Elektra

Me and my mates on theatre :)

2009-04-29T12:48:00.004+01:00

Get Stupid

2008-09-16T14:34:00.006+01:00

Madonna took off with her “Sticky & Sweet” tour in Cardiff, England on August 25 and last September 14 she performed in Lisbon.

During an interlude in the concert (AKA, costume change), a pre-fab video is shown, juxtaposing images of Hitler and others of his like to images of The World As We Know It (Global Warming, Global War, Famine, Intensified animal brutality for the gain of faster food consumption and other human malaise). Included in the Hitler-like ilk is a photo of John McCain, apparently suggesting (by the Conservative Right) that he is as bad as Hitler.

What I see when I watch this is that there are two choices that can be made: continue running with Dictatorships and we’re fucked. Run with people who really want to make a change for the betterment of humanity, and we have a chance. What do you think?

That I would be good...

2008-05-30T18:07:00.001+01:00

That I would be good even if I did nothing
That I would be good even if I got the thumbs down
That I would be good if I got and stayed sick
That I would be good even if I gained ten pounds

That I would be fine even even if I went bankrupt
That I would be good if I lost my hair and my youth
That I would be great if I was no longer queen
That I would be grand if I was not all knowing

That I would be loved even when I numb myself
That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed
That I would be loved even when I was fuming
That I would be good even if I was clingy

That I would be good even if I lost sanity
That I would be good
Whether with or without you...

- Alanis Morissette

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

2007-07-24T02:58:00.000+01:00

You let other women make a fool of you.
Why don't you do right,
like some other men do?

Get out of here,
get me some money too.

You're sittin down and wonderin what it's all about.
If you ain't got no money, they will put you out.
why don't you do right,
like some other men do?

Get out of here,
get me some money too.

Now if you had prepared 20 years ago.
You wouldn't be a wanderin now from door to door.
Why don't you do right,
like some other men do?

Get out of here,
get me some money too.

Get out of here,
get me some money too.

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

Hanky Panky :)

2007-07-17T01:05:00.000+01:00

Sooner Or Later...

2007-07-09T00:20:00.000+01:00

Sooner or later you're gonna be mine,
Sooner or later you're gonna be fine.
Baby, it's time that you face it,
I always get my man.

Sooner or later you're gonna decide,
Sooner or later there's nowhere to hide.
Baby, it's time, so why waste it in chatter?
Let's settle the matter.

Baby, you're mine on a platter,
I always get my man.

But if you insist, babe, the challenge delights me.
The more you resist, babe, the more it excites me.
And no one I've kissed, babe, ever fights me again.
If you're on my list, it's just a question of when.

When I get a yen, then baby, Amen.
I'm counting to ten, and then ...

I'm gonna love you like nothing you've known,
I'm gonna love you, and you all alone.
Sooner is better than later but lover,
I'll hover, I'll plan.

This time I'm not only getting, I'm holding my man.

- Madonna

What if God was one of us...?

2007-07-07T00:54:00.001+01:00

If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in jesus and the saints and all the prophets

And yeah yeah god is great yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if god was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome...

- Joan Osbourne

Do you take this woman do be your wedded wife?

2007-04-30T12:51:00.000+01:00

Preacher: Do you take this woman do be your wedded wife?
Betelgeuse: [Runs off to the side mumbling to himself] Oh man, I don't know, it's kind of a big decision isn't it... I always said if I ever did it, I was gonna do it once and that was it...
Betelgeuse: [Runs back to the altar and stands next to Lydia] Yeah, yeah, sure, right.
...
Betelgeuse: [to Lydia, about the owner of the finger he pulled out of a wedding ring] Don't worry, she doesn't mean anything to me.

- Beetle Juice

I know it’ll never work, and you know it’ll never work, but what I’m asking is just to see if we’re wrong.

2007-04-15T02:47:00.000+01:00

Dewey goes onto a porch, carrying a book. Gale is there, she point to Sidney and Cherokee.

Sidney-Come on, Cherokee!
Dewey-Yeah, she’s doing great. Look. [He has a copy of Gale’s book, The Woodsboro Murders.]
Gale-What are you doing with that?
Dewey-Will you sign it for me, Gale?
Gale-You hate that book! Besides, I’m done with that kind of reporting.
Dewey-For me. Will you sign it for me?
Gale-You’re a nut! [She takes the book and opens it to reveal an engagement ring. She looks at Dewey]
Dewey-Will you?
Gale-Dewey!
Dewey-I know it’ll never work, and you know it’ll never work, but what I’m asking is just to see if we’re wrong. We don’t know everything, Gale. Well, you think you do. [They laugh]
Gale-You’re a brave man, Dewey Riley.
Dewey-I’m really scared right now.

Gale kisses him. She puts on the ring

- Scream 3

Limitations Always Make for Happiness

2007-04-04T12:13:00.000+01:00

We are happy in proportion as our range of vision, our sphere of work, our points of contact with the world, are restricted and circumscribed. We are more likely to feel worried and anxious if these limits are wide; for it means that our cares, desires and terrors are increased and intensified. That is why the blind are not so unhappy as we might be inclined to suppose; otherwise there would not be that gentle and almost serene expression of peace in their faces.
Another reason why limitation makes for happiness is that the second half of life proves even more dreary that the first. As the years wear on, the horizon of our aims and our points of contact with the world become more extended. In childhood our horizon is limited to the narrowest sphere about us; in youth there is already a very considerable widening of our view; in manhood it comprises the whole range of our activity, often stretching out over a very distant sphere, the care, for instance, of a State or a nation; in old age it embraces posterity.

But even in the affairs of the intellect, limitation is necessary if we are to be happy. For the less the will is excited, the less we suffer. We have seen that suffering is something positive, and that happiness is only a negative condition. To limit the sphere of outward activity is to relieve the will of external stimulus: to limit the sphere of our intellectual efforts is to relieve the will of internal sources of excitement. This latter kind of limitation is attended by the disadvantage that it opens the door to boredom, which is a direct source of countless sufferings; for to banish boredom, a man will have recourse to any means that may be handy - dissipation, society, extravagance, gaming, and drinking, and the like, which in their turn bring mischief, ruin and misery in their train. It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do. That limitation in the sphere of outward activity is conducive, nay, even necessary to human happiness, such as it is, may be seen in the fact that the only kind of poetry which depicts men in a happy state of life - Idyllic poetry, I mean - always aims, as an intrinsic part of its treatment, at representing them in very simple and restricted circumstances. It is this feeling, too, which is at the bottom of the
pleasure we take in what are called genre pictures.
Simplicity, therefore, as far as it can be attained, and even monotony, in our manner of life, if it does not mean that we are bored, will contribute to happiness; just because, under such circumstances, life, and consequently the burden which is the essential concomitant of life, will be least felt. Our existence will glide on peacefully like a stream which no waves or whirlpools disturb.

- Arthur Schopenhauer, in 'Aphorisms for the Wisdom of Life'

The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

2007-03-27T18:16:00.000+01:00

Vivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it.
Edward Lewis: I think you are a very bright, very special woman.
Vivian: The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

Vivian: When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would- I would pretend I was a princess... trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight... on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time... that I had this dream did the knight say to me, "Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo."

