13 July 2008 - Ticket to asia booked - Just found an incredible fare on Airberlin.com, from Germany to Thailand for only 290 Euro. I'll also take the chance of spending few days in Berlin as I've never been there. Again, I didn't spend much time in my country this year neither made enough money to stay away for another year, but I'm starting to feel choked. I don't even know why I am going to Thailand, besides for the super best price, I guess it's my way back where the sun rises. I must have forgotten something...my traveling date...20th August 2008...

 

09 July 2008 - Miscellanea News - I cycled for so many miles that my ass is hurting now, my legs are dead tired and I feel very hungry. I then decided to take 1 day of rest, which i entirely used to help my mum converting some old Hi8 and VHS to DVD so she can watch them on digital support, without any worries that the time will spoil the tapes. Said so, I now got a good half of my boring paperwork done with the government so I can easily say I can now start to prepare myself for the next trip which will probably touch asia again, and for the first time the oceania continent with Australia! In the meanwhile I've updated my travel page with two new trips, the first one that took place last year, right here in Italy, and the second one just couple of months ago, before heading back home, in HongKong. Also, I did sell my old digital camera and I'm now thinking of getting a new one capable of shooting 720p HD videos. No further news so far regarding my D.I.P project, I just got plenty of emails containing compliments, congratulations, support and encouragement, but no one committed at now. Perhaps I'll be distributing some flyers all over the big capitals with the kind help of my contacts. Last one, I've had my traveling handbook reviewed by a friend therefore it could be completed kind of soon.

 

03 July 2008 - Fat people you make me puke!- After some months of too sporadic physical activity, I am now back into shape doing sports every single day. 6 km bicycle, 5 km run and 1 km swimming in a non-stop session from 3 to 6 oclock pm. Feeling wellness, strong, light, secure, healthy. And this is for you, fat ass, with your blown big belly or your disgusting cellulitic legs, flaccid worms, pieces of soft shit, dumb useless piece of disgusting lard. I saw overweight teenagers eating their shit french-fries, sweets walking around with no shame. Men with such swollen belly that they cant even see their dick, I pity you fat faggots. Lick my muscles, shut up and squat.

 

29 June 2008 - Tribute to Athene from Emeriss: You're a pro or you're noob, that's life - I saw some kind of strange and funny youtube clips made by a "wow" gamer (it's the most famous online multiplayer rpg pc game) from Belgium. The guy is a crazy geek who can make me laugh. A funny accent and slippery way of talking, a weird "boyfriend" and a hot bitch at his side. He recorded around 30 clips where he mainly talks about how the professional gamer position and now youtube celebrity has affected his mind and his life. I wouldnt have bothered talking about him on my blog, but apart of finding him hilarious, the moral behind comes when you realize that there is a damn whole immense world behind that apparent so called virtual reality...and most of us dont even know its existence... [link to his youtube channel: [http://www.youtube.com/user/AtheneWins]

 

17 June 2008 - Narcissus and Goldmund - I have recently read a magnificent book by Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund: the focus and the message of the book is rotating around two friends representing the dionisyan and the apollinean extremes, but the storyline narrates the adventures and the travels of Goldmund, living for the moment without thinking of the future. I recommend this book for all the travelers and for those who want to know more about the meaning of friendship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_and_Goldmund

 

