Retalhos da Vida de um Nómada: abril 2010

terça-feira, 6 de abril de 2010

When i´m desperate, i go talk to my granites

Alvarenga

I´m desperate. Really desperate. It doesn´t matter why, because life is to smile.

And when i´m desperate, i just go and listen to my granites. ' You think is impossible? It is not. It is a matter of paying attention. Listen to the conversation we had together narrated by the oldies Creedence Clearwater Revival (Have you ever seen the rain... coming down on sunny days) and the young ColdPlay (Fix you and Swallowed in the sea)

Kisses and hugs

A Place to Think Anything Over from nunocruz on Vimeo.

Estou no desespero mais profundo. Não interessa falar no porquê, porque a vida dá-se ao sorriso.

E quando estou desesperado vou falar com os meus granitos. Pensam que sou tolo?. Sou não. É uma questão de atenção. Escutem a conversa que tive com eles narrada pelos velhinhos Creedence Clearwater Revival (Have you ever seen the rain... coming down on sunny days) e pelos "novinhos" ColdPlay (Fix you e Swallowed in the sea)

Beijos e abraços a todos

A PhD ON THE ROAD User´s manual

The PhD on the road adventure started in November 2008 and finished in August 2010 and tells the epic event of writing an Engineering PhD while going around the world. The global adventure should be red/seen as the reading of a romance, not all at once. Each post combines text, photos (sometimes small videos), played along with music (in diaporamas) with the respective lyrics being part of the story. Within the whole story, there are small histories that be recognized by the basic title of the movies (movies with the same basic title are chapters of a same small history). The following histories can be found within the whole adventure, apart from some technical and/or isolated movies:

1 - Tuareg (Morocco)

2 - On the Track of Livingstone (Mozambique)

3 - A Love Story (Sri Lanka)

4 - 7 weeks in Tibet (Tibet)

5 - Empires of the East (China)

6 - Making Possible the Impossible (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau)

7 - Uma História de Peão (Brazil)

8 - Arriba Zapata (Mexico)

9 - Learning with the youth (London, Legoland)

10 - Small Things Are Always Great (Porto Santo)

11 - Blowin' in the Wind (Sailing from Porto Santo to Algarve)

12 - Rings of Fire (Guatemala, Mexico and Azores)

13 - When i´m desperate i go talk to my granites (Alvarenga)

14 - Shadows (Alpendorada)

15 - The Thesis (Portugal)

16 - The Obelix Party (Parc Asterix and Granja)

...and after the end of PhD on the road (september 2010), the blog was kept alive with the following histories:

17 - The Nomad Sail of the Soul (sailing, South of Spain)

18 - Nomad Minds (Teaching and tutoring)

19 - Puro Tango (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

20 - Patagónia (3500 km off-road in Argentinian Patagónia)

21 - A New Dawn (Peru)

22 - A Spot of Light in a Dark Horizon (Western Australia)

23 - 4 Questions to Heaven (Portugal & Spain)

24 - Maktoub (Moroco)

25 - Islands of Hope (Cape Verde)

26 - The ISC Family (Brazil)

27 - A Jazz Hour at the Pisco Sour Hour (Peru)

28 - Histories of Lost Loves (Moncorvo, Portugal)

29 - The Adventure of the Railroad (Malawi)

30 - The Power of Women (L´ile de Ré, France)

31 - Irrepressable Poland (Poland)

32 - An African Cross Country (Mozambique)

33 - 7 Seas (Sailing in Creoula, Porto - Cadiz - Lisboa)

34 - The Flight of the Condor (Peru)

35 - We (Mallorca, Spain)

36 - Another Cluster (Rock Mechanics)

37 - Bolivariando (Colombia)

38 - Kissing Africa (Mozambique and Malawi)

39 - The Walk of Life (Lisboa Barcelona in Creoula)

40 - Until the Last Drop (Uganda, Pocinho, Porto, Lisboa and Berlim)

41 - A Son of a Fish Knows How to Swim (Toledo and Aranjuez, Spain)

42 - a Wherever Love (Mozambique)

43 - If I Was Scottish I Would Ce a Proud One (Scotland)

44 - Incredible India (Mumbai and Goa)

45 - Dubai (Dubai)
46 - A Banquet of Nature (Queensland, Australia)

COMBINARTE

My strongest believe is based upon COMBINING.

Combine...
the Olive oil and Water, the Heaven and the Hell,
Art and Science, and Format and Chaos
the Inteligent and the limited, the "Cool" and the agressive,
the Family man and the Adventurer, the domestic and the nigth watcher.
And so the Weak becomes Strong when the Strong Weak becomes.
Imagine Michael Schumacher driving a donkey. What wouldn´t the donkey gain, and how much higher Schumacher would have gone?

A minha maior convicção reside no valor de COMBINAR. Combinar... o Azeite com a Água, a Bondade com a Malícia, a Arte com a Ciência, o Formato com o Caos o Inteligente com o Limitado, o Sereno com o Agressivo, o Chefe de família com o Aventureiro, a Mulher a dias com o Guarda Nocturno. E assim o Fraco torna-se Forte quando o Forte Fraco se torna. Experimentem. E verifiquem os excelentes resultados, sobretudo pelo enorme estimulo à Imaginação e Criatividade. Imaginem o Michael Schumacher a conduzir um burro. O que não ganharia o burro, e quão mais não ganharia o Schumacher.