Olá! Bem-vindos, meus caros amigos e leitores! Há muito tempo que quero dedicar um post à história de um grande português: Aristides de Sousa Mendes, para isso precisava de ir visitar a sua Casa Museu, em Carregal do Sal (Portugal). Mas quem foi esta personalidade tão distinta, perguntam vocês?
Hello! Welcome, my dear friends and readers! For a long time, I have wanted to dedicate a post to the story of a great Portuguese man: Aristides de Sousa Mendes. To do so, I needed to visit his House Museum in Carregal do Sal (Portugal). But who was this distinguished figure, you may ask? 
Aristides S. Mendes was a Portuguese diplomat. He was Portugal's consul in Bordeaux at the time France was invaded by the Germans during World War II. Contrary to the orders of the then Portuguese dictator, Aristides issued around 30,000 visas to Jewish refugees, allowing them to escape the horror of the Holocaust via Portugal and flee to the United States.
This act of humanity saved 30,000 lives, but this gesture of great altruism and self-sacrifice did not earn him the glory and honour that only great heroes deserve. The Portuguese dictator consigned him and his family to oblivion and poverty. He died poor and ostracised, all for daring to defy the dictator's orders. Aristides only did what his heart and conscience told him to do! He chose to be for life!
His house was in ruins, but it was rebuilt and Aristides' memory was restored, with him being considered a national hero, posthumously. The work was funded by the American grandchildren of the Jews that Aristides saved. This post was supposed to have been photographed at his House Museum, but I admit that, not because of Aristides, but because of the recent actions of the Jewish people, I refused to make that visit, perhaps at another time, when peace is consolidated between Jews and Palestinians.
Life presents us with many challenges, some of which define our entire lives, changing the path we had envisioned for ourselves. But if this sacrifice was made out of love for others and for what we believe is right in our conscience, then it is worth taking that risk, even if the price was very high. History will take care of justice!
Como banda sonora para este post, escolhi a canção de The Cranberries, "Zombie". Alerto para o facto de o video ser violento, contem imagens de várias guerras, mas dá maior ênfase a imagens do filme a Lista de Schindler. Filme este que conta a história de um homem que salvou milhares de judeus da morte, tal como Aristides Sousa Mendes. Uma reflexão sobre as principais vítimas da guerra! E, de como a vida de Aristides também merecia um filme!
As the soundtrack for this post, I chose the song ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries. Please be aware that the video is violent and contains images from various wars, but it focuses mainly on images from the film Schindler's List. This film tells the story of a man who saved thousands of Jews from death, just like Aristides Sousa Mendes. A reflection on the main victims of war! And how Aristides' life also deserved a film!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yrBDu9EkdE&list=RD1yrBDu9EkdE&start_radio=1
Pergunto-me como foi possível que tenha acontecido de novo, ironicamente com o povo que tem a memória do genocídio no seu ADN! Rezo para que a paz seja duradoura!
I wonder how it was possible for this to happen again, ironically to a people who carry the memory of genocide in their DNA! I pray that peace will be lasting!
Olá! Bem-vindos, meus caros amigos e leitores! Como já devem ter percebido, hoje não há looks da Semana! Oh! Eu sei que vocês adoram, mas esta semana foi-me completamente impossível! Porquê? Por várias razões, que eu passo já a explicar!
Hello! Welcome, my dear friends and readers! As you may have noticed, there are no outfits of the week today! Oh! I know you love them, but this week it was completely impossible for me! Why? For several reasons, which I will explain now!
I don't know if you've noticed, but the blog has been getting a lot of views, with some days seeing over 150,000 hits. The curious thing is that these visits are mainly for posts from 2018 and not for the most recent posts. I won't deny that I would like to reach 2 million hits; that's actually the blog's goal for this year. There are about two and a half months left until the end of the year. Do you think I'll make it?
I wish you a happy weekend!
Olá! Bem-vindos, meus caros amigos e leitores! Não sei se sabem, mas sou uma pessoa interessada pelas questões levantadas pela Física Quântica. Dizem, os estudiosos, que é uma bizarria as descobertas que têm sido feitas. Para quem não sabe, a Física Quântica representa o estudo do mundo muito pequeno de que é formada a matéria, isto grosso modo! Não sou uma entendida, apenas uma curiosa! Já vos falei aqui no entrelaçamento quântico e, o que ele me inspira!
Hello! Welcome, my dear friends and readers! I don't know if you know, but I am interested in the questions raised by quantum physics. Scholars say that the discoveries that have been made are bizarre. For those who don't know, quantum physics is the study of the very small world that makes up matter, roughly speaking! I'm not an expert, just curious! I've already talked to you here about quantum entanglement and what it inspires in me!
In this post, I want to tell you about another experiment that was conducted in this world of the very, very, very small — and you can add many more words "very" to that phrase to describe this world of tiny particles, the subatomic world, such as atoms and photons. I promise this conversation will be interesting!
