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What's Voip?
I'm not sure, perhaps Voice over Internet Protocol. It is the
general abbreviation for talking over the internet. There is a company like voip.com or
something that I had to use to talk with Jim when he was buying my the plane ticket to Canada.
It is basically the same as Skype but just a different company. There are a lot of them
out there, and for different regions. With some of them, as my Iranian friend uses, they
are more regional based and he says he can call to Iran and neighbouring countries for
free, or something like that. With Skype it could get more expensive to call these
countries, and I couldn't even find the possibility of phoning the Turkish
North Cyprus, which is apparently under some world embargo, because the Greek half is
always using its EU veto to make a big stink. But they'lll never win that war. Turkey
is prepared to subsidise the North half until hell freezes over - I'm sure the Turkish
government values the strategic military benefit of having its bases on this island.
Cool that things are getting happier for you. Hope you find a
mate who will be interested in settling down etc. Must be difficult in the US, I might
guess. I was in Canada and already there I did not like the general aggression, and stupid
conversations. It was embarrassing but everyone up there said "like" every like
second like word like. I thought I was in California or something. And I generally find
the society of the west more decadent, ungodly and selfish. Materialistic and shallow and
all that. I find it so much more relaxing and simple here in the Muslim
world, and I like the fact that I can talk about God anytime I want to. I generally
don’t, like one doesn’t usually talk about bread, but if the conversation ever turned
to bread, for whatever reason, people would talk about God like they are talking about
bread – like a simple part of life. Which he certainly is. In the west, if you bring
this subject up, so many people feel threatened and walk away from you. Or yo get the
right wing conservative fundamentalist ranting Christians on the other extreme of the
spectrum. They’re not so bad, but generally it is not a normal part of existence there,
like it should be.
Well, have a good one!
so my Iranian friend here in Turkish
Cyprus gave me his old mobile phone, which would cost about 300 bucks to buy here and
through which I can hook up my computer to the internet. I plan to leave it on most of the
time, especially evenings, as I will set up a system with regular customers whereby they
can send an email to a certain address, which will forward a part of the message to my
mobile as a text message. But I am not sure if you can call to the Turkish north using
Skype etc. Maybe Voip? Not sure. I can ask my Iranian friend if ya like.
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Yah, I enjoyed your visit too. Can't find your other letter but
I remember you were saying something about understanding solitude. Well, actually did find
some friends here. Play chess regularly with a Czech-American,
and every day I spend in an air conditioned office with free internet at my Iranian
friend, who needs to practice English.
Have found that putting up fliers offering free English
lessons in exchange for beer
has turned out to be a great strategy. Actually, plan to print out some more fliers
tomorrow, this time though saying "Nice Canadian boy willing to give FREE ENGLISH
LESSONS to nice
girl(s) - boys buy me beers." Heh heh. The girls seem all hot and yearning at the
start of every school year, looking for new boyfriends. Anyway, I'm mostly just interested
in female
company, as I like to have a balanced life and social network. Otherwise, have grown
tired of constant blabber. The last few years in Prague
I would sit in the pub, sipping on my beer and listening to the conversation, and it
seemed to amount to absolutely nothing. Little jokes responded by giggles and other little
jokes, so I've actually learned to appreciate being much more productive by myself,
working pretty well whenever I'm awake and choosing what I want to "work on" at
any time. My life also gets sprinkled occasionally by travellers I meet etc. But I would
like to know a few more people, because one does need a certain amount of interaction to
remain sensible and sane.
What stories were you talking about? Will try to see your flick.
I write my regular blobs on the internet, and have been trying to write better every time.
Now I want to starts a "travel reflections" page for tidbits and ideas I cannot
squeeze into my regular stories of my
travels. All part of my mad science to help me get
more customers (search engines like text), find co-travellers, and make money off of
writing in other ways if possible. Have always felt I wanted to be a writer one day, so I
guess the
translations and learning how to type fast has been good partial training for
that.
