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  • Mr.MICHELL BUNGAHI, the son of late NJAMAH BUNGAHI (the former sierra-leonean minister of international affairs)

    It affords him a great pleasure to have a business transactions with me. and he briefly introduces himself by saying “…my name is Mr.MICHELL BUNGAHI a Sierra-leonean by nationality…”

    Dear,

    It affords me a great pleasure to have a business transaction with you. In a brief introduction, my name is Mr.MICHELL BUNGAHI a Sierra-leonean by nationality.

    I am the son of late NJAMAH BUNGAHI the former sierra-leonean minister of internal affairs who was assassinated in Freetown sierra-leon on the 2nd of July 2000 by the rabbel forces led by major John Koro in the bid to overthrown the democratic government. Before the assassination,my father was also the chairman of the sierra-leonean national diamond and gold cooperation .

    The war that broke-out from the unlawful rebeloverthrown forced us to flew to a neighbouring village until the West African Peace Keeping Force
    (ECOMOG)took control of my village mende then I decided to go back to our family to search for some vital document and valuables. When I was searching for documents I found keys to my father’s under ground safe, where I discovered one metallic box filled with money with payment
    voucher,IT contain ten point five million U.S.dollars($10.5M) being proceeds gotten from the sales of Gold and Diamond to Libyan government by
    the cooperation which my father was the chairman.

    With the help of a local fisherman that operate a fishing trawler, I was able to take the box to Cotonou-Benin through the coastal line and deposited it in Allied Security Company as a family treasure. After my discussion with the Director of the security company, he accepted to assist me transfer the consignment to any of their offices in Europe by cargo.

    Because of these arrangement, I decided to contact you first because I needed a foreign partner who will help me to receive the consignment over there, open an account in his name and pay in the fund for onward transfer to his or her account overseas. After this transaction, I would like to invest in real estate or any other lucrative business you might suggest as I wish to have a partnership with you.

    If you are interested;
    (1) I will send to you the telephone number of the security company in Cotonou-Benin for you to confirm the availability of the treasure box(fund).
    (2) I will also fax the security company’s Deposit Certificate and the receipt of the deposit payment which I paid.
    (3) For your assistance, me and my family have accepted to compensate you with 30% of the total fund and also you will be part of any investment accepted by the family.

    I look forward to having a good business relationship with you.

    I will be very grateful to hear a positive response from you as soon as possible. Via tel +229-459088.

    Yours sincerely,

    Mr.MICHELL BUNGAHI.

  • Who was Saint Valentine?

    Who was Saint Valentine?
    Who was this fellow who has made such an impact on the way we spend the 14th of February world wide?!
    Valentine’s Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.
    The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl’s name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.
    Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families.
    As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. THE good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honor of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.
    The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavored to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine’s Day for the celebration of this new feast. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.
    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 5 . 1.Sun, ]

  • Groningen & Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

    Groningen & Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
    The Dutch offer a most pleasant contrast to the world of distillery tours. While both the Scottish and the French proclaim that the making of respectively Whiskies and Cognacs is more than just work to the people in the industry – it’s art – the Dutch take on a very different way of looking at things! Quote “we do not produce the alcohol ourselves. We buy it – that is cheaper. It comes in through the pipelines you can see there [in the roof] and comes into the automatic botteling machine over here. Then we have twenty employees packing the bottles in card board cases. [Photos]
    Where: The city of Groningen, northern Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. What: Business Meeting in the GeoShare project. Accomodation: City Hotel, Groningen. Radisson SAS City Hotel, Amsterdam.
    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 1 . 1.Wed, ]

  • Catchy and Humorous Book Titles

    Catchy and Humorous Book Titles
    It is a scary process to choose which book to read next. We know very well that we may have many an hour of agony and pain between the ourselves and the last page – if your choice is a bad one. What do we have to go by?! A nice cover is always cool, but very rarely the product of the author so not much to go by when trying to make up an oppinion of the contents – a good title is important…
    Real titles

    • Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months With Tools You Probably Have Around the Home, by Dave Barry
    • English As A Second F*cking Language : How To Swear Effectively, Explained In Detail With Numerous Examples Taken From Everyday Life, by Sterling Johnson (Author)

    Titles waiting to be used

    • A Pactical Guide to Dyslexia (NO: Dysleksi i paksis), by Stein Runar Bergheim

    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 0 . 3.Fri, ]

  • Curriculum Vitae of a Convicted Spy

    In the early 1980’s the then foreign office employed Arne Treholt was convicted for espionage and the handing over of government secrets to Russia, for which he served 10 years behind the bars.

    Take a look at this page to see how his resume looks :-). It is obvious that this is the CV of a man who masters the art of omission – as well as that of inclusion.

    Upon seeing this CV, a thing I read from a conference flyer in 2002 comes to my mind:

    Mr Treholt who to my knowledge now is a respectable business man working out of Cyprus, (and who in my humble opinion probably did not tell anyone anything they didn’t already know), was invited to speak at a conference close to where I live (Årdal).

    As is the custom the conference flyer was boasting of its  invited speakers and their professional and political backgrounds.

    About Mr Treholt it said:

    …he was among the first to realise the growing potential of the new and exciting markets in Russia.

    It says a lot about someone – mostly about the people organizing the conference!

  • Natal, Foz do Iguazu, Serra Gaucha (Brazil)

    In accordance with something that has become more of a rule than an exception I woke up with a start at 04:50 in the morning. The taxi was waiting outside. Within 7 minutes I was on my way to the railway station and within an additional 13 I was on my way to the airport – on schedule. Itinerary Oslo, Amsterdam, Natal.

    Where: Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Foz do Igua�u, Paran�. Gramado, Serra Gaucha, Rio Grande do Sul. What: Vacation, exotic destionation. Accommodation: Hotel Tirol, Natal. Hotel Sol, Natal. Hotel Tropical das Cataratas, Foz do Igua�u. Hotel Bavaria, Gramado.

    Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

    Norwegians in general, (and me in particular), haven’t got a healthy tan in the early days of january. Our skin has a distinctively off-white color, maybe with a hint of dead-body-blue. With the help of sun block 50 I managed to maintain my pale hue throughout my whole stay in Natal despite this being the “Sun City” of Brazil.
    Natal being a very agreeable place, only wanting a few mountains here and there, it is not difficult to spend many pleasant days here. The final destination for this holiday was hovever not Natal but Southern Brazil; Paran� and Rio Grande do Sul. Natal is also the place where I would meet up with my girlfriend Aline.
    Airlines are not to be trusted and we therefore decided to try to buy tickets from Brazil a few days before departure. Our friend Nubia recommended us to a friend of hers who has a travel agency, respectively Andrea and SummerTour.
    When entering a Brazilian shop, outlet or basically wherever something is bought or sold, it becomes apparent that the cost of labor can’t be the same as in Northern Europe. SummerTour was no exception being located in a standard one-person office equipped with 3 desks, 1 computer, 4 chairs, a phone, a fax machine, one director and two emplyoees of visibly lower rank.
    Upon our entry the room became crowded and, as the skillled readed might have detected allready, there was a notable shortage of vacant chairs – there being two of us ‘customers’ in addition to the staff. One of the lesser employees was in a very feudal manner commanded first to stand up and eventually to leave the room to respectively free up the chair he was sitting on and the airt he consumed merely by being in the room. Had it appeared as if the poor guy was doing something it would have been very awkward indeed, as it was he seemed more than happy to buzz off for a while anticipating out withdrawal and his return to his well organized and nearly empty desk.
    Efficiency may or may not have another definiton in Brazil than other places – it isn’t for me to say because I didn’t understand too much of what was going on in this office and wisely left Aline to do the talking. Speaking Portuguese isn’t as of yet among my talents. The negotiations took quite a few days and many visits, but in the end we wound up with some tickets issued to the hitherto unknown Mr Drergheim and the more familiar Miss Andrade.
    Our itinerary was set to depart from Natal for Foz do Igua�u and from there onwards to Porto Allegre and Serra Gaucha, finishing off with a few days in Natal before my departure back to Sogndal.

    Foz & Cataratas do Igua�u, Paran�

    Having read in my travel bible (“Lonely Planet, Brazil”) that Foz do Igua�u was a small and scruffy place that grew forth with the building of the Itaipu power plant from a measly 30 000 inhabitants in the 1970’s to an astonishing 300 000 or so in 2004 I really didn’t know what to expect…
    Hotel Tropical das Cataratas was as nice as it was expensive, being the only hotel located within the confines of the national park. It was big, it was pink, it was ideally located and it was – alas – inhabited by nothing but blue haired, white tennis shoed (US-)americans, loud and laughing Swedes – and – us!
    The scenery was beautiful though… The hotel being located just at the edge og the Igua�u canyon offering a stunning overview of the falls and allowing for the wild roar of the cascading water to accompany us during the whole stay. An ideal setting for a romantic holiday.

    Puerto Iguaz�, Argentina

    However much I like to claim that I have now “done” Argentina, there is little to support this claim in manner of cultural experiences. We did however cross over the border, get some stamps in our passports and had a thorough look at the falls from the Argentinian side. So technically I’ve BEEN there.

    Cidade del Est, Paraguay

    Once again referring to my travel guide I use the word scruffy about Cidade del Est. Though apparently in posession of a blooming tax free industry, the city had the air of a place where you wouldn’ leave your grand mother unattended in a wheelchair without the fear of finding the chair jacked up and the wheels and granny gone upon return.