Now, in one of these experiments, scientists came to the bizarre conclusion that a certain event in the present can influence the past! Strange, isn't it? It would make more sense, if logic can have any meaning in this tiny world, for the present to influence the future. Just like in the film Back to the Future.
Scientists have called this phenomenon quantum retrocausality. It is a matter of confirming that the state of a particle in the present can influence the state of the particle in the past, as if the past were alive. In short, the present seems to influence the particle's past, calling into question what we know as the cause-and-effect phenomenon, which takes us into the future. All this raises questions regarding the time variable!. Strange, bizarre, paradoxical! But let me give you an example!
This phenomenon can be explained in a post on my blog, which recounts an episode from my life and my struggle. You can read the post here. It is about an event in the present that changed the past of a university academy. Of course, this is fiction, but it is nonetheless an exceptional event. When I set fire to my academic ribbons at the Porta Férrea (Iron Gate) of the University of Coimbra. Imagine that this event in the present changed the past of the academy. How? In the past, a student party began to be held, which came to be called, nothing more, nothing less, than the Ribbon Burning Party, all because I burned them in the present! Brilliant! I have just proven another Quantum Theory! And the woman pictured on the pavement at Porta Férrea (Iron Gate) is me!!!
Tome lá, Professor Carlos Fiolhais, que eu sei mais que o senhor Lol A festa da Queima das Fitas é para homenagear a noite memorável da minha luta!
Here you go, Professor Carlos Fiolhais, I know more than you do, Lol. The Ribbon Burning Party is to honour the memorable night of my fight!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXhsdS8Vz9E&list=RDSXhsdS8Vz9E&start_radio=1
É claro que esta banda sonora representa o amor por uma academia. Adéle a cantar "Set Fire to the Rain" ( Lançar o fogo à chuva). E aqui está mais um exemplo de retrocausalidade quântica com esta música Lol!
Of course, this soundtrack represents love for a university academy. Adéle singing ‘Set Fire to the Rain’ . And here's another example of quantum retrocausality with this song Lol!
Olá! Bem-vindos a mais um fabuloso post dos Looks da Semana! Esta semana, o Facebook fez me o favor de me lembrar que passaram 14 anos sobre a morte do génio da Informática Steve Jobs! Acho que ele dispensa apresentações. Todos vós sabem a quem me refiro. Ao Co-fundador da Apple. Mas porque é que eu quero falar de Steve Jobs? Porque foi uma pessoa à frente do seu tempo, um visionário! Mas no fundo o que é que ele fez? Teve ideias! Muitas ideias! Acham que ele andava a montar computadores ou telemóveis? Claro que não! Ele tinha as ideias e depois tinha uma equipe de engenheiros que faziam o desenvolvimento do produto, segundo as suas instruções. E, é isso que faz falta, pessoas que tenham ideias, que sejam visionários! Fazendo agora um paralelo com o meu blog, o trabalho mais difícil é ter ideias para posts, ter temas, para depois desenvolver! Se acham que isso é fácil, digo-vos que não, não é! Ele desenvolveu a tecnologia multi-touch nos telemóveis e revolucionou o mundo da comunicação móvel. Neste blog, eu desenvolvi o conceito de multi-look lol. Podem apreciar 5 fabulosos looks, todos distintos uns dos outros. Ideias para estes dias multi-estações do ano! Podem inspirar-se! É grátis! São pessoas como Steve Jobs que fazem falta em todos os sectores da economia!
Hello! Welcome to another fabulous post from Looks of the Week! This week, Facebook kindly reminded me that it has been 14 years since the death of computer genius Steve Jobs! I think he needs no introduction. You all know who I mean. Co-founder of Apple. But why do I want to talk about Steve Jobs? Because he was a person ahead of his time, a visionary! But what did he actually do? He had ideas! Lots of ideas! Do you think he was assembling computers or mobile phones? Of course not! He had the ideas and then he had a team of engineers who developed the product according to his instructions. And that's what's missing: people who have ideas, who are visionaries! Drawing a parallel with my blog, the hardest part is coming up with ideas for posts, finding topics, and then developing them! If you think that's easy, I can tell you it's not! He developed multi-touch technology for mobile phones, which revolutionised the world of mobile communication. Here, on this blog, I developed the concept of multi-look lol. You can enjoy 5 fabulous looks, each one different from the other. Ideas for these multi-seasonal days of the year! Enjoy and be inspired! It's free! It is people like Steve Jobs who are sorely missed in Portugal in all sectors of the economy!
SEGUNDA / MONDAY
QUARTA / WEDNESDAY
QUINTA / THURSDAY
SEXTA / FRIDAY
These wonderful jeans with appliqués were forgotten in my wardrobe, perhaps because they are a little too loose at the moment. But as they are so beautiful, I gave them another chance to shine.
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Qual o vosso look favorito? Contem-me tudo nos comentários, estou curiosa para saber!!
Olá! Bem-vindos, meus caros amigos e leitores! O post de hoje é especial e inspirado nesta frase de Selma Lagerlöf!
