Road Signs and Lost Hopes

“On the road” is an expression with many meanings, but in my opinion, there is one that is the most important meaning of them all. “On the road” can be a trip or maybe can be something that is going right.

My image represents the past, the present and the future, because it leads us to one direction that can be wrong without turning back, it represents a choice that can put us in a bad situation, it can be one of our dreams that can be compromise, all of these can be without turning back.

All of these correspondents, give the direction that “road” is our life and we are “getting through” it without knowing out is “up ahead” and our own road can cross with other roads to aspects of love, friendship, and others.

Technology Task 2. - Photo Essay: On The Road...

Sri Meenakshi Temple,

Madurai, South India

The sculptured multicoloured statues in the gopurams

The Golden Lotus Tank (in Sri Meenakshi Temple)

This gopurams (typical trapezium shaped towers of the temples of south India) make part of the Sri Meenakshi Temple, in the city of Madurai (in the state of Tamil Nadu, South India). Madurai was born by chance due to divine means. Tells the story that one day Shiva was drying his hair there and dropped his nectar in the city impregnating it. And that's where the Madurai name came from: it derives from the word tamil madhuram which means "sweetness".
It was founded 2500 years ago as the capital of the ancient Pandya reign, which dominated all the central area in south India, in IV b.C. century. Though it was only in the XV and XVI centuries, during the glorious reigns of Vijayanagar and Nayak, that started an embellishment and amplification of a simple Pandya sanctuary, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Meenakshi and to the god Shiva. Later, the sanctuary was transformed in an assemblage of temples, which would constitute the greatest and the most sumptuous attraction of Madurai - The Sri Meenakshi Temple.
The Meenakshi Temple is constituted by 12 gopurams. The highest one has 49 metres. To enter in the sacred area, we have to enter in one of the gopurams. The whole area is enormous, it has 65000 metres square yard.
Just above our heads, in the gopurams outside walls, 35 millions of sculptured multicoloured statues look at us like they were alive!
I chose these images to represent "On The Road", because, dispite the fact of wanting to visit all of India, i believe these attractive images show the whole mysticism and greatness of India. All of these images contain a certain detailed aspect to them that make you wonder about the fascinating stories behind them. I love all it has to do with Hindu and Indian culture. It fascinates me!

technology task 2. - photo essay

i found lisbon on the road we call life, and I loved it. what you can see in the picture is the one of the possible landscapes of the Castelo de S. Jorge.
on the road can mean so many diffrent things that it was really difficult do made up my mind about what i was going to post. at least, i've chosen this picture because i felt so free up there watching the "little" city that i love...



(i'll post more photos if i remember something else)

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Technology Task 2. - Photo Essay

I have seen a lot of pictures, but I think there's no other which can better describes the expression: On the Road.
When we travel, we always want to visit the most beautiful and interesting places which we have never seen before and where we don't mind to spend our money just to have the oportunity to be there for a few moments and come back home with thoose images in our head's or in our photo album.
That's my opinion..and that's why i found something magical on this photo, because it represents the beauty of nature. We can see the water falling and making a beautiful and agressive river between two mountains which are cover with green...green of the trees,green of the grass...We can see a blue sky too, without clouds, showing a lovely and clean day...and the most amaizing thing, a beautiful rainbow crossing the mountains and giving color and magic to the picture. This is a very strong picture, and where I can see our life represented on that river..running through the mountains, trying to continue his journey with all his strongness and vitality, like we have to do in our lifes.
I always fall in love to pictures which represent nature, because I think that is the most important and beautiful thing that the world can give us, and beasides, our life depend on many nature things, like water, trees, and green places like that one.
Who have never thought about being in a place like that? In my opinion, if paradise truly exists, it must be, for shure, a place like that...!
By: C. Raquel Marques

Interview...

Susana

Raquel



How old are you?
i'm twenty years old.

why are you living with your grandmother instead of your parents?
well, that's a long story, but I guess I can summarize it in a few words. My parents never hadgood conditions to give me a normal life so my grandm other and my grandfather decided to help. when my grandparents got divorced i stayed with my grandmother. as my dad passed away my mum decided to start a new life with a friend, and I stayed at grandma's but it was my decision.

do you have contact with your mother?
yes, of course. shes my mother right? grandma is the best but i like mom either. Now that I'm studying here in Lisbon, I see her almot everyday because she also lives here, and sometimes i stay at her house.

what's about sports that fascinates you so much?
i think I love sports since I remember me. i don't know, I just enjoy it a lot, to practicise sports gives me a lot of plasure. and , as a woman i concern about my body ( not getting fatter and stuff like that )so i can have it both: useful and pleasure

how do your tatoos look like?
the small one is a star i got in my left hand, and the other one is a tribal "S" and i got it on my back.

do you have a boyfriend?
no, at the moment i have no boyfriend unfortunately

close your eyes and imagine a perfect day. What do you see?
tha's a really good question. my perfect day would be with together my whole family (mum, dad, grandma, etc...) having picnic in and playing in all day long in a huge garden.

