mit ihr und der Tante zum Hafen fahren möchte.Da war er natürlich nicht zu bremsen.Wir haben den Trip gefilmt.Hier also der Youtube Clip.

Der direkte Link zum Video bei Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rHpuv9-5I

Marriage invitation

We got invited by John,a british gentleman to join the marriage of his sister in law tomorrow at sunday.
Unfortunately we would have to leave early because Danny have to get up at 6.40 am at the next morning for school.So we thought it would be quite impolite to leave only one or two hours after the beginning.
That's why we choosed to reject John's invitation with many apologies.Thank you anyway very much and sorry again,John.:)

Die Regenzeit is vorbei/Die Börse

Das Wetter hat sich sehr gebessert die letzten Tage und wir haben nun schon seit'ner Woche täglich strahlend blauen Himmel und Temperaturen knapp über dem Gefrierpunkt bei um die 28 Grad.:)
Sonst is auch auch alles bestens und wir sind schon sehr gespannt auf Eure Resonanz zu unseren 90 Minuten "We are family"am 18.November.
Ausserdem macht uns die Börse sehr glücklich und es geht weiter aufwärts.
Der DAX hat den Wiederstand bei 6666 Punkten durchbrochen und sich solide über dieser Marke stabilisiert.
Ich blühe voll auf durch meine geliebte Börse und arbeite jeden Tag die ganze Handelzeit durch.Hier hab ich dafür die Ruhe sowie ein sehr harmonisches Umfeld durch dieses faszinierende Land.
Die Arbeitszeit von 15.00 - 23.00 Uhr is übrigens auch sehr angenehm.

Für morgen hab ich Daniels Lehrerin,die Megan zu uns und auf eine Spritztour mit dem Moped eingeladen.Sie hat kein eigenes Fahrzeug und dadurch noch nicht viel von der schönen Umgebung hier gesehen.Megan kommt wie schon mal erwähnt aus Alabama und macht wie die meissten Ami's,die man so trifft einen netten Eindruck.Habe ich die Amerikaner mehrheitlich als nette,offene,umkomplizierte und angenehme Leute kennengelernt.Somit freuen wir uns schon auf ihren morgigen Besuch bei uns.

Family on tour

Another video we made this morning while driving around.In the middle of the clip you can see the "Sokha Beach",imo the nicest beach we discovered so far in the area.
Enjoy the videoclip.:)

The direct link to this video:
www.youtube.com/user/lifeisajourney2010#p/a/u/0/Ysan5Y9KWEs

Life could be worse

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Sendetermin

Der vorläufige Sendetermin von "Chroques für Kambodscha-Familie Nowak wandert aus"
ist am

18.November um 15.00 Uhr auf Pro7.

Das ganze ist aber laut Filmreif TV immer noch im Schnitt und der Beitrag somit noch nicht fertig.
Wir sind schon sehr gespannt.:)

Danny in Schuluniform

Hier mal ein Foto vor dem Klassenzimmer kurz vor Unterrichtsbeginn.Danny geht sehr gern in die Schule,trotz anfänglicher Komunikationsschwierigkeiten.

Danny war gestern krank

Als wir ihn gestern von der Schule abholten warteten alle Kinder vor dem Klassenzimmer.Wir fanden dann auch gleich raus warum:Der Danny musste sich in der Klasse übergeben.Als wir kamen war er kreidebleich und hatte Fieber.Wir sind dann sofort mit ihm nach Hause und haben ihn ins Bett gebracht.Er bekam dan im Laufe des Abends 38,5 Grad Fieber und schlief bis zum nächsten Morgen mit kurzen Pausen durch.
Am nächsten Morgen war er wieder völlig gesund und wir fanden dann auch gleich raus was ihm fehlte.
Der Danny verliert nun bald den rechten oberen Schneidezahn.Bei den vorherigen
2.Zähnen ging ihm auch jedesmal sehr schlecht.
Somit sind wir natürlich sehr erleichtert,wobei unser Vermieter ihn sofort zum Arzt fahren wollte.Nachdem das Fieber aber nicht höher stieg hatten wir uns entschieden bis zum nächsten Morgen zu warten.
Nun is er wieder topfit-unser Danny.

