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Back from two very colourful days. Mr. and Mrs. Subtu’s son Hazman got married and I was lucky to be able to attend both days of the wedding at bride’s and groom’s house.
Check it out, you will not be disappointed, here is the link: Malay Wedding
My websites pulau-pangkor.com, bicycle-adventures.com and yangshuo-travel-guide.com are build with the help of Sitesell. Why? Very simple, I don’t want to be bothered with all kinds of tech stuff that cost me a lot of time and brings me no where. I need a good brainstorming tool, a good monetization information unit, tracking system for my pages, automatic blog and XML feeds AND decent help if I need it.
Sitesell has this all, so I can focus on what I like without being distracted to the tech stuff. Sitesell rocks. I admit, I love SBI, I love the community and I love the help I get there and I love to help others with what I know.
“Sitesell is also hard work? I don’t want it! I want a quick rich schedule, I want to get rich in 30 days”. Believe me, I get those emails every once in a while. People still believe in the scams out there on the net. People still want to be cheated. Sitesell is an honest system. It teaches building a business, a lifetime business that keeps growing. I can tell you a lot of Sitesell but I can NOT tell you that in 30 days you will make zillions of dollars. If an internet business was that simple, why wouldn’t everybody be a millionaire then?
Read the Complete Site Build It Guide from my Yangshuo website.
Ahh, still not convinced. I wasn’t convinced. After all, why believe someone you don’t know? So you need some more proof? Great, that is one of the things I love to do. Let’s first check some succesful sites:
Here’s a list of successful websites including my Pangkor website in the top 1% of all websites. My bicycle and Yangshuo site are now in the top 500.000 (according to Alexa) of all websites but the list has not updated yet.
Talk about Alexa, check the Alexa test
and then read why people love SBI: I love SBI
OK I understand you don’t want to invest that much money. So you can try to build your website build on the Sitesell system. How? I have a FREE ebook to offer: here’s the Make My Site Sell 2002 e-book, free download
And if this is not enough, watch the SBI TV session, if this doesn’t convince you, nothing will:
See you in SBI
Peter
PS, have a sneak peak in the SBI Forums: Sitesell forums Login and password are: pulau-pangkor.com You can not post here but you can read.
Since I was a child I have always enjoyed jigsaw puzzles. In my childhood I used to do big ones, some of the very difficult. Later when I traveled to India I saw the monks working on their mandala’s, graphics made out of grains of sand which looked very similar to my childhood puzzle activities though a lot more sophisticated.
I have added a few Pangkor and Lumut related online puzzles at the Pulau Pangkor website. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them:
Busy busy busy. Just come back from Penang. As usual I did that on bicycle though I start thinking 200 km cycling in one day becomes a little too much, phewww… I could hardly sleep. Woke up early this morning and checked the photos I made earlier this week at the first day of a Malay wedding in Kedah, in a small village north of Penang. Here’s a sneak peak, next week more will follow including what will happen tomorrow, Saturday. As said, here’s a few pictures:
The happy couple
Part of the food at the main wedding table
Preparing the rice…
Next week a full report and many more photos. Can’t wait to see more about a Malay wedding? Here’s a great page about how a Malay wedding looks like
The tropics have an abundance of fruits. More then I ever imagined when I lived in Holland. Malaysia is not exception. Here’s the update page about tropical fruits in Malaysia:
I realized my tropical fruits page was incomplete when earlier this week I was eating some dragonfruit, a very nice kind of weird looking fruit but whaaaa… sooo good…
You know it by now if you have read my websites: cycling is a fantastic way of traveling, there can be no mistake. Earlier this week I was reading some of my diaries and found a nice little story back about my cycling journey from Holland to Paris. Obviously I had to rewrite it a bit. Here’s the link to that story:
I love fruits. I have always loved fruits, well, always is probably a big word. As long as I remember I loved bananas, oranges, grapefruits, apples, and many others. Now living in Asia it’s even easier, there’s so much excellent fruit here. Earlier this week my friend Sunny from the Tzien Fatt Mee Stall gave me some dragonfruit. I had not had that for a long time. That was also the moment I realized I had to add some fruits to my tropical fruits page. Wouldn’t it be a shame you come all the way from the other side of the world and skip all those excellent fruits? But where to find a nice overview? Obviously at the Pangkor website. Here is the link to the main tropical fruits to be found in Malaysia:
The annual sailing event from Klang to Pangkor will take place from August 30 to September 2. This year the Royal Selangor Yacht Club has space for racers, cruisers and motorcruisers. The event will be very visible for visitors to Pulau Pangkor. If it is like 2 years ago when I was guest of the Royal Selangor Yacht Club, it will be a great spectacle to see.
What it will look like, you ask me? Look at my report from 2 years ago at:
Raja Muda International Regatta visiting Pangkor in 2005
For more information about the race, check the website of the Royal Selangor Yacht Club
I don’t know how it is with you but when I travel I need to organize my visas. Sometimes this is easy, sometimes it’s not. Most of the time it’s not really difficult. You simply go to an embassy, fill in a form, leave passport and a few passport photos and you come back in a few days. I have done this over and over again.
However, sometimes it’s harder. I remember in Istanbul I had to do wait for my Iranian visa without knowing how long it would take (it turned out to be 5 days), my Pakistan visa was a piece of cake. I even got a 45 days visa instead of the normal 30 days.
However, when I was in Islamabad I needed a visa for China. Been there, done that, so I went to the Chinese Embassy and then… well… it was one of those experiences you love to talk about later. Here’s the complete story