"A cultura é tudo o que resta depois de se ter esquecido tudo o que se aprendeu"
Tenho a dizer que escrevo para o mundo, não apenas para o meu país, escrevo para todos aqueles que, em diferentes geografias, carregam dentro de si a riqueza daquilo que chamamos de cultura. A cultura define os povos, diferencia-os mas também os aproxima. Quer dizer, tanto os pode unir como separar, dependendo da forma como escolhemos olhar para ela.
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Hello! Welcome, my dear friends and readers! Today's post is special and inspired by this quote from Selma Lagerlöf!
‘Culture is everything that remains after you have forgotten everything you have learned.’
I must say that I write for the world, not just for my country. I write for all those who, in different geographical locations, carry within themselves the richness of what we call culture. Culture defines peoples, differentiates them, but also brings them together. In other words, it can both unite and separate them, depending on how we choose to look at it.
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I confess: for a moment, I felt afraid. But I soon realised that this fear was not real, but rather the result of the unknown. It is natural that what we do not understand arouses prejudice. However, Sikhs are known for their spirituality and for being peaceful. That moment is proof that when a culture is unknown, it can be misinterpreted.
History has its ironies. It was we, the Portuguese, who discovered the sea route to India centuries ago, bringing with us a different view of the world. Now, history has been reversed: it is they who come to us, bringing their colours and their way of life.
And this is where Selma Lagerlöf's quote comes into its own: culture is what remains when everything else fades away. It survives political borders, economic crises, wars and distances. It shows us that, despite our differences, we share something in common – the desire to live in peace, to build a shared future with meaning and respect for all peoples.
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Por fim, a cultura é memória e é futuro. É aquilo que nos distingue, mas também o que nos pode unir. Se escolhermos olhar para a diversidade não como uma ameaça, mas como uma oportunidade. E, assim, damos um passo para uma sociedade mais justa, mais tolerante e mais humana! Isto chama-se transformação social! Um renascimento cultural!
Finally, culture is memory and it is future. It is what distinguishes us, but also what can unite us. If we choose to look at diversity not as a threat, but as an opportunity. And thus, we take a step towards a fairer, more tolerant and more humane society! This is called social transformation! A cultural renaissance!
As this is a special post, because it's my 900th outfit post, it has to have a soundtrack by my favourite band - Muse! I chose the song ‘New Born’ because, in a way, it talks about awakening, opening your eyes, being reborn into this new reality in Portugal. Because every encounter with the Other is always a possibility for a new cultural birth. Or not! There you go, it all depends on how we view different cultures, whether we accept them or confront them!*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLG-DaBPerM&list=RDpLG-DaBPerM&start_radio=1
* na verdade esta canção expressa o medo da evolução tecnológica e a alienação digital, mas eu adaptei a metáfora do recém nascido - New Born - ao medo que diferentes culturas podem originar nas pessoas que as desconhecem e, de certa maneira, na alienação que isso pode provocar nestes povos que não se conseguem integrar nos países para os quais emigram.
* In fact, this song expresses fear of technological evolution and digital alienation, but I adapted the metaphor of the newborn to the fear that different cultures can instill in people who are unfamiliar with them and, in a way, to the alienation that this can cause in these people who are unable to integrate into the countries to which they emigrate.
Olá! Bem-vindos, a mais um fabuloso post dos Looks da Semana! E num piscar de olhos estamos no mês de Outubro! O Verão passou a correr, nem dava por ele, não fossem os dias de calor tórrido e os sempre indesejáveis fogos florestais. Com este novo mês começam as assustadoras depressões e tempestades, já tivémos uma, felizmente não foi muito grave! Mas parece que vêm lá mais a caminho através do Oceano Atlântico! Os dias ainda estão muito quentes, com temperaturas a rondar os 30ºC, muito calor, portanto! Daí que os looks que vos apresento, sejam uma mistura de roupa de Verão com roupa de Outono! Espero inspirar-vos para estes dias, em que de manhã e à noite está frio, mas durante a tarde está muito calor! Espero que gostem e inspirem-se!
Hello! Welcome to another fabulous post of Looks of the Week! And in the blink of an eye, we're already in October! Summer flew by so quickly, I didn't even notice it, except for the scorching hot days and the ever-unwelcome forest fires. With this new month come the frightening depressions and storms. We've already had one, fortunately not too serious! But it looks like more are on their way across the Atlantic Ocean! The days are still very hot, with temperatures around 30ºC, so very hot indeed! That's why the looks I'm presenting to you are a mix of summer and autumn clothes! I hope to inspire you for these days, when it's cold in the morning and evening, but very hot in the afternoon! I hope you like them and find inspiration!
SEGUNDA / MONDAY
TERÇA / TUESDAY
QUARTA / WEDNESDAY
QUINTA / THURSDAY
Qual o vosso look favorito? Contem-me tudo nos comentários, estou curiosa para saber!!
