popmarta 101/1001 list

popmarta 101/1001 {the list}

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:13:00 +0000

Finish "prettypop design" website (team work) (work in progress)
Visit The Netherlands
Finally get my first tattoo
Read at least 5 of my written in english books [2/5]
Publish a magazine (team work)
Learn Chinese
Go to a gym
Assist to 1 live game from the Portugal football team
Visit "Museu do Oriente", Lisbon (Portugal)
Post a photo of every completed task of this list [28/101] (work in progress)
Visit London
Try to convince someone to make one 101/1001 list
Travel by boat (even if it is a short travel or a small boat)
Learn German
Visit USA
Visit 1 country in Africa
Lose weight (work in progress)
Go to another "30 Seconds to Mars" concert
See 101 of the 250 top movies from IMBD [10/101] (work in progress)
Give blood
Buy me a gift when 50% of these tasks are done
Go to the top of "Cristo-Rei", in Almada (Portugal)
Increase the list of visited places in my "1000 Places to See before you Die" journal.
Buy (or gain) a Blackberry
Buy (or gain) at least 1 book every month [13/33] (work in progress)
Try to snowboard once
Travel to some place where i need to use my passport
Buy a new laptop
Film more and edit what i film
Make a wine label to my dad's small production
Ride a bicycle
Learn how to play bowling
Donate things that i don't need (clothes, books, objects...)
Save 1 € for every one of these 1001 days [412/1001] (work in progress)
Visit a unexpected place with this money
Use the empty Moleskines i have
Make the family tree (work in progress)
Do a piercing
Change car
Give the old car to my sister
Eat brazilian food again
Eat sushi again
Visit Dur new home
Get the autograph of 1 famous person
Be more photographed (work in progress)
Buy (or gain) a Lomo
Spend a New Year's Eve outside my city
Catalogue all the DVD's i own
Make a online photo gallery (work in progress)
Write at least 1 article to "Associated Content"
Finish the movie for "30 Seconds to Green" (team work)
Go to the top of "São Jorge Castle", in Lisbon (Portugal)
Don't drink Coca-Cola for 1 month
Enter a workshop of something design related
Make my own recipe book
Go to the Zoo once
Make someone a surprise with some food/drink prepared by me
Drive in a foreigner country
Buy something at "Amazon"
Go to a manicure/pedicure
Do a pic-nic
Save 5 € for every unfinished task, in the end of the 1001 days
Go for a First Aid course
Learn more about wines
Change the decor of my room
Taste some food that i think i won't like
Assist to a dance/ballet show
Organize and rename all my music files in the computer
Do the "Vinhas do Douro" passage by train
Travel by tram again
Paint at least 1 picture
Buy (or gain) coloured pillows for my room
Visit "Convento de Cristo", in Tomar, Portugal
To reach 2000 friends on "Myspace" (work in progress)
Buy (or gain) a pair of "Onitsuka Tiger" - Mexico 66 - white/blue/red"
Organize the favourites on the computer and delicious
Travel by plane and DON'T be afraid (work in progress, but very hard to get...)
Start and finish a "365 project" and show it online (work in progress)
Make a photo book (using Blurb or similar)
Finish the handmade cards collection and show/sell them online (team work)
Buy (or gain) another Bonsai
Don't let it die...
Assist to at least 1 international band show
Go to a summer festival
Complete the PSP games i own
Shoot and post my photo in the first and last day of this list [1/2] (work in progress)
Read 1 book from portuguese writer José Saramago
Buy sunglasses
Reach the 500 sent and 500 received postcards, in "postcrossing" (work in progress)
Assist live to a surf championship
Have a big dinner with all the best friends from the university
Buy a gift to a friend without a special reason
Buy a gift to my sister without a special reason
Meet at least 1 of my postcrossing/online friends
Read the Bible
Send a "Chocotelegram" to someone
Drink something at Starbucks
Go to the Oceanário, in Lisbon (Portugal)
Assist to "Moto GP" live
Assist to "F1" live
Depending on the success of this list, decide if i will do a new one or not

Visit Dur new home

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:29:00 +0000

Last weekend we went to Lisbon to visit Museu Berardo and also to see the exhibitions from Experimenta Design 2009.

We met Dur there and, of course, we had to visit his new home.

He lives in an old building and his home is not very big but it is very comfortable and the view to the bridge is very nice.

There we also met his new cats: Tico and Teco. They are almost identical.

Read 1 book from portuguese writer José Saramago

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:33:00 +0000

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I'm currently reading "Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira" from portuguese writer (and Nobel prize) José Saramago.
I haven't finished it yet but so far i am enjoying a lot.