Hope your tulip works out! This is the time of year when they
bloom. During the summer the bulbs are in burning hot and arid sand. Pine cones only turn
to seed and grow another tree during a fire. Maybe you should research it on the net, as
apparently these don't grow anywhere else. Have a good one. :o)
i really enjoyed seeing you and
talking to you again as well! i wish i could come more often but it is not that easy. i
think i was pretty lucky to get the ticket, the prices doesnt go below 400EUro per ticket.
Anyway, i hope to be back some time and hopefully soon. i brought the shell you gave me
and the sand and the bulb and i will try to grow it here, it is my project now. i also
think that yu should keep writting the stories you were telling me about. i like it. i
think you should see the "WALLY" movie.you would like it. thank you for inviting
me/us for an exciting trip through the norther
island, it sounds great and who knows,
maybe it will happen. i miss it so much. it is 11C now and finally a little bit of sun but
not for long i am sure. enjoy it there for me! take care. hugs,k
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cau dude,
so I finally got around to looking for the bus schedule thing
but couldn't find it. Perhaps Craig nabbed it while he was visiting for two months down
here. I'll take a second look for it in case he put it somewhere else than where I usually
have it. In any case, I think it would be better to look online anyway, as the information
is about half a year old and perhaps the times have changed or something. Did I already
send you some weblink? I don't have much internet time so perhaps you could research it
some ahead of time, and I'll try myself. There should be a regular bus service from
Larnaca to Nicosia (forgot what the Turks call their half of the city at the moment).
Perhaps try some of these searches:
Larnaca Nicosia bus service
Larnaca Nicosia bus transport
Cyprus public transport
Cyprus bus service
Lets start coordinating this now. The bus should go from the
center of Larnaca, swing by the airport (where you can jump on), and get to Nicosia the
capital in the center of the island in about an hour and for about 15 Euro or something.
I've seen a bunch of busses parked right near the historic old town, so just ask the bus
driver about that and how to get there. Everyone on the south
Greek side speaks English,
so just ask directions for the main drag. Recently there was a big hullabaloo historic
event where ties have been strengthening between the north and the south and they finally
opened up the border along the main drag, where previously you had to wind your way around
and it was difficult to find the crossing to the other side. I propose we meet at this
special burger shop on the right hand side of the main drag as you are walking towards the
Turkish side (the historic old town had been carved exactly in half by the Turks). If you
get to McDonald’s on the left hand side you know you’ve walked too far. The burger
joint on the right hand side is not too far from the old town edge (surrounded by a big
wall), I believe there are only two burger joints on the main drag, and this one blatantly
advertises that it has free wireless internet, so I figured it would be a good place to
wait for each other (you said you were bringing your laptop?). Worst case scenario there
are internet joints in various places if we need to email each other from some other
location. Just ask people. I’ll come there a bit early and just work on my computer and
be online. Tell me what you’ve found concerning scheduling as I’d like to get to the
city a few days early and look for work and run some errands, including laundry for your
sheets and pillow slip.
If you want to check out Larnaca I’d suggest you do that on
your way off the island, as I can give you some tips what to see while you’re here. Once
we hook up in the capital, I was thinking we could walk around, as the military division
can be interesting (suggest you bring your camera).
On another note, I’ve been investing a bit of cash to help me
find work and one means was to pay 35$ to submit my main site to 300 web directories. So
over a couple of days I was getting email confirmation of my submission from these 300
directories and it managed to bury an email offering me work. I could have made 650 bucks
over the weekend and I intended to give you 500 Lira spending money for the month, so it
rather sucks and sometimes I think I’m truly plagued. But at least things are happening
a bit and I’m really aggressive about looking for work, so hopefully by the time you get
here or leave I’ll be able to make a sizable debt repayment.
Cyasoon!
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> I do not preach, I am very concerned.
