Day 2: According to our so called plan, we should be on the way to Madrid. It is going to be a 5 hours drive, that is even worse than driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. I remember being stuck in traffic for 6 hours driving to Vegas, that wasn’t a good memory at all. We tried all kind of games, words, singing, scrambles, and the result was that they all fell asleep anyway, leaving the driver alone.
Madrid!!!… Spain, is the first place that I visited in Europe, and for the past 2 months… I haven’t really explored the country yet. This week, I have the opportunities to do just that… just drive… just relax… just enjoy… and just be present. We didn’t really plan PLAN anything, more of just let it happen.
I ask him, how long are we staying… his answer was “until I run out of money”
Because we drove thru Malaga, I selected this picture on the day that I went to Malaga with my roommate and was looking for a place to drink coffee, visit Picasso house and the cathedral of Malaga. Based on human instincts, I made an assumption that Madrid would likely look somewhat like Malaga. I am sure I could be totally wrong because Madrid is the Capital of Spain… and like most of the capital cities in the world, it is full of high-rise buildings, traffic jams, and pollution. Well, let’s put that assumption aside and just wait until I am actually there.
*update view mobile: Orgiva is an amazing place, it is a city surrounded by mountains. To understand the views, the homes, the city and the scenery… the best way is to watch the movie “Under the Tuscan Sun.” If you have already watch it then you would know exactly what I mean. I am staying with Simon’s auntie who has her own private business, allowing tourists to rent the houses / resorts for a week or longer. There are 2 cats running around, 2 little girls age 10 and 6, and the auntie and her husband living together in a loving family cottage house. I thought that this kind of life only exisst in movies. I couldn’t be more wrong.
**after a walk in the city of Orgiva, when we came back… our car had vanished !!! however, in the end we got it back at the cost of 80 euro (instead of 180 euro).
Day 1: By now, if everything goes according as planed, we should be in Orgiva, a city that is approximately 30 minutes away from the Alhambra de Granada. We will be staying at Orgiva for a night and then on Tuesday, we will head up to Madrid, a 5 hours or so drive from Orgiva. One place that I wanted to visit is the Corporate Headquarters of Loewe, the rest are just bonuses. For the Alhambra de Granada, we will visit it later on the way back, possibly Thursday or Friday.
Today I selected this picture, the Lobby of Les Roches, Marbella at night because now that all the students left for the Easter holiday and the school has been really quiet I can go from place to place taking all the pictures I want as long as I want. And I think that it is a great moment to remember, when everything is nice and calm.
This vespa is made the same way with the basket weave, I have no idea what it’s called but it is really nice… don’t you think? I took this picture during a walk in Old Town Marbella, it is very close to the church where I took the picture “60 seconds of peace” The Old Town is hiding from the street, we walk thru many narrow streets, turning from corner to corner. It is amazing to see how lively it is in those narrow streets with restaurants, small cafes, shops, and patios to just sit there and relax.
The heart of Marbella is not only the beach, nor the sand but it is the dynamics of its rich culture hidden within the Old Town Marbella, Spain.
This is a great example of how we should never judge a book by its cover because we would lose the opportunity to find out what the book is really about… Let us read the book and see where the story will lead us.
It took me a while to remember what day it was when I took this picture. After examining the picture carefully, I noticed something that reminded me of the date… the Cultural Night event. If you look at this picture closely, you would see all the students are still up on the second floor, studying!!! oh yes we are hardcore… ^_^
After celebrating our success for the Cultural Night event at Small World, I couldn’t stay as long as the others because I was way too exhausted to continue the night. So… just minutes before midnight, I went back to the school and took few more pictures of the interior and exterior of the school before I went to pass out on my bed.
Try to listen to the music while reading today then, maybe, you might understand the feeling I experienced the moment I took the picture.
Saturday, I went to for a coffee break in Puerto Banus. The coffee shop, La Pesquera, is right on the beach. It is a small hut with coffee tables and beach benches for those that would like to take a sun bath while drinking. Sitting and chilling there for bit and just doing nothing. After the coffee, I just walked around the beach trying to find the right frame to take a picture so that it say something, if not all about “Marbella”. I took quite a few pictures, but in my opinion, I believe that this is it ^_^ “An Orange sandal, a boy, Sierra Blanca (the mountain behind), and the Beach… ” I’ll just let the picture speak for itself because I am bad at expressing what I want to say, duh… if I were good at that, I might as well write a novel too. ^_^
Anyway, does anyone know how to print postcards? What kind of printer (portable if possible) and paper to get? I am interested in trying to make my own postcards ^_^.
“This is the best cultural night we’ve had in Les Roches thus far” said one of the students in the reception. “Woww, I really feel like I am in Japan and the lounge looks amazing” said another student. “The dinner experience and the restaurant decoration is awesome” said a student waiting in a line for his meal. “I can definitely go for another Nakata brouchette” a student compliment on one of our special disk that was name after “what they called me at school, Nakata” So yea, I represented that dish !! haha.
