Modernity...

Some can't let them pass, some don't even want to know about their existence.
Why so many extremes?

It is very up-to-date to have any of these fancy little gadgets, being them those ones that help us finding ourselves anywhere in the world, or to organize and fix our meetings, or listen to musics or watch our preferred movies, or type our texts wherever we are, or last but not least, just telephone. Even all in one is already possible, need it or not.

Without any shadow of doubt they are very useful, prove of this is when you are totally lost in a foreign city and have no idea where your hotel is, even the closest parking lot or supermarket. For sure these already happened to you when you are abroad, and for us even inside our own city.

It is always a large cause for doubts the brand, the quality, the memory size, which technology it uses, or the color, providing us long hours of research before acquiring any of them. Here I show my preferred toy, the iPhone. I know it has many defects, who hasn't?



But, I really do not understand those who avoid meeting any of these, even if the closest person to them have one and even trying to understand them. It is a fact the came to help and stay. I won't say life without some of these gadgets is not possible, but I can affirm it is minimum more difficult. To these people I can indicate a new little device I met with one of these days. It is biodegradable and very cheap regarding that some of the above listed can be beyond astronomic values: the Iwood with 3B technology!It is just FANTASTIC!


from: http://www.iwood3b.com/index.php

I wish everybody a nice weekend, because ours will be constructind ans deconstructing pieces of furniture in our attic apartment.

Or for a little fun with Apple check the following:
http://videos.sapo.pt/cWFCqURy1nvKNlalcuRq

Here and there

Hello everyone!

As I am coming from 6 years and some months of Budapest, you are going to listen to many comparisons all over the posts.

This is a little composition I prepared about Switzerland! A very singular country in the entire world possessing many pluralities. All together 4 languages are spoken here: German, French, Italian and Romansh, though the last one is almost not existing anymore.



A nation of many cultures and yet one country. In the Suisse Romande, as I heard from people who live in the German area, has a totally different life style and it is bit mediterranian. No ofenses. ALthough Frenches and Swisses are found in both each other's regions, I heard they do not really appreciate each other. Do not know why and better not to ask. Even the language is a bit different, Swisses speak slower and have some different ways to say the numbers 70, 80 and 90, specially in the Vaud territory. Also they say that there neighbours have a more salvage driving....ehehe it is almost true!

Geneva, the city where I live in and found at the leftest point of the above map, has only 187 000 residents, but if we count the entire metropolitan area, this number grows to 820 000. Still pretty much smaller than Budapest or Brasilia, respectively 1,7 and 2,5 million residents, not counting both metropolitan areas. Pretty amazing, isn't it? On a scale, Brasilia is larger than Budapest that, on its turn, is larger than Geneva.

With several places that's worth seeing, Geneva surprises for its own culinary, besides several other country's restaurants as well (since 40% of the population is foreigner), its chocolate variety, beautiful cars on the streets (though everybody says Montreaux has more of them), natural beauties like the montains that surrounds it (Jura, Saleve, even Montblanc) and several parcs, negative points are the lac of places to live and places to park and the dirty in the city center.

So if you decide to live here or come by car be ready to spend all the patience you might have.
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People

Hi there folks!
How is everyone?
Well, this weekend could not be better, all went just great!
I met super cool Brazilians and also met old ones! It was a Brazilian day in one of the nicest parks of Geneva!
I was missing this kind of thing since in Budapest you can count good Brazilian friends in one- hands.

Parc La Grange (we stayed at the lower part of this huge "heart" garden and a nice view to the Lake)
Lake with different pine types. Beautiful!



Changing the subject....This was the same day I realized that not everybody here in Switzerland thinks different from Brazilians. Let's say, they think different from us. Of course this will happen according to cultural differences and raising. Even within one family there are huge differences. Walking on a French supermarkert (one of our preferred weekend programs which both of us like to do with pleasure), we realized that French people are not so polite as we might think and they have a tendency to not be so organized. They run with their cars in every directions inside the market, the they cross each other, they almost pass over the other. Finaly, I can say they drive their market cars like they drive their own cars in the streets. IT is quite funny to see, but not to get crossed!
Once I was looking for a milk cream to make some food and realized they have if not 5 different kinds of it and I just wanted a simple, creamy one that, FYI does not exist in Hungary, and maybe even here. I was there talking to Krisz in English asking what he things, we shook, tried to read (just missed to smell the box) when an old lady started to say blabalbalabla and I understood that she said it is good because blablabla...ok...good marketing, that one I bought!
So, it looks like here people might help you when you need. Let's see in what future brings us. And I thought this does not happen in Hungary, but imagine it does. But of course, for me language was not such a big problem...and then people say that hungarian is difficult. I dont know what happened to my brain but after 3 years of French course, when I want to speak French, hungarian comes...
But this is thread for another knitting.
beijos

no no no....Sy help me with French...
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Not exactly the first time....

Greetings to all my faithful public!

Well, this is not exactly the first time I keep a blog. Actually, I have been posting at the www.fotolog.net/apacatunda , but answering to questions and demands, I moved here!

Now that I moved to Geneva, things look easier, but it is just the look!As aparencias enganam.

Well, for the first date this is it.
Then I show some pictures we make around the city. There are so many nice places that leave you breathless!

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