I guess with email it can sound that way sometimes. Especially
after all my problems you say, "Get your computers in order." Something like
that does not help me at all. Or when my harddrive failed in London you seemed to almost
giggle on the phone that I would force turn off my computer, contrary to what I had been
warning you against all these years. You say the computer is not your friend and that it
frustrates you, but you cannot imagine the constant frustration I have to deal with. You
cannot imagine because I do VERY complicated things on the computer. Much more than
Marketa, and I cannot even explain all the things I know, and all the problems I
constantly run into. So many times I want to punch the screen and throw the little box
into the ocean. Many times I feel there are devils out there who constantly frustrate my
every action, lead me to anger, and I can imagine them just giggling, holding their hand
over their mouth mischieviously. I can practically hear them giggle every time, and it
infuriates me more, and I hear them giggle again. So I guess I can get sensitive when
someone gives me a blank statement like, "Get your computer in order." It is a
nonstop battle and if I wasn't living on this beach but in some stupid big city I'd be
pulling out my hair constantly.
Two days ago I practically wrote Simona a fuming email to sink
into Ruskin's head the gravity of the problems he has caused me. He grabbed my ppc when it
was next to me, I told him to bring it back, that it is for business, and now it is
broken. I looked in Nicosia and they sell new ones for 300 Euro. I'm losing business
because I cannot check my email regularly, and cheaply. All sorts of problems. Will have
to buy something new as soon as I have cash. No one can fix it and I've tried a million
times. It is too old and the manufacturer does not make the spare parts anymore.
Once I was in London
and Ruskin practically through water on my laptop, like he thought it would be funny.
Simona does not impart the gravity. Sometimes I feel that Simona is angry at men and the
world and uses her children as a weapon. Sometimes I'm almost afraid to go to London for
fear what they may do to my computer. My life depends on it. Especially now when I am
earning so little. My life is on a thread, and I live in fear and trepidation that some
part of my truck
construction will fail, or my laptop... I no longer have any backup laptops. But I
have reflected much over the summer and applying a different strategy for finding
customers than before. Kind of difficult to explain, but I think I am going about things
more practically now. Before I was writing articles, designing webpages
and trying to get to the top of google, finding customers in that way. But I see now that
there is still much more work to do. I am competing against large
translation etc.
companies who hire people, possibly several, to work on this full time. Nevertheless, I
see that I am doing quite well compared to them, and I am reasonably near the top of google. Everything I have written and all the webpages I have prepared are still useful, I
am just organizing them better. Right now my focus is on getting
translation work for
myself. If I can get enough of that, it will give me needed cash and some security. The
good thing about that is, if someone doesn’t pay me for a job, at least I don’t owe
money to someone else. And I can focus on one language combination only:
Czech to English.
And I know my own quality and do not have to depend on someone else. And it is not the end
of the world if I turn down work. Once I start getting enough
work, I can farm some of it
to other translators and get back more into project
management. Or I can work on everything I do in between
translations, which I
certainly do. But perhaps most importantly, when I make good money translating, I can hire
others to write the pages for me. It is fun work and I can probably find some bozo
American in Prague
to do this for me. Basically I need to have pages made for each language
combination I offer. It is a LOT of work and writing. Like on page from “English
to German translations”, etc.
Yes, my Iranian friend lent me his phone, through which I can
check my email, although it is frustratingly slow. Nevertheless I can use it as a modem
for my computer. But he needed to use it this last week. I guess he’ll give it back to
me once he gets back to Iran. So now I’m using his even older phone. I set up an email
address which sends a text message to my mobile, so for regular customers, if they have
some work for me or something is urgent, they can do that, and if it is important enough,
I drive back to the stinky city and get on the internet. Like I have to do tomorrow
Saturday morning and drive away from my lovely beach. Picked up 20 pages over the weekend,
so that will pay for half a month of costs. Also negotiating with one customer who has a
thousand pages until half way through November, so even if I only get a hundred pages of
that, it will pay for three months. I started advertising in the Czech
Republic and am really trying hard to get new customers for myself. I really don’t
need much work to survive. So hopefully this new strategy will work. It is the first time
I’m actually paying for advertising on the
internet.