After the book i am planning to see the movie: "Blindness".

Assist to "Moto GP" live

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:35:00 +0000

After some years dreaming of that, i finally could assist to MOTO GP live from Estoril (Lisboa, Portugal), last 4 October.

Me and A. left our hometown at 4.30 AM and drove about 230Km, with a very bad fog along the entire way.

About 5 minutes after we started our journey, we were stopped by the police, asking for car documents (i never was stopped before...) but everything was ok so we continued our travel without troubles.

When we arrived in Estoril, a lot of people was already there, most of them had slept in their cars or in tents, to guarantee the best parking spot and less queue to enter.

We parked the car in a great place and only walked for 10 minutes.

The queue to enter was not that big and we found a seat without problem.

The fog was still persisted but when the warm up started it began to disappear and all was ok.

The day was great, it was amazing to assist live, to see the rush, listening the engine sound!

It was too bad that Valentino didn't win this race :-( but the important thing is that he won the 2009 championship :-)

More photos HERE

Assist live to a surf championship

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:44:00 +0000

Kelly Slater

Last weekend (October 24 and 25) i drove to Peniche with A. to assist to "Rip Curl Pro Search 2009".
This is a professional contest with the best surfers (male and female) and they travel around the world searching for the best waves.

Famous names like: Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow or Mick Fanning came to Portugal this year to some amazing days of surf.
And i was there to enjoy it!

The male winner of the competition was Mick Fanning, and the female winner was Coco Ho.

More photos HERE

Buy a gift to my sister without a special reason

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:41:00 +0000

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I love to offer gifts as much as i love to receive them!
This time, while i bought somethings for me from e-bay, i decided to buy something to offer my sister, without a special reason... it isn't christmas or her birthday...
Anyway, everyday is a good day to offer a gift to the someone we love :-)
As this will be a surprise for her i just will show it here when i offer her.
But i can say it is very cute!

(it is inside the purple package)

project 365

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:58:00 +0000

So, today my 101/1001 list is 1 year older.

Yay! Happy birthday to this list, and happy birthday to me too, bacause today it is also my birthday :-P

And to celebrate both in the best way possible, after seeing some amazing photo projects, i've decided to start my own "Project 365", a photo a day, from birthday to birthday.

This will be a work in progress, for the next 364 days and you can check the evolution here.

Go to a manicure

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:31:00 +0000

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For the first time in my life i went to the manicure to get my nails done, for my cousin's wedding.
It was really nice and different from what i am used to do at home... because to paint the right hand myself it is always very difficult...
I guees all the girls have the same problem ;-)

Assist to, at least, one international band show

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:10:00 +0000

When i went to Optimus Alive!09 i could complete, not only the goal "Go to a summer festival" but also this one: "Assist to, at least to, one international band show".

So, from all the bands i saw on friday, i will chose Placebo for this post!

Their show were amazing!

Reviews and professional photos here. (only in portuguese)

My own photos and videos here.

PLACEBO

Have a big dinner with all the best friends from the university

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:30:00 +0000

After a great friday assisting to the amazing shows at Optimus Alive!09, i drove from Lisbon to Caldas da Rainha (the city where i studied at the university) to have a big saturday night dinner, with a lot of my old friends and coleagues.

It was great to see all of them, to know all the news, what are they doing, where are they living, how they look now, 6 years after we finish it.

We all had a nice time together and we decided to have one of these reunion dinners every year, from now on, so i'm looking forward next year to arrive.

Go to a summer festival

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:17:00 +0000

Last weekend was really productive to complete some goals from this list and also was great to do different things, meet old friends and have a lot of fun.

So for the first time in my life i went to a summer festival.

I went with my friend A.

We went in the second day (friday, July 10) of Optimus Alive!09 and it was really great!

We assisted to many shows but we couldn't assist to all of them that day.

Placebo and The Prodigy were absolutely amazing, The Kooks and Blasted Mechanism were also great!

Unfortunately we cound't assist to The Ting Tings show (because it was happening at the same time than The Prodigy).

I hope next year's bands continue to be great (as they were this and in the past editions of Optimus Alive!) because i'm looking forward to going again!

Reviews and professional photos here. (only in portuguese)

My own photos and videos here.

Taste some food that i think i won't like: OYSTERS

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:18:00 +0000

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Last saturday i had a friend's wedding and this was the perfect ocasion to taste a lot of great food.
Here i could also taste some food that i thought i wouldn't like: oysters.
This was the first time i tasted oysters.
I guess i wouldn't like them because they were not cooked (they were only with lemon), and also because how they looked like, but i had a nice surprise because they tasted well.
They tasted like the ocean :-)

Buy a gift to a friend without a special reason

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:52:00 +0000

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So, to complete this task i decided to offer a gift to my friend A.
It is not christmas, it is not her bithday or anything else, so to offer her a gift today fits exactly in this goal: "buy a gift to a friend without a special reason".

