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MM: John Denver - Country Roads

2010-05-10T23:59:00.000+02:00

This is one of my favorite Country songs (since we had to sing it in our music and english course). It's from John Denver who died 1997 in a airplane accident. The song - Country Roads - is almost 30 years old but never looses his flair.

Enjoy it!

Here are the lyrics of the song Country Roads from John Denver:

Almost heaven West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah river
Life is old there older than the trees
Younger than the mountains blowin' like a breeze

Country roads take me home
To the place I belove
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine teardrops in my eyes

Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

I hear a voice in the morning hour as she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin' down the road I get a feelin'
That I should have home yesterday yesterday

Country roads take me home

To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

Country roads take me home
To the place I belove
West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

West Virginia mountain momma
Take me home country roads

Take me home country roads
Take me home country roads

Hamburg - a sight seeing tour!

2010-05-07T23:58:00.001+02:00

Image by Wolfgang Staudt via Flickr

Hamburg and its large harbour

Sight seeing in Berlin!

2010-05-04T23:59:00.001+02:00

Image via Wikipedia

On the left you can see the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) in Berlin at night.

Dome of the Reichstag building

© alles-schlumpf

Eye-catching and a masterpiece of modern technology, the dome is one of the main attractions of the Reichstag building. The figures alone are impressive – 23 metres high and 40 metres in diameter. A total of 800 metric tonnes of steel were used in the construction and the outer shell consists of 3000 square metres of glass.

You can visit the dome and walk inside of the Dome of the Reichstag

Architect: Sir Norman Foster

MM: Perpetuum Jazzile - Africa

2010-05-03T23:59:00.001+02:00

One of the most famous A-Capella Choirs Perpetuum Jazzile on YouTube performs "Africa" from Toto with an impressive intro of a Thunderstorm - all done with their hands, feet and voices!

Which sights to see in Sydney during your travel

2010-04-20T23:59:00.001+02:00

Fantastic fireworks at Sydney Harbour

St. Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney

Opera House in Sydney - Amazing night picture

Get a green blog for free, join and blog about it!

2010-04-11T23:59:00.000+02:00

Being part of the initiative “My blog is carbon neutral” is an active contribution to help the environment! All you have to do is described here. Make it happen - make it green!

“My blog is carbon neutral” is an initiative, originally started in Germany by the “Make it Green” programme, that has the goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. We plant a tree for your blog and thereby neutralise your blog’s carbon footprint for the next 50 years! Everyone can make a small contribution to the environment. Every tree counts!

Just write a short blog post about our programme “My blog is carbon neutral” and include one of the buttons. Send the link to your blog to CO2-neutral@kaufda.de and we plant a tree for you, neutralising the carbon dioxide emissions of your blog. The trees will be planted in the spring of 2010 by the Arbor Day Foundation. For more information about how and where the trees are planted, see the NEWS section.

Just a few easy steps to make it green:

Write a blog post about the initiative + insert your favourite button
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Comment and get up to 1.000 EC :)

2010-03-26T23:59:00.001+01:00

Image via CrunchBase

Simply leave relevant comments on one or more of my blog posts and get for each comment (on a different post) 50 EC.

Up to 20 comments per person, comments can be from your own experience with the publish pictures/locations or simply appropriate comments and should be more than TWO sentences. Spam or just a few words don't count and will be rejected!

Leave your EntreCard-Details on this blog post (not in the comments you write on the blog posts).

Up to 10.000 EC are available until 31st March 2010.

WW: Do we stay or do we go?

2010-03-24T23:59:00.002+01:00

500 ECs for WillOaks Studio

Win 500 EC - tell me what they think/talk!

2010-03-19T23:58:00.002+01:00

What are these two meerkat thinking or talking with each other?

Best answer will be honored with 500 EC

Write your comment until 24th March 2010!

WW: Three dreaming polar bears

2010-03-17T23:59:00.001+01:00

"Do you think they can see the Coca Cola bottle we're hiding?" :D

Winner Gay Arab Guy

500 ECs on the way ;)

Next caption game starts on Friday

Best Caption wins 500 EC :)

2010-03-16T23:55:00.000+01:00

Just comment with one or more sentence what these Polar bears are thinking or talking and have the chance to win 500 ECs, winner will be announced on Wednesday 17th March 2010!

MM: Fergie - London Bridge

2010-03-15T23:59:00.001+01:00

This week it's London Bridge from Fergie (member of Black Eyed Peas). Attention might contain for some visitors offensive material ;-)

London and its sights! (Part 2)

2010-03-14T23:55:00.002+01:00

Big Ben in London

Just practicing for my next ballet session :)

London and its sights!

2010-03-13T23:46:00.000+01:00

tThe Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to by its original name of Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, (it served as a cathedral from 1546 - 1556), in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs.

