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Thursday, March 17, 2011

imperfect-perfectionista

0 comments Posted by pece at 10:08 PM

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

in http://imperfect-perfectionista.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Um céu, um sol e um mar ...

0 comments Posted by pece at 1:30 AM

"Talvez possa construir quase tudo que sonhar
Minhas chances são de desistir,
Ou um dia encontrar
Um céu, um sol e um mar ..."

Natiruts

Monday, January 31, 2011

Children See, Children DO!

0 comments Posted by pece at 1:26 AM

Very good ad!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Waste land

0 comments Posted by pece at 10:31 AM

"The moment when one thing turns into
another is the most beautiful moment

That moment is magical"

In 1995, Rio’s sanitation department began to rehabilitate the landfill and formalise the job of the catador, granting licenses to catadores as well as enforcing basic safety standards, like the banning of children from the landfill. They also began a pilot project to create a carbon negative power plant fuelled by urban solid waste. On their side, the catadores formed ACAMJG, the Association of Recycling Pickers of Jardim Gramacho, whose president, Tião Santos, is featured in WASTE LAND.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Candlelight

0 comments Posted by pece at 11:08 PM

I still remember how impressed I got when my French teacher, at the office, shared with us that the reason why he had to wear such big glasses was the long nights of study by the Candlelight, to be able to keep up with the other students at school, which subjects were though in a "new" native language.

And today here I am, typing on my cute notebook until the battery survives. =)

Got home with power generator soundtrack, tried to do as much as I could using natural light, until I decided to get less bored at my aunty's place. She tents to act like my mum forcing me to have dinner every time I come by =)!

For a while listened to my aunt making jokes about the shining long fake hair of a TV host that “was” once my uncle’s lover, enough time to escape from the obligated dinner.

Off I went...

and kept going on my get less bored journey, now to another aunt that also lives close by, needed to give her some money to pay my Internet bill, usually I can’t do it because Movicel shares the same business hours with me, no E-payment, ATM or Whatsoever as alternative, or I go to work or pay the Internet bill!!!

Found her sitting at the doorstep, sipping her cold beer from a glass that my mum labels as "Reco Reco" (or IKEA for the up to date generation, the ones we could break without making her get mad) and enjoying the fresh breeze.

We laugh with the fact that I forgot where I left something, again!!!!! This time was my Portuguese self phone.
“That’s what happens when you have home everywhere, kept those in Portugal, threw this away in UK, got that in Angola, forgot this in Australia...”

And we chat for a while... until she raised the deadlock question:

"So now you're going to stay, right?"

The soft water keeps hiting the hard rock with the same question all over again =) !Replied that I didn’t know, but most probably not, to what she argued back:

"Why not? You got yourself a good job... You were born here, right!? And even if you leave you will always want to come back! Here’s your country!!!"

"I know BUT I have NO lights tonight..."

Finally made myself home with this on my head and decided to write about it by the Candlelight...

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

(...)

0 comments Posted by pece at 11:59 PM

"If you walk through this country

anytime

anywhere

you will hear those sounds,

if you care."

Pinjarra, Sue Stanton

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Dream

0 comments Posted by pece at 8:51 AM

Today I dreamed that I was in Australia about to get on a plane, to Somewhere!!

Somehow I miss that plane to somewhere because I lost the track of the time while I was saying good bye to friends in Angola and Portugal ! Weird...!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Post-Colonialism: Trying to Regain Ethnic Individuality

0 comments Posted by pece at 1:16 AM

"All post-colonial societies are still subject in one way or another to overt or subtle forms of neo-colonial domination, and independence has not solved the problem" (Ashcroft 2).

After colonialism, new elites, often in the form of dictators, frequently rose and still rise to power in post-colonial countries. In Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, Ikem complains about countrymen worse than thieves,

"leaders who openly looted our treasury, whose effrontery soiled our national soul" (Achebe 39).

Ikem refers not to the white strangers but rather to Africans who have ruled with policies similar to those of colonial oppression. With the British empire gone, African societies must look inward to find remnants of colonialism which continue to harm their nations, and perhaps, find those which are advantageous in the new world they have been thrust into. Ikem's speech directed to all Nigerians rather than to any particular class pleads,

"you must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch doctors and professors... When you rid yourself of these things your potentiality for assisting and directing this nation will be quadrupled" (Achebe 148).

Part of the danger of the term post-colonial stems from people's disregard of their responsibility for their situation. As Ikem notes in his speech, people prefer to blame other groups, perhaps even post-colonialism, for their problems and rarely comprehend that only they can help themselves.

Too much has changed to simply revert to the old ways of life. New problems exist and will continue to do so unless one can learn to deal them in the modern context. Blaming post-colonial syndrome for the ills of developing countries sentences those countries to continue in their state of hardship. Rewinding the clock to prevent colonialism from occurring is impossible, so we must look at each issue now, in the modern context, as a separate problem ...