do you have hobbies? which ones?
my favourite one you already know: doing some sport. but i also enjoy going out with my friens, cinema, music, and watch tv at home eating popcorn or peantus.

what's your favourite sport?
basketball and fitness classes.

and your favourite subject?
phisical education and english.

catarina is a very nice name...why don't you like it?
your questions ar getting hard to answer! that's a nice name for those who like it, right? but i... i really don't like it!

do you have any brothers or sisters?
no, i don't.



and now we switch





what do you have to say about swizerland?
honestly a lot. we always have a lot to say about the places we spent our childhood. i love swizerland, i feel home there. I could write here a whole page about swizerland and my childhood, but i don't want to bore you, that's why i'm jus going to tell you that i loved my kindergarden, my primary school, bern downtown and my piano classes there, the snow and the snowmen we made...

do you prefer to liive here in portugal?
i really don't know...it's completely diffrent, and now i got almost all my friends here. in swizerland i just have a friend of mine. actually, almost all my life is here, from swizerland i only have beautiful old memories ( and those from the hollydays I sometimes spend there..). that's why i don't know.

would you go back to swizerland if you had the oppurtunityto do it?
maybe, in a future work or someting like that...

you said people here are very warm, and in swizerland ... how are they?
people are generally kind of cold in swizerland.

do you like your housemates?
yes, the girls are really nice and funny, actually i already knew them, tha's why we arelivig together.

what's your boyfriend's name? how did you meet each other?
his name's agostinho and we met in our english calsses. he was in my english class last year...and one day we fell in love...

what other countries have you met?
I was in in germany, france and spain. unfortunately nowhere else.

do you have a favourite film? and what about music...what do you prefer?
actually i have a lot of favourite films "la vitta è bella", "dead poets society", "romeo and juliett", "butterfly effect"......music..hum..i love music in general, i don't have a favourite kind of it.

if you can't be an interpreter, would you accept the translation job or would o try to do someting else?
to say the truth...i don't know, eventhough i think it would be boring just to do translations, i guess i'd accept to begin because having "a job" is a great thing nowadays.

do you have any brothers or sisters?

no, unfortunately not.

Interview with Rodrigo (Estrelinha)

Pedro - Let's get this started. Do you have a real name or should we just call you Estrelinha? And how old are you?

Rodrigo - Well, my name is Rodrigo Pinto and I'm 18 years old.

Pedro - Where and who do you live with?

Rodrigo - I live in Qta do Conde, near Sesimbra, with my parents and my twin brother.

Pedro - Do you get along well with your bro?

Rodrigo - Actually, I have a good relationship with my brother and to tell you the truth with everybody else, because I am very sociable.

Pedro - What are the things you like to do most when you are not studying?

Rodrigo - What I like to do in my free times is hang out with my friends, play football, and do the things that usually people of my age do!

Pedro - What would you really like to do in the future?

Rodrigo - I have dreams and ambitions, like earn lots of money in the future (like a normal person, of course!), travel around the world (specially Greece), play football as a professional player and study at the same time.

Just Something About Me

Hii!!

What can I say about me..?
Well.. I'm a nineteen year old girl who spent the first nine years of her life in Swizerland. When I was nine I came back to Porugal where I was born (at Faro Hospital ), and I started a new life in Vila Real de Santo António. Everything was completely diffrent : mentality, way of living and eating, the weather,and a lot of other things I don't remember now. But I had to handle it, I had to addapt myself to a new culture and it wasn't so difficult at all, people here are wery warm and I quicky made new friends. Some of that friendships keep lasting today.. :D. Now I'm living with two girls here in Lisbon.Lisbon is a very pretty city, and you never get bored because there's allways something you can do : from cinema to theatre, from shopping to whatever...:P...You have the choice... My favaourite places in Lisbon are downtown, I love walking through Rua Augusta and Chiado even when I am not going so buy anything, just walk and see the shop windows ; and Belém with the beautiful parks, the fountain, and most of all I love it because it's next to the river.
I'm a passioned girl. I love life, my boyfriend ( who is now so far away from me : (... in England )my friends, my family. I like to travel, to read , music, films, clubs...and so on....Basically, I love to live and to enjoy my life...
I'm doing the Translation course ( German / English ), but what I really want be is interpreter, because by being an interpreter I have more contact with people, and I prefer to work with people instead of sittig the whole day on my desk transalting books , I guess it would be quite boring.
I don't know what to say more... that's why I'm going to say... Bye! See you tomorrow...

Kisses!! ;)

Interview with Pedro (Zé Maria)

Rodrigo Estrelinha - Well, for start I must ask you why your nickname is "Zé Maria"?
Pedro(Zé Maria) - Hehe! My friends started to call me that because I have some aspects really close with the real Zé Maria.
R E - Where do you come from and where do you live now?
P Z M - I live in Paço de Arcos close to the beach, and I come from Sto. Amaro de Oeiras.
R E - What are your interests?
P Z M - I'm all about aborigine, oriental and african cultures. All of them have something that fascinate me and keep me interested in learning more and more about those whom some people still can't understand why I like these kind of beauty so much.
R E - Do you like to travel? What countries have you visited?
P Z M - Travel is one of the things I like to do most, though I've only been in a few places (Niagara in Canada, was one of the places I liked the most, the Niagara falls are particularly beautiful).
R E - What are your hobbies?
P Z M - I like reading, art exhibitions, cinema, hangin' out and chillin' with friends at night and I love to listen to music.
R E - What is your favorite kind of musics?
P Z M - I like a lot of kinds of music like world music, folk, jazz, early reggae, drum'n'bass, jungle, but mostly SKA!! I'm always in the mood for ska!

Something about me

Hello! Well, my name is Rodrigo Pinto and I am 18 years old. I live in Qta do Conde near Sesimbra, I live there with my parents and with my twin brother. I have a good relation with my brother and to tell you the truth with everybody else, because I am very sociable. What I like to do in my free time is hang-out with my friends, play footbal, and do the thing that usually the persons with my age do! I have dreams and ambitions, like earn lots of money in the future ( like a normal person, of course!), travel around the worl( speacially Greece) and play football as a professional player and study at the same time.Wll, if you want to know something about me, just ask me!See Ya!

hey what's up?!
My name's Pedro, i'm 19 and i live in Paço de Arcos close to the beach. I was born in a little maternity which used to belong to the "Holy House of Clemency" (...xD) in Sto. Amaro de Oeiras.I'm all about aborigine, oriental and african cultures. All of them have something that fascinate me and keep me interested in learning more and more about those whom some people still can't understand why i like these kind of beauty so much.Travel is one of the things i like to do most, though i've only been in a few places (Niagara in Canada, was one of the places i liked the most, the Niagara falls are particularly beautiful), i also like reading, art exhibitions, cinema, hangin' out and chillin' with friends at night and listen to music. I like a lot of kinds of music like world music, folk, jazz, early reggae, drum'n'bass, jungle, but mostly SKA!! I'm always in the mood for ska!Stay cool see ya soon!
Posted by pedro at 12:53 AM 2 comments

A little about myself...

Let's talk about me..As you know, my name is Catarina Raquel, but I prefer to be called as Raquel. I was born in Torres Novas, and I live in a town next to it called Entroncamento with my grandmother. I lived here all my life, but now that I’m studding in Lisbon I’m thinking about moving there, but I’m not sure about it yet…it's a big change and I must think about it carefully…besides, there’s some questions which may have some influence on it, and the people who got the opportunity to meet me better, know what I’m talking about:)I have a passion about sports, but I preferred a graduation about languages, because I hate mathematic, and in Portugal for you to graduate in Sport, you must have some subjects like mats, physic, biology, etc... Now, I’m trying to do my graduation, and than I will take a small course to be able do give some classes in a gym. I have done basketball, swimming, dance, hooky, skating, a lot of things, but I prefer fitness classes on the gym.I love music and I love to dance…In the past, my true passion was the Metal music, I was a fanatic… but wile I got older, I learn how to listen more music, different styles of music, and now I can hear a lot of thing’s… dance music like techno and house, it’s a style that came by with my passion about dancing, I love party’s, and dance all night long, but to hear good music at home, I prefer rock music, and to relax some R&B.I love tattoos and piercing, I got 2 tattoos, one with a family meaning and the other which represents music in my life. Piercing, I got 6, but I had 8.I could be talking about my self all day long, but I think that’s enough… to end, I consider myself as a friendly, fighter, and fun person, but I’m a little bit stubborn!I’m liking it in here… Big kisses
Posted by Raquel at 1:49 PM 1 comments

Just Something About Me...

Hii!!
What can I say about me..?
Well.. I'm a nineteen year old girl who spent the first nine years of her life in Swizerland. When I was nine I came back to Porugal where I was born (at Faro Hospital ), and I started a new life in Vila Real de Santo António. Everything was completely diffrent : mentality, way of living and eating, the weather,and a lot of other things I don't remember now. But I had to handle it, I had to addapt myself to a new culture and it wasn't so difficult at all, people here are wery warm and I quicky made new friends. Some of that friendships keep lasting today.. :D. Now I'm living with two girls here in Lisbon.Lisbon is a very pretty city, and you never get bored because there's allways something you can do : from cinema to theatre, from shopping to whatever...:P...You have the choice... My favaourite places in Lisbon are downtown, I love walking through Rua Augusta and Chiado even when I am not going so buy anything, just walk and see the shop windows ; and Belém with the beautiful parks, the fountain, and most of all I love it because it's next to the river.
I'm a passioned girl. I love life, my boyfriend ( who is now so far away from me : (... in England )my friends, my family. I like to travel, to read , music, films, clubs...and so on....Basically, I love to live and to enjoy my life...
I'm doing the Translation course ( German / English ), but what I really want be is interpreter, because by being an interpreter I have more contact with people, and I prefer to work with people instead of sittig the whole day on my desk transalting books , I guess it would be quite boring.
I don't know what to say more... that's why I'm going to say... Bye! See you tomorrow...
Kisses!! ;)
Posted by SuSaNa..:D at 2:19 PM 1 comments