I bought this nice flexible mini tripod (Gorillapod) from one of my favorite sellers on ebay: Suppere (i also have one of these too).
I guess she will like this gift and i hope she won't come to this blog before tonight and see this post, because i wanted this to be a surprise :-)

Donate things that i don't need

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:55:00 +0000

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So, last saturday, i decided to start the spring cleaning to my room, especially to my closet.
I had a lot of clothes, shoes, bags and accessories that i don't need/use anymore so i joined all the items that are in good condition (some of them are brand new and never been used before) and i will donate them to a girls orphanage.
I already contacted them and these clothes will be much appreciated and useful to the girls.
I also gave some books i had repeated to my friend A. and i guess they will be much appreciated too.
I am already joining some small toys to send to kids in Africa.

These bags don't look very well but at the time i hadn't other bags...

Travel by tram again

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:53:00 +0000

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In Amsterdam, trams are very popular. We walked a lot but sometimes we also traveled by tram during this trip.

Travel by boat

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:23:00 +0000

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As i wrote before, while i was visiting The Netherlands i could complete other goals from this list.
One of them was to travel by boat.

We did a city cruise in Amsterdam canals in a Blue Boat Company boat, and we could have a unique sight from Amsterdam buildings, bridges, canals and other important monuments.
Our boat was called Byzantium and it was very pleasant because inside it was very warm (outside the weather was very cold that day...)

The day after we went to visit Zaanse Schans (where great Dutch windmills are located) and we had to travel by ferry, so i included that photo too.

More photos in my flickr page

Visit The Netherlands

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:42:00 +0000

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So, one more goal of this list is done: i returned from Amsterdam yesterday!
And while i was visiting The Netherlands, i could also complete other goals from my list.
I am really happy, Amsterdam is an amazing city and i loved to be there, walked a lot and visited many places.
Hope to come back very soon and stay longer!

More photos in my flickr page

DVD's

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:35:00 +0000

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At least i had some time to organize all my DVD's.
I found some DVD's i forgot i had and also 4 repeated ones...
But now it will be much easier to chose which one i will assist.
I have 213 titles so far.

(sorry but don't know how to insert a full size image of my DVD shelf...)

Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 (white/blue/red)

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:22:00 +0000

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I finally bought them!!!
They arrived me yesterday and they are perfect!!!
The shipping was very fast, from UK to Portugal (only 3 days), and i will, for sure, to buy more from this seller.
I bought the Tiger's from eBay, one of my first purchases there.
I am very happy!

Books in English

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Finished in November 2009

Finished in January 2009

Make a online photo gallery

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:01:00 +0000

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I finally started to upload my photo archives to my Flickr gallery.
This gallery is not finished yet, i still have many old photos to upload, and it will be a work in progress because i will update it all the time, with new photos.
If you want to take a look, please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/popmarta/

Buy a Lomo

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:23:00 +0000

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As a late Christmas gift, from me to me, i finally bought a Lomo "Action Sampler" camera.
It arrived me yesterday from Lomografia Portugal, and i am amazed!
I already started to make some experiences and can't wait to see the results!
When i develop the film i will post some photos here.

Spend a New Year's Eve outside my city

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:29:00 +0000

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Even being sick like hell (with a very strong flu) i spent the 08/09 New Year's Eve (and some days more) at Figueira da Foz, a beach city i like a lot.
I spent a great time there with friends, it was very funny and relaxing, and at midnight the fireworks at the beach were really great!

I don't have any photo of me in this NYE, but the next photos are from Ana Free great concert there, on January 2, 2009.

Try to convince someone to make one 101/1001 list

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:31:00 +0000

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Today i had this great surprise, in the morning: Swan, one of my friends at postcrossing.com felt inspired by my list and decided to do her own list too. You can check it here. Hope you enjoy her list as much as i do!
This is a great 101/1001 list and i wish she can complete all the items with a lot of success.
So, Swan helped me to complete this item and i am grateful for that!
:-)

Organize the favourites on the computer and delicious.com

noreply@blogger.com (popmarta) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:53:00 +0000

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Yesterday night i finished the organization of the "favourites" in my laptop.
I realized that almost half of the web links i had there were unactive, a lot closed, blogs were deleted and some others decided to change the subject/content of their pages.
My "delicious" files are already organized too, so, from now on, i just have to keep both like that.

You can take a look here http://delicious.com/popmarta