We started to organized things since noon and it promptly started at 7:00 pm. Everyone has their drinks, food, games, more drinks and is entertained by a fashion show. It wasn’t over until 11:00 pm, or somewhere around there. After all the clean up, we went out for a drink at “small world” to celebrate our completion of the event, which resulted in the picture show to you below.
We have learned so many things, in so little time. Most of the thing we learn, in my opinion, are the things that we shouldn’t do again next time. We all make mistakes but let us not concentrate on the mistakes, let us think about how do we not repeat the same mistake again, or how to make things better the next time around.
Today is the day. I would like to post this now, early in the day, knowing that I will be busy with event organization late in the evening and may not have the energy to write this later.
I am in the marketing department for this event and is responsible for most of the posters, advertisements and gathering information for those advertisements. I am very fortunate to have my teammate because they are helping me get the info organized and arrange things with other departments. Oh yes, we have drama in our department as well as with the other departments.
Okay then… here are the collective works that I did from the beginning of the event… which started with a cookie sale !!! To raise extra funding for our event…. all the way to final event poster and the 3 minutes AD on youtube. here is the link, if you can’t see the video below.
finally it is the day, less than 12 hours and all of this will be over. So that i can start concentrating on other works that i have been putting off due to this event.
Exactly, that is what I thought too… this is GINORMOUS, but hey, I am talking about the Cathedral of Malaga, Andalucia, Spain here in the picture okay? Let’s not carry ourselves too far, ya? So I was confused about the difference between a church and a cathedral because when we ask the locals about the church, they did not understand. Then they said, oh! You mean the cathedral. So what is the difference? After doing some googleing (can you believe it, it actually a word now… to google = to search information online) I found that, a Cathedral is actually a church that houses a Bishop or Arch Bishop of the city.
Always we have something new to learn everyday, don’t we? As for this picture, I took it during the trip to Malaga 3 weeks ago which is the same week that I took the Picasso Balcony picture. It is amazing how so much architecture is still intact and that there is so much of it in the city. Unfortunately for us, they were closed that day, so we did not get to go visit inside. It is really really big, I wonder how it would feel inside the Cathedral.
Also, can we have weddings inside the Cathedral? If yes, how much would it cost? Anyone know? Please get back to me if you do. Why do I want to know? Just curious, Just incase… incase what??? Well… just in case… you know!
It has been one month since the first post here at www.TwoStepsBehind.com and thank you to all the visitors… I will keep up the good work and keep up with my commitment of ONE post per day, at least. Well someday I might feel like posting more than one… never know. ^_^ And yes, I have broken the promise twice this month, as I have missed 2 days.
With this month’s statistic of 126 visitors (one of them is my mother whom recently learn how to go about on the internet and doesn’t know how to stop browsing online, talk about addiction / obsession), 749 page views, and 117 feeds. The stats are way more than I have ever hoped for.
And again… this is where……… hope achieves the impossible.
Before you is the picture of the balcony of the legendary man who redefined Art.
Everyone knows “Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso” or Pablo Picasso for short.
The name Picasso has been associated to me, in my early years, with abstraction, broken, messy and chaotic; however, these associations have changed thru time after in-depth study about him during my studies in Architecture. Art, just like everything else, has it time from the classical to modern eras and in my opinion, I believe that it is he, Picasso, who redefined ART forever. When we are thinking about art, we think of the beauty of the work and how the art pleases everyones eye. But for Picasso, his work went beyond the realm of reality. He brought us into different dimensions, the emotional.
How could one create works that express emotion? Till today, Picasso is still my hero!!!
The photo was taken during the trip to Malaga at the Fundacion Picasso. Lucky for me that the Foundation is open on Sunday FOR FREE!!! However they only open 2 floors, but it is better than nothing. There were so much, too much, for me to take in about this life and his work but it is for sure… an unforgettable memory, to be in the house of Pablo Picasso.
Opsie, I meant to say… Architecture. A visit to Malaga, Spain has brought me to this building that reminded me of architecture that I had studied in the past. And to define what architecture is, there is only one man… and he is Vitruvius.
However… after thousand of years of architecture… it does not seem to evolve much. Well, I do not want to get in too deep into the topic because it was my thesis… about why architecture’s evolution does not really evolve. We should leave that topic for another time…. but if really interested, you can visit my website at www.NattMuangsiri.com about what I believe that architecture should be.
Today… lets just enjoy the picture of the Bank of Spain in Malaga.
Below is more information from Wikipedia…
“The earliest written work on the subject of architecture is De architectura, by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century CE.[10] According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles of firmitatis utilitatis venustatis,[11][12] which translates roughly as -
Durability – it should stand up robustly and remain in good condition.
Utility – it should be useful and function well for the people using it.
Beauty – it should delight people and raise their spirits.
According to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible.”