Well, have a good one, and hope everything will be fine with
Jana. Would be nice if she came down for a visit. She likes the beaches here. Some sun
could do her some good.
latero
Anyway did you ever tell Simona about
the phone?? I do not think they should reimburs you but Ruskin should know that he did you
a harm and he should be more careful and not so wild. It is educational for him that he
has to control himself because these things should not be left without some
consequences. So what has to be done that you get another phone and be connected???? I
thought that somebody gave you an old phone. Are these things not available where you are?
Whare are you anyway? What is the weather like? Keta was very happy that you remembered
her biurthday:):):) We had a very nice day, thought of you , got drunk at lunch , weather
perfect we were on the balcony and talked and talked and drunk. Then we drove her home and
were going to play tennis but changed our plans since I probably would hurt myself on the
court. So we went home and slept and in the evening went to Kings Landing to watch some
movie with our old neigbours. Very nice day. Back to reality today, it is a grey day and
we have some issues with the GST people. NOt good, so I am worried mnore again. So what
about your phone? xxxxooooomaminka
Get your machines working properly, it is the only tool you have
for good living. And do not tell me not to tell you things like that. I do not udrerstand
how you can miss an imprtant e-mail with
translation for 40 pages. Because I paid to
submit my pages to 300 directories recently, so my inbox was flooded by emails confirming
my submission, and this email got buried among them. Perhaps because I am online shortly
per day and doing things more quickly. Now I just lost another 30 pages. If Ruskin had not
broken my ppc I would have probably noticed these emails, reading them casually from my
truck. So in all he's so far cost me over a thousand dollars and I could have purchased
several phones with that price by now. It rather pisses me off. Your preaching never helps
either.
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The entire below correspondence was with the following email
subject, from a spam letter I found in my junkbox and which I thought I’d forward to her
out of amusement. I love flirting with girls! But it’s the first time I saw my favourite
word “banana” used in spam like this. I like to refer to many of my fond female
friends with that word.
Re: (Fwd) Turn your banana into a steel pole
hmm, I thought there was another email of yours I was supposed
to respond to. Perhaps I already did. Have to drive back to The Farm, as me and my Czech
friend here like to call it, to do some
internet in the morning on Saturday, boohoo, so I
guess you'll get a response sooner than later. Just got 20 pages
translation over the
weekend and they sent me 125 pages previously translated, so I need to download some
software (my harddrive recently burnt and I lost a lot of important data) so that I can
process it correctly and pump it into my special translation software, which remembers how
I have translated things in the past, so I can translate and work less in the future.
Great program and useful for repetitive text, which is the case with contracts and EU
legislation and that sort of stuff. And remembering terminology for me so that i do not
have to keep looking in the dictionary. With it I think I can translate 30 to even 50
pages a day, or possibly more, if I have enough memory, which I want to start building up
now. I have done quite large translations in the past and very quickly. Anyway...
ok, i just gave my freind farwell at
the train station! She is a very nice person but she is also a girl so after 3 days i've
had enough, she spent 2 weeks with me mostly so it sometimes drove me a bit crazy. but i
do not want to seem like i do complain a lot, she is a good friend. So i think i know what
you are talking about having a bit fear about the coming visiter especially if it is a
person you do not like hanging around too much. i really keep my fingers crossed for your
fliers! It is a "smooth operator" plan in a good way!o)
Yah, need some women friends in my life. I always find their
company refreshing and a good balance for me. I don't even need s€x but I get
a high off their presence. Get tired of constant male company all the time. And getting
tired of all these Turkish homos on the beach. They always seem to wait along the quite
stretches where I jog along the beach in my shorts. Throwing little comments at me, I
imagine they stare at my ass when I jog by, or they try to join me jogging for a while, or
come to my truck later asking for water and if they can sit inside with me for a while,
and I feel like telling them to just fack right off. Smelling their faint male sweat,
makes me want to puke. So I need some female company otherwise I smell too much male
sweat, including my own.
