Hoje apetece-me...

Paz, calma, solidão.
Quem sabe um livro...
quem sabe um filme...
Quem sabe uma canção....
Mas hoje só eu:
eu e o meu mundo;
eu e mais ninguém;
eu e o meu eu.

Feist

Tomorrow....

home sweet home....

Global warming?

(Leiria, today)

Or just chance?

(Coimbra, today)

EuGENIO de Andrade

É urgente o amor.
É urgente um barco no mar.

É urgente destruir certas palavras,
ódio, solidão e crueldade,
alguns lamentos,
muitas espadas.

É urgente inventar alegria,
multiplicar os beijos, as searas,
é urgente descobrir rosas e rios
e manhãs claras.

Cai o silêncio nos ombros e a luz
impura, até doer.
É urgente o amor, é urgente
permanecer.

Genial....

Now finally...

...I see some shy sunlight outside. :) much better.

Rain, rain and more rain

Some sunlight would be nice for a change....

Ads 2 - probably the best I've ever seen

Ads 1

Lost in translation

Having a new version of the DVD with portuguese sub-titles was a good excuse to watch it once more and try to better understand some of the dialogues in which I hadn't understood the english. But it isn't as simple as that - the truth is: no matter how many times I see this movie, I think I'll never get enough of it. I can't explain why, but I love it! Every detail of it, every dialogue, every scene, every look between Bob and Charlotte. how can such a simple movie make you think and feel so much?

A few reviews I saw that translate my feelings about this movie:

"The final scene between Charlotte and Bob was perfect. The jealousy Charlotte felt was perfect. If they had had more, it would have been less of a movie. We all expect the protagonists to come together at the end. But they can't and they won't and that's what makes the relationship so real and wonderful. Throughout this movie, you can't help but think that these two have more in common with each other than anyone else - that's why their spouses have to be such marginal figures in the film. They are soulmates, however little they know each other.... "

"People like Bob and Charlotte really exist, and they really do meet up in very similar situations. After a week, they must go their separate ways...."

"'Lost in Translation' requires audiences to be able to pick up feelings and information on frequencies that many moviegoers don't receive on....."

"One of the greatest romantic movies of all time."!

Good news for environment

European Union has established a goal to reduce Europe's energy consumption by 20% before 2020.
More specifically, the energy saving potential by 2020 was defined as:
Households - 27%
Businesses - 30%
Transport - 26%
Manufacturing - 25%
(Source: European Commission)

It is very nice to see that Europe is determined to stop climate change. It is a pity that in other very polluting countries, like USA or China, the same is not happening.

Estrela da tarde

One of the most beautiful poems I've ever read for a not less beautiful song. Written by José Carlos Ary dos Santos and performed by Carlos do Carmo, it is certainly one of my favourites portuguese songs.

Era a tarde mais longa de todas as tardes que me acontecia
Eu esperava por ti, tu não vinhas, tardavas e eu entardecia
Era tarde, tão tarde, que a boca, tardando-lhe o beijo, mordia
Quando à boca da noite surgiste na tarde tal rosa tardia

Quando nós nos olhámos tardámos no beijo que a boca pedia
E na tarde ficámos unidos ardendo na luz que morria
Em nós dois nessa tarde em que tanto tardaste o sol amanhecia
Era tarde de mais para haver outra noite, para haver outro dia

Meu amor, meu amor
Minha estrela da tarde
Que o luar te amanheça e o meu corpo te guarde
Meu amor, meu amor
Eu não tenho a certeza
Se tu és a alegria ou se és a tristeza
Meu amor, meu amor
Eu não tenho a certeza

Foi a noite mais bela de todas as noites que me adormeceram
Dos nocturnos silêncios que à noite de aromas e beijos se encheram
Foi a noite em que os nossos dois corpos cansados não adormeceram
E da estrada mais linda da noite uma festa de fogo fizeram

Foram noites e noites que numa só noite nos aconteceram
Era o dia da noite de todas as noites que nos precederam
Era a noite mais clara daqueles que à noite amando se deram
E entre os braços da noite de tanto se amarem, vivendo morreram

Eu não sei, meu amor, se o que digo é ternura, se é riso, se é pranto
É por ti que adormeço e acordo e acordado recordo no canto
Essa tarde em que tarde surgiste dum triste e profundo recanto
Essa noite em que cedo nasceste despida de mágoa e de espanto

Meu amor, nunca é tarde nem cedo para quem se quer tanto!

And if you still didn't get the message, then I guess YOU NEED TO WAKE UP

An Inconvenient truth

Because 'this is our only home', we should all watch this movie, no matter how inconvenient this truth is.

Fashion?

is this suppose to be art? this "fashion-style" was presented in a fashion show for people living with HIV/AIDS. take a look at the blood inside the needles....
maybe I'm easily impressed, but this picture is probably too much...

And isn't it ironic....

...an airplane driven by an american baseball player crashes into a building in Manhattan at the 11th of October. like the song by Alanis Morrisette, isn't it ironic?

A pedido de muitas familias

Que bem que se canta o FADO

MARIZA: BARCO NEGRO

Green my Apple

For those of you who, like me, use a Mac computer.

We can change the world!

Correction and update to previous post

For the sake of scientific accuracy:

a) LL did not forget to pay the internet (ADT apologises for mistake); some other strange "internet phenomenon" happen.
b) LL helped ADT to solve the problem, even during sleep time in LL holidays country;
c) ADT managed to solve the problem with the help of LL and aDdicTed B (DTB).
d) ADT and DTB are happy now using the internet until they get sick of it. However, ADT and DTB will not get sick of it, since they are ADDICTED.

End of story.

One day...

...LandLord (LL) forgets to pay the internet and it seems that the world is falling apart.

ADdicTed (ADT) "steals" a small wireless signal from the neighbor...but still not enough to feed ADT's needs.

could this be a science fiction movie in the 60's? no, it's the sad truth in the 20th century.

is the internet commanding ADT's brain already? ADT does not worry about the addiction: worries about LL being away for 4 weeks.

will ADT survive?

Addicted....

...to this song:

Sway (Bic Runga)

Don't stray
Don't ever go away
I should be much to smart for this
You know it gets the better
Of me sometimes
When you and I collide
I fall into an ocean of you
Pull me out in time
Don't let me drown
Let me down
I say its all because of you and here I go
Losing my control
I'm practising your name
So I can say it to your face it doesn't seem right
To look you in the eye
And let all the things you mean to me
Come tumbling out my mouth indeed its time
Tell you why
I say its infinately true
Say you'll stay
Don't come and go
Like you do
Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you
And there's no cure
And no way to be sure
Why everythings turned inside out
Instilling so much doubt
It makes me so tired
I feel so uninspired
My head is battling with my heart
My logic has been torn apart
And now
It all turns sour
Come sweeten
Every afternoon
Say you'll stay
Don't come and go
Like you do
Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you
Say you'll stay
Don't come and go
Like you do
Sway my way
Yeah I need to know
All about you
Its all because of you

Weddings day

It is so nice to see your friends getting married. in this particular case, things get even more interesting: two old high-school friends got married - we went to high-school classes together; we went through adolescence together; we discussed first passions together; we went through "university entrance nightmare" together - we spent one of the nicest periods of our lifes together.

today, ten years later, we are still friends and those two are still in love. they're the only couple that lasted from those days... it was nice to see them getting married on saturday. it was nice to see them answer with such a conviction when the priest asked them to confirm that they would love each other and be faithful, through sickness and health, in happiness and sadness, til death do them apart. It was probably one of the happiest weddings I've been too!
They were the happiest couple! ...and I spent an excellent evening remembering good old high-school times. :)

Pensamentos

“O pensamento é um rio que corre sem parar.” Foi uma das coisas que sempre me fascinou, desde pequena. Lembro-me do dia em que alguém me disse esta frase – acho que a minha mãe – e em que comecei a debruçar sobre o assunto.

Na altura, o meu “debruçar sobre o assunto” era tentar parar de pensar: de vez em quando lembrava-me e lá começava eu a tentar, com todas as minhas forças, parar de pensar. Mas por muito que tivesse tentado, nunca conseguiria…ou melhor, nunca conseguirei atingir esse objectivo.

Hoje, já crescidinha, e consciente de que esse objectivo é impossível de atingir, o assunto é bem diferente. Hoje dei por mim a pensar se haveria alguma maneira de direccionar os meus pensamentos da forma que mais me convém. Gostaria tanto de um dia perceber o que guia os nossos pensamentos. Isto porque às vezes dou por mim perdida a deambular entre pensamentos: o meu cérebro não pára de me bombardear com ideias, perguntas, dúvidas, sentimentos, objectivos, resoluções, coisas que por vezes se contradizem e que me deixam completamente incapaz de lidar com todas elas. Que forças estranhas guiam o nosso pensamento? Sinto-me por vezes um mero objecto nas mãos do meu cérebro em constante movimento.

E se um dia pudéssemos seguir um guia para os nossos pensamentos? Passaríamos a ser mais donos de nós próprios? Mas, por outro lado...teria a vida a mesma cor?

Embarassing...

www.myfootprint.org

this is my very embarassing result:

CATEGORIA HECTARES GLOBAIS ALIMENTAÇÃO 1.6 MOBILIDADE E TRANSPORTES 1.9 HABITAÇÃO 0.7 BENS DE CONSUMO E SERVIÇOS 2.1 VALOR TOTAL DA PEGADA 6.3
	COMO TERMO DE COMPARAÇÃO, A PEGADA ECOLÓGICA MÉDIA NO SEU PAÍS É 6.7 HECTARES GLOBAIS POR PESSOA. MUNDIALMENTE, EXISTEM 1.8 HECTARES GLOBAIS DE ÁREA BIOLOGICAMENTE PRODUTIVA POR PESSOA.
	SE TODOS TIVÉSSEMOS UMA PEGADA ECOLÓGICA SEMELHANTE À SUA, IRÍAMOS PRECISAR DE 3.5 PLANETAS TERRA.