Edward Lewis: So what happens after he climbs up and rescues her?
Vivian: She rescues him right back.

- Pretty Woman

That's the mouth she kisses my kids goodnight with!

2007-03-20T18:03:00.000Z

Dr. Ben Sobel: What happened with your wife last night?
Boss Paul Vitti: I wasn't with my wife, I was with my girlfriend.
Dr. Ben Sobel: Are you having marriage problems?
Boss Paul Vitti: No.
Dr. Ben Sobel: Then why do you have a girlfriend?
Boss Paul Vitti: What, are you gonna start moralizing on me?
Dr. Ben Sobel: No, I'm not, I'm just trying to understand, why do you have a girlfriend?
Boss Paul Vitti: I do things with her I can't do with my wife.
Dr. Ben Sobel: Why can't you do them with your wife?
Boss Paul Vitti: Hey, that's the mouth she kisses my kids goodnight with! What are you, crazy?

- Analyze This

It's Oh So Quiet...

2007-03-19T12:11:00.000Z

it's. oh. so quiet
it'a oh. so still
you're all alone
and so peaceful until...

you fall in love
zing boom
the sky up above
zing boom
is caving in
wow bam
you've never been so nuts about a guy
you wanna laugh you wanna cry
you cross your heart and hope to die

'til it's over and then
it's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot

you blow a fuse
zing boom
the devil cuts loose
zing boom
so what's the use
wow bam
of falling in love

it's. oh. so quiet
it's. oh. so still
you're all alone
and so peaceful until...

you ring the bell
bim bam
you shout and you yell
hi ho ho
you broke the spell
gee. this is swell you almost have a fit
this guy is "gorge" and i got hit
there's no mistake this is it

'til it's over and then
it's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot

you blow a fuse
zing boom
the devil cuts loose
zing boom
so what's the use
wow bam
of falling in love

the sky caves in
the devil cuts loose
you blow blow blow blow blow your fuse
when you've fallen in love

ssshhhhhh...

- Björk

Would You Be a Cool Parent?

2007-03-13T17:51:00.000Z

I guess my results were not so bad... :)

You Will Be a Cool Parent

You seem to naturally know a lot about parenting, and you know what kids need.
You can tell when it's time to let kids off the hook, and when it's time to lay down the law.
While your parenting is modern and hip, it's not over the top.
You know that there's nothing cool about a parent who acts like a teenager... or a drill sergeant!

Would You Be a Cool Parent?

Material girl

2007-02-28T16:39:00.000Z

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me
I think they're O.K.
If they don't give me proper credit
I just walk away

They can beg and they can plead
But they can't see the light, that's right
'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash
Is always Mister Right, 'cause we are

Living in a material world
And I am a material girl
You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl

Some boys romance, some boys slow dance
That's all right with me
If they can't raise my interest then I
Have to let them be

Some boys try and some boys lie but
I don't let them play
Only boys who save their pennies
Make my rainy day, 'cause they are

Living in a material world (material)
Living in a material world

Boys may come and boys may go
And that's all right you see
Experience has made me rich
And now they're after me, 'cause everybody's

A material, a material, a material, a material world

Living in a material world (material)
Living in a material world

- Madonna

Make Love

2007-02-27T10:21:00.000Z

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

- Sting

Sting

2007-02-27T09:59:00.000Z

"Englishman In New York"

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

If, "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run

If, "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

- Sting

Equality Engenders Uniformity

2007-02-20T18:41:00.000Z

Equality engenders uniformity, and it is by sacrificing what is excellent, remarkable, and extraordinary that we get rid of what is bad. The whole becomes less barbarous, and at the same time more vulgar. The age of great men is going; the epoch of the ant-hill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning. The century of individualism, if abstract equality triumphs, runs a great risk of seeing no more true individuals. By continual leveling and division of labor, society will become everything and man nothing. As the floor of valleys is raised by the denudation and washing down of the mountains, what is average will rise at the expense of what is great. The exceptional will disappear. A plateau with fewer and fewer undulations, without contrasts and without oppositions, such will be the aspect of human society. The statistician will register a growing progress, and the moralist a gradual decline: on the one hand, a progress of things; on the other, a decline of souls. The useful will take the place of the beautiful, industry of art, political economy of religion, and arithmetic of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a leveling age.

Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era? May not the general well-being be purchased too dearly at such a price? The creative force which in the beginning we see forever tending to produce and multiply differences, will it afterward retrace its steps and obliterate them one by one? And equality, which in the dawn of existence is mere inertia, torpor, and death, is it to become at last the natural form of life? Or rather, above the economic and political equality to which the socialist and non-socialist democracy aspires, taking it too often for the term of its efforts, will there not arise a new kingdom of mind, a church of refuge, a republic of souls, in which, far beyond the region of mere right and sordid utility, beauty, devotion, holiness, heroism, enthusiasm, the extraordinary, the infinite, shall have a worship and an abiding city? Utilitarian materialism, barren well-being, the idolatry of the flesh and of the "I," of the temporal and of mammon, are they to be the goal if our efforts, the final recompense promised to the labors of our race? I do not believe it. The ideal of humanity is something different and higher. But the animal in us must be satisfied first, and we must first banish from among us all suffering which is superfluous and has its origin in social arrangements, before we can return to spiritual goods.

Henri Amiel, in 'Intime Journal'

Parents Fate

2007-02-14T11:00:00.000Z

The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them, that have no posterity. They that are the first raisers of their houses, are most indulgent towards their children; beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind, but of their work; and so both children and creatures.

Francis Bacon, in 'Essays'

Nobody's perfect

2007-02-13T12:04:00.000Z

Cool I am
When I am with you
Cool I'm not
When I am lonely

I feel so sad
What I did wasn't right
I feel so bad
And I must say to you

Sorry, but

Nobody's perfect
Nobody's perfect
What did you expect
I'm doing my best

I feel so sad
But you know I'll be true
I feel so bad
And I must say to you

Sorry, but

Nobody's perfect
Nobody's perfect
What did you expect
I'm doing my best

Nobody's perfect
I was dishonest
I will do my best
Yeah

Cool I am
When I am with you
Cool I'm not
When I am lonely

Nobody's perfect
Nobody's perfect
What did you expect
I'm doing my best

Nobody's perfect
Nobody's perfect
I was dishonest
I will do my best
Yeah

Mmm, mmm, yeah
Mmm, mmm, yeah
Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect

- Madonna

Why, you're one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you...

2007-01-20T02:01:00.001Z

Simply fabulous, hilarious and spectacular!

Do I look like a Celebrity?

2007-01-15T22:32:00.000Z

Here you can upload your photo and have it compared to MyHeritage.com database of celebrities. Do you really look like a movie star? I found out that I'm 80% look like Eva Herzigova! :-D

http://www.myheritage.com

Supervillain Personality Quiz

2007-01-15T16:52:00.000Z

Your results:
You are Mystique
Sometimes motherly, sometimes a beautiful companion, but most of the time a deceiving vixen.

Mystique		57%
Dr. Doom		50%
Poison Ivy		49%
Mr. Freeze		48%
Dark Phoenix		48%
Venom		46%
Apocalypse		45%
Lex Luthor		45%
The Joker		45%
Magneto		43%
Green Goblin		37%
Juggernaut		37%
Catwoman		35%
Kingpin		31%
Riddler		25%
Two-Face		21%

Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz

Pandora, not box... Radio!

2007-01-10T17:44:00.000Z

By not being exactly a teenager anymore, I’m not quite in on the "scene", and typically don’t follow the music trends too well, so I found myself not being introduced to new music. One day I met Pandora Radio. All I can say is that I’m hooked.

Pandora Radio is built on the concept that you enter the name of a song or artist that you like, and it sends that information back to it’s computer brain – which builds a playlist of songs that have similar musical elements to the songs that you indicated that you liked to begin with.

Where it gets interesting and addictive, is that when these new songs play, you are given controls to say whether or not you like a song. If you like it, it gets the thumbs up icon, and keeps playing. If you don’t like it, it gets the thumbs down, and is skipped. So during your listening, the Pandora brain just keeps figuring out the type of music and artists that you like to listen to. After a while, I’m finding that almost every thing that gets played, I like.

I started using this to find new music, but I was pleasantly surprised to start hearing songs and artists that I had forgotten about and others I never heard of. As they came up, I added them to my channel, and every day I’m finding new and interesting music, completely personalized just for me!

The nominees this year... & the winner is...

2007-01-10T11:49:00.000Z

Darwin Awards are an annual honor given to the person who killed themselves on acts of unbelievable stupidity which end up permanently removing the perpetrators from the gene pool.

Last year's winner was 19-year-old Christopher, who stabbed himself to dead to blame the neighbor, wonderful "i"deer!!! Bad luck his deathbed accusation of his neighbor failed, as a witness confirmed that the neighbor was not in the apartment... Bwahahah!

Worldwide News

2007-01-09T14:27:00.000Z

For those like me addicted to news here's a site you can't miss, The Museum of News! Alongside other things you can find worldwide Newspaper front pages. There's no excuse anymore not to be up to date! Enjoy!

What is the meaning of life?

2007-01-05T15:39:00.000Z

Throughout history, people have wondered about life. In Douglas Adams’ book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a race of extremely intelligent beings decided to answer the Ultimate Question:

What is the meaning of life?

They were getting fed up. They were getting so fed up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life, which used to interrupt their favorite pastime of Brockian Ultra Cricket (a curious game which involved suddenly hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away), that they decided to sit down and solve their problems once and for all. And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.

On the day of the Great On-Turning two programmers with briefcases arrived and were shown into the office where the computer was located. They were aware that this day they would represent their entire race in its greatest moment, but they conducted themselves calmly. Their names were Lunkwill and Fook. Lunkwill leaned forward and touched a small black panel. The subtlest of hums indicated that the massive computer was now in total active mode. After a pause it spoke to them.

"What is this great task for which I, Deep Thought, the greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space, have been called into existence?"
"O Deep Thought, the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us... the Answer!"
"The Answer? To what?"
"Life!"
"The Universe!"
"Everything!"

Deep Thought paused for a moment’s reflection.

"Tricky."
"But can you do it?"
"Yes, but I’ll need time to think about it."

Suddenly, the door flew open and two angry men wearing the uniforms of the Cruxwan University burst into the room.

"We demand admission!"
"Come on, you can’t keep us out!"
"Who are you? And what do you want?"
"I am Majikthise!"
"And I demand that I am Vroomfondel!"
"It’s all right, you don’t need to demand that."
"Oh, sorry. I am Vroomfondel, and that is a solid fact. What we demand is solid facts!"
"No, we don’t! That is precisely what we don’t demand!"
"We don’t demand solid facts! We demand a total absence of solid facts! I demand that I may or may not be Vroomfondel!"
"But who the devil are you?"
"We are philosophers."
"Though we may not be."
"We are. We are from the Union of Philosophers, and we want this machine off right now!"
"What’s the problem?"
"Demarcation! Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is our job. Any machine that goes and actually finds it and we’re out of a job. I mean, what’s the use of out sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives you His phone number the next morning?!"
"That’s right. We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
"Might I make an observation at this point! All I wanted to say is that right now, my circuits are committed to calculating the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. But the programs will take me a little while to run."

Fook glanced at his watch.

"How long?"
"Seven and a half million years."
"What?!"
"I said I needed time to think about it. Besides, this is the best thing that could happen to the philosophers. This is bound to create an enormous amount of popular publicity for the whole area of philosophy in general and the philosophers have all that time to develop their own theories on what answer I’m going to come up with. They’ll be getting so much media attention. Just as long as you guys can keep disagreeing with each other, you can keep yourselves on the gravy train for life. How does that sound?"

The two philosophers gaped at him.

"Now that is what I call thinking. Vroomfondel, why do we never think of things like that?"
"Dunno, think out brains must be too highly trained."

So they turned and walked out of the door and into a life-style beyond their wildest dreams.
Seven and a half million years later, two philosophers, Loonquawl and Phouchg, were sitting in that very office, waiting for the answer. They were quite nervous.

"Good morning."
"Er... good morning, O Deep Thought. Do you have... er, that is..."
"The Answer? Yes, I have. Though, I don’t think you’re going to like it."
"Doesn’t matter! We must know."
"All right. You’re really not going like it."
"Tell us!"
"All right. The Answer to the Great Question of Life is..."
"Yes..!"
"Is.."
"Yes!!"
"Forty-two."
"That’s it?!"
"Yes."
"Is that what you have to show for seven and a half million years’ work?!"
"I checked it very thoroughly. But the problem is, we never really knew the question."
"Yes we did. It was the Ultimate Question!"
"But what exactly is it?"
"It’s, you know, everything... everything, you know?"
"Once you know the question the answer will make sense."
"Well, can you find out the question?"
"Hmmm... Tricky."
"Can you?"
"Yes, but it will take time."
The men groaned. "How long?"
"Ten million years."
"No, that will be quite all right."

Then, Phouchg shut off Deep Thought.

"We haven’t got time for this. We’ll just have to think of a question ourselves."
"But what?"
"Hmmm.. How about What’s yellow and dangerous??"
"No. Doesn’t fit the answer. What about What do get when you multiply six by seven??"
"Too factual. Wouldn’t sustain their interest. Here’s a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?"
"Aha. Now that does sound promising. Sounds very significant without actually tying you down to meaning anything at all. How many roads must a man walk down? Forty-two. Excellent. We are made!"

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Selfishness

2007-01-03T15:52:00.000Z

Today when I woke up I was feeling really great, so much that I felt like saying it to the ones I love, and that's what I did. But that feeling didn't last long, all of a sudden, just a small sentence was enough to make me come down to earth again.

When at first I started blogging, It was always my intention never to write personal matters here, blogging must not be some teenager "Adrian's Mole Diary", but that doesn't necessarily mean I can't do it, after all, this his my blog, isn't it?!?

I always repressed myself and how I felt because I didn't wanted to hurt "the Others", but did "the other" ever cared about "How I felt"? I suppose mostly not, nobody cares, as far as I'm "perfect" and "look happy", otherwise I'm doing it on purpose to annoy them!

Anyways, then I went to shopping center on lunch time and bought some "Foam Bath" and that will make my day better. That is it.

So long and thanks for all the fish!