10 June 2008 - More evidences of the constant dissatisfaction in the human being - I am now in Italy at my granmother's place, nearby Como, the famous and characteristic town in front one of the deepest lake in the world. While observing my grandma these days I have realized how futile our life can be, as when we grow old we still keep the same interface of relating ourselves with the sensitive experiences of everyday. Take my granma for instance, she is 83 years old, I watched her taking care of her plants, spending time outdoor, walking up and down, preparing me 3 meals per day, driving around with the car and doing some minor maintenance to her house. Incredibly she is in perfect health status, paradoxally, even better than mine, she doesnt even suffer a flu, while I am having backaches and allergies. She is wealthy, with her own place including a nice garden, a nice grandson:) and a nice and quiet life in the countryside but still close to main cities and comforts...let's say she s got everything or almost...but still, she complains, she moans and whines...But why? There isnt anything in particular to worry about. At most, the contrary...she should be happy and grateful to be lucky to have health and wealth, even compared to other elder granny who have hundreds of problems, they are on the wheelchair or with cerebral problems, or if they're lucky they use a walking stick to walk. But no matter if we have cancer or we are strong like a gladiator, neither if we are broke nor trillionare, still, there is something that doesnt let us in peace, not even at 80 or 90 years old..not until you die...and that is not just telling us that our need is never ending, but that there's something else which is already structured in our genes, the black sheep of all philosophers: seeking the meaning of life within "intelligent" forms of life and our stubbornness in not accepting that there is no meaning at all.

 

30 May 2008 - This line is dedicated to Arturo Radaza who was murdered on the 22nd of May in Cebu, Philippines - We barely met once, but you were my bro's closest relative. I am with you, all the way with Jonathan's sorrow and dont' worry man, they are going to hang and kill those bastards who did that to you.

28 May 2008 - D.I.P. Promo video is online - So here we are, I must confess I am a little bit excited while waiting to see the reaction of the public. I will first put it on youtube, then will send it to a friend of mine who works with some tv channels see if she can stream it on any satellite channel like travelTV or something like that. I will also prepare a set of flyers to start a sort of advertising campaign. Moreover this video will be available in 3 different formats: a .wmv low quality online version, a .mpeg DVD quality version and for the first time on nosham, a wonderful new 1080i HD format (only on request). Get on the adventure ...download the video now!

 

26 May 2008 - Post production effects - It's 4 o'clock am, I am still awake, video editing with Premiere Cs3 to finally close and publish the DIP promo commercial. I'm adding some color correction when an error suddenly pop up: my intel 965 x3100 integrated graphic card on my laptop, it's not supported by the plugin i have to use to make my video look more smooth and warm, rather than the sharp and soap-opera look of the unedited videos. Well there must be a way to get this done without that plug-in, by manually tweaking all the lighting levels, color parameters and changing the RGB color curves...the only problem is that would take me at least another 3 or 4 hour off the bed (just to understand where and how to modify these settings). Browsing the net for hours I've finally found some advanced tips which will allow me to obtain a decent simulation of film look. In a few hours I'll have to go out to send out some packages at the post office, then study for the driving license attitude exams. Later in the afternoon I'll have to go and take some pics of stuff to sell on ebay at a friend's place. In the meanwhile, people oversea are waiting for my call to plan my next trip. By the way, the DIP promo is coming real soon, on these screens...

 

22 May 2008 - That bullshit of religion - Shame on you false prophets and dumb preachers, get this into your head: you cant keep up with your lies forever, people will eventually wake up. Please watch these two videos on youtube and see how they scorn religion...laugh with me: [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o ] [ and this other about the ten commandments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWEBbFwU1o ]. Oh let's put this one in as well which is very funny [ http://christianityisbullshit.com/2008/04/16/the-creation-according-to-genesis/ ]So you see now why I still stick to asian countries? So I can, at least, never hear about the bible shit and rarely meet christian assholes. (Click on the image to enlarge the vignette)

 

 

13 May 2008 - In love with Calimero - My first love, since I was young has been Calimero, he is sooooooo cute, sweet and tender, he couldn't find his mum cause he was born black and different from the other chicken, so nobody seem to be accepting him. He starts to travel in search of adventures his mum and new friends. My heart beats every time I see one of his episodes, his voice is soooo moving that it almost makes me cry when in the show he comes across accidents. I whish I could cuddle him, hugging him tight. [To see a Calimero show check out this youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0Ij1GpdS4 ]

 