Let
me know how it goes. i think i told you in my last email, since i got back from Cyprus
i didnt have much chance to enjoy fine sunny weather and now i am back in Brussels and it
just pour rains like hell. it is quite depressing. I quite frequently just close my eyes
and get back in my mind to that lovely
beach you cleaned up and where i had a great time! i so much envy you that!!! as you
know because i keep saying that very often! i have this urge to just go and get the ticket
for November but it is not so easy! Konstantinos is a nice guy and i like him a lot. He
always takes a very good care of me when i am there. i just wish i could have a
conversation with him just like we do. sometimes it seems impossible, he lives like a
boheme, he loves enjoying life, which i also what i admire about him but sometimes it can
be too much for me. i am not sure if you follow here what i am trying to say. anyway, he
is not bad way crazy and i am just a coward, just like you said. regarding my tulip in a
sea shell, i didnt do any research yet as i didnt have much time for myself lately but i
will so now. i just left it in the sand inside of the shell you gave me and i water it
ocasionally but mostly i kepp it drier. we will see what is going to happen. maybe it will
grow and bloom next year! i will surely let you know!o) Mily Kajo, take care and kepp
sending emails i live on them! they always radiate the sun shining and the smell of the
sea here... kisses,bananak
It's always nice and refreshing to get your letters, like the
female company that I need! Was great hanging on the beach with you. Come on down anytime
you like. Will be in this small truck with that real crazy friend coming to visit for a
month. That will be scary indeed, but will be nice to get drunk and party, and drive
around the island. Certainly some adventures will come out of it. Have a good one!
:0)
Ahooj! Great to hear the
"English lessons" are working out for you!
well, not yet. School will start soon and I'll drop some ads
within the next couple of days. Konstantinos seemed normal enough to me. Then again,
didn't talk to him much, and I'm a bit crazy myself I think! Then again, I think crazy is
more normal than "normal" people, who seem more concerned about being
"normal", which is essentially doing what everyone else does, because they are
scared little babies who fear rejection and ridicule. So all the weak copy one another,
and when someone else does something different, just because they feel like it and it
seems normal to them, the week feel threatened, or envy the person's freedom, and start to
badmouth and gossip about them. So I cannot consider them normal at all but just a bunch
of cowards. What's new with me? Well a big trouble make is coming to visit me. Long story,
but didn't want to see him ever again. But he lent me cash for a plane ticket to go treeplanting and I feel I owe him one, so I
invited him for a visit. Now he will be here for a full month. He loves to get drunk,
occasionally into fights, and he is a big womaniser. In any case, I think my next month
should at least be interesting, but I'm a bit scared! Will have to ask him to control
himself. Did any research on that tulip bulb you brought with you? Curious if you can get
it to grow. It rains a bit now during the fall, and maybe winter. They bloom during the
fall, and somehow survive 50C temperatures in burning dry sand over the summer. Amazing
thing! byebaby
Tell me more. I want to write longer
email but since i got back from CY i have a friend visiting and i didnt have much time for
myself not speaking to write emails. Please give me few more days, she is leaving on
Friday. I miss you, i miss the sun and sea, I miss the weather and of course, i miss
Konstantinos too, even though he is crazy and if we were living together i would have to
kill him soon! I am currently in Brussels and the weather sucks as usual, dark and
raining, oh today is also a bit windy... good chocolate though. So let me know what is new
with you!!! looking forward to hear from you. and remember even though i am not writing
emails every day you are on my mind alot!!! take care. hugs, bananaK
was
good to seeya again banana! If ya ever wanna come for longer and you can tolerate my
sardine can, you're welcome to stay here for free. Even your friend. We can boot around
the Turkish side. Maybe later I'll get insurance for the south side as well. My friend is
coming from the 8th of October to the 8th of November. So early November the weather may
still be a bit tolerable for a swim in the ocean.
Left over pics: