A Vision of

Change: Growing

abroad without

bordersDiogo Alves

This is what you hear everyday…

• In a 23 countries´ list, the portuguese are the ones who trustthe less in their government (9 out of 10) - Edelman Trust Barometer 2011

• 500 thousand workers are close to reach the poverty line. ¼ is under 18 years old – ISCTE Observatory study

• Gas prices went up last Friday – Diário Económico

• Level of doutbful loans grew 80 million euros last month –Agencia Lusa/Jornal Sol

Now discover the differences…

• In the other end of the spectrum of the government truststudy, China has 88% of confidence levels - Edelman Trust Barometer 2011

• China's trade Surplus Beats Expectations – Business Insider

• China's capital city Beijing and economic hub Shanghai both realized nearly double-digit growth in 2010, showing powerful economic momentum – Xinhua News Agency

• China ready to buy up to 6.6 billion of Portugal debt -Reuters

Shanghai

Expo 2010,

Pavillion of

Portugal

But not Everything is bad…

“So we keep waiting

Waiting on the world to change

We keep on waiting

Waiting on the world to change

It's hard to beat the system

When we're standing at a distance

So we keep waiting

Waiting on the world to change”

John Mayer – Waiting on the world to change

―If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face

the future.‖ - Danielle Steele

Disneyland Paris, France

―The world needs dreamers and the world needs

doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers

who do.‖ - Sarah Ban Breathnach

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -

Eleanor Roosevelt

Scorpion taste – Beijing,

China

1st Motorbike ride ever –

Panglau Island, Phillippines

―You cannot climb a mountain if you will not risk a

fall.‖ - Rick Beneteau

Mount Kinabalu (4095m),

Malaysia

"If you’re going through hell, keep going!" -

Winston Churchill

Sepilok Orang Utan Center,

Malaysian BorneoKo Samui, Thailand

―Look within!... The secret is inside you!‖ - Hui

Neng

Praying to the wishing Tree, Hong Kong

"Try not to become a man of success.

Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

Disneyland Hong Kong

RTP1 Portugal no Coração

Skype session live from

Hong Kong

―Insist on yourself; never imitate.‖ – Ralph Waldo

Emerson

Carnival Lisbon, 1996

Halloween Hong Kong, 2010

―A cheery relaxation is man’s

natural state, just as nature itself

is relaxed.

A waterfall is concerned only

with being itself, not with doing

something it considers

waterfall-like.‖

Vernon Howard

Waterfall, Mount

Kinabalu, Malaysia

―Always expect the unexpected.‖ – James Patterson

Children with snakes around their

necks - Cambodia

Chinese wearing

Portuguese shirt in

Shenzhen, China

―You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you;

But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.‖ –

Stephen Crane

Petronas Towers, Kuala

Lumpur, MalaysiaMarina Bay Sands,

Singapore

―Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the

thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls

to the great landscape.‖ – Mervyn Peake

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

The Great Wall, Beijing,

China

―One hundred percent of the shots you DON´T

take don't go in.‖ - Wayne Gretzky

Formula 1 Circuit, SingaporeKo Phagnan, Thailand

"Clocks slay time... only when the clock stops does

time come to life." — William Faulkner

London, United Kingdom

―Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales

again.‖ - C. S. Lewis

The sky is the limit

Airplane photo of the skyline,

Somewhere in the world

Thank You! Follow your bliss!