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One Man's Journey is Another Man's History - an unofficial memoir of a 73-year-old in parts (PART 2-1)

​Part 2-1: Military Service - 1967-1968 In 1965, after several jobs in nearby towns, twenty-year-old Hans Peter was introduced by a friend to work in a material...

One Man's Journey is Another Man's History - an unofficial memoir of a 73-year-old in parts (PART 1)

One Man's Journey is Another Man's History - an unofficial memoir of a 73-year-old in parts (PART 1) CHILDHOOD Hans Peter was born in a small town in the Saar P...

Post 2017: Quick review (NO PICTURES)

I know it's a little too late for a 2017 review, but hahaha~ yea, let's do it anyway. 2017 was a great year of 'first times' and new beginnings. - Travelling th...

Random thoughts: own experience - the misunderstood genre... Manga

I never liked Manga or comics, I was always confused looking at the squares and not knowing which square to look at next. Maybe because there were too many pict...

Random thoughts: Jack of all trades, master of none

Since young, my mother has always said that I'm a "Jack of all trades, master of none"... I never really understood why. When I came out to work, I finally real...

Random thoughts: 女人，女同 - a woman, a lesbian

当个女人，难 当个女同，更难 当个有伴侣的女同，难 当个没伴侣的女同，更难 当个出柜的女同，难 当个未出柜的女同，更难 曾经看过一篇报道，据说男人女人的价值随着年龄改变。男人年纪越大，越成熟，体贴女人，稳重，所以价值 （market）越高 ，女人的价值却因为年纪增长而贬值。报道还说，同志方面却恰恰相反：男同随着年纪增长...

Fiction Comp - All writers are welcome - Introduction

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#besafe Hurricane Irma... be prepared

After the awful Harvey, Irma is reaching Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Bahamas and the United States. Hopefully, ​nobody will be badly hurt. While I accidentall...

Steemit Tip I Learned Today: Find Your Dead Followers....

Hi Steemians! Blessed weekend! Today I have bumped into my friend's post today about a REALLY INTERESTING site that could actually help a lot of us to identify ...

Cannabis Helping To Treat Tourette Syndrome, Alzheimer's Disease, Schizophrenia, And More

http://reset.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/shutterstock230872459.jpg Millions of people around the world use cannabis on a daily basis for a myriad of illnesses...

Random thoughts: What I noticed...

Random things pop up in my head from time to time, things I've noticed, some from articles or news I've read before. I'm sure it's not all original, but then ag...

Steemit Terminology Demystified

I am not sure if any steemians registered themselves without having any understanding of how the entire system works. To be honest I was lured by the fact that ...

Living in Germany: 10 Differences compared to home

Here are ten differences I find between Germany and Malaysia. I'm not complaining, please do not take it the wrong way. I know a lot of Malaysians are not very ...

GHOST MONTH: HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL : GHOST STORIES

Every seventh month in the Lunar calendar is known as the Ghost Month, with the 14th right up to the 17th in certain places would hold the HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL...

Team Malaysia Challenge: Merdeka challenge... more like a normal day out hehe

Truthfully, ever since coming to Germany, most people whom I meet, who can communicate with me (yea, in English) asked me this SOALAN CEPU EMAS... what's nice i...

TeamMalaysiaChallenge #01 | MERDEKA Challenge

https://s27.postimg.org/fix60wl9v/teammalaysia-merdeka.jpg Greetings fellow steemians from teammalaysia Its been only a couple of months since starting out this...

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: My first 22 days of Steemit blogging... and the history before

​Blogging is not a new thing for me. I've had my own website many many years ago; when Geocities was still not bought over by Yahoo. I have since forgotten the ...

TRAVELOGUE: Visiting a museum - war-time; vehicles; toys; music; technology

WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD Was on the way to Heilbronn, a vineyard to buy wine and eat. We dropped by the Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim, a technology museum in S...

my first, serious attempt at portrait, the earlier ones were hahaha~ a joke.

Never thought I could do it, it turned out a lot better than i expected. Not professional, but heck, I love this grid drawing~~ really am truly grateful to @col...

Tutorial #2: Drawing Face Outline - Pencil Portrait Sketching for Complete Beginners - SBD Reward for Three Best Sketches

This is the second tutorial in a series of portrait sketching tutorials for complete beginners. You can read the first part here: Tutorial 1: Pencil Portrait Sk...