The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is the tallest (135 metres (443 ft)) Ferris wheel in Europe, and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the UK, visited by over 3 million people a year.

And one funny picture - Goose takes a shower in London's Hayde Park!

Cute Animals meet Snow

2010-03-11T23:55:00.002+01:00

WW: Ooops :-)

2010-03-10T23:59:00.002+01:00

7 Amazing Lightning pictures!

2010-03-09T23:53:00.003+01:00

Spectacular Lightning picture around Hermosillo

Lightning in Campinas

Lightning at Columbia River

Lightning Toronto City

Lightning at sunset Toronto Centre Island

Lightning in Perhentian Island, Malaysia

Lightning around Beirut, Lebanon

MM: Ella Fitzgerald - I love Paris

2010-03-08T23:57:00.000+01:00

MM: Without you - Mariah Carey

2010-03-01T23:56:00.001+01:00

5 must see sights in Paris

2010-02-28T23:58:00.003+01:00

The Cathedral Notre Dame in Paris, one of the first majestic building in French Gothic style built in the 12/13th century.

Arc de Triumphe is one of the defining monuments of Paris, France. It honours the soldiers who fought for France, including 660 names of all the generals and wars faught. The floor of the moument contains the tomb of the unknown soldier from World War I.

The Eiffel Tower, one of the most photographed sights in the world and used in several love stories, you can walk up the stairs or use the lift :)

The Louvre, in Paris, France, is one of the world's most visited art museums, an historic monument, and a national symbol. The collection contains nearly 35,000 pieces displayed over the structure's 60,000 square meters (650,000 sq ft).

Sacre Coeur on Montmartre, Paris
This is a famous basilica in Paris. It sits high on a hill and is beautifully lit in the evening. This is the birthplace of the Jesuits back in 1534.

EntreCard's E-Mail: Ghost Dropper solution!

2010-02-11T23:13:00.002+01:00

Hi Martin,

Thank you for your blog post (http://cornys-moneypage.blogspot.com/2010/02/entrecard-members-get-scammed-by-these.html).

You've raised valid concerns regarding users trying to cheat the system and we appreciate you taking the time to do the investigation.

For the time being, our developers have been able to fixed the problem relating to the "ghost droppers" from the site you told us about (http://?????????.blogspot.com/).
We anticipate other methods will come along and we will address those as they turn up.

Your investigation was very insightful, but we do not believe that all the users you've listed are cheating the system.
A few might, but not all of them. It's possible that some users are accessing your blog over a few days without clearing their cache. When this happens, the users will still see an entrecard widget (cached version) even though you have removed it. This could be the reason why you are still receiving drops.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Larry
Entrecard Support

EntreCard: Top Dropper RSS-Feed added

2010-02-10T01:50:00.001+01:00

After removing the Dropaholics-Widget because the website will shut down soon, i give the TOP 5 Droppers again link love by adding the EntreCard's TOP Dropper RSS-Feed.

In case you would like to get a link back to your blog, simply drop daily (commenting would be appreciated, too) on my blog and the chances will be there that you are get some exposure and additional visitors to your blog, too.

I just monitor who is dropping cards even when i don't have the EntreCard widget on my blog -> so far 63 members managed to make "FAKE" DROPS (and quite many are popular blogs and TOP Droppers on many other blogs!)

-> results are published on Cornyman's Money-Blog !

WW: Hanging Octopus - Greece

2010-01-27T23:55:00.004+01:00

Africa: Elephant drinking

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The two zebras

2010-01-22T23:58:00.000+01:00

Two zebras turning their head

Let's think about Winter Wonderland!

2010-01-21T23:57:00.007+01:00

True Infrared Photography in a lightwave length between 760nm and 1000nm. -- absolute invisible for human eyes..

Human eyes only can "see" electromagnetic waves between 300nm and 760nm - the summary of this waves is what we know as "light".
Waves shorter then 300nm is "ultraviolet" light.
Waves longer then 760nm is "infrared" light.
Both - uv and ir - are invisible and thus color-less.

All you see here are the reflected infrared lightwaves. Chlorophyle is the magician - the classic IR-photography subject is a landscape+trees+clouds+water surfaces.

WW: Eiffel tower - Paris, France

2010-01-20T23:57:00.001+01:00

5 fantastic HDR images

2010-01-19T23:55:00.001+01:00

What do you think - photoshopped, painted or real photos? :)

HDR or high dynamic range photography is technique in which light and dark areas are used to illuminate the subject and highlight it. HDR technique allows to more accurately represent the wide range of exposure than normal digital imaging techniques.

More amazing HDR photos can be found on Flickr.

MM: Rednex - The Spirit of the Hawk

2010-01-18T23:25:00.000+01:00

A song from the Swedish Pop group Rednex from the 90s called "Spirit of the Hawk". The video contains fantastic nature pictures from the Grand Canyon. Just because of this already interesting to watch!

Have a great Music Monday everywhere!

The road to the mountain!

2010-01-17T23:57:00.000+01:00

What is for you impressive in this picture?

Landscape - Portrait

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WW: Mother Earth creates and takes away - Haiti earthquake

2010-01-13T23:58:00.002+01:00

Image from Flickr

Image from Flickr
&
Boston.com

10 fantastic Sand Art photos!

2010-01-12T23:56:00.002+01:00

Going into holidays means for many persons relaxing on some beaches, swimming and snorkeling. But there are other persons who do the opposite on the beach. They work!
Working on sculptures made from the beach's sand.

Here you can see 10 fantastic Sand Art photos!

Source: Flickr-member marcusrg

Source: Flickr-member John K

Source: Flickr-member Tojosan

Source: Flickr-member KS WORKSHOP

Source: Flickr-member xxxcurtisxxx

Source: Flickr-member d4rr3ll

Source: Flickr-member Wyrmworld

Source: Flickr-member beckspics

Source: Flickr-member one2c900d

Source: Flickr-member Koets

Li Jiang - China

2010-01-10T23:17:00.001+01:00

Li Jiang is in China, it is a beautiful and wonderful place.

Have a look at this photo!

55 amazing photos of wild life!

2010-01-09T23:51:00.002+01:00

Here you can see all 55 picture --> The best photos of wild nature (55 pics)

What is your Adgitize experience?

2010-01-08T23:58:00.000+01:00

After my last payout as publisher and after i saw how much my brother is earning as advertiser, i had only one choice - ADVERTISE in Adgitize and test what so many other members experience:

Traffic boost - for me it have been 2.000 visitors from 4th - 31 December, until 8th January i got around 2.400 visitors
Rising earnings - my publisher earnings have been around 15-20 cents in the previous months, as advertiser i earned 60 - 90 cents (with an paid ad price of 24$).
Cutting the ad price back to 14$ (on 21.12.2009)- the current (full month) advertisers got an ad extension of 22 days which means my ad will now expire in the first week of February and not in mid January.
Great value even when i the earnings got also cut back and you need now 400 points to earn enough to get 45+ $-Cents daily to cover a 14$ ad.
Did you read already about the 777$-Adgitize 1 WEEK AD Giveaway on Cornymans Money-Blog?
His new referrals will get automatically (if they want+if they didn't already advertise) a gift certificate which pays for a ONE WEEK AD (value of 7$) and non-referrals can win each month an ONE WEEK AD.
You just have to write a short blog post like this one and link to Cornymans Money-Blog and his 777$-Adgitize 1-WEEK-AD-Giveaway post (this is the link to the old post, he said he will make on the weekend a new post).

Here is my Adgitize payment proof for December 2009:

The 7 World wonders -Part 7-

2010-01-07T23:38:00.001+01:00

The Castle (El Castillo) at the World Heritage Site Chichen Itza. From the east side you can see both the restored side and the still rather ruinous side of the pyramid. It's the last wonder in the series of the "New 7 world wonders"!

I will update the descriptions of each wonder over the weekend as of now there are just a few sentences ;)

WW: The 7 World Wonders - Part 6 -

2010-01-06T23:50:00.001+01:00

The Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt), the only NEW World Wonder who is also included in the ancient World Wonders!

The 7 World wonders -Part 5-

2010-01-05T23:55:00.002+01:00

What we see on this picture is Machu Picchu which is located in Peru. It's better known as the Lost City of the Incas!

MM: Enja - Caribean Blue

2010-01-04T23:35:00.000+01:00

One of Enja's lovely songs to relax and dream away to some nice beach holidays.
This video combines both as the person who uploaded the video made a Slide show with beach pictures from Hawaii!

Enjoy Enja and Caribbean Blue!

The 7 World Wonders -Part 5-

2010-01-03T13:50:00.005+01:00

The Great Wall of China is the next Wonder in our Series about the 7 NEW World Wonders. It was built between the 5th Century BC and the 16th Century AC.

The entire Great Wall, with all of its branches, stretches for 8,851.8 km (5,500.3 mi). This is made up of 6,259.6 km (3,889.5 mi) of sections of actual wall, 359.7 km (223.5 mi) of trenches and 2,232.5 km (1,387.2 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers.

Image from Andreas Tille (Wikipedia) original location of picture

The 7 World wonders -Part 4-

2010-01-02T21:00:00.003+01:00

Christ, the Redeemer is located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on top of the 700 meters Corcovado Mountain. (image from Flickr)

The statue is 39.6 meters tall (including the 9.5 meter pedestal) and 30 meters wide.

It's used in some actual movies as background because of its popularity.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon - When Edward is talking on the mobile phone, indicating that he was staying in Brazil after leaving Bella.

In the movie 2012 the statue is crumbling during a massive earthquake.

The 7 World wonders -Part 3-

2010-01-01T23:50:00.002+01:00

The Colosseum in Rome, Italy.

The picture shows the best preserved area of the Colosseum at dusk. It was taken by David Iliff.

The Colosseum was built within less than 10 years between 70 AD and 80 AD and is the largest ever built amphitheatre in the Roman Empire. It was used for many reasons but most often its use has been for entertaining purposes (in our modern times comparable with the Spanish toreros and bullfighting) with fight between trained slaves and wild animals.

In the modern times it has become a symbol against this kind of "entertainment". Several anti–death penalty demonstrations took place in front of the Colosseum in 2000. Since that time, as a gesture against the death penalty, the local authorities of Rome change the color of the Colosseum's night time illumination from white to gold whenever a person condemned to the death penalty anywhere in the world gets their sentence commuted or is released,^[18] or if a jurisdiction abolishes the death penalty. Most recently, the Colosseum was illuminated in gold when capital punishment was abolished in the American state of New Mexico in April 2009.^[19] (extract from Wikipedia - Colosseum description)

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Happy NEW YEAR 2010!

2009-12-31T23:58:00.001+01:00

Picture was taken today from my brother who stays in Kuala Lumpur this year.

I wish everyone who visits my blog a Happy NEW Year 2010, hope that all your wishes and NEW YEAR resolutions will be fulfilled!

WW: The 7 World Wonders - Part 2 -

2009-12-30T23:38:00.001+01:00

Photo from Wikipedia

The Taj Mahal in India was voted to one of the NEW 7 WORLD WONDERS and announced in July 2007.

The 7 World wonders -Part 1-

2009-12-29T23:55:00.003+01:00

photo by yaatra on Flickr

Petra (Greek "πέτρα" (petra), meaning rock; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is a historic and archaeological city in the Jordanian govern orate of Ma'an that is renowned for its rock cut architecture and water conduits system. Constructed around 100 BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans , it is now the most famous symbol of Jordan as well as it's most visited tourism attraction. It lies on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra was chosen as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007 and also a World Heritage Site since 1985. Petra was also chosen by the BBC as one of "the 10 places you have to see before you die".

The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced to the West by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate Prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage."

This article is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA License. It uses material from Wikipedia content.

MM: A perfect day for travel - Bryce Wastney

2009-12-28T23:57:00.000+01:00

In this music video "A perfect day for travel - Bryce Wastney" you can see the singer traveling through the New Zealand landscape.

Enjoy the Music Monday!

My Christmas Tradition

2009-12-26T13:53:00.002+01:00

Usually we celebrate Christmas in Germany on 24th - in the Holy Night - before we go to the Mass into the church at 10 pm.

We start eating at 6 pm with Potato Salad and Sausage. Around 7 - 7.30 pm it's time for the "Christkind" (= Jesus as baby).

We go in our Living Room and sing several Christmas songs - Silent night might be the most famous one for you. Then the CD player will play the other Christmas songs :)

After singing, we can open the presents and while opening the presents around 8 pm, we eat the sweet Christmas cookies.

On the next day -25th, called the "1.Christmas Day" in Germany- we visit the relatives of my mother and on 26th- called the "2.Christmas Day"- we visit the relatives of my dad or they visit us.

Merry Christmas to my visitors!

2009-12-24T13:49:00.003+01:00

I wish you a joyful, happy and relaxing Merry Christmas and hope you all will get the presents and gifts which you have dreamed off :)

Tell me what you got on Christmas or what are your wishes for Christmas!

I wish everyone good health for the coming year, luck and happiness!

WW: The last Towel animals!

2009-12-23T23:53:00.000+01:00

Towel animals -Part 2-

2009-12-20T23:52:00.000+01:00

The last part of my Towel animals

Towel animals -Part 1-

2009-12-18T23:50:00.001+01:00

Here you can see some towel animals which they offered us each day in the Diving Hotel in Malaysia!

What did you expect?

2009-12-17T23:20:00.001+01:00

Hi there, i'm a little baby bird and can't fly yet!

Sometimes life is unpredictable and a picture can be manipulated by showing just a smaller part of it!

Hopefully one of the other mother birds will take care of this little baby bird!

Animal park - Kuala Lumpur - KL Menara Tower

2009-12-15T23:44:00.002+01:00

In the Animal park you can see several small animals like rabbits, hamsters, spiders, monkeys and insects.

The Animal park is located beside the Entrance of the KL Menara Tower (Kuala Lumpur Television Tower).

It's great for families and animal lover to visit this park and take yourself less than half an hour to walk through this park.

MM: Medwyn Goodall - Dolphin Companion

2009-12-14T17:18:00.001+01:00

Today i present you a relaxation music video from Medwyn Goodall which is called DOLPHIN COMPANION. As i'm also a passionate diver it's amazing to watch this video because of the many playing Dolphins.

If you like to relax for five minutes or just watch the lovely Dolphins, this video will be great for you!

Relaxing Music Monday!

Inside the church in Wurzburg

2009-12-13T23:25:00.000+01:00

It's a catholic church in Wurzburg, you can see a christmas tree on the left side. The Christmas tree will stay in the Church until mid or end of January.

View on the Castle in Wuerzburg - Germany

2009-12-12T23:52:00.000+01:00

This picture was taken in the afternoon of the New Year's day 2007 after we had celebrated the whole night. It's in Wuerzburg, one of the bigger cities in the state of Bavaria, Germany.

A Winter walk in the snow - Austria

2009-12-11T23:50:00.000+01:00

On this picture we have been walking to the Restaurant after we walked already a few hours in the snowy landscape. You'll get very hungry and in these restaurants are very good meals, so that you can continue your walk down the hill or to the next transport station which takes you down to the valley :)

The Great Pyramid of Giza - Egypt

2009-12-10T23:52:00.000+01:00

The view of the sphinx and the pyramid of giza, taken during a daytrip to cairo. This was my favourite view of the sphinx as the pyramid makes the perfect backdrop.

The Great Sphinx is one of the world’s largest and oldest statues and is believed to represent the likeness of King Khafra who was buried in the pyramid which sits directly behind the Sphinx. This would mean that the sphinx was built between 2520 and 2494BC

Many egyptologists believe the sphinx was carved to disguise a large immovable rock which was obstructing the view of the pyramid.

The pyramid you can see in the background of the picture is the Pyramid of Khufu ( Also known as "The Great Pyramid" or the "Pyramid of Cheops" . This is the oldest and largest of the Pyramids at Giza.

The Pyramid of Khufu was constructed in 2570 BC and is 455.2ft tall.

WW: 7*-Hotel Burj al arab - Dubai

2009-12-09T23:54:00.000+01:00

My first Adgitize payment proof!

2009-12-08T23:52:00.001+01:00

It's really great to see the money in my Paypal account. I write here about the Adgitize payment. I got the Adgitize payment already a few days ago and it has been the income as a publisher.

I could have received 10$ already a month earlier but i didn't have the time in October

to publish daily an article or
to click daily the 100 ads.

If you do this each day and get some visitors to your blog, you will earn 0.20 $ or more daily. After two month you can cash out already 12+$.

As i started my one week Adgitize advertisement trial some days ago, i'm sure that i will buy a full month ad (24$) after the trial period is over on 12th December 2009. At the moment i earn with 390 - 400 points more than the necessary 78 cents/daily (79-85 cents).
I will get a smaller profit like i got as publisher BUT i get additionally daily between 75 - 113 visitors and i have only to click 50 ads instead of 100 :)

PS:
You can get even as publisher free traffic (up to 25 visitors/daily) if you click 3 out of 4 days the 100 ads and sign up for the Preferred Publisher Program (simply go in the Member's Lounge to Manage Blog - Add Preferred Publisher or read the Preferred Publisher Program Tutorial)

Isn't that a good deal? What are your experiences and stories with Adgitize?
Or why didn't you sign up yet with Adgitize and earn easy money from Blogging?

MM: Global Deejays - The sound of San Fransisco

2009-12-07T16:36:00.003+01:00

Today we travel with the Global Deejays to San Fransisco (original Song is from Scott McKenzie), next week we are heading to another destination.

Happy Music Monday!

The Winners of the Holiday-Contest!

2009-12-06T23:46:00.001+01:00

Congratulations to the 7 winners:

1st Prize: from 18th December 09 on 31 days
1 month ad - Therapy Home
2nd Prize: effective in January/February
2 weeks ad - iTravel
2 weeks ad - Wishing on a falling star (Mariuca)
3rd Prize: effective in February/March
1 week ad - Meow Diaries
1 week ad - Mariuca's Perfume Gallery
1 week ad - Bloguardian Hellsite: OVERCASHED
1 week ad - A Woman Remembers: The Life and Love of a Woman
4th prize:
2.500 EC - none
5th prize:
1.500 EC - none
6th prize:
1.000 EC - none

Not all members who dropped cards commented on all five blogs, so i only took the persons who commented on the specific blog into the drawing. In this case we have just 7 winners!

If someone won the same prize on another blog, this prize has been put back and was chosen again for another blog.

Winner of the ad prizes should comment on this blog and give me a link to their ad image which they want to display or tell me if i can use the EntreCard ad image!

The prizes for the other blogs will be published day by day :)

Adgitize members: A funny welcome gift!