Aquaintances in Sihanoukville

As through privious experiences in Thailand aspected the German speaking expats here are not the guys we want to spend our time with.All the other people you can meet here are far more pleasant company.

Just yesterday we followed the invitation and visited a nice couple from Belgium. We had a good time together and are looking foward to their visit at our place.

Many other examples just confirmed,that it seriously improves our time here,if we avoid these particular people and just don't talk to them at all.

Eine Nudelsuppe zum Frühstück

Wir haben heute früh mal unseren Besuch in einer typischen Nudelsuppenküche auf dem Markt gefilmt.Eine Nudelsuppe zum Frühstück ist hier in Asien durchaus üblich und es gibt unzählige Küchen,die diese Suppen in allen Variationen anbieten.
Wir hatten 2 Eiskaffee und eine Nudelsuppe mit Rindfleisch für die Michi bestellt,da ich noch keinen Hunger hatte.Sie haben aber doch gleich zwei gebracht und dann auch noch mit Schwein statt Rind.
Naja,wie Goethe schon sagte:"Es irrt der Mensch solange er strebt".:)

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Übrigens stellen wir diese Videos ohne Suchbegriffe bei Youtube rein,sie werden also nur von Blogbesuchern,Verwandten und Freunden gesehen.
Nochmal der Link zu unserem Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeisajourney2010

Das heutige Abendessen

Weil uns ja immer viele Leute gefragt haben was wir denn dann esssen hier in Kambodscha mal ein paar Impressionen.Das hier gabs zum Beispiel grade zum Abendessen.Natürlich hat wie immer seit wir hier sind der Sascha gekocht.
Das ist im Wok gebratener fangfrischer Fisch für gigantische 1$ das Kilo.Dazu ein bisschen Gemüse,Basmati Reis und zu dem Fisch den auf dem Bild zu sehenden Dip(Knoblauch,Zwiebel,Chilli und etwas Wasser).Diesen Dip kann man in Plastikflaschen fertig auf dem Markt kaufen.
Die beiden haben alles ratzeputz weggefuttert.Also scheint es nicht zu schlecht gewesen zu sein.:)

Gung chee naam plaa

This Thai meal is called translated "shrimps in fishsauce".
It's a very spicy shrimp salad with lemon gras,vegitables,lime leaves,lemon gras,fishsauce and a lot of the red chilli peppers.
The shrimps get cleaned,cooked and coeled down while cutting the rest.The shrimps get mixed with the vegis and flavoured with a dressing made of lemon juice,fishsauce,sugar and chilli-ready to serve.
One of my favorite salads in Thailand.

Our food at home

This is one of many different dishes i cooked here so far.Fried noodles with pork and vegitables.A meal we had very often in Thailand.It takes about 10 min of cutting work and 3 min in the wok to prepare this particular meal.The pork get's flavored with "Oyster Sauce" when allmost ready in the wok.

The sauce in the middle of the table is called in Thailand "Prik naam plaa" and is a mixture of Chilli,fishsauce,lemon and sugar.So with this sauce you've 4 different flavours in the same time on your tounge:sweet,sour,spicy and salty.Sounds maybe strange but is in fact the secret of many great dishes in the Thai cousine.

Daniel and Me

Just another pic we did take.It's infront of the very exiting restaurant the"Snake House".

Danny on Daddy's motorbike

Here a pic of Daniel on our motorbike.
It's a Yamaha "Spark" with 115 cc. and around 10 hp.That thing is appropiate motorized and really nice to ride.

