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23 July 2009 - Some blunt truth - I don't know where to start...during these years I rarely published articles on matters that I considered either too private or too important to be trimmed and squeezed in a small blog entry. There were also other deeper reasons behind: I sometimes simply didn't want to share it with everyone as I was too jealous and shy of it. At times I thought it couldn't have possibly be put in line with other entries or in general with a traveling website and my character. I valued too much the impact of my writings on the average reader, wanting to leave a certain and defined impression within the boundaries i was subliminally setting. Today, I am breaking my own rules, today I do not give a damn about you, today I am writing for myself, freed of all chains, I have been walking in hell and I got nothing to lose anymore. I usually don't regret the choices I made for my life; whether I chose with my heart or with my rational judgment, I almost never regret. And that is what gave me self confidence, what made me appear so different to everyone, I always took my decisions in total freedom and genuineness, without any sense of fake responsibility or any kind of social-illusional-moral brainwashing scheme. But this time...I have made a terrible mistake...one of the most regretful mistakes of my entire life. So I am now in company of the loyal mr. pain and mrs. broken heart as if it were taylor-made to happen all at the same time, leaving me to beg for a break. The last time ive loved someone so much was probably longer than 6 years ago, even before starting my round the world trip, if im not mistaken. My rational drive is completely overwhelmed by the emotions, therefore I am behaving like if I were a teenager at his first love. I find myself often in tears, I lost appetite, Im sleepless and restless. I cant think of anything else except her. The worst part is feeling a long and heavy sword stabbing my heart with an invisible hand tossing it without any pause, 24h per day. It seems the world and my existence in particular has lost its meaning, making the only reason to live the dream of chasing my love and never let it go again. I abandoned any hobby, interest or project since at the moment it doesn't stimulate or distract me enough. I have suicidal thoughts as it seems to be way too painful to live without her. I'm in the place where we first met and every memory is coming back, our first date, our first kiss, our first fight...every time i walk around I remember these roads where we walked together, the places we have been together...and I can see these films right in front of me, I can hear us talking, I can see the past right in front of me, I can almost touch it, I can see us laughing, holding each other hands, but when a strange impulse suddenly reach my heart, the picture fades away and an unbelievable pain takes place. Sometimes I stand right in the same place where we were 6 months ago and start to scream, keep my hands tight to my head I close my eyes and try to imagine with all my strength that I can go back in time and fix everything. I can see myself traveling through time and making the right choices. It would take so little to change the future, I would know exactly where and how to fix it. But few seconds after, I feel sucked in the vortex of the reality surrounding me and I realize there is no such thing as time travel. And again, the pain starts. The tears are unstoppable. The days seem to have no end. I just made the biggest mistake ever, I had the solution in my hand but I couldn't recognize it immediately, so I let her go...and this mistake will mark my heart and my existence forever. Hyunjoo, I love you.
16 July 2009 - H1N1 Updates, Day 2 - I had to take an x-ray to my upper torso yesterday late night, as i understood, in order to check my breathing functions. I get to eat 3 time per day, which consist in white rice (probably the white chinese rice washed with ammoniac), some vegetables (which is so far the healthiest thing i found in my meal) and a portion of chicken in a bath of low quality engine oil (60% of it it's skin and bones, 20% is oily and fatty juice, so only 20% or less is pure, clean and skinned chicken meat). The actual treatement for the H1N1 alone consists in taking 2 pills per day of TAMIFLU (by Roche): couple of friends of mine are at the moment investigating regarding possible side effects, dangers and benefits of this medicine. The rest of the pills are some sort of chinese antibiotics and vitamins/mieral salts. I just got informed that i cannot receive any visit! No outsider is allowed in this wing. The good news of today is that i feel better. I took some short walks in and out the room when allowed. Cough and runny nose is increased a bit but my fever dropped from 39C to 37.3C. I am still a bit afraid that some new complications will raise, but overall i am more relaxed. I am now sharing the room with other 2 h1n1 infected guys. They are really friendly and one of them can even speak english so he's helping me out a lot when it comes to talk to doctors. Late in the evening I received some emails with responses about the research on Tamiflu which were yet not clear enough for me to take the drastic decision if to stop taking this suspecious medicine or not. My roommates have a mobile phone with camera so we sneaked out to take some shots of the place!! Will be trying post it here later on.
10 July 2009 - My tribute to Michael Jackson continues - While in Thailand, I searched all over for a MJ tshirt to wear in his honour and I finally found one which also report his birth and death date. 1958 - 2009. I still cant stop recalling his achievements in life...he is an idol, a music icon, the winner of numerous awards, holding as well many world records for top selling albums and so on. He devoted tens of million dollars in chairity, while some of us mocked and judged him for what he appeared, we have probably never gave a decent thought on his troublesome childhood. Anyway, I have been wearing that tshirt around Thailand and Hong Kong just these days and the reaction in public is quite positive! Many fans but even casual people stopped me asking where I had bought it and how cool it had looked, also, extending their respect with a glimpse, a smile, a salute, a gesture...the tribute continues worldwide...Michael we love you.
26 June 2009 - Rest in peace Michael you are a remarkable piece of history, I will always remember you - Yesterday, something truly sad happened: Michael Jackson suddenly passed away. I couldn't believe it when i saw the breaking news coming up, as he was due to hold the last concert tourne in London during July. To me he was more than an artist, more than a musician, more than a composer, more than an actor, more than a dancer, more than a singer. He has always been present among my first music cassette collection back in the 90, then on cd and now on mp3. My "thriller" guy, my "bad" guy,.. what can I say, I am still utterly speechless, you have been my singer-companion in my walkman, my favorite star on video; your dance style was absolutely amazing and your melodies outstanding. Nobody can ever copy your style, as it was a unique pearl in this fucked up world. You made people dreaming, you made people fainting at your concerts, you made people happy to have you around and now that you're gone your making people so so sad. Yes, you really made the difference in many people lives. I respect you. Shit, man, I can't believe it...it cant be true...Your last concert could have been one of the biggest event in the show business..YOU WERE A LIVING LEGEND. NO MATTER WHERE I WENT DURING MY TRAVELS, EVERYBODY KNEW YOU. E.V.E.R.Y.B.O.D.Y. IN EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY ON THIS SHIT PLANET. . PLEAESE WATCH SOME BREAKING NEWS AND FANS TRIBUTES. People are devoting essays, news , entire sites, messages and notes in every possible language. He is still all over the news all over the world...MICHAEL JACKSON WE LOVE YOU.
17 June 2009 - Food toxicity - Every time I step in a supermarket I remind myself how dumb is the average consumer and how poor attention people pay to their alimentary shop. I have been talking over this subject for several times but I guess I cant get enough. Yet I am still in search of a safe way out of this sick dietary system that reigned from the '80 up to nowadays and will probably last for another 10 or 20 years. So why is it sick? It is sick because around 70 to 90 percent of the food you consume daily contains various species of unhealthy preservatives, colorings, artificial flavorings, thickeners, artificial sweeteners and thousands of others chemical compounds and food additives. The average consumer, but better, the average person, is generally attentive only to the product's name, brand, design or its commercial campaign and for least but not for last, the price, usually stopping at what he can read in the boxes front cover. The smart consumer has an extra gear as he will turn the box around, will read the nutritional facts table, the ingredients and he will know exactly what he is buying. Seems obvious but i shall repeat, in order to understand what a certain food is made of, you must know its ingredients, thus consequently comprehend if there are any suspicious additives in the product. Secondly, but not in second order of importance is to read the nutritional table, in order to understand whether the product fit in your personal diet or not. At the moment, these 2 fundamental instructions are our only savior, at least until there will be mandatory laws that keep the industries binded of writing nutritional and ingredients informational on the label of every pre packed food. Of course corruption is constantly present and there are still hundreds of dishonest industries packing products containing non mentioned illegal ingredients usually considered not safe. These industries would deserve to be burnt and anyone who has intentionally played around with public health executed in loco. Let alone these unethical happenings, I slowly realized that even though we have a 100% natural product, it may be already contaminated by toxic shit: for instance, how about a nice fresh egg, which you would probably stake your right hand that it does not contain any food additive, as it obviously just came out from the chicken's ass! So it must be natural you would say!!. But you're wrong again! Today, in the majority of the industries chickens are kept in inadequate cages that barely fit for them, left without any option of movement growing up against nature, but this is nothing if you think that their food is specially made with the worst kind of chemical shit available, all just to make them grow fast&fat. So here is the sick chain explained: old animals kept in captivity with their guts full of chemical shit give birth to new animals who are already contaminated since the day they are born, then they are fed with even more shit so they can serve you sure a 100% fresh milk or eggs, but guess what, nobody tells you that the commercial eggs contain more than 10 types of antibiotics and other residual chemical shit, besides having unbalanced quantities of vitamins and fatty acids. Indeed, no matter how careful you are in choosing your food and no matter how natural it may appear, you're still eating shit. Of course still less shit than the average person who choose his aliments randomly or merely basing his ideas on how good they taste. By the way, is there a way out? Find out by yourself, but as far as i know a temporary solution lies in the organic food. Organic food is for a matter of facts far better as it's produced in industries that follow very rigid standards of quality and strict regulations in order to obtain an organic certification. The only failure is the price, which indeed stands from 2 up to 4 times higher than non-organic. One last thing, unfortunately the problem of unhealthy ingredients is not only concerning human food, but you can easily find them among many beauty products...
31 May 2009 - Made it to Australia! - Right in the picture, Im in the middle of Charles Darwin national park, which means I am now in Darwin, Northen Territories province. After being hooked with a 79$ low cost flight from Singapore, I finally landed on my 36th visited country. Even though my idea was to explore the Queensland region, I have been quite happy with the idea of spending a short time in Darwin. Speaking about the first impressions, the region seems to be surrounded by a stunning nature, the climate is great, the sky is clear and the lifestyle is as laid back as I was told. The cost of living is quite high but meat and fruit seems to be of a good deal by price/quality ratio. One thing, if you dont have a car, you can't do anything as distances between places are great and public transportation is undertandingly not very functional. Too bad you can't swim as waters are often infested by crocodiles and box jellyfishes. Anyway, you should know by now that no place on earth will ever match all of your expectations, so it's now time to tell you something really bad: people are terribly fat, fat without any restrain, ladies are among the most unattractive females ive ever seen in my entire life. I have been astonished by couple mating: I saw an impressive quantity of very good looking guys staying with obese girls. What surprises me is that they dont even realize it. Ladies try to dress sexy thinking that their huge, falling and flabby boobs will divert the attention from their greasy obese legs, arms and buttocks. Unfortunately it didnt work with me. It's an orrible show but if you have strong guts dont worry because everything else in Darwin is beautiful. [Jump to the australia photogallery page here]
16 May 2009 - Dedicated to Mr. "Tic" - This lines are dedicated to my friend "Tic" who came to visit me all the way from Europe. As you can notice in the picture, he as well thought of spending his 31th birthday together with me. Even though he always added lots of troubles onto my own life and over the life of people who were nearby me, here it follows some of our slang to honour the present and the old times: vvvvvvia, ahhh mah come, ohhh cristo, ma-no-ma-no, conar, predone del deserto, tutto ticchettato, devi morir conar, eh no!, tocchi la mia sei fottuto, a pRe la modellla, un millino, cenquant euRo', e aloRR, prigion, arab, a montecarlo'. Sei in un bel paSticcio', ah l'agiance', al cafe de pari', sei fottuto', abbiam chiesto anche a lui'...next trip: Madrid. auuhffhhhhhafdklsdajaslkjdaasdaadda eheehhhhhhhhh. vvvvia!. [P.S. I will soon add the video of the moment I picked him up at Singapore airport, where you can see the two of us acting like dumb&dumber].
13 May 2009 - Nosham Korean video out on youtube - I have just put together some of the clips I recorded in South Korea and so, the video tour has rised from the ashes. Take a glimpse at the colorful Jeju island, observe the contrast between the technological and traditional look of Seoul. But mainly, this is all about my memories back there of course. More than 8 minutes long and 190mb of download (can be also found in S.Korea page) ; soundtrack by Kate Perry - I Kissed a girl and a very nice Korean song by Wonder Girls - Nobody wants you. Can be watched on Youtube too , following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IbzyLF3jrc or on my channel here. Enjoy.
03 May 2009 - One step closer to the battle against the aging - Today it's my birthday, my 29th birthday...wow...it feels like yesterday the day I was celebrating my 23th or 24th. Back then, I used to think that somehow at 29 or 30 my life would have had a determinate turn and pushed me into something "different" and new. I used to believe I would have felt different going so close to the wall of the 30ies or while crossing it...but yet, every year, the day of my birthday I look at myself...and it's still me...nothing has really changed... Few years back I overcame the fear of seeing the first white hair on me, the first wrinkle and the first sign of physical aging. I many times found myself saying "so it's really happening..." as if it were supposed to happen to everyone else except me...funny. I've noticed that even around informal contests, at times people started to call me "sir". If today I look at a group of teenagers I can still see and recall myself reflected into them, while probably in the other way around they would just see me as an adult. I previously got anxious but now aware that there is nothing I can do to stop this process. But the unequivocal truth is...damn...I dont want to grow old. In order to slow down the process, I have settled with myself that from 2010 on, I'll start saving and spending money for the first fixes to my upcoming exponential aging matter. First 2 treatments will serve my sight and my hair: I will settle the score with my short sightedness (myopia) and with my progressing baldness. How did I spend the day of my birthday? In Novena square, Singapore, playing videogames until late and sweating like a waterfall. [Update: I forgot to mention the third aesthetical fix: teeth whitening]
01 May 2009 - Not yet on the way home - Almost 9 months have been passing since I left my country for the sixth world trip. I am aware that some friends and relatives are expecting me to be back to Italy soon for the summer time and spend the usual couple of months with them. But this year, I am not so sure I will be able to make it home on time, as I need to check out few more places and solve some personal issues first. Honestly, Italy is a country that will never stop to disgust me, which I hated for so long and where I have never looked forward to go back to. Yet in 2009 it continues to hold the same unresolved issues of ages ago; not by chance it is the worst country in Europe, all according to statistics, having levels of bureaucracy, corruption and justice system comparable to many countries of the third wolrld. (By the way, watch this funny video on the difference between italy and the rest of europe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAJNFoHuLno ). Oh another thing, even though im not a frequent coffee drinker, i hate the fucking italian coffee, I instead prefer the long american type : how can they even call "coffee" that little piece of shit, served in a tiny cup for kindergarten children?. Fuck that shit, that's for Italian faggots. Anyway on the other hand I still got few things back there: I do miss the time spent with my mates playing poker until 4am, smoking pot and go for sunday spring barbeques on the lake. I miss my grandmother cakes and begging for money with my friend Tic. I miss drinking Becks with Mr. Lobster and few other unforgettable goodies.
16 April 2009 - Sub (official) domain for the D.I.P. (The Deserted Island Project) - I am today starting to work on the official DIP website, which will be hosted as a nosham subdomain. Having a dedicated site for the project could mean better development in planning and perhaps better support from third parties. Most important, there will be 2 new section with stories and links to people who have already done this adventure and others who are going to do it. Letters, blogs, connections, photos, videos, press and a lot more to be coming...soon. Url will be: dip.nosham.com, add it to your favorites now.
14 April 2009 - Dave Arneson (the pioneer of rpg games), another star has passed away - A fan tribute: "My first D&D game was in 1980 with my family and friends. We are still playing now. It's a way of life, not just a game. I am now 62 and a grandma on the outside, but a powerful Priest who slaughtered Iuz and many more demi-gods over the years in my life in D&D. Thanks for all that. I shall never forget you. Julie Keymer, Cambridge, UK ". Read the news on bbc...
25 March 2009 - On Jeju island, Korea - Hi, It's me again, I've suddenly changed location, Im now writing from Jeju island: korean people use to call it the "island-paradise" as it holds different natural marvels. After only 3 days on the island, I have already explored quite few locations, like a waterfall spot, a sandy white shore, a shiny and colorful bay, a snorkeling site with fantastic shiny diamond blue-scale colors and a relaxing vernal flowering field. Korean people are already (usually) among the kindest and educated people on earth but on this island they are even more kind and friendly...you wont believe it until you pass by here! Unfortunately the weather is still chilly but it should get better shortly, during April. Awesome pictures will be posted soon! Stay in touch!
17 March 2009 - Nosham v 1.30 - Another major update for my blog: new css drop down menu for a faster and more intuitive navigation throughout the site; left column removed to give more space and importance to the central content. Best viewed with most recent browser, IE7+, Safari 3+, Firefox 2+. (P.s. sorry for the IE6 users but they wont be able to make it on my site this time)
13 March 2009 - Cleaned up - Time has been passing quite fast here in Korea, and since i left the unhealthy China, I feel much better. Moreover I haven't drunk a single drop of alcohol and neither had a smoke (or even a puff) for almost two months. I have joined a sport center where I am trying to get back into a great shape. The weight lifting instructor has been really tough during my work out sesssion...till the point that I had to struggle to walk back home. I have been cooking myself tofu, eggs and chicken; fruit for breakfast and green tea to drink. To break the repetitive diet, sometimes we have been out to a japanese restaurant for a nice sushi round. I am now experimenting different kind of trainings with body building machines and non: I will be soon ready to share my accumulated experience with you as i have seen quite an unusual number of different gym and instructors/training-theories around the world. Anyway, it has been tough, quite a challange at the beginning, but at last I can proudly say that i am now 100% clean, in full strenght and health; and it feels great...you should try it too sometimes.
