Tuesday, 12 October 2010

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Sunday, 10 October 2010

Portuguese ship arrives to celebrate 500 years of bilateral ties

Published on October 10, 2010
By ONRAVEE TANGMEESANG


photo from thairath online



A Portuguese Navy sailing ship has made its way to Thailand to mark the first official contact between the two countries five centuries ago.
The Sagres, a strikingly beautiful, tall ship, docked at Bangkok's Klong Toei Port yesterday morning. The naval training ship was warmly greeted by Portuguese Ambassador Antonio de Faria e Maya along with representatives from the Portuguese community.


The ship is here for the first time to celebrate the arrival of Portuguese envoy Duarte Fernandes at Trangque, a city of Siam that is now the southern province of Trang, in 1511, during the Ayutthaya period. Next year will mark 500 years of diplomatic relations between Thailand and Portugal.


The Sagres is expected to be here until Thursday and is open to local visitors.


"The ship can receive more than 1,000 visitors each day and we would like to welcome everyone to come and visit us," said the ship's commander, Pedro Proenca Mendes.


What's special about this ship is that it is used for training Portugal's future naval officers and everything in the ship is manual, because the Portuguese want to train their naval officers to actually learn about the traditional way of sailing. Moreover, as it is a training ship, the decorations inside the ship are truly different from those in battle ships.


The ship was built in 1937 in Hamburg, Germany, and owned by the Germans. However, after World War II, the ship was kept by the United States as a war prize. Later, the US gave this ship to Brazil and Portugal purchased her from Brazil


The visit by Sagres is part of the touring-around-the-world mission of the Portuguese navy in order to strengthen relations with visited countries and to be a floating embassy of Portugal.


"Wherever we go we send messages of friendship and support our foreign policy," the captain stated.


The mission will take about 11 and a half months, which will be over this December, when the ship is due to land in Lisbon.


Source: The Nation online

Saturday, 9 October 2010

John Lennon 70th birthday anniversary




The legendary singer of the legendary English band “The Beatles” would have turned 70 if he would have lived on. The search engine Google, have designed a Google Doddle to commemorate the singer. Imagine is not the only a song that describes Lennon, it is a core belief that he believed in discreetly.


John Lennon or John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE is possibly one of the most famous member of the Beatles. He had been an active advocate of peace and is the most social aware among them. His famous songs “Imagine” and “Give Peace a Chance” have inspired people from around the world through generations.


Google is paying tribute to the singer through a Google Doodle that comes with a music player. When clicked, it will play a 32-second clip of the famous song ‘Imagine”. “Imagine” contains a very provocative lyrics and is a very true and honest song. John Lennon, who advocated peace and non-violence, was brutally murdered. Despite his love for peace and humanity he was shot dead on December 8, 1980 at his New York apartment building, where he lived with his wife Yoko Ono.


Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times right at the entrance to the building. The first Google Doodle was born in 1998 when the search engine's founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page replaced the logo with a picture of a Burning Man. This was done as to notify the world that they are on holiday to the Burning Man Festival. Google’s doodles are always a sign of creativity and displays uniqueness. They are devoted to some of the best creations and traits that celebrates their names in the history in their respective fields.


The legendary singer was born in Liverpool on October 9 1940 and went on to become one of the most famous musicians together with the other three members of the Beatles. After they split he developed a successful solo career.


In memory of his legacy, here are some of John Lennon’s quotes:
 


“Everything is clearer when you’re in love”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality”

“All we are saying is give peace a chance”

“Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground”

“You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact.
And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth”

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination”





Source: LA News Monitor