2007-01-03T12:47:00.000Z

So long, and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all, but, oh, dear
You may not share out intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that grow around you
So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!

The world's about to be destroyed
There's no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve around you
Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long!
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long!
So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!

If I had just one last wish
I would like a tasty fish!

If we could just change one thing
We would all have learn to sing!

Come one and all
Man and mammal
Side by side
In life's great gene pool!

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long and thanks for all the fish!

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me...!

2006-12-28T11:18:00.000Z

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."

"Why, what did she tell you?"

"I don't know, I didn't listen."

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Babel fish and his role on God's existence

2006-12-27T15:20:00.000Z

Since a couple of days I started listening to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, yes "listening" :) Audiobook, the complete radio series! It is a great way to make traffic jams a pleasant thing! I don't have that problem often, since I live nearby my office, but now I'm not afraid of traffic jams any longer, even though I don't have them, who cares?! :-D

Now, let's just pick some valuable learning from the Douglas Adams series, the Babel fish and is remarkable value!

"The Babel fish," said The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy not from its carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. "Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. "The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' "'But,' says Man, 'The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' "'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. "'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. "Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best- selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God. "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

Really?!?

2006-12-27T11:01:00.000Z

Really! They must! I even had to use a screwdriver to unpack one of my son Christmas toys! It was tied with tie racks and had screws holding it to the box!!! How's a child supposed to unpack his own presents like that???

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten

2006-11-27T12:30:00.001Z

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School.

These are the things that I learned:
Share everything
Play fair
Don't hit people
Put things back where you found them
Clean up your mess
Don't take things that aren't yours
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody
Wash your hands before you eat Flush
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you
Live a balanced life; learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some
Take a nap every afternoon
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together
Be aware of wonder
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup ;
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup They all die So do we
And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned the biggest word of all
LOOK
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.

Or if all the governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are... when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together

- Robert Fulghum

Jump...

2006-11-23T12:19:00.001Z

There's only so much you can learn in one place
The more that I wait, the more time that I waste

I haven't got much time to waste, it's time to make my way
I'm not afraid of what I'll face, but I'm afraid to stay
I'm going down my own road and I can make it alone
I'll work and I'll fight, Till I find a place of my own

Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby,
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to jump

We learned our lesson from the start, my sisters and me
The only thing you can depend on is your family
And life's gonna drop you down like the limbs of a tree
It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see

Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to, are you ready?

(Spoken:)
There's only so much you can learn in one place
The more that you wait, the more time that you waste

I'll work and I'll fight till I find a place of my own
It sways and it swings and it bends until you make it your own

I can make it alone(my sisters and me) (repeat 7x)

Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to jump

Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands
Get ready to, are you ready?

by Madonna

Supernatural

2006-11-21T14:11:00.000Z

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

- Elbert Hubbard

Men has always seek for explanation to everything that surrounds him, whenever not able to accomplish, he would find a supernatural way to do it.

This was the dogma that leaded to religion, magic and other, and still persists, one cannot admit not to explain everything, so if it isn't possible by logics and experimental, we will do it by any other means, whatever it takes.

Where does religion go here? In the need to believe tat something or someone above us is able to explain everything!

I was educated in catholics and I still consider myself as one, although I question so many of its premises that I question if I can still count myself on it or I should go more for spiritual but not religious.Once I also had that need for explaining and understanding everything, but I almost ran crazy when thinking about the "end of the universe", yes, I did think about it for a long time and it was driving me mad.

If I'd go "straight" all the time long, what would I find? I mean, I know that there are other galaxies, and behind those, other stars, and other, and other... and then?!? where does it end? and if it does end, then what's after?!? A GOD would help here!

You see why we still need Supernatural...? or else, we do need to continue seeking... on and on...

Quotes, Quotes, Quotes... :)

2006-11-07T21:46:00.000Z

I know there is a lot of quotes and citations blogs already, but this one is special because I am one of the contributers :) the other is my dearest Dehumanizer and all the technical side as well as revising is on him.

Hope you enjoy our selection!

Drown me in your light...

2006-11-07T11:20:00.000Z

I've had battles with the devil
And it's left a scar or two
Why do i forget my troubles
Whenever I'm with you

Like an angel
Are you an angel
You have saved my heart
And you play your part
Like an angel to me

Yes i met you on my darkest day
When my world turned cold as ice
You lit my cigarette
And you took me away
It felt like paradise

Like an angel
A real angel
Drown me in your light
Take me through the night
You're an angel
I have fallen
From the dark above
Into the arms of love
You're an angel - to me

- Doro Like an Angel

Do you Love ME?

2006-11-07T11:13:00.000Z

Didn't They Tell You The Way That It's Gonna Be
You Asked God For A Woman And Ended Up With Me
Maybe I'll Love You, Maybe I'll Pull You Apart
We Live In Darkness I've Pulled You Into My Friend
There's No Escaping This Hell That I've Put You In
You Must Forgive Me But Loving Me Is A Sin

Are You Ready For Me
Do You Love Me In Black
I Will Push You Away
Then Make You Come Back
I Can Make You Feel Love
I Can Be So Detached
Do You Really Want Me
Do You Love Me In Black

When I First Met You I Thought There Was A Mistake
How Could You Want Me, You Made Such Easy Prey
Didn't They Teach You Loving Is Nothing But Pain
What Do You See When You Look In My Eyes
A Sea Of Blue, A Place Where Your Heart Could Lie
Where It Could Drown, Where It Will Never Survive

Are You Ready For Me
Do You Love Me In Black
I Will Push You Away
Then Make You Come Back
I Can Make You Feel Love
I Can Be So Detached
Do You Really Want Me
Do You Love Me In Black

I Keep Reliving The Moment We Said Goodbye
You Didn't Kiss Me, You Didn't Even Try
You Said I Made Me Feel Like You Were Barely Alive
In Another Lifetime Maybe Another Place
Maybe I'll Find You, I Could Be Tempted By Fate
And Try To Reach With Too Little Kindness Too Late

Are You Ready For Me
Do You Love Me In Black
I Will Push You Away
Then Make You Come Back
I Can Make You Feel Love
I Can Be So Detached
Do You Really Want Me
Do You Love Me In Black

- Doro LOVE ME IN BLACK

Proud Mama :)

2006-10-18T11:25:00.000+01:00

As a proud mama I couldn't let it pass without showing of myself and my baby on Zélia's blog :) some months ago... :-S

Kim wild is back... on track!

2006-09-21T14:27:00.000+01:00

The difference between me and her is that she looks exactly the same as 20 years ago! I wonder if she also wakes up perfectly make up like movie stars! :-D

The new album is named “Never say Never” and I completely agree… So many thinks I said I wouldn’t and… :-S

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape
World in perfect harmony (Kim Wilde)

Keep Me Hanging On...

2006-09-21T12:42:00.000+01:00

Set me free, why don't you babe?
get out my life, why don't you babe?
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on

Set me free, why don't you babe?
get out my life, why don't you babe?
'cause you don't really need me
but you keep me hanging on

Why do you keep a-comin' around
playing with my heart
why don't you get out of my life
and let me make a brand new start
let me get over you
the way you've gotten over me, yeah

Set me free, why don't you babe?
get out my life, why don't you babe?
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on
now you don't really need me
you just keep me hanging on

You say although we broke
you still just wanna be friends
but how can we still be friends
when seeing you only breaks my heart again
and there ain't nothing I can do about it...

Get out, get out of my life
and let me sleep at night
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on

You say you still care for me
but your heart and soul needs to be free
now that you've got your freedom
you wanna still hold on to me
you don't want me for yourself
so let me find somebody else

Why don't you be a man about it and set me free
now you don't care a thing about me
you're just using me
get out, get out of my life
and let me sleep at night
'cause you don't really love me
you just keep me hanging on

'Cause you don't really need me
you just keep me hanging on

Kim Wilde

Today is my birthday... And I get one every year!

2006-09-20T11:27:00.000+01:00

In the morning I wake up
And in the night I sleep
Since the day that I was born
Repeat, repeat, repeat
Brought to this life
Born to this life
Where was I before?
Non-existent? Not at all?
Will I ever know?

Today is my birthday
And I get one every year
And some day...
Hard to believe
But I'll be buried six feet underground

Subconsciously motivated natural instinct
Alter nature for the pleasure
Orthocycline
Flirt with conception
Slow the cycle
Will the baby grow?
Social tradition interference
Control, control, control

Today is my birthday
And I get one every year
And some day...
Hard to believe
But I'll be buried six feet underground
I'll be dead and gone, no longer around

Spinning, spinning
Before I can recall
All the unknown chemicals
Control the cycle
The successive generations
From dust to dust
Burying my grandma
Then give birth to my own daughter

Today is my birthday
And I get one every year
And some day...
Hard to believe
But I'll be buried six feet underground

Today is my birthday
And I get one every year
And some day...
Hard to believe
But I'll be buried six feet underground
I'll be dead and gone, no longer around
I'll be buried six feet underground

No Doubt - Six Feet Under

The joys of parents are secret, ...

2006-09-18T14:24:00.000+01:00

...and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon

Allergies?!?

2006-08-11T15:20:00.000+01:00

Since ever I remember that I suffer from Allergies... this is a problem that affects most adults and children nowadays. Here you can find a quick guide on how to deal with this problem in a practical manner. Do not miss it! It was written by myself.... :-S But translation credits go to Dehumanizer as well as technical aspects.

Impossible...

2006-07-10T20:44:00.000+01:00

because...

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

but a life without a dream isn't worth it...

and improving my English also looks dificult!!!!

Return from Vacations

2006-05-16T14:08:00.000+01:00

As you might imagine I returned from vacations a long time ago (at least it feels like...) but due to huge amount of work I didn't found any time left to write here!

The week at the resort was great, I read a lot and played with my baby :) Also I got less white, despite my mates opinion on the contrary, I'm sure I did it! well, at least I look better now :P
By the way, the resort was in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Quite an interesting place, although I only went out of the resort for a visit to "Altos de Chavón", where scenes from "Apocalypse Now" and "Rambo" were filmed, and for a boat ride to "Isla Catalina", a small island with an incredible coral reef, making it very popular for snorkeling and diving.

Time with family was great too, the party last for two days always eating a lot :)

But it is over now, and I became the "Ant" again...

The ant is knowing and wise...

2006-04-22T21:42:00.000+01:00

"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in." Robert Orben

...but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
I hope I won't be the Ant...

I'm going on two weeks vacation, first week will be in a resort and second week I'll go to Alentejo to join family in the baptism of my cousin's 3 little ducks. Yes, he's been blessed with 3 at once, or cursed :S it depends on the point of view :)

I hope both will be happy hours, although on the first week I'm going to paradise of dolce fare niente, and with myprecioouuussss :)

on the second week I'll have my mother nearby, and yes, I still love to have her around sometimes, although I'm twenty fourteen :P, and I’ll also be in one of those rare moments of all family together, due to the fact that we are a large family it isn't that easy...

I also hope to get a healtier look, I'm so goddamn white!

Educate the children...

2006-04-15T21:50:00.000+01:00

"Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men." Pythagoras

Although I love my baby more than anything else in the world, I’m on the opinion that doesn’t mean gives him everything he asks/cries for. But it looks like I'm not understood by the adults themselves... and I'm not talking about family, but strangers!

The last episode happened today in the restaurant while I'm in a small vacation in Algarve. I went to the restaurant, where there are those appealing machines with large balls with toys inside that all the kids want. Usually I give him one and that's it! I don't deny everything, he's only 2 year old baby...

but after the meal he started asking me another one! And the answer was a straight “NO, you already have one”.

Then I turned my attention on something else and suddenly he was near me, big smile, with another toy! A man comes across the table where I was sitting and gave him the toy! A total stranger! At the moment I reacted saying "thanks sir", but I know that I didn't have nothing to thank at all!!! But what should I have done?

Till now I keep asking myself, but I don't know the answer... I just know I should have returned the toy, but I did not... I wasn’t guided by reason, but by emotions… one should thank someone that gives us something?... not here I guess.

Sensuality... Mmh, yes.

2006-04-14T15:42:00.000+01:00

Talking about sensuality on my other blog: Unawen, I suddenly realized I never spoke here about one of my favorite singers, maybe the favorite singer: Kate Bush.

I knew her trough this album, The Sensual World.

In this album Kate Bush reflects the most heavenly views of love, her most intimate and charming effort, a romantic, frolicking over lust and love, but also a lover of life and its spirituality.

She also reveals a spirit of strength and independence like in "Love and Anger”, features blistering riffs by her mentor: David Gilmour, guitarist and vocalist with Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd, which, by the way, I only started to really listen to very recently because of a very dear friend that made me take another vision of their music and the story behind it, thanks :)

She also has a peculiar look toward the future, she appears to look beyond what's present and find a peculiar celestial atmosphere in which human beings do exist. But she also keeps her feet on the ground and speaks about technology, like on "Deeper Understanding" track.

I share here "The Sensual World" lyrics, my favorite :)

Mmh, yes,

Then I’d taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep south, go down, mmh, yes,
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off of howth head and into the flesh, mmh, yes,

He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes,
But now I’ve powers o’er a woman’s body, yes.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world.
Stepping out...

To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes,
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? mmh, yes,

And how we’d wished to live in the sensual world
You don’t need words--just one kiss, then another.

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world.

And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes,
And then he whispered would i, mmh, yes,
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes,
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He’d rescue it, mmh, yes,
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes,
I said, mmh, yes,
But not yet, mmh, yes,
Mmh, yes.

Come here let me clip your wings!