    Serra Gaucha, Rio Grande do Sul

    According to Norwegian logic if two states are both called Rio Grande, and the one is do Norte and the other is do Sul, they should be located next to each other, the one being to the north of the other etc. But no. In Brazil this is almost as far from the truth as possible, Rio Grande do Sul being the southernmost state in Brazil and Rio Grande do Norte being the state located furthest northeast in the country.

    Gramado

    Reading up on Brazilian history I found that there had been a massive immigration og europeans in the southern part of Brazil. And Gramado would be the living proof of this. Let alone the whole of Serra Gaucha, the region having a strong european influence alltogether.
    Gramado is more german than Germany, more swiss than Switserland and less Brazilian than antything I have seen before. The place is positively booming with food with meat as the main ingredient and a choice of barbecue or fondue as means of preparation. And chocolate. Lots of chocolate. I HATE chocolate. Since wowing never to eat chocolate again I have had only one fallback; in Galway when I accidently ate a mint-chocolate that was supplied with the after dinner coffee. And that was six years ago!

    Canela

    Canela, allthough claiming to be a city, didn’t much resemble one – at least if compared to Gramado with its german alp village charm. That is not to say that Canela didn’t have its qualities! It is a beautiful place packed with stunning views of nature; forests, mountains. It is also the home of an incredible amount of chocolate manufacturers. Which wouldn’t scare away anyone either…
    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 2 . 2.Thu, ]

  • Umberto Eco: Regretfully, we are returning your manuscript: Anonymous, The Bible

    Umberto Eco: Regretfully, we are returning your manuscript: Anonymous, The Bible
    I must say that the first few hundred pages of this manuscript really hooked me. Action-packed, they have everything today’s reader wants in a good story. Sex (lots of it, including adultery, sodomy, incest), also murder, war, massacres, and so on.
    The Sodom and Gomorrah chapter, with the tranvestites putting the make on the angels, is worthy of Rabelais; the Noah stories are pure Jules Verne; the escape from Egypt cries out to be turned into a major motion picture . . . In other words, a real blockbuster, very well structured, with plenty of twists, full of invention, with just the right amount of piety, and never lapsing into tragedy.
    But as I kept on reading, I realized that this is actually an anthology, involving several writers, with many–too many–stretches of poetry, and passages that are downright mawkish and boring, and jeremiads that make no sense.
    The end result is a monster omnibus. It seems to have something for everybody, but ends up appealing to nobody. And acquiring the rights from all these different authors will mean big headaches, unless the editor takes care of that himself. The editor’s name, by the way, doesn’t appear anywhere on the manuscript, not even in the table of contents. Is there some reason for keeping his identity a secret?
    I’d suggest trying to get the rights only to the first five chapters. We’re on sure ground there. Also come up with a better title. How about The Red Sea Desperadoes?
    The above text is taken from “Misreadings”, by Umberto Eco.
    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 0 . 3.Tue, ]

  • Hajia Maryam Abacha, widow of the Late Gen. Sani Abacha

    Hajia Maryam Abacha, widow of the Late Gen. Sani Abacha
    “…I am Hajia Maryam Abacha, widow of the Late Gen. Sani Abacha former Nigerian Military Head of State who died as a result of cardiac arrest….”
    “…I therefore decided to contact you in confidence so that I can be able to move out the sum of US$35,760,000.00 ( Thirty Five Million Seven hundred and Sixty Thousand U. S. Dollars ) which was secretly defaced and seal in big metal box for security reasons in your account…”
    ATTN;
    PLS REPLY TO MY PRAVATE BOX
    I am Hajia Maryam Abacha, widow of the Late Gen. Sani Abacha former Nigerian Military Head of State who died as a result of cardiac arrest.
    I therefore decided to contact you in confidence so that I can be able to move out the sum of US$35,760,000.00 ( Thirty Five Million Seven hundred and Sixty Thousand U. S. Dollars ) which was secretly defaced and seal in big metal box for security reasons in your account.
    I personally therefore appeal to you for your urgent assistance to move this money into your country where I believe it will be safe since I cannot leave the country due to the restriction of movement imposed on me and members of my family by the Nigerian government.
    You can contact me through, or my family lawyer . Upon the receipt of your acceptance to assist me, my lawyer shall arrange with you for a face to face meeting outside Nigeria in order to liaise with him towards the effective completion of this transaction.
    However, arrangement has been put in place to move this money out of the country in batches in a secret vault through a diplomatic security company to any of the European country as soon as you indicate your interest. I also want you to be assured that all necessary arrangement for the hitch-free of thistransaction has been concluded.
    Conclusively, I have decided to offer you 25% of the total sum 5% will be for whatever expenses that will be incurred, while 70% is to be used in buying share in your company subsequent to our free movement by the Nigerian government.
    Please reply urgently and treat with absolute confidentiality and sincerity.
    PLS REPLY TO MY PRAVATE BOX
    Best regards,
    HAJIA Maryam.
    ABACHAc/o Ba

