Despite being in the desert, I can still experience cold mornings and nights and from what I was told, some regions here in KSA actually experience winter. Yes, with actual snows so I no longer needed to be confused why we continue manufacturing air conditioners with built-in heater function. Some of the locals stores are even selling winter apparels.
Natives of tropical countries love to experience winter and snow and I am no exception. Despite the seemingly endless mornings when I would have to force myself to wake up and take a shower, I really do miss winter. Though I hope winters would only last for a month each year, anything beyond that becomes unbearable. And there must be snow. The lack of snow just couldn’t give justice to a sub-zero weather.
And there must be winter clothes, gloves and scarves.
The photo above was taken by my Chinese friend during the disastrous heavy snowfall in Jiangsu, China in 2008. On that day, we called ourselves the Snow Bandits.
When I was in China, there is only one place I’d wanted to visit during winter seasons — the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in Heilongjiang. I hope that I’d be able to witness their colorful ice structures until I still can. Here’s a few photo taken by random bloggers during the Harbin Snow and Ice Festival 2011.
Harbin Ice and Snow Festival photos from Cute and Weird, My Life, What Humans Do and The Thirsty Pig
Christmas is coming and all of us would all need all the extra income that we could have.
One way to earn supplementary income is through this Free Online Poker site. Like all the many poker sites, it offers Freerolls — free to play poker tournaments and awards real prizes. These prizes will either be cash or an opportunity to enter into expensive tournaments which in turn offer larger prizes.
Those who’ve never played poker before won’t find it hard to figure out which of the many Poker Sites is best for you. Try PokerStars, the largest poker site which provides equally the largest amounts of games.
Astronomer’s freerolls is one of the most famous on freerolls game on the site. Here you can win entry into the Weekly Round 2 tournament and since they are also currently running a 10th Anniversary campaign, you can win prize packages to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure to be held in the Bahamas in January 2012. The tournament is held at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, one of the most exclusive resorts in the world. In addition to playing poker, there will be plenty of time to enjoy the surrounding water parks and all that the Bahamas has to offer.
Locate the free poker tournaments by installing the PokerStars software, click the ‘Tourney Freeroll’ and you’re way to go to play online poker.
This is a chance for you to win more money to expend for the holidays.
Another website is coming up and though I’m not looking for yet another web hosting company, let me let you all know that I’m currently hosting my sites at Hostgator. I’ve been to a lot of web hosts in the past and I’m hoping that I won’t have to move servers again because moving from host to host takes a awful lot of patience and perseverance. I’ve tried Netfirms, Dreamhost, Bluehost and Hostmonster and they all disappointed me so much that I never wish to be hosting any of my sites with them again even if they lower their web hosting services to a dollar a year (yes, Netfirms is doing that but please don’t let yourselves get fooled).
When in a lookout for a new web host, please do take time to read and understand hosting reviews, there are a lot of them plastered all over the internet but please be a bit wiser to know which ones are really doing the reviews and are not just baiting possible referrals with their referral IDs.
That’s all, thank you!