2009-12-05T14:37:00.006+01:00

Today i make my trial with Adgitize and a one week advertisement (i got a voucher, so i saved the 12$ *lol*).
Let's see how many new visitors can be attracted by my ad and if it's worth afterward to advertise for 24$ (78 cents/day).

My brother from Cornyman's Money-Blog is absolute fascinated by Adgitize and earned already over 185 $ after deducting the paid ads (108 $ from June on) he has still 77 $ left after 8 months of membership. If i look in my Adsense account, i doubt that i can accumulate so many $$ after 8 months.

In case you are not yet member, you can sign up by clicking on this post on the Adgitize links :)

All you have to do to earn some money:

Write daily one article for your blog (be sure to copy your RSS Feed-Link in the "manage blog"-section in Adgitize, so that the 100 points gets credited)
Click on 100 ads of the Adgitize advertiser (only one from each blog!) if possible daily for maximum points (and to be able to get the FREE Traffic option called Preferred Publisher Program), if you're an advertiser we just have to click on 50 advertiser
Drive Traffic to your blog, EntreCard is the way to go here or write keyword-rich content to get free traffic from Google, Yahoo and Bing! :)

These three actions will give you daily more than 20 Cents, as advertiser you can earn between 50 cents and more than 1$ which can result of ZERO costs of your 24$ ad and receiving more than 2.000 visitors monthly!

Spent just 16 seconds and get a great laugh!

My gift for my visitors "the sneezing baby panda", i watched it several times in a row and still can laugh when i would watch it again. You'll love Baby panda and Mama Panda!

It gets Winter in Europe

2009-12-04T23:49:00.000+01:00

I took this picture with the chapel in my winter holidays in Austria. You can see that we had there on the mountain very much snow (more than 50 centimeters).

It's the ideal time for do some skiing or snow boarding.

I'll post some more snow and winter pictures in the coming days and weeks :)

Soccer World Championship 2006 - Germany

2009-12-03T23:44:00.000+01:00

This is a picture from the Opening Game of the Soccer World Championship 2006 in Germany. Germany played against Costa Rica. I have been in Munich in the big park where they build -like in many other big cities- the big screen and called it -PUBLIC VIEWING.

WW: How many "fishes" can you see?

2009-12-02T23:50:00.000+01:00

Singapore Butterfly Garden

2009-12-01T23:54:00.001+01:00

Here is one of many butterflies which you can find in the Singaporean Butterfly Garden.
They look simply gorgeous or not, especially when you see them so close like in this picture!

MM: Simba - The Traveling Song

2009-11-30T22:01:00.002+01:00

I try to find in the following weeks songs which are familiar with my blog. That means they should have lyrics about traveling, holidays and journeys or the video should show amazing landscapes.

In case you know of such a music video, i would be glad if you leave on my Music Monday posts a comment. In exchange i will link back to your blog/website as soon as i publish your suggested music video :)

Have a great time with The Traveling Song from the movie "The Lion King"!

Singapore Bird Park

2009-11-29T23:46:00.001+01:00

There are a lot of Birds and especially parrots in this Bird park.

I made too many pictures of these bird pictures when i have been in Singapore :)

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2009-11-19T20:47:00.002+01:00

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More pics from Singapore National Orchid Garden

2009-11-13T23:50:00.001+01:00

This is a fascinating created landscape with a water fall and tropic plants!

How to find cheap flight tickets!

2009-11-12T23:22:00.000+01:00

As this blog is mostly about traveling worldwide i would like to introduce you to a few cheap flight websites which will help you to save money, especially when you live on a tight budget!

If you traveling in the time from 1st May - 30th October 2010 in Asia and you have already some travel location in mind, you could profit from the latest offer from AirAsia.

They offer FREE SEATS for their flights, you just have to pay the airport tax (the offer is valid from 11th November to 15th November).

For flights inside of Malaysia this would be for a one-way flight just 6 RM (1.20 EURO, 2$),
for international flights to Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Macao, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam it is 25 RM (5 EURO, 6$)

But even without this excellent FREE SEATS offer, they have low-budget prices and some good holiday packages with hotels and more savings!

If you like to see the prices of different days but for the same travel destination for AirAsia flights, you should check out AirAsiaPlus. It's very troublesome to do this on the AirAsia website :)
At AirAsiaPlus you just type in the travel date, the departure and your destination and within seconds you get a list with the upcoming 30 days. So you can compare when you could get the cheapest flight for your travel destination. Sometimes it's cheaper to postpone the flight one or two days and stay longer at the same location!

Just have a look at AirAsiaPlus and save more money with the intelligent choice of your flight date!

The last website which i use when i look for some cheap flights is called CHECKFELIX.com. They search for you in the airline websites and the travel websites like Expedia and give you a detailed list from where you will be directed to the airline or travel website to complete your booking!

Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/davipt/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Singapore National Orchid Garden

2009-11-06T13:33:00.005+01:00

Today i watched again the pictures which i took during my Singapore/Malaysia trip in May/June 2009 and i saw that i have a lot of pictures which are worth showing in my blog, mainly from the Singapore National Orchid Garden, from the Bird Park and from other see-sightings.

The picture on the left was made in the National Orchid Garden and it is really a beautiful Garden and Park.

If you are a lover of flowers and especially Orchids, this is a MUST SEE location while visiting Singapore.

And here you can see some of the beautiful Orchids in a big pot!

WW: The Rocks of Boracay

2009-11-04T23:51:00.000+01:00

Is this bus not full yet?

2009-11-03T23:50:00.000+01:00

This picture was taken while we drove around Banaue. As you can see the bus is the most used transportation vehicle in the Philippines. The persons are not too shy to sit even on the roof of the bus.

One of the persons on the roof has a scarf around the mouth which is really needed as the road is dusty and the air on the street is really, really bad from all the traffic.

MM: EAV - God bless America

2009-11-02T00:33:00.000+01:00

I found a new video from 2004 from the music group "EAV" which i presented already last week. In this video they use irony against the things which George Bush started after 9/11/2001.

Travel Photography tips

2009-10-29T23:53:00.002+01:00

Image via Wikipedia

Every time i went on a vacation, i take my camera with me. I just can't go without one as this helps me to keep memories of each holiday and travel i made in the last years.

Now i share some of my travel photography tips with you, so that you can enjoy your trips and the memories there after like i do when i share the pics with my friends and relatives!

Prepare for the location:

If you already know the place of your next holiday, why not search in the internet for the surroundings and the local attraction?
This is the easiest way to find suitable spots for brilliant pictures. You can find pictures by just typing in the name of the City and Country in Google Image search or Flickr.com
After you looked for some attractions at your travel locations, you have to choose which of them are most suitable for your expertise and for your camera. With this in mind, you save time to just visit the locations which gives you the best pictures :)
Most likely there are also books written for your travel destination. Try to have a look in one or more of these travel books to see which pictures other travelers captured or which locations are from interest, too.

Preparing for your Photographs

Before you start your travel, you should check if you put the following things in your travel suit case:

Camera and Tripod (essential for every photographer)
Digital Memory cards or films. Better to take one or two more cards/films than to be sorry if one would be broken during the best shot. Don't forget a portable storage device!
Most important things include your battery charger, batteries, filters and lenses (in case your camera supports this)
Manuals can be also very helpful if you want to try some new settings or if something went wrong.

This are my tips and checklists which help me capturing pictures from beautiful locations, so that i have sweet memories for a very long time.

WW: Canon in the spanish "Fort Intramuros" - Manila, Philippines

2009-10-28T23:45:00.000+01:00

Boracay at dusk

2009-10-27T23:02:00.000+01:00

Image by Chewy Chua via Flickr

I found this picture via the Zemanta Add-On and couldn't resist showing it to you. It looks really amazing.

The colors of the sky... the sun and the lights of the restaurants at the beach.

For me it looks more like a beautiful painting than a picture :)

MM: EAV- An der Copacabana

2009-10-26T19:25:00.002+01:00

This Music Monday i want you to watch one of the funniest music groups from the 80s (in the last years they tried a revival but didn't get anymore that popular like in the past). The short name is EAV, in long it's Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung.
It's about the craziness of the bodybuilding hype in the 80s, usually the songs have been always very critical towards special actual topics but they managed it to make their critics in a funny way.

Have fun with EAV - An der Copacabana

Thanks to all my visitors!

2009-10-25T23:46:00.000+01:00

Today i want to thank all my loyal visitor who drop their card daily or just occasionally and to the visitors who come from the Search Engines like Yahoo, Bing or Google.

I started this blog in September with an Alexa Ranking from over 20 Million and since this weekend the ranking dropped below the 300.000 mark. My goal would be now to reach 100.000 by end of November :)

Another topic which i mentioned earlier in October is my ranking in the Dropaholics. I never expected that i could climb so fast into the TOP TEN when i started publishing that article i was around rank 500.

Memorial - Seafaring between Philippines and Mexico

2009-10-24T23:36:00.004+02:00

This memorial is located in Manila. It stands for 400 years of seafaring between Mexico and the Philippines.

In 2009 it would been already over 445 years of this seafaring connection.

Does anybody know which impact this connection has on Mexico and/or on the Philippines?

View of Boracay's beach - Philippines

2009-10-23T23:43:00.000+02:00

Isn't that a nice view of the beach from Boracay. A view which certainly wouldn't be published in one of the travel magazines :)

Just wanted to show that some parts of the beach in Boracay is quite small.

But like you can see, it's not overcrowded, you can find easily a place to sit or lay down.