09 May 2008 - Some bureaucratic processes in a country of morons - My story starts in a very simple way: I am in need of the international driving permit in order to drive abroad. But to get the international permit from any italian consulate around the world, I firstly have to qualify for a regular and functional national driving license. Italy, who is always trying to imitate America for its worst, introduced a driving license point system couple of years ago, which is punishing the traffic violations by not only paying a normal fine, but subtracting a certain virtual score from your license: if you loose some points, then you need to pay cash to get it back, and when your points reach zero, then the police department will confiscate your driving rights. Now, the problem is that if you want to get your license back, Italy has one of the most cruel, bureaucratic and expensive procedure in the world. Our mafia government, obviously applied this fucking new age driving system, with the sole purpose of stealing more money from the citizens pockets. I have lost all my points few years back, and now, the government will take advantage of this "stall" and rip me off: the cheapest way to get my license back, would be spending around 500 euros in taxes, where I will have to go back in time and re-do all those damn written and practical driving tests, to prove that I am still able to drive!?. Of course in the meanwhile I will have to go through the dmv offices, line up for 2 hours to get 1 damn form, then go back and forward for examinations, problems, payments, schedules etcetera. I did all this 10 years ago, I already proved them I was able to drive...but they want me to do it all over again, sucking my time and my money. Note that in this country you can loose points even for having parked the car in the wrong palace or you are not wearing the seatbelt! How planned is that! But it's a lost battle with me anyway, they fucked my license, I am gonna charge them with 10.000$ more on my debt. He who laugh last, laugh best. ...HaHaHa

06 May 2008 - Back home - To be continued...

20 April 2008 - Leaving China for good - I am so nauseated by this country (and especially from this city) that I don't even want to hear its name until the next decade. In this place you have to be careful because people keep on spitting on the ground like every time they breathe, so if you don't pay attention they will hit your shoes. If you don't be careful about what you eat, they will fill your stomach with pure shit: when they find out how to earn 1 cent more from your meal, they will not hesitate by substituting a main ingredient with some chemical inexpensive crap. Never mind if it's harmful for people, still they would prefer to put 10cents more in their pocket. The dirt and the dust around the roads makes me want to puke, their buildings look all the same, without any shape, any art, just a place where ants have to sleep. China has no respect for animals as they torture them by removing their skin while they are still alive and many other cruelities that not even animals could do on other animals so i guess those people are worse than animals. Nno respect for the environment as well, as they are polluting their entire damn country for the seek of the $. And now the funny side, still after years and years of incredible economic growth and worldfuckingwide commerce, still, they dont fucking speak a single word of english.

 

12 April 2008 - Videogames are getting very immersive - Recently, I have been playing with a Playstation3 game called Oblivion. Not only it's a role playing game with audio and video running at an amazing definition (the support is a Blu-ray disc), but has the peculiarity to offer an outstanding freedom of action and elaboration: since the start, when you have to create a new character, you can choose between many classes (mages, warriors, trolls , and other races) , and a huge vastity of looks (for example by selecting the type of eyebrows, the positioning of your mouth in your face, its size, its width, then thousands of different measurements for the height of your jaw and your nose) really it's far better than any police identikit software you might come across. Oh my, you can spend hours defining the look of your hero, and after that, during the game, you will have the possibility of creating its lifestyle just the way you would want it. You can become a thief for example, you can own a house. you can partecipate to missions with the soldiers like you were a crusader, or just buy a horse and ride around the almost infinite map of the land of Oblivion, where you can find lakes , sea, countryside with flowers etc... Just imagine exploring those high definition scenarios, watching the stars when you look up at the sky while searching for a secret cave outside the wall of the imperial city, or by becoming a merchant , opening your own shop to get an income and travel to many cities trading new goods...and so on...the choices are unlimited...become whoever you want to be in that middle-age virtual world. My friends, a new era for the videogames has started. [ In the picture you can see my character: i tried to recreate my own sembiances, he looks alike me, isn't it? (well except the long hair) ]

 

05 April 2008 - Enormous work in progress - Besides having a temporary job of building 2 websites and 1 corporate video for a friend's chinese company, I am also working at my own projects and this is taking really the whole day (sometimes even night) in order to complete everything before my china visa expires. Today I will also begin the shooting of the deserted island project promo video.

 

04 April 2008 - Forum is online - While waiting for the last work in progress on my site, and the upcoming d.i.p, my new forum is now accessible through the main menu (Forum button) , running with a Phpbb v3.0. I would like to create a user board where I discuss with my friends about some interesting matters in line with my blog, like travels, love, lifestyles, science, philosophy, news hi-tech etcetera. Some others could use it to ask me general questions regarding advices , suggestion on places where to travel , tips and tricks on the road, or any sort of traveling information exchange. Everyone of course is welcome to join and to post any kind of topic or question. Forum's categories will be created according to your needs, so do not hesitate, start posting!...jump to forum

02 April 2008 - Nosham v1.00 coming soon - The website is under maintenance, and will be back soon (most probably in a week or so) with few more features and general code fixes. Here is the change log for this upcoming update:- updated siteadvisor check img ; - added compatibility xhtml 1.0 and banner w3c; - fixed img in wiki search and code correction ; - fixed positioning issue with clock under firefox browser ; - implemented forum phpbb3 bulletin board ; - lighter html code ; - code fixed </span> bug, lang bug, doc declaration type bug, white space, comment and general dwt bug inherited from expression web ; - added gradient to menu buttons and h1 ; - various styles and formats updates ; - changed main banner size, a new banner in construction.. ; - changed resampling of images, taking back the original color depth, to all the thumb imgs ; - added visited spots map with google earth placemarks to be implemented on homepage. For people who dont know a frack of what am talking about, all this will result in a slightly better graphic and html code, faster, lighter and couple of new options. [P.s. As there is a work in progress, please dont mind about broken links or other errors/horrors you might experience while surfing my web during these days]

23 March 2008 - Quick news - I am at hongkong for a little while. I havent touched my traveling handbook (writing in progress) for more than a month because I have been working hard on a temporary job in Guangzhou,China, to save up some money and either buy a ticket to go home in summer or extend my journey to a brand new destination. for the time being, i am looking for someone with a 16:9 videocam to shoot the intro for the d.i.p project...oh and a sunny day...

 

19 March 2008 - Are you in love with "the love", with "the woman" or with "falling in love" ? - I have been recently asked to answer, by a Mexican friend of mine. It is definitely a very clever question that does not sounds really new to me, as it's the direct descendent of the universal issue of "love". Anyway, the question itself, is indirectly pointing out that probably many people out there, can't clearly determine the difference between being in love and being in love with "the love". We may confuse in fact, the experience of a deep feeling (love) towards the being-sphere of our partner, with the potential feeling of love towards our ego-sphere that makes us feel we are in love. To continue, I see a common  chance of falling in love with "the woman" rather than A woman. In some other cases, we might being caught by a net where we want to repetitively experience the very best out of a relationship: those moments when we fall in love. So where do I stand? The-woman is a wonderful creature and she is the mother of a-woman, indeed I love both of them.

 

12 March 2008 - Can't sleep - I am passing through weeks where I am not getting more than 4 to 5 sleeping hours per day. I am hunted by strange dreams where I see myself in different places in front of a desk, submerged by a lot of papers which I have to read and sign, while I am struggling because I can't find a way out of that room or a backdoor. During the day I am always tired and restless, I feel that my heart beat is affected by the accumulated stress plus I am getting very annoying headaches and blurred vision. I can recall that some of the causes related to this problem are my constant worries regarding the possibility of seeing a brighter future for my projects, my dreams and also for the humanity itself, followed by the awaiting of the technology which will allow me to drastically improve my quality of life and general expectations.

 

03 March 2008 - D.I.P. unveiled! - Something big is coming out, it was in the current work in progress, then the button in the menu and now a banner has materialized on the bottom right corner! What does that means? It means the world to me. Just stay tuned for the deserted island project, coming soon on Nosham.com!

 

28- February 2008 - The hard task of completing my traveling handbook - To answer some of my friends who have been asking me why is it so hard to write a manual of around 100 pages for someone like me, who has been traveling full time for almost 5 years!? It would be easier in fact to publish a simple traveling diary of these 5 years of very personal happenings, whether the reader understand it or not, whether it is boring or funny, it will remain a very subjective matter, or better, a sort of autobiography of my last few years (which I am willing to write it one day, but not now...). Instead, what I am trying to create is to compress my extended traveling experience, put it out of its very subjective view and think of it as if I was other people's brain! That is because I am writing a short manual for people who wants to travel, for some of you who wants to know more about its philosophy and for those who need to learn very practical tips. Therefore here it comes the hard task of elaborating all my data, select what to insert and what not, what needs to be explained and what needs to be left for the readers to dig. Some philosophical topics for example would deserve to be discussed in another dedicated book, so it is yet difficult to cut and concise some important chapters. However my objective is now to write something that everyone would be interested to read and acknowledge.

 

20 February 2008 - 5 flights and 3 countries in 1 month, but come around like a spinningtop - From Singapore to Hainan, from Hainan to Guangdong, from Guangdong to Singapore, from Singapore to Malaysia, from Malaysia to Singapore, from Singapore to Hainan (tomorrow), from Hainan to Guangdong (day after tomorrow). Apart from this moving-routine parenthesis, I will be back soon to my "beloved" Guangzhou, eating shit, breathing shit, doing some temporary jobs and finally (hopefully) completing my traveling handbook.

 

16 February 2008 - DVD dying and Blu-Ray taking its place - After few months inspecting tech news related to the format wars between hd-dvd, blu-ray and dvd, I can now say for sure that our new concept of disc is called Blu-Ray, where you can save up to 50gb of data (while dvd could only host 4gb), and watch high definition content. Well, I'm just glad that the curve of high technology is getting much better, and soon our virtual experiences will give light to our cloudy days. Blu-ray Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

10 February 2008 - China, Hainan video is out! -  another video update, showing a unique 2007/2008 new year eve on Sanya beach, the life of JinJiang countryside town, a friend's wedding and more...chinese soundtrack by Lee Hom (Kiss Goodbye) ...check it out on Hainan page or videos page for the download.

[20 February Update: I uploaded a new version of this video, fixed an error which was compromising the soundtrack.]

 

9 February 2008 - He that dwells next door to a cripple will learn to halt - Have you ever heard of that old proverb? In simple words, bad company brings bad habit...what goes with the stupid, will become stupid...or any other way you can add...However, agreeing with the truth of the proverb, my question is, why does it never apply on the other way around? Dumb people in company of clever people don't actually become clever! It is more likely the one who gets influenced by drinkers, drug addicts, criminals, shallow people, ignorance, etc. Are we that good in absorbing and sifting the bad content in every given mixed content? The answer possibly lies somewhere when you usually prefer taking too short short-cuts to overcome your fears, your dreams, your worries and your innate pain of living as a new-age human. We have a confused fluctuation of our thoughts being influenced by the others, by the media or by whatever it works for a daily "group-selection" (but wrongly interpreted). We watch and catch erroneous example of values and virtues, by people who are projecting an apparent successful image of themselves based on materialistic achievements instead of humanistic accomplishments. So what is the upside down thing here?

 

3 February 2008 - This line is dedicated to MAX - Thanks a lot to MAX for his donation! :)

 

30 January 2008 - Indonesian videos ready to rock - I have just uploaded 200mb in 2 videos taken in Jakarta and Bali. They are now are available in the videos page and of course in the Indonesian travel page. In each of these videos you will have the chance to listen to a bit of Indonesian music. Special thanks again to Ayu , Arya and Mary.

 

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