2006-04-11T16:18:00.000+01:00

...
writing a letter to you
didn't make me feel any more peaceful than how I felt when we weren't speaking
because I didn't cop to what I did.
I can't love you becaused we're supposed to have professional boundaries.
I'd like you to be schooled and in awe as though you were kissed by god full on the lips.
I'm in the front row the front row with popcorn
I get to see you see you close up
(I'm too tired to recount the unpleasantries one by one one minute I want to banish you the next I want to be on a deserted island with you with my three favorite cd's
ambivalent in your bed we've yet to acknowledge what really happened)
Slid into the ditch I have this overwhelming loss of amibition
we said let's name thirty good reasons why we shouldn't be together
I started by saying things like "you smoke" "you live in new jersey (too far)"
you started saying things like "you belong to the world"
all of which could have been easily refuted
but the conversation was hypothetical
I am totally short of breath for you
why can't you shut your stuff off...
I'm in the front row the front row with popcorn
I get to see you see you close up
and I laughed until my lungs hurt
I love how you bust my chops
You don't always feel seen
Sometimes you feel erasable unfortunately I cannot reciprocate in my current state
I think we should be careful of how much time we spend together
.....for a while while i'm speaking
you know how much you hate to be interrupted maybe spend some time alone fill up your proverbial cup so that it doesn't always about you
I've been wanting your undivided attention I like the fact that you're nothing like me
Are you not burdened by the lack of perspective people have of your charmed life (seemingly)?
I'm in the front row the front row with popcorn
I get to see you see you close up
you never meant to be ungrateful
nor held up to be whipped or wept for certainly not analysed
prodded at more ways than one apparently you've been misrepresented
dealing with the concept of arrows being slung towards your outrageous fortune
Hey I'm not mad at you guardian
I'm mad at myself for spending so much time with you and your jeckyl and hydeness
i'm glad i firguratively slapped you on the wrist
you laughed a wicked laugh and said "come here let me clip your wings!"
(I know he's blood but you can still turn him away you don't own him
anything)
"raise the roof he yelled "yeah raise the roof!" I yelled back.
(Unfortunately you needed a health scare to reprioritize.)
No thanks to the soap box
Having my rile against them won't make an ounce of difference...
I'm in the front row the front row with popcorn
I get to see you see you close up
Oh the things I've done for you
many a sitch a friend a man's been left for you
oh the books i've read for you
the tongues i've bitten for you many a new city for you
for you many a risk taken for you (not a single regret)

by Alanis Morissette

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

2006-04-10T13:58:00.000+01:00

Most people seem to be absolutely unable to say I don’t know. Impressive but true. Even if they don't know absolutely nothing about the subject, they always feel like they must give their opinion on it and say something like "I don't know anything about it, nontheless, I think that this and that!" Is it so hard to say "I can't give an opinion on it because I don't know what you're talking about."?

The Ocean...

2006-04-02T18:27:00.000+01:00

Since I ever remember I always loved the Ocean, the voice of the waves against the rocks devastated by the wind...

Even on winter, I love to take a walk alongside the coast and bread the Ocean... I have no words that can explain the freedom I feel by doing this.

I'd love to live near the Ocean, but then I would have traffic Jam every day to get to work... even so, the idea appeals to me more and more every day, maybe... :)

Until that moment arrives, I dream about the sea and I visit it on whenever possible. My baby also loves it and already says: "Mummy, the waves are finished", when they reach the rocks of the coast :) Indeed he's right... they finish when they touch the ground, likewise dreams...

I leave here a poem from Madredeus, “The Sea”, the fragility of the sea is my strength...

"It's not a poem what i am going to say

Neither i know if it's worth to try to describe for you

The sea, the sea.

I have been standing here only to try to see it

and now I’m getting older without never understanding it.

The sea, the sea."

To move forward you will have to run twice as fast?

2006-03-29T23:26:00.000+01:00

After a long time no read of children books, I got back to Alice, but not "Alice in Wonderland", that one I read it when I was about 13 years old, but "Through the Looking Glass".

Here she enters a world of chess pieces where everything is contrariwise, or not so much :)

If you take a deeper look, in this case read, it is not as contrariwise as it might look at first sight...
One of my favorite quotes of the book is the one where the red queen says:

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that."

In answer to Alice's statement that they'd been running like hell for a long time and still remained on the same exact place.

For me this makes sense... call me weird... but I think that we have to move fast or we will be left in the same place if not somewhere backwards... and then we'll have to go all way forward again, likewise in Moebius "Gardens of Aedena".

Pretty Girls are stupid?

2006-03-21T19:47:00.000Z

It is often said that “Pretty Girls are stupid”, will that be true? And if the answer is Yes, then Why?

Let’s enlarge the concept a little bit to “Good looking people are Stupid”, if that happens to be true, why does it happen?

The answer come easy, at the same time to me and a friend, when we were joking about this issue. It is human nature to be competitive, if you already happen have your image working for you, to be “more accepted”, why the extra effort? In opposite, people that don’t have such attributes, they have to fight more and compensate that in other manners, skills and qualities.

At the same time, this is not really true, people that are good looking, specially women, have to prove double when they want to compete on something, because of the “stupid pretty girl” label then works against them.

Once accused of being stupid blond girl, Marilyn Monroe said: “If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do - look intelligent?”

And does anyone doubts she was an incredible actress? If so, why doesn’t any other “pretty blond girl” of the thousands in the world reached the success and what she did?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? I leave here a quote from that classic movie:

"Lorelei Lee: Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"

Yes it helps, but don’t lay your trust on that.

Firefighters photos, as promised :)

2006-03-21T00:18:00.000Z

We hurt the ones we love the most... Part 2

2006-03-16T23:15:00.000Z

This is a sentence frequently used on the purpose of excusing our misbehavior with the ones that love us and are “always there”.

But is this really an acceptable excuse?

Will we always be forgiven and given a second chance? I don’t think so, not forever. Maybe once, maybe twice… but not forever.
The day will come when they give up on us and don’t care anymore.

As far as I’m concerned, I don’t take that someone hurts me, injuries me and even after clearly saw that I’m already broken, still continues putting me down because he loves me and cares about. I can take that once, and I myself make mistakes and also did it, but when I lookback; I do not hesitate to apologize and sincerely regret it, that I will not do it again.

I learn from my mistakes and I don’t wanna lose the ones that care about me and love me.

In Portugal there’s a quote that says

“You don’t need to say I’m sorry, you need to avoid having to say it”

thus meaning that you shall learn from your mistakes so next time you don’t have to say “I’m sorry”.

Me I have one a little bit longer. I say that when someone hurts us, it is like as if a screw was installed on “our door”, by removing them, the hole will still be there.

We hurt the ones we love the most...

2006-03-16T22:10:00.000Z

I Don't Care - Shakespears Sister

Walking through the rooms in my head
I came across your image
You looked at me with that sweet smile and said
Something they won't let me repeat
We hurt the ones we love the most
It's a subtle form of compliment

I don't care if you talk about me
I don't care if you write it out in stone
Whenever I fall I land on my feet
I don't care, I just don't care, no

Mark the spot you hate with an X
Then shoot your bow and arrow
shoot your bow and arrow...
Do your worst get it all off your chest
I'll hold my breath and swallow
and swallow, swallow...
We hurt the ones we love the most
It's a subtle form of discipline

I don't care if you talk about me
I don't care if you write it out in stone
Whenever I fall I land on my feet
I don't care, I just don't care

I don't care if you act like a queen
I don't care if you take it out on me
I've got 9 lives and I land on my feet
I don't care, I just don't care

In a borealic iceberg came Victoria
Queen Victoria sitting
Shocked upon the rocking horse of a wave
Said to the Laureate
This minx of course as sharp as any lynx
And blacker deeper than the drinks
As any hottentot without remorse
For the minx said she
And the drinks you can see
Are hot as any hottentot
And not the goods for me
Hot as any hottentot
And not the goods for me