And you even can find some shadows from the coconut trees, the beach is covered full with them, too.

WW: Math is fun - school in Agoo, Philippines

2009-10-21T12:50:00.003+02:00

The play with the fire - Boracay, Philippines

2009-10-20T23:24:00.000+02:00

This picture was taken while i was eating at night in a restaurant at Boracay..

The two persons could handle the fire very well, what a pitty that i don't have a video camera.

Otherwise i could have shown you the video of their play with the fire.

It's definitely worth watching at night around the restaurants if you can find some of this tourist attraction.

MM: Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

2009-10-19T23:41:00.001+02:00

Today i like to present a song from Bruce Springsteen. One of his most famous ones - Born in the USA.

I hope you enjoy the song, too!

Math exercise in a school in Agoo, Philippines

2009-10-18T23:46:00.001+02:00

The tiger in the zoo of Olongapo

2009-10-17T23:49:00.001+02:00

This picture was taken in the Zoo of Olongapo in the Philippines.

There you don't need to walk. You will be seated in a train behind bars. As the train is driving, you can see many animals. When we drove by the tigers they have just been fed by the crew.

It's really amazing to see them so close!

Chinese Cemetery - Manila, Philippines - Part II

2009-10-16T23:37:00.001+02:00

Here is the second part of the Chinese cemetery picture. It's the entrance to the tomb.

The two slots are the Mailbox for the death persons. On the left side is the Mailbox for the woman and on the right side you put the letters for the death man in his mailbox.

Chinese Cemetery - Manila, Philippines

2009-10-15T23:05:00.000+02:00

This is a picture of a chinese cemetery in the Manila. On the picture you can see a big grave or tomb which is inside the building. The way to the tomb is made with stones and the way is decorated with trees on both sides.

WW: The Work at the Rice fields before plantation

2009-10-14T00:40:00.003+02:00

Sweet things in Kuala Lumpur

2009-10-13T23:12:00.000+02:00

This picture was taken in the Mid Valley Shopping Mall in November 2008 in one of the Ice Cream shops.

Yes, these are Ice cream balls and some more Ice cream balls + some fruits. It doesn't look only delicious and my mouth gets watery again - it was delicious!

Yummy-Yummy!

World famous rice terraces Banaue, Philippines

2009-10-09T23:21:00.001+02:00

These world famous rice terraces in Banaue, Philippines should have been made already 2.000 years ago, some guess the oldest rice terraces could even be 3.000 years old. Isn't that amazing?

At this time the people had only their hands and some simple tools to build these rice terraces in the rocky hills.
But like you can see nearly the whole hill is covered by hundreds of rice terraces.

It's the biggest rice planting area in the Philippines with over 250 square kilometers.

Even today the Ifuegos work with the same methods in the rice terraces like in times as they have been built - mostly by hand! We can be lucky for these Ifuegos as we get these delicious rice from them!

Famous church in Manila, Philippines

2009-10-08T23:37:00.001+02:00

This is one of the most famous churches in Manila, Philippines. It reached her fame because of the black cross.

In Europe you can find something similar to this. There are some churches who display a black madonna (Maria, mother of Jesus).

You should not only visit this church because of the black cross. Like you can see on the picture a real gorgeous art can be found in the whole church.

Did you have been there already as i know i have many visitors from the Philippines?

What did impress you in this church?

WW: Flower in a rice field

2009-10-07T23:35:00.000+02:00

Night view of a hotel in Boracay, Philippines

2009-10-06T23:48:00.000+02:00

This was an amazing night picture of a hotel "Villa De Oro" in Boracay, Philippines.

But as we all know, the prettiest appearance on the outside can be turned into a nightmare when you are allowed to have a look into one of the rooms :)

Hope everyone had a nice in this hotel!

MM: I like to move it - Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa

2009-10-05T23:22:00.001+02:00

My first Music Monday :) I liked the song already before they used it for the Movie Madagascar but with the comic it's more fun to watch instead of only listen to it.

So come on, let's move!

Little Sunshine: The baby boy from my brother

2009-10-04T23:24:00.000+02:00

Timmy, the boy from my brother stays until Summer next year in Malaysia. I just could visit him once in May/June as i travelled with my mother to his family in Malaysia.

It was way too short as i was diving for one week during this holidays.

I hope i can see this little angel soon, but i think i really have to wait until Summer next year when they want to come back to Germany!

I miss you, Timmy!

Azumi's First Mini-Giveaway Contest

2009-10-03T23:37:00.000+02:00

Let's visit Azumi's blog to join this contest. By the way, my brother is one of the sponsor of this contest, too :)

Just subscribe to her feed by e-mail, put the Giveaway-Pic in your sidebar and you are already in the game!

Here is the link to her First Mini-Giveaway Contest and i post for you all the prizes.

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