    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 1 . 2.Sun, ]

  • Anthony Rulaeg The son of Dr. Christopher Rulaeg

    Anthony Rulaeg The son of Dr. Christopher Rulaeg
    You may be surprise to receive this letter from me,since you dont know me personally,I am Anthony Rulaeg The son of Dr. Christopher Rulaeg, Who was recently killed in the land reform dispute in Zimbabwe. I got your contact as i was searching for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business which involve the claiming and transfering of fund into a foreign account for safe keeping and further investment.
    My father was among the few black Zimbabwean opposition party rich farmers who were against President Robert Mugabe’s land reform policies against the white farmers in Zimbabwe.For his alleged support and sympathy for the Zimbabwean opposition party controlled by the white minority farmers.Before my father was killed,he was a successful farmer in support of his white colleagues .He had taken to South Africa and deposited the sum of twelve million five hundred thousand united state dollars (US$12.5million) with a security/finance company as he forseen the looming danger in zimbabwe. This is to avoid it been confiscated by President Robert Mugabe and ruling party.This money was allocated for the purchase of new machinery and chemical product for Agro-allied farms and for establishment of new farms in lesotho and swaziland.This land problems arose when President Robert mugabe introduced a new land act that wholly affected the rich white farmers.Some blacks vehemently condemned the “modus operandi” adopted by the government. This result to rampant killings and mob action by the war veterans and some political thugs,precisely more than three thousand( 3,000) people have so far been killed.Heads of government from the west, especially Britain and United States have voice their condemnation of Mugabe’s plans.
    Currently,the money has been transfer to Europe via diplomatic process,due to current escalation of the problem in Zimbabwe to avoid it been confiscated.Hence,South Africa Development Community (S.A.D.C) has continously supported Mugabe’s new land act.This is the reason why we decided to transfer this fund to Europe and flee out of the South Africa where we were living since this problem started to another neighbouring country in Africa.I am faced with the dilemma of keeping and investing of this money in whole of Africa for fear of encountering the same experience in the future or confiscation of all that belong to my family by these African leaders.Since all countries in
    Africa have almost the same political tie.
    Hence,my family and i are currently on excile in a neighbouring country in Africa.
    Well,all i demand from you is to be our representative/beneficiary to make claim of this fund,which is currently deposited in the security company’s custody in Europe.I will also inform you that a transaction of this magnitude is risk free and or mutual benefit.For your assistance of claiming and safeguarding the money,we are offering you 20% of the sum ,75% for me and my family, while 5% will be mapped out for any expenses that we may incurre during this transaction.We wish to offer you 20% of annual turnover of any investment you wish to invest this money when it finally gets into your propose account,for a period of ten consecutive years.
    Finally, i will demand for assurance that you will not sit on the money when it gets to your personal account or company’s account, If this proposal is accepted please confirm your interest by sending me an email and providing your full name,address, tel and fax numbers to enable me introduce you to the security company in Europe
    where the money is currently deposited as my beneficiary/partner.
    Thanks.
    Anthony Rulaeg.
    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 8 . 1.Thu, ]

  • Heru Nurwasito, Col David Wong, OCBC Bank, Singapore

    Heru Nurwasito, Col David Wong, OCBC Bank, Singapore
    I am contacting you on a business transfer of a hugh sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and sceptical, but I am assuring you that its been accurately planned and will be carried out successfully with your full cooperation as long as you follow our plans and instructions religiously. We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
    Heru Nurwasito
    Col David Wong
    OCBC Bank
    Singapore.
    www.ocbc.com
    PRIVATE AND URGENT.
    I am contacting you on a business transfer of a hugh sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and sceptical, but I am assuring you that its been accurately planned and will be carried out successfully with your full cooperation as long as you follow our plans and instructions religiously. We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
    PROPOSITION;
    We discovered an abandoned sum of US$15,500,000.00 (Fifteen million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission
    to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us for the funds (US$15,500,000.00) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary’s next of kin through my banks funds managers/clearing house overseas. It may interest you to know that we have secured from
    the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;
    1. Beneficiary Name and Address.
    2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.
    These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made. We shall be
    compensating you with a million dollars on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share stays while the rest shall be for us for investment purposes.
    If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you,please contact me directly as i await your urgent mail.
    Regards,
    Heru Nurwasito
    [ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 8 . 1.Thu, ]