15 February 2009 - The curious case of Benjamin Button - Yesterday evening I went to the cinema to attend a show that will probably be considered "the movie of the year" (2009). I wasnt expecting something so well directed and perfectly shooted in every single detail. The almost 3 hours duration will first create a wind of dramatic emotions inside you, then turn it into a vortex with its subliminal philosophical messages towards to topics like life, love, death and the nature of "happenings" in our existence. Finally, by the end it will turn you into a storm of of tears. Yes, I remember myself crying for at least 3 times during the show and still, once on the way back home. I couldnt stop mentally reviewing the movie and thinking about the many meaningful minutes watched. [click on the poster to visit the official site]
13 February 2009 - The story of "STUFF" - Please take 20 minutes off your time to watch this educative video: http://www.storyofstuff.com/ , to put it simple, it explains the deadly cycle of extracting-producing-consuming-wasting-trashing with very easy sketches adding an easy and clear but effective speech. Highly raccommended ****. This is video is referred to you, average ordinary person who is selling your life to the media, to the consumerism and to the wage slavery. Today watch and meditate!
12 February 2009 - Nosham's RSS news to start right now ! - If you havent noticed it yet, I activated the RSS button in your internet explorer window (but ive also placed an incon just below the main menu) which will give you the option to subscribe to my website news via RSS. Use it on your mp3 player, mobile phone or any other portable media device to stay updated with my news. Enjoy.
9 February 2009 - Trying out the crowded world of the stockmarket - Beginning thrusday last week, i've entered in the vortex of the online trading! The dream job for those who are deseperately willing to find a career that occupies just few hours of their day and offers endless earning prospectives from a standard salary up hundred thousand dollars a month, depending of by your investment capital, your willing to risk and of course by your marketing/trading/intuitive skills. Great thing, is that this is the perfect job for travellers too...you just need a laptop and an internet signal. So ive decided to give it a try and here i am (i picked up the videogames market as it's the only one that i feel familiar with). I now officially own 500 shares of Capcom CO LTD, a videogame company quoted in the Tokyo stock market, listed under symbol 9697. I have never done this before so Im like checking the quote like crazy, hundred times a day to see if it's going well. It wasnt a random purchase if that is what you are wondering now...I had a pre planned medium term strategy regarding these shares. For those who wish to follow me, buy within this week at 1780 JPY limit and wait until around half March, then watch the stock closely and sell if it reaches over 2500 JPY otherwise sell whenever you see they're starting to go down again. Will keep you posted on the result of my first little investment.
31 January 2009 - Arya's wedding - Dedicated to Arya (from Bali, Indonesia) who is today getting married. My dear, I wish you a lot of happiness in the most important step and day of your life. I'm very sorry that I couldn't be there to celebrate together, but I promise to pay you a visit in the years to come and check how you two love birds are doing. I haven't met your other half, but im sure you have done the greatest choice from the bottom of your heart. I will be glad to receive some photos of the ceremony and perhaps I could post couple of them here on my blog. Again, congratulations guys! :)
29 January 2009 - My traveling guide is out ! - I had written the 80% of this handbook during 2007, being seldom committed to this work, but had a good draft by the end of the same year. The following 2008 has just been adding the remaining 20%, reviewing and changing 10 times my mind about what to write and what not to write. The main issue was that most of what I wrote that time, turned out to be kind of outdated compared to my experience of few months after or so. I had to keep on changing and re-reviewing to re-adapt it to my "new" me, until now, when I got tired and I had to make a choice. To continue my slow and constant dull modification until undefined time or just publish my manuak the way it is at now, with the opened option of adding further improvements and chapters when the time comes. In the meantime you can enjoy the version 1.0, buying it now for the very cheap price of 1 Euro only (in .PDF file, download of 13mb black and white or 130 for color, as it will contain some pictures as well). Buying the guide will entitle you to receive free updates in case of any further improvement. Available in english only of course, but if anyone feels to collaborate and transalte it into different languages I will be glad to offer full assistance. By the way, some months ago Ive sent a beta version of this script to quite few people who vowed to read it and reply with constructive feedbacks and comments. Unpleasantly they all turned me down except one person: her name is Laura from Italy (in2out.it): today I would officially like to thank her for being so supportive regarding this project. Jump to my books page ------->HERE. Email me for any suggestion or comment.
25 January 2009 - Freezing - I've just felt what means being under -19°C. Just out of the airport, wearing the blanket "borrowed" from AirMacao and a scarf. Wearing no gloves, ten minutes later i started to feel my hands a bit numb, then very red and dry and shortly after the pain begun: slowly, I found myself kind of lamenting and I had to seek for asylum in a bakery to avoid screaming. Soon to come, the south korea traveling page with photos and videos of my trip.
20 January 2009 - Going to South Korea - Never been there, my 35th visited country.
Still have the summer gear in my backpack, ready for tropical adventures and yet i can't believe im
going to face below the zero temperatures soon. I'll get there on the 23rd
January with the plan of go to skiing of course.
19 January 2009 - Traveling updates - For all the foreigners traveling to China under tourist or student visas: just yesterday evening I experienced the procedure that you have to go through at the border in case you overstayed in the country. I looked up in the net (as i knew i was in overstay) before approaching the border and in the traveling forums i found many discordant posts. Some guys managed to get away with no fine even with a 10 days overstay, while couple of people even got detented for some time for only 1 day of overstay and fined for thousands of RMB (chinese dollars). Ok so here it follows my experience: I overstayed my visa for 1 days only and I have been kept by the immigration police for several hours, questioned regarding the reasons of my overstay and finally let go without any fine payed but with a warning note (as a first time offender). Anyway I had the chance to ask an official and according to the law, if it's the first time you get cought, you can overstay for 1 to 10 days without paying any fine or going to detention, you will be free to leave after having signed the warning letter. If you overstay for 11 days to a year you will have to pay a fine of 500rmb per overstayed-day to a maximum of 15000rmb and after that target you risk to be imprisoned for a maximum of 21 days. In addition, fines and penalties are entirely up to the officer discretion: according to his mood he or she shall decide your fate (but still within the law boundaries). This is just for first time offenders, but i didnt ask for those who are unfortunately making the same mistake for the second time...
30 December 2008 - My boy_friend(s) - No...im not yet homosexual neither bi-sexual, but i've recently added to my english vocabulary the way to refer to my male friends as boy_friends instead of male-friends or other similar allusions. I just thought of it when I was listening to a female friend of mine who was saying something like: "I'm going out with my girlfriends tonight!", thus, why shouldnt I be allowed to say "hey I'm going out with my boyfriends tonight!". So i looked up at the dictionary.com and wikipedia; both of them report that "boyfriend" can be also used to refer to a male non-romantically involved partner (even if wikipedia specifies that it'not modernly used). Regarding the written english there is a distinction between boyfriend (without the space) and boy friend (with the space): it's indeed a way to understand when we are writing about a romantically involved companion or not. So all my boyfriends (sorry, boy_friends) should be happy here: we got HIStory and now I, Alan Rooster, shall give you the power to proudly tell your girlfriend that you are going out with your BOYfriends while she's out with her girlfriends :)
18 December 2008 - Full moon party video is out now - yeah, but dont expect much of quality, lightening and editing. i just listlessly put some scenes together and voila'. In the video you can see me taking part to a funny boxing-balance game, where i have been 4 times champion and gained 2 free beers!!! Watch it directly on Youtube either in standard or high definition : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNBpMR6FISs . For the affectionados download it here.
16 December 2008 - Nosham Youtube channel - I've uploaded 90% of the video content on my web onto Youtube. This way there will not be any more complaint regarding bandwidth problems, corrupted files and so on. Although the youtube quality is not excellent, it will be fast enough for you to watch them directly by streaming without much loading times. My channel name is alannosham (unfortunately nosham was taken already, as well alan and rooster...). On my videochannel you can also check few of my favorite videos I found around youtube archive: documentaries, tech stuff, and also funny shows. Will add more soon.
12 December 2008 - Nosham CSS menu experiment - Im doing webdesign, but i have never created a template. So last night i stayed up until 5am because i found inspiration by looking at the command bar of my win vista. I decided to design a menu bar with a similar style: dark colors, shiny look, transparencies and neon glowing on mouse hover: it's an example of a CSS menu that can be applied to any html page and works pretty well. Software used was Adobe photoshop cs4 and dreamweaver cs4. I uploaded a zip file with included all the material to make the menu template work, 3 images in PNG, the PSD master file, the .css code and the html index file. Of course with a basic knowledge of html css and photoshop you can easily modify colors effects, change the size of the bar, etc. So feel free to apply any mod to my work. Download and use it for free
07 December 2008 - Even Alan Rooster needs to work (sometimes) - Wondering what I have been working on during the last two months? Check out one of my work in progress: www.i-cut.it. Will complete it along with other couple of projects and a corporate video by the 17 December 2008, date in which i'll return to be jobless, homeless, but as free as a bird!
01 December 2008 - The christmas banner is online...again - The usual christmas bannner, now online for the 3rd time on nosham.com! This year showing even with a better picture quality! Marry fucking christmas to everyone! What should piss us off now, is that as always the perfect objective for these mass propagandas are not only the same old pathetic religious people but even innocent "peacefully-ignorant" kids, If you have kids, please tell them that christmas is all a big bullshit, made up for commercial reasons to sell even more bullshit. Thankfully, there is not much going on for christmas here in asia...
30 November 2008 - 李小龙 jacket - Couple of weeks ago, while in Hong Kong, I finally got the chance to buy a traditional chinese jacket. I've always wanted to get one, since my first time in asia, during 2005, but never spent much time to find the perfect size, fit and color, always postponing until this november: while walking around Mong Kok street market with a friend from Taiwan who had to buy some souvenirs, I suddenly scouted a small shop selling it for cheap (around 15 U$) 100% cotton with a wonderful match of black with brown buttons and sleeves. So...It is indeed a very unusual event to buy myself an apparel (i remember about 6 month ago buying a second hand shirt for a temporary job and a year ago a pair of shoes which im still wearing at now). No, im not going to join any kungfu school (even if that is listed under my future plans) nor getting married to a chinese woman (no offence...), but just because I had an itch for that thing since I was a young student of martial arts. Besides, I think it looks pretty good in different occasions either elegant or sport related. Oh, and when i wear it in front of my laptop i feel like an hacker...(but dont ask me why...). [In the picture, me obviously, in road number 十五 ， Clifford， 番禺区]
23 November 2008 - Giuseppino Yuen, unexpected talent - My new friend from China, "Giuseppe", has been studying Italian for 1 year only, but he can speak amazingly fluent! Considering that he has never been to Italy, not only he owns an impressive vocabulary of words but he also knows lots of Italian slang and ways to say. As if it weren't enough, he is a lyric singer, a tenor: well, actually he's still studying on that, but he (just few days ago)
won the second prize during a competition among all guangdong universities. In a couple of years he will travel to Italy mastering his talent at the Milan Conservatorio where many famous musicians have studied in the past. I wish him good luck and I will soon upload some of his demo of "La donna e' mobile".
21 November 2008 - Michael Jackson converts to islam !?! - Read HERE. Seriously, what the frack is wrong with this world today? What the heck is it happening all around? Where are we heading? Son of a bitch i cant believe it, god fuckjing damn it, the king of the music ...another hero is falling...
31 October 2008 - Thailand 08 video added - New video added to my collection: shot in thailand during september will feature some of the ordinary tourist attractions and as well some personal clips dedicated to all my friends and people I met during my trip. Locations are: Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Hua Hin, Chumphon, Suratthani, Koh Samui. I shot over 5gb of clips in HD, but i couldn't publish them all, so i just selected 10 mins of the nice ones. I didn't insert the full-moon-party videos cause I'll edit a separate video for that (soon). Thanks for watching
08 October 2008 - D.I.P. Flyer first test in HK - Today I finally printed out a flyer for the deserted island project, and guess what, i've tested its impact on the masses, by distributing it in the streets of Hong Kong for 1 hour time. People thought I wanted to sell them something, but at last few of them stopped and curiously asked me lot of questions about my dream. Some were not directly interested but they said they will be spreading the news among their friends. The only problem is that this way of promoting my project it's way too expensive and out of budget, supposing that I pay around 0.25 HK$ per flyer and willing to give away 1 million copies, that would cost me over 50.000 US dollars! So if someone is willing to sponsor this initiative by flying with a helicopter over the main streets of Hong kong (but after all any other big metropolis will do) and throwing a million copies of my flyer on people, please do let me know. Actually, if you are willing to volunteer in my project, you could contribute by just posting a copy of my flyer onto any board at your university or workplace or library, anything, or eventually by just passing the voice to your contacts...well thank you very much in advance if you can help me out of this hard mission...Ok I have made 2 different designs, you can download it here: flyer1 ; flyer2 (all are in .doc format).
03 October 2008 - Living at KLIA - In Kuala Lumpur, having to catch a flight to Hong kong by 3rd oct at 0735am I went to the airport the night before, 2nd oct at 10pm and after staying awake all night, I saw on the departures board that my flight was canceled due to bad weather! Fucking hell...ok they put me on another flight, 4 oct at 4.15pm, and looks like I'll have to spend another 30 hours at the airport, but that's not it, the chances are that the typhoon spinning around the canton area will not pass out until sunday night! Son of a bitch, that could shoot up the number of hours spent at this airport to 72 or more. As if it weren't enough, I have only 50u$ left, that need to pay food until around 16th october and most important the chinese visa fee (im going for a temporary job in china). Looking at the positive side, I might be going to break my record by number of days lived at the airport. [4th October update: tot. hours: 42h 09 mins]
20 September 2008 - Goodbye Holger - Dedicated to my swimming buddy, Holger from Germany/New Zeland: we spent 2 weeks swimming every day from the shore to a tiny red flag about 250mt far, 5 to 7 rounds for a total of about 2.50 km swam daily which makes a total of 35 km in 14 days. We used to meet at 16.30pm at Lamai beach (and he has never been 1 minute late, while I have been late few times) and swim until around 6.00pm. Dude...I will miss our work out very much! I know you want me to come back to Samui and I want it too, I always love the time spent doing sport, eating great food and living healthy, therefore I'll do my best to be back with you soon! Take care of the sea for me! : )
15 September 2008 - Survived the full moon party - In Koh Phagnan, Thailand, It's the night when the moon is on its brightest and clearest side, when between 10.000 and 30.000 people gather together in a 1.5km of beach stretch for the biggest party in the world. It has been taking place for more than 30 years once per month. Here it follows my review on common myths and facts that must be clarified: It's true you can find few kind of different drugs and in somewhat large quantities, but it's false that you can find every kind of drug and that almost every person does drug at the party. It's false that there are people of every age and nationality, as the main affluence comes from western countries and the minority is asian, the average age is 22-23 years old. It's false that this party is dangerous and unsafe, there are in fact many efr and red cross, safety zones and staff ready to soccurr, people also take good care of eachother, taxi and boat transfer drivers are ready to be patient and available with the drunk and stoned guys. Adictionally, no one is forcing people to take drugs and there is no "party-moral-code" where you need to go wild in order to enjoy the night.I was there with Toppy, Bee and other thai friends. We enjoyed trying out the bucket drinking style which consists in mixing different type of alcohol in a small bucket and then share it with your fellas. Obviously as alcohol flaws like waterfalls, you'll see people collapsing everywhere. Overall it has been a very original experience for my first time, but in the end there is nothing so awesome in seeing bunch of teenagers getting hi and vomiting onto each other. By the way that was it from Thailand, I'll be off soon to my next stop.
13 September 2008 - Facebook, the net and the new technology have brought Alan Rooster some moments of happiness - I'm always carrying numerous people in my thoughts, with me during my travels and everywhere, constantly present in my memory and connected to my past, whether referred to good or bad experiences. There are quite lot of old dated friends and schoolmates that I haven't seen for ages, (like 10 to 20 years) and at times, when sitting down and letting my self being absorbed by my melancholic and lonely mind, I 've been deeply wondering which way they took...are all of them still alive? Are they still living in the same city? Did they became what they've always wanted to be? Do they still think of me? Do they still have the same home phone number? What are they doing right now? These thoughts were of great company in many solitary occasions, until one day I heard something about a service that could have helped to trace old classmates: Facebook, nothing special at that time, it seemed like one of the many boring friend's network websites. Later on, I tried to google an old friend's name, and I found out he had a profile on this growing "Facebook", so I decided to subscribe, hoping to be able to get in touch with some old mates. Done that, I haven't been in touch with the service for a while, until few friends input my name "Alan Gallicchio" in facebook's search box and finally they found me. So the networking begun and in few months I was able to get connected with at least 10 of those friends whose I would have never imagined to see again in my life. Still I haven't met anyone, but I'm so excited to the idea of being able to meet and hug them again one day while asking each other about the last 15 years of our life, listening their story for hours, not even knowing where to start to tell each other everything! This not only gave me a wider outlook at how the current technology and internet can alter and improve my emotional states but most important gave me a new prospective and a short term gratification to my current pessimistic life that often runs out of reasons to live for.
05 September 2008 - Did I observe my first solar eclipse? - While I was in Surat Thani, waiting the bus to the ferry boat to Samui, I observed a strange phenomenon, looked like an eclipse, but having no knowledge regarding these type of astronomical events, I found it strange to visualize the perfectly circular rainbow at the edge of that kind of dark cloud surrounding the sun in the center. Well Im very happy about the picture, I think it's very rare to assist at one of this celestial events and Im glad I had the chance to capture it with my camera. The date was 28 or 29 August if im not wrong. I will soon check on the internet for further explanations. [Click on the pic to enlarge]
30 August 2008 - In Koh Samui - My friend Toppy was happy to see me again after two years since he showed up in a friend's house in hongkong. He welcomed me like one of his best friend and took good care of me. The bad news is that he'll be traveling to Bangkok soon so guess what, I must move out again....Aww ... it seems like I cant get to stay in a place for more than few days. Why is it like that? I don't know. Anyway , Samui Island it's all about fucking tourists nothing special about its beaches, unless you visit those tiny islands nearby. Not only the sluts around have no respect and verbally harass almost everyone, but as well the rest of the people who have any kind of business on the island, they will try to sell you if not sex, something else, whether trips packages, souvenirs, clothes, motorbike for rent , taxis , buses, everything seems to be for sale and ready for you to choose among a vast collection. If you are white foreigner, they wont let you in peace when you walk. There are parties, yes, best deejays coming from all around thailand and also from abroad, but i dont see anything interesting in going to a crazy party watching a bunch of idiots getting drunk all together. Okey what the heck, you're right , let's not always criticize, so if you want to read some nice fairytales about this place, just click off my website and search something else on google. Bye!
28 August 2008 - From Chumphon - Im in a place somewhere around the center/south part of thailand, I took a night train from Hua Hin, a 3rd class ticket for 200baht and I ended up getting free whiskey shots and drunk together with 2 workers from the countryside of Yala. The 3rd class was smelly and dirty with instects on the floor, we were all crumpled against each other and I forced myself to stay awake in order to take care of my little backpack. Walked all around this town and decided to continue my trip to samui, so I got something to eat, actually a complete meal, some thai noodles with soup, vegetables, soy, chopped chicken for the price of 25baht (0.40 cent$) in one of those lolcal places set up like it was a camp site. I then opened my small diary and wrote few notes, walked other couple of kilometers and consumed 1 liter of water (sweating so much that i didnt even had to take a pee) to find an internet place where in the end I couldnt even plug my laptop online. Then Im now using their crap pc, updating my blog manually: I open the ftp site, drag the index.html file onto the desktop and open it with a notepad application, seek into the code and write p class=parrightmenu which make sense according to the css coding style page, I add these notes, some other html code, save replace the index file and thank the lady in charge who let me use the pc for free as I told her Im a vagabund (which she believed by seeing my bag and that I only carried the clothes that I was wearing on me). I'll go to the train station and continue to south. That was me again, Alan Rooster.
26 August 2008 - In Thailand - My first time visiting this country was back in the early 2005, right after the tsunami had strike, I remember that I've escaped Bangkok after only 2 days of permanence and went directly to Phuket for island hopping close by and found my piece of paradise. Now, after 3 years, im back again: Bangkok really sucks big time, shit man it fucking sucks, it's like one of the worst polluted city of china with the difference that the roads are even smaller. Noises and loudness everywhere, dumb asses who change the car's muffler because they believe the lauder it is the more performant their car will be (actually i sold cars for 2 years and installing a racing exhaust system just adds only up to 5% hp). Anyways, the positive side came when I got to visit the cultural heritage that I've missed years back: the big golden buddha (wat pho) and the ancient temple (wat arun), the floating market and some boat trip up and down the river. Secondly I tripped to Ayuttaya in another province of Thailand and visited again ruins of more ancient temples. Indeed, I still cant tell if you can see more temples or more pictures of the king&queen along your way: probably u'll be fed up after counting hundreds of them. Finally I got on the beach in a place called Hua Hin, which seems to be a Phuket in miniature, although the sea is greenish and quite dirty, the sand is white and soft. I will be soon visiting a thai boy in KohSamui who I met 2 years ago in Hongkong: at that time he said he owns a restaurant on the beach, so i'll pay him a visit as I still have his direction in my addressbook since then! I'll probably end my thai trip within a month if nothing interesting comes up, otherwise, go for a visa run. Last thing, this time I've learnt couple of survival thai words: sawadeekaa(hello) , kapkunkaa(thanks) , pom (I) rak (love) kun (love) (i love you). [Will post picturegallery soon here]
22 August 2008 - Checkpoint Berlin - I ve just spent some days in Germany before flying off to asia. Im now on an airbus a330 pointed to Bangkok but I wont write much as I forgot to charge my laptop and Im running too low on battery. I will soon update some pictures of my berlin trip. I met two new friends Pantanida and Andrea (an artist who I hadnt the chance of getting to know, but Ill make it up next time for sure..) while I couldn't meet my other two old friends living in berlin cause I have been too busy walking around the city with my head on the clouds :) Oh, by the way I've tasted some of their crap german food which is a soup of ketchup on a quite big sausage and french fries...holy shit...
12 August 2008 - RTW trip, my checklist! - Hello folks, today I overcame my limits of what I could have ever thought of a very essential survival checklist for my round the world trip. -12"laptop -toothbrush -sun glasses -passport and intrenational driving license -30lt backpack -blocknotes and pen -digital camera -a jumper. That's it. If you look at the image you can see that there are no clothes besides from the sweather...indeed I am already wearing the only clothes that Im taking with me! So, no spare tshirts no spare socks... nothing. The only thing I need is the ultraportable laptop where I store all my expedition's data. Im excited about the idea of traveling that light! It just rocks!
10 August 2008 - Lillo - I just went to visit an old friend of mine who is a professional rollerblader and talented painter. He showed me one incredible trick of riding an inline skateboard wearing the rollerblades on his feet!!! He usually doeas some acrobatic exibitions nearby Duomo, Via Mercanti , Milan - Italy) almost every friday night. You can watch some of his videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Liliano79
06 August 2008 - D.I.P.. news - The deserted island project has today appeared on one of the largest italian portal about moving abroad. www.voglioviverecosi.com is a website entirely dedicated to Italians who are tired of living in their country and are looking for alternative life styles. It has well populated forum with users who can give some awesome tips and hints. There are numerous and well explanatory sections on how to invest and live oversea. Thanks to Alessandro who has kindly promoted my project!
31 July 2008 - Happy birthday Nosham.com - I've just reached 20.000 hits and almost 4 years on-air. This line is dedicated to all my visitors, people from all around the world who are opening my blog everyday. Thanks for stopping by and read my news. Be always tuned my dear reader.
25 July 2008 - That bitch of my government set me free - I got back my docs and I'm ready to travel again. After passing some exams and tests at the DMV in order to regain the lost points on my driving license, 300$ paid, and 2 months waited, I'm now an happy owner of an international driving permit. I am officially abilitated to drive any car and all kind of motorbikes without any power limitation in more than 60 countries around the world.
24 July 2008 - Nosham video intro - I quickly created a 30 seconds short theme-introduction that I am planning to insert at the beginning of each video I will produce from now on. Works in widescreen full DVD resolution, the soundtrack makes sense and the 8mm crawling film concept it's not bad at all. The only second thought I have is that it can be too long, linear and repetitive after some views. Anyways, check it out and send me your criticism... [01 Aug 2008 Errata corrige: the resolution was not 720p but just a normal x576]
23 July 2008 - Went for a short trip to Sardegna - Yep, as I had to deliver a motorcycle to K.'s father, he hosted me few days at his holiday house in Golfo Marinella, nearby PortoRotondo, where he is spending the summer with his family. I had a great time with them, we also went through an adventure together when I dared to test his 30 years old windsurf equipment with strong wind and I ended up stuck at the other side of the bay, on the rocks. We had a special guest over for dinner once, a philosopher who turned out to be among the most interesting people I've met so far. By the way, it's good to know there are still wonderful places with colorful sea and some unspoiled nature around the mediterranean: when u get to this island for example, you can really tell it has something very unique in its landscape, in its people. It packs some wild nature and as well many accessibilities. And this time, I didn't have to travel 10.000 miles away...i found my piece of home just around the corner...
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...
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
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
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) ]
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.
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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.
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.
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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.]
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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.
17 January 2008 - This motherfucker on your left, is Hu
Jintao, the current dictator of China. Thanks to this piece of communist
shit, my internet access is limited, having many of the useful online resources
resources like the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and other numerous
websites with suspicious historical, political, scientific, erotic
content. Suspicious is, according to China, everything that is providing
free and uncontrolled information regarding the world outside china.
Dear president, come here and suck my cock, since I can't even get the
freedom of masturbating in front of the porn websites. Besides all the
killings he personally supervised since he got in to power, he is
actually considered the 3rd worst living dictator, right after North
Korea and Burma. Check this website which says " The communist party still controls
all media, and uses 40,000 internet security agents to monitor online
use. More than 200,000 Chinese are serving re-education sentences in
labor camps and China performs more than 4,000 executions every year,
more than all of the other nations of the world combined, and many of
them are for non-violent crimes".
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January 2008 -The comic who shook Italy - (From
Beppegrillo's blog) It says: " 70% of Italians between 20 and 30
years of age is still living at home with Mom and Dad, condemned to an
increasingly lengthy and unproductive adolescence. Many of the most
intelligent ones are leaving Italy, just as many of their predecessors
did just a century ago". No comment, this is Italy, so poor of honest
politicians that people need to hear the truth from a comic! It's an
upside down country...Even the New York Times wrote and article and
posted a video regarding Beppe Grillo, read it here please and watch the video. And a warm vaffanculo to Italy from me.
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January 2008 - The police state, the mafia state, welcome to Italy - my home country, a creepy place where to live, where the law is
still not equal for everyone, where there is no death penalty, life
sentence or at least serious consequences for people who murder other
people, for scum immigrants who rape teenagers, for drug dealers or
criminals who are trafficking tons of cocaine destined to the mafia and
the politicians, but hey, there is immediate jail and death execution
for someone who owns a Marijuana plant for personal use. (Watch the
video and read the original post at HERE). What a shame
again! That is just another example out of hundreds cases of injustice
in pizzaland. And nobody speaks up! Nobody except Beppegrillo (take a
look at his website in which he explains why Italy is so fucked up).
It's a disgusting criminal country, made of falsity, politic corruption
and weak police who serves the mafia. Moreover while people are being
murdered by the state, they keep on playing soccer. Fuck off. These
lines are dedicated to Mrs. Roberta Radici who lost her husband.