The particular behaviors that make an individual

2006-03-14T22:38:00.001Z

Today a colleague of mine, whom I didn’t even knew, till today, that she had a blog, started kind of a chain, where you’re supposed to list five of your habits, very own personal behaviors, that exclusively distinguish you from everyone else, or at least that you expect to.
It is also required you to pass ahead this message by reproducing it on your own blog and the advise for the recruitment of 5 more bloggers, but she only did it for two :)

Although I also don’t particularly like chains, this is quite an exercise on reflection about you and your personal behavior therefore I found it interesting, so there it goes:

1. I like to go to bed late, not before midnight, and wake up not before 9 a.m. neither after 11 a.m. because it shortens the day. This always made it impossible for me either to attend early events, like classes at 8 a.m. at University, or early walks on the fields (those I manage to go a few times because I really like it), and still causes me trouble getting on time at workplace...
2. I love to read and I love books, and no, it is not a pleonasm. If someone lends me a book I’ll manage that I turn it back exactly the same way it was delivered to me and I expect the same behavior from the ones I lend my books to. One of these days I lent a book to a friend and he told me he was afraid he’d ruin the book and suffer the terrible consequences :) furthermore it was a book I was offered by someone very special to me, but this goes with any book.
3. I’m crazy about music and lyrics. I listen to new music every day and almost all the daily things remember me of some lyric I can point out to exemplify it. This bores to death those that never pay attention to music lyrics and just consume "pump it up" music. Life is only worth it if lived singing and dancing... and yes, I also I’m crazy about dancing. I practice STEP and I used to do Hip-Hop too.
4. I hate smoke in the house and closed spaces. I’m absolutely intransigent about it. Nobody smokes in my house, except on the window with a small ashtray I provide, neither on my car. I just can’t take the smell. I’m so goddamn crazy about this that I never dated someone who smokes, and not only because of the smell, but that’s another story.
5. I adore going bed with a warm glass of milk and a book. The greatest tenderness someone can do to me is taking me my glass of milk when I’m already in bed, It really touches me.

I could continue, but I reached my five, so it is time for someone else to go for it!

Come on! Look at yourself; it is always a good exercise ;)

Don’t want no short brain people!

2006-03-13T21:36:00.000Z

For those who know me, I’ve never been a fat person, but I’m not thin or skinny at all, I’m what’s so called Average I guess. Of course my weight has not always been exactly the same over the years; I’ve had my Ups and Downs. Nevertheless, I never worried too much about it, since I always was in the allowed BMI (Body Mass Index) values, between 18,5 and 25 for women.

That changed when I got pregnant, I gained 21 Kg during my pregnancy! Yes, that’s a lot! It’s supposed to be about 12 Kg.
So when I had the baby (did I ever mention he's beautiful...?), my doctor kind of intimated me that I had to lose the extra weight or else he would call me fat girl instead of my real name, like hey fat girl! How are you today fat girl!? So I was sensitive to the arguments and started doing some dieting. As a result I was back to normal in about one year.

But this situation alerted me to the Fat People World drama; it is different worlds believe me. And do you know why? Because nowadays there’s that sort of binary pairing of fat, ugly on one side and beautiful, thin on the other. We kind of need Social Approval for our weight. The Fats will be ostracized like outsiders and victimized by social censure and fashion society.

If not yet convinced yet check this out:

1. Thin people can wear anything; super-thin models are the Super-Models of Stylists, right?

2. Thin people are not sensitive about their size. They are never called things such as obese or overweight. Does anybody ever walked to them and asked what size they wear? Or asked, "Hey, um, do you... eat?" You gotta lose some weight…! Are thin people’s figures exposed in a sarcastic or comical way?

3. Life is easier for thin people. They can find clothes in any fashion store without any problems and always fits.

So the next time you're tempted to give a fat person (or anyone else for that matter) some unsolicited advice about their appearance, remember the old adage, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

As far as I’m concerned, I think that there are much more important things to care about rather than fatness or appearance.

Do you know “Salt N Pepa” song lyrics “Don't want no short dick man”? Me I “don’t want no small brain people”!

“Iny weeny teeny weeny
Shriveled little short mind people
Don't want don't want don't want!
Get the fuck outta here!”

Bouche du Diable

2006-03-08T21:55:00.000Z

I always loved BD, but due to the fact that my father always wrongly associated this sort of book with laziness in reading, I had to do it hidden from him, what was pretty difficult at that time… But I had an allied ;)

Recently a friend lent me a great BD form a French author, Charyn-Boucq: “Bouche du diable “.

About a soviet spy with a harelip that is rescued in is homeland, Ukraine and helped by is rescuers, they even offer him a decent face, how kind those soviets weren’t they?

Of course there’s the girl stuff in the story and as always she betrays him, like in real life ;) Women are evil, beware!

The draws are fantastic, from the Ukrainian plains to the underground New York, with a lot of industrial and catacombs of Paris look like draws.

Funtastic :)

Thank ABBA For The Music...

2006-03-06T19:29:00.000Z

I’m nothing special, in fact I’m a bit of a bore
If I tell a joke, you’ve probably heard it before
But I have a talent, a wonderful thing
’cause everyone listens when I start to sing
I’m so grateful and proud
All I want is to sing it out loud

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing
Thanks for all the joy they’re bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk
She says I began to sing long before I could talk
And I’ve often wondered, how did it all start?
Who found out that nothing can capture a heart
Like a melody can?
Well, whoever it was, I’m a fan

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing
Thanks for all the joy they’re bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

I’ve been so lucky, I am the girl with golden hair
I wanna sing it out to everybody
What a joy, what a life, what a chance!

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing
Thanks for all the joy they’re bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

Play with Fire

2006-03-05T17:44:00.000Z

As a part of the Internal Emergency Plan (IEP) for the Airport area buildings (did I ever mentioned I work in the Airport Area?... well, if not before, now I did mentioned), as I was saying, as a part of the IEP, I was chosen to be in the IEP team for my building and therefore have specific training on Firefight, 12 hours (6 theory plus 6 practice). I must say that was an exciting experience and most of all, learning one, not only on the thought subjects but also on respecting Firefighters work.

One might think that “is only put some water on the fire” but it is not, it gets physical strength and most of all, self-control and respect for the fire and you team mates. During the training we “played with fire” and with fire one shall not play… but we did and it was fun thoughtful experience.

The theory class was very important because we learned a lot about fire and how it is classified:
1. Class A fires involve materials such as wood, paper, and cloth which produce glowing embers or char.
2. Class B fires involve flammable gases, liquids, and greases, including gasoline and most hydrocarbon liquids which must be vaporized for combustion to occur.
3. Class C fires involve fires in live electrical equipment or in materials near electrically powered equipment.
4. Class D fires involve combustible metals, such as magnesium, zirconium, potassium, and sodium.

Extinguishers will be selected according to the potential fire hazard, the construction and occupancy of facilities, hazard to be protected, and other factors pertinent to the situation.

But the most fun I must confess it was the practice day we had at the Firefighters in Trafaria.

We really did the exercises of extinguish and Rescue procedures, I will maybe make some photos available here in a few days for you to “get the picture”.

SeeMeRot – Buried six feet underground, but with a camera!

