In March 2014 I visited Vietnam for the first time ever.   I met lots of friendly people, especially students who wanted to learn English and practise speaking with foreigners.  A few times they also sang a song to me.  I noticed they like singing and dancing.
I like Vietnam and wish to go back often!

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/131671276466/in-vietnam-a-visotr-from-a-western-country-very

And I went back.  In 2014 I visited Vietnam totally 3 times:  From March to April, then In July and once more in December.


Below I jsut post some random pictures from my trip to Vietnam. I went to many cities.
I will write more stories later.

What is this bird of Singapore?

Please help me to recognize this bird for me.

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/131479753276/this-is-my-favourite-bird-sound-of-singapore-lots

I stayed in Singapore in 2002 for almost the entrie year and have so nice memoreis from there. this bird sound is connected to many of them.

Audio from my tumblr.com blog.  Malaysian KTM kommuter train has coaches for ladeis only.

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/131479543481/separate-coaches-for-women-in-the-ktm-komuter

Flying to Singapore

Flying to Singapore from Kota Kinabalu, Borneo island, Malaysia

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/131915655251/after-staying-six-wonderful-weeks-in-kota

 
Something that happened in Kota Kinabalu during those about 6 weeks I spent there

I did some audio interviews with people and uploaded them to my paid account on Soundcloud.
Later I stopped paying and uploaded those posts to youtube before making them into videos by adding some phottos.

Audio and photos: 2014 I celebrated Chinese New Year in Borneo Malaysia

My audio blogging in English, originally from Soundcloud but I stopped paying and it disappeared. Now I put the original sound into youtube with some photos of the time.



Here is what I try to say for the start of the video ...  Wishing everybody a Happy Chinese New Year. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

If you are unable to see the embedded video, here is the link: https://youtu.be/Ga0mzxt_iWI

This pst is made in 2017 but I date it to 2014.   I am located now in Southern Vietnam, geographically not too far away from Borneo, it is just across the sea.   Now it is Lunar New Year, here in Vietnam not Chinese, no CNY but TET.

I am happy to be here and happy not to be in Malaysia. 2014 and 2015 I mostly spent in Malaysia but already got to know Vietnam as well.  I had a realationship with a Malaysian Chinese lady. It never worked out and I finally accepted it, not earlier than in January 2016.

In 2013 I had made a long walking trip in Australia for farewell to the country that I had migrated to about 12 years earlier and became a citizen in 2007. I had been staying away from there 3 months at a time since 2010. In 2013 I truned 50 years old and got a Wheelie walking trailer that a small company in Holland in manufacturing.



 During the trip I was hunting cheap flights online, and found Airasia flight from Melbourne to Kota Kinabalu. So, I left Melbourne in Mid January. I settled in a hotel and later rented a room in KK. I went to do yoga with Gokul Yoga by Jani Jaatinen and enjoyed his teaching a lot.  I made some friend in the yoga class and one via Couchsurfing.



I am not adventurous enough to do wild camping in Asia. In Australia and Europe it is safe and convenient but not here

flying Airasia is a pleasure to the eye but not to the stomach. They do not have proper vergan options. 

Facebook archive from 2007

I started using Facebook in October 2007 and have been using it since that time until February 2021 when Facebook deleted my old account with all the memories during those 14 year and many friends all over the World. They did not tell me the exact reason why and did not give me any opportunity to defend myself. They just started asking for verification of my acccount several times a week First they asked me to provide verification code sent by email, then take a photo or video of my face.  Finally they asked me to give a verification code sent to my phone number. They provided 3 old phone numbers. I tried to contact their support to explain that I can not verify via phone number. They said that I will have 30 days to verify after which my account will be permanently deleted. 

They offered me to create a new account, there was a button for that after I had blocked out of the disabled account. I did and managed to add some of my old friends back but I lost all my posts on my timeline and all posts in numerous Facebook groups. However they provided me all my data for download. That is better but still not the same. Now I am losing many frieds and many memories esspecially with those 5 friends that had their profiles on memorial state. 

What did I do to deserve all this agony? Why did Facebook started bullying me?  I am devastated and sad. It will take me years to start rebuilding all those documents of my life. 

My Facebook archive from 2007

is at work

29 Oct 2007, 13:18

is sleeping

29 Oct 2007, 17:24

is a bit hungry

1 Nov 2007, 16:42

is going to bed already

1 Nov 2007, 16:56

Tim Sippala added a new photo.

One of our wedding ceremonies in Singapore, October 2002. In the middle there is the Buddhist monk that blessed us and our cats in the presence of 70 cats of MettaCattery cat shelter and a few friends.

1 Nov 2007, 17:03

In the year 2003 we were living in Townsville, tropical Australia. I was trying to find a new kind of Christmas spirit in the new conditions. Both of us love durian fruit, so it became our new Christmas tradition. There is also a little bit Chinese influence, the red shirt and chopsticks.

1 Nov 2007, 17:03

is up at 4 am and going for a long walk with his dogs. After that breakfast and work.

2 Nov 2007, 01:02

is starting Friday's work

2 Nov 2007, 04:22

is working and thinking "iit's Friday!" ( my time zone is GMT+10 )

2 Nov 2007, 05:31

is working but soon going home for the weekend activities

2 Nov 2007, 10:38

is done with this week's work

2 Nov 2007, 12:10

is going to bed soon on Friday evening and ready to get up early again.

2 Nov 2007, 16:01

November 2nd 2007. After 14 months of growing our first banana plant is finally flowering. Can you see the little baby bananas inside? We might get some bananas from our own garden for Christmas!

2 Nov 2007, 16:32

Early in the morning there is peace ... well, not so quiet either but lots of tropical and other birds around. You can hear the dogs panting so it is a little bit hot even this early. Taken in Caravonica, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

2 Nov 2007, 18:33

Jyväskylä, Tourukatu 8. 1990 / 1991 ? I was living in this nice wooden house. I paid my rent by maintaining the house and the yard. It was build in the year 1914. During the Second World War the house was almost destroyed by a Russian bomb.

Place: Jyväskylä, Finland (62.2333, 25.7333)

Address: Jyväskylä, Finland

2 Nov 2007, 18:44

is having his morning walk and then doing garden work... Trying very hard to stay away from this addicting tool

3 Nov 2007, 02:12

is going to sharpen his chain saw and kill some palm trees in the backyard hoping aftert that there will still be some fingers left for FaceBook

3 Nov 2007, 05:10

is going out. Hoping to see Larissa Waters tonight.

3 Nov 2007, 14:59

is so happy after meeting Larissa. She's absolutely the right and most comptetent person to be a new senator!

3 Nov 2007, 20:18

Tim Sippala posted in I support the Australian Greens.

4 Nov 2007, 11:54

is doing some garden work

4 Nov 2007, 13:00

is preparing for Monday and work week. Bugger ...

4 Nov 2007, 15:46

is awake early Monday morning

5 Nov 2007, 01:35

is at work already on Monday morning

5 Nov 2007, 05:00

Memories from Singapore 2002 (onwards)

Some memories from Singpapore.  This post has been created afterwards using old audio clips and photos. I have just dated it to  December 1st 2002 when I had left Singapore for Australia and the big adventure that started in January 2002 was over.  My Singaporean wife and myself and our 2 cats moved to Australia.

Embedded audio clip from my tumblr.com  blog should open in the windows below.

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/132529385946/moving-to-singapore-in-2002-was-one-of-the-big

http://timwalks.tumblr.com/post/132688160666/in-january-2002-i-moved-from-finland-to-singapore

Above you should see the audio clips above.


story to be continued.