Danny's new girlfriend

This is Nita,the daughter of our landlord.She became Danny's best friend and occupies herself for hours with him,teach him English and Khmer.She is also the one who helps Daniel frequently with his homework.
Nita is one of the three kids of Mr.Sonputh,his nice wife Poh owns all the property formally.
The other two girls of Mr.Sonputh are 10 and 20 years old.The younger one Bome likes to draw paintings and play computergames toghether with Daniel.So he's busy there all day long.
Poh said it'S totally common here to share the food with the neighborhood.Because of that it's normal that the both get invited for lunch and homemade snacks on a daily bases.This way Michaela and i learned to prepare a few cambodian dishes like this one:
Fresh fish get dried for 3 hours in the sun until he get flavoured with pepper,salt and lemon.Now the fish goes in the pan for a few minutes.After the fish cooled down it tastes great and is crispy like potato chips-awesome.

The Cambodians in general are very nice people.Their friendlyness,hospitality and their honest interest in our person ofter moves us quite a bit.We are really in loves with this country.You can'T count all the friendly smiles you get here in a single day.

Our outside breakfast spot

It's quite often happen that Michaela and me take our breakfast at extraordinary beautyfull places we find along the way.So after we brought Danny to school we just drive out in the blue to find such a special spot.
So we drove up to to this location and just had our baguettes and sugar cane juice on ice up there the other day.
You can observe the whole bay from this spot as well as many offshore islands.

An awesome view over the best sides of our new home.

A Sunday in Sihanoukville

Today is Sunday and we promised Danny to go to the beach in the later afternoon when the heat cooled down a bit and the intensity of the sun decreases.
Meanwhile i had my motorbike in the garage.The mecanics changed the oil,reajusted and lubed the chain.The whole service took like 10 minutes and was 18 000 Riel-4,50 US$.
I also was early at the backery today to buy some bagettes and munchy stuff for later.Four Bagettes and 3 pice of cake 2$-life is very cheap here.

The backery itself can be seen in the clip of the privious posting.

The beauty of the Sihanoukville province

Here a selfmade Youtube clip about our life here:



We suggest to visit our Youtube channel once a while.More videos are comming soon.

http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeisajourney2010

Our house in Cambodia

The house we rented here is a 200 US$-approxemitely 150€.The additional sidecosts are about 10-12 US$ included energy.The house itself is around 4 years old,about 120 square meters of living space3 bedrooms,3 bathrooms and a carport,no garden.We are very happy about our new residence so far.

We are on a good way

Hello dear readers,

Thank you for your patience.
We had been very busy the last two month to make it work here.Meanwhile our son received his first compliment from his teacher Megan for beeing so dilligent and learning so fast.In his first 2 weeks in school Danny learned to draw allmost the whole alphabet of Khmer letters.
In the english courses he prevailed all questions,as Megan said.
We are supporting him as much as possible,he also gets help from the neighbor kids and their mum Poh.He loves to spend his time there and went over to their place again right five minutes ago.Weare so happy that he made emidiately friends after we moved in here.

Daniel likes Tuk Tuks

Uns gibts noch

Hallo Allerseits,

tut uns aufrichtig leid,das wir den Blog solange vernachlässigen mussten,aber wir haben erst seit heut im Haus Internet.
Diese Zeit der multimedialen Ruhe haben wir dazu genutzt uns hier einzuleben und alles notwendige auf die Reihe zu bekommen.
Der Danny lebt sich nun wie erhoft so langsam ein in der Schule und freut sich morgens auch schon drauf.
Wir sind gesund,alles ist bestens und bald schreiben wir mehr.

The Serendepity Beach

Near this beach we intent to open our restaurant once we solved the necessary preparations.
Of course we'll also take our time and observe the situations of other existing businesses before we make any decisions.

Die NATO und ihre Geheimarmeen

Hier wichtiges Hintergrundwissen,das ich verbreiten möchte:

Nato

Hierbei handelt es sich um einen Vortrag von Daniele Ganser,einem Schweizer Historiker über die NATO in deutscher Sprache.
Die Nato hat unser Land planmäßig und schonungslos vernichtet

Die ARD und ihre Propaganda zur Kriegsverbrecher Organisation NATO

The Last weeks in Austria

The Wat Pra Kaeo & The Grand Palace

The Wat Pra Kaeo,the temple of the emerald Buddha is an unique place every Asia friend should have seen at least once in a lifetime.In the past,not so long ago when the national anthem was played daily in Thailand at 5 pm. the whole nation stopped what ever they did and turned towards the Wat Pra Kaeo.It's the spiritual center of Thailand,the most important sanctuary of the nation.
I found this very well made Youtube-clip about the temple:

Motorcycling in southeast Asia

It's a lot of fun to drive around with this little motorbikes.They are quite convinient,also for longer rides.Anytime we got bored to stay at home we just jumped on our motorbike and drove out in the blue.
But particular the rookies be adviced:
Motorcycling in this sometimes insane traffic works like the sex among the hedgehogs-very carefully.:)

Parade part 2

Here my family with my wife's girlfriend and two of her students in their breathtaking traditional Thai silk outfit.

The Kings coronation day

We got invited by the University of Chumphon to join the honor parade at the high respected King Bhumiphon's coronation day in 2005.Here a few pics:

My family in the parade as the first foreigners ever who got invited to join a King Bhumiphon's honor parade in Chumphon's history.

As allways when we were around in Thailand my son was the star and he had in this young age allready more devotees as his father in his whole live.:))

The two young beauties in their traditional Thai silk outfits are students of my wifes girlfriend,who is a english teacher in the Chumphon university.

A nice little Buddhist Temple next to our house

Only a few minutes drive from our house in Chumphon and we arrived at this litle hill temple:


The monks had been very kind to us and invited us serveral times for tea.We in exchange brought in banana leaves packed fish cakes or sticky rice with mangos.

Beach time for the family

My son loved the beach since he saw it the first time in his life.

The Tung Wua Len beach near Chumphon.

Paragliding in Chumphon

I did not allways went flying only by myself and often invited pretty girls like this two beauties from England to join me.We had a good time together.:)

The Kao Pang near Chumphon where i used to fly allmost every day during the dry season.

The take off from the air.

Haad Khom beach in Koh Phangan

The Haad Khom beach again from different views:

The second beach hut from the right was my home for half a year.

The beach in the daytime.The beach was never much more crowded as on this picture.Only a few guys had discovered the spot in these days and we kept the secret.The rough road to this beach also helped to keep it well hidden.
A paradise on earth.
I will never forget the outstanding backpackers i did meet there nor the perfect hospitality of Mr. Too's family.

Sundowners

Here some pics of sundowners made by my honey while we lived in Koh Phangan:


Thats why you don't need a television while living in a beach hut.:))

Europe turns into a lawless garbage dump

Here a nice example of recent developments:

Since a policeman killed a robber in selfdefence after the suspect shot three times with a mashinegun at the police a few days ago in Grenoble,France the streets are burning again and the "Grande Nation" faces similar street violence as shown in the video.
Also many other towns in Europe went into some kind of lawless zones.Yesterday was a short movie clip shown in the www.kurier.at newspaper which displayed how drugdealers are selling hard narcotics straight beside playgrounds in Vienna's townparks.The video clip was made by a mother,who filmed how a dealer sold to serveral costumers,while her kid was playing straight beside.

Thai music from Carabao

A very famous musician of Thailand-Carabao:

Acquaintances in Thailand

When i spended a day on the neighbor island Koh Samui with an English girlfriend to help her to buy a motorcycle and ship it over to Koh Phangan we talked to an old and high respected Buddhist Monk.His name is "Praa Büaa".We talked a long time to him while waiting for the ferry back and got help from english speaking locals,who translated.This was a very moving experience,one of many while living in Thailand.

Haad Khom beach in Koh Phangan

Another outstanding beach of the island-the Haad Khom:

I lived around half a year in a little beach hut there among backpackers from all over the world and yes,we smoked a lot of "fun cigarettes" in this time.:)

One of my favorite meals in the "Coral Bay"-fried fish with chili sauce(They called it "no name seafood").

The owner of the "Coral Bay" his name is Mr.Too was a Thaiboxing Champion in his younger years and made the money for his bungalow set with his fists in the ring.He agreed to teach me Muai Thai and we worked hard on my skills for this 6 months.On the last pic you see how i looked like as a young and very motivated student of this 1000 year old martial art.