2006-03-02T19:05:00.001Z

Do you miss that special friend, relative, enemy, whatever, that passed over? Do not anymore! Now you can watch him/her organic decomposition “real-time” here!

Carnival

2006-02-27T22:46:00.000Z

I don’t know about the other countries, but in Portugal there is a sentence often used in Carnival that says something like: Since it is Carnival nothing can be taken serious, meaning you can trick the others in any possible manner. This would be armless if it wasn’t for the fact that some abuse on it! Like, can we take non-seriously that someone gives us an electric shock with a “pen” and then starts laughing and says “It is Carnival, ahah, it was funny wasn’t it?”

How little ones change our lives... into better

2006-02-20T20:59:00.000Z

As a mother of 2 years old amazing little adorable baby boy, is it evident that I’m a proud mama? Ok, so what I was about to say was that I pay special attention to the news that concern babies in any possible manner. Today I read something that I never gave a deep thought about but that already had crossed my mind: “why do we have more and more hyperactive child nowadays?” There’s no correct or unique answer to this fact but sure one of the causes and that makes a lot of sense is that “modern parents” tend to ignore child’s basic needs like sleeping hours, and straight rules, timetables... in regard to their own needs and interests. Like, it gives to much work/concerning to have strict timetables for meals, put the baby into asleep early and so on. Why not just let him see the movie we wanna see, despite being proper or not to his age, or just let him walk around until he goes completely tired and falls asleep in a sofa? Or just scream at him because he doesn’t behave like an adult!

Please, if you wanna “make babies” first “make time” to them and be sure you are ready to change your way of living into some “rule base mode” and to put someone’s interests ahead yours owns. Do not wait for the right moment, there’s no such a thing, I’m sorry...

And no, this doesn’t mean to disregard you, live and hobbies, interests and so on. Sometimes I’m asked if I still have time to myself, the answer is Yes, I do have, I still go to the cinema, have time to be with family and friends, have time to read, sports and everything that makes live worth for me. Life only changes, and to better, responsibility can be a joy. Take it!

Snow over Lisbon 52 years latter!

2006-01-30T11:28:00.000Z

It took more than half century to snow over Lisbon one more time... but it did yesterday! It was around 3 p.m. when the temperature reached its minimum turning inside out weather services previsions and a blanket of snow covered the city of Lisbon. This phenomenon wasn’t observed in Lisbon since 1954! Although it didn’t last more than one hour and wasn’t enough to cover in blank the capital roads it has surely made history.

One interesting Strange Phenomena(Introducing Kate Bush) too was… people started calling and messaging friends and family about causing that sms and phone calls rate also made history increasing more than 42% for a regular Sunday!

Last Email

2006-01-18T22:17:00.000Z

When you truly believe that you already saw every single stupid but profitable business branch you find this!
Nowadays besides being able to buy your own funeral, choose your coffin model… you can leave a message, an email message!
They claim on the service that you will be able to update from anywhere, I wonder what about if we want to update it after we’ve gone? Coming next! Don’t miss it!

Why...

2006-01-18T20:29:00.000Z

You might be wondering why yesterday I shot "Human Behavior" Björk's lyrics.
For the very simple reason that yesterday more than ever I realized that I'm unable to understand some people's behavior.

People that can’t decide themselves and keep contradicting in every single decision they make.
People that can’t take the heaviness of responsibility although they are quite old enough for it.
People whose life is empty but can’t get out of it because they fell comfortable on their hole.

People who will wake up maybe too late…

Human Behaviour... Björk

2006-01-17T21:03:00.000Z

If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready to get confused

There’s definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so irristible

There’s no map
To human behaviour

They’re terribly moody
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions is ever so satisfying

There’s no map
And a compass
Wouldn’t help at all

Human behaviour

Mikado

2006-01-17T14:53:00.000Z

Do you remember Mikado Game? I used to play it a lot when I was a child… sweet memories… This was a very simple game of physical skill (and mental as well) in which sticks have to be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining ones.
Nowadays kids surely can’t play this game anymore, why? Notice, what are we talking about nothing else but a box full of dangerous sharpened sticks! What can happen? Nonless that at the end some kid will end up blind or something like that!
Honestly I believe that kids from the 70-80 generation truly have good chances of living past 100 years old, why? Because we “played with danger”, our body and mind got used to the worst dangerous things like sharpened sticks! And offered by our parents themselves with no mercy!

Telemarketing Strategy

2006-01-15T00:30:00.000Z

Have you ever been caught by a telemarketer on the phone and ran crazy trying to get rid of him/her? Say no more to that! The solution is right here :)

There's been a grave misunderstanding...

2006-01-11T00:58:00.000Z

After Beetlejuice, the best I ever saw on Tim Burton peculiar humor on marriage between death and alive.
It will make you cry and smile and think about live itself or death instead. The skeleton dance is gorgeous and puts you to stage bringing live to underground world. The true love, true friendship… and like Elder Gutknecht says: “Why go up there when people are dying to get down here?”

Is it to Late for IPT?

2006-01-10T23:02:00.000Z

No it’s not, if your baby is still less than 30 months old you can still give it a try, with some modifications accordingly. Take a look at Infant Potty Training and learn how to.

Babies are smarter than we think!

2006-01-10T22:52:00.000Z

Today, when surfing the net I found out something already heard about but never took deeper look into: Infant Potty Training. For those that believe that nature does everything correctly, and if babies don’t carry any diapers when they’re born there must be some reason. According to Zelia (I’m sorry this one is in Portuguese… and many other parents following this method, Babies are smarter than we think! The big mistake that people make is to presume that a newborn baby is unaware of going to the toilet. We assume an infant is incapable of toilet learning since infants are small and uncoordinated and also because they cannot walk or talk. If you have a new born, give a try.

stork

2005-11-27T23:39:00.000Z

Stork

Nice picture ahem?!? :)

ok, It was "Just" from my son's baptism book :)
He's going two years next 4 December... time ran out so fast...

Ayn Rand

2005-10-04T15:25:00.000+01:00

Ayn Rand was a Novelist and Philosopher born Alissa Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently I'm reading Atlas Shrugged, a philosophical thriller, very interesting. It was offered to me by a close friend whose first thought was that I'm a collectivist, he sure doesn't know or knew how far from true he is about me and my philosophy... ah, well... it takes some time to really know a person, even if you keep your eyes wide open...

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Movie “Galaxy Quest”

2005-09-30T15:12:00.000+01:00

“Galaxy Quest”: Usually comedy it’s not ‘my genre’ of movie but I’ll make this one of my exceptions. This is the main plot idea of actors mistaken for heroes; of course it’s all true! As a friend of mine says: Who dares to doubt it? Ah… well… don’t miss it, especially if you area Star Treker and/or scientific fiction addicted. Also Sigourney Weaver staring, one of my favorite actresses.

Moving into Blogger community

2005-09-29T11:05:00.000+01:00

As my first post on this blog and as a new member in Blogger community, I would like to first of all say Hello!
This will not be a personal blog, that one will remain where it’s always been… after a clarifying conversation with a friend I decided to keep it “really private”.
But, as a new cycle of my life is entering… I decided to maintain this one and express my thoughts here…Hope you enjoy sharing them with me.