Archive for July, 2009

So… Am I the only one who thinks Emma Watson is kinda hot!?!?!?!

Sure, by all means she is NOT top model material (even though she seems to be on the cover of every other magazine these days) but you gotta admit she has gone a long way since Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001 and it was just a matter of time for things like that to start emerging all over the internet. Nice boobies by the way…

Nope… I am not following a trend… I have said time and time again that she has that “girl next door (ish) characteristic about herself that makes her quite what’s the word??? Attractive?!?!?

The fact is that we all have that little Voyeur thing deep inside, and if you tell me you don’t than I am sorry to have to tell you you are a VERY WEIRD person.

Mate… That is part of being a member of the human race… And if you are about to condemn me for that (I’ve been told to “gt a hold on myself” when I commented on my Vlog that she is HAWT…) … well… so be it because we are all doomed then.

Now… what prompted that post again?!?!?

Ah… yeah.. Now I remember… I’ve just seen Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince… Dude… Good job I like the series anyways because compared to the book the film is RUBBISH!!

OK… Not THAT bad… but it kinda makes you feel like they left out SO MANY things out… like for example Harry being paralyzed as Snape kills Dumbledore. And there is no fight AT ALL between the DA and the Death Eaters when they infiltrate Hogwarts…

RUBBISH!!!

Watchable rubbish… but hey…If you haven’t read the books you might even like it… I which case I am REALLY sorry for the spoilers…

Zya!

So… It kinda goes like that:

Global Pandemic hits the planet.

Cientists try to find a cure.

Cientists find a cure.

The cure makes the virus mutate.

Mutaded virus makes hosts become zombies.

Right now we are on phase 2. Yup… the global pandemic has hit the planet. If you use the 6-apart theory all and every one of us knows someone or knows someone that knows someone that has the Swine Flu.

Does that sound familiar????

I am Legend all over again. Will life imitate art??? Will we start seeing zombies walking around the streets?? Or Vampires if you wanna take a look at the originals…

Don’t mind me… I think I have exagerated on the cachaca… I might be mumbling nonsens here… Intelligent nonses but nonsens nonetheless…

Note to self… drinking and blogging don’t go well together…

BUT!!!!

It is an interesting proposition tho!! What if the Swine Flu IS the begining of a mutant/zombies/vampires new era sort of thing?!?!?!

What would YOU do????

I think I better head to bed…

zya!

Kids today should really be happy with how fortunate they are with their super fast broadband and mobile internet.

When I first started with my addiction to all things internet all I had was the good and old dial-up. OK, if you can consider good the awesome speed of 28kbps!! Hell my mobile does infinitely faster than that today! But hey…

Yes, I am that old! I am from the time where you would be considered cool for having a lycos, geocieties or angelfire HTML website. From the time that if you knew a few HTML codes you would be king of the chatroom and from the time when hacking other people’s computers “for fun” was not a crime. Me and my friends had a particular game almost every night (yup… we used to connect to the internet during the night and some times all night long because you would spend less pulses if you logged in after midnight) That game consisted in taking over each other’s computers and the last one still able to connect to the internet by the end of the night would win… And half the time we would do it via a DOS prompt (have you ever heard of Microsoft DOS??? LOL)

God I was such a nerd!

It is kinda funny to see how far we have come since then! Today my 5 year old son knows his way around the web… I first touched a computer that I could call my own when I was 14! I had somehow convinced my dad to get me one for my b’day. He was writing a book then… and my argument was that the computer would be so much more practical to do that horrible task that he used to do on his electric IBM type-writer. And I also convinced him somehow that the internet is the future of publishing (God I was so ahead of my time then… LOL)

Of course the fact that the first site the guy at the computer fair ever showed me was playboy.com had NOTHING to do with me being so eager to convince my dad… hehehehe… Don’t judge me!!! I was 14 years old!! Naked girls is the only thing in the minds of any dude that age!

I think that is why this video made me giggle so much… because I am old enough to get the joke… hehehe…

One thing is for sure… 24 WOULD NOT be a good series during the 90′s… that or would be a VERY slow paced one… like 24 days… LOL!

Hey… I had a pager like that one it was Awesome!!!

How about you? How long ago did you first plug yourself to the World Wide Web? Why? How old were you? What’s different today???

Zya!

I’ve once heard someone say that life is what we make out of it.

If that is the absolute truth then I must be the biggest self saboteur in the world!

And yet, somehow, I get by…

The truth is that I seem to be always in waters that are deeper than my footing… I can hardly remember a day in my life where I’ve been in a situation where I have been 100% comfortable with a situation or another. And as I grew and became an adult things seem to have intensified.

For a start, I never had a 9-to-5 sort of job. I don’t really think I could have survived the boredom of one. My family has 200000000 political connections in Brazil and my grandmother and grandfather (RIP) used to beg me (and all the new generation of the family) to get into the public sector, an idea that I would probably like if it didn’t involve spending a few years working for some senator or deputado (same as an MP) to “acquire experience”… The fact is that a desk job would probably kill me.

But what does one do when a stressful one would probably have the same effect?!?!

I am here sitting at the Starbucks in Wimbledon and looking to all these people walking and going to their offices and living their routine-bound lives… routines that some time bring so much excitement at something that from someone outside their circle might look like a small achievement or a huge one for others… and I can’t stop to think “how do they do it??” and a bit inside of me can’t stop to wonder in amazement and to wish I too could have a life like that.

I have dreams… loads of them… but I also have a family to provide for and that fact alone makes me realize that I can’t achieve most of them. I am eternally grateful for my wife. She even started working  and became the pillar of the family providing for the basic needs of the family so I can get out there and pursue these dreams. It would have worked too… I had a contract with an agency to be a glamour photographer and a career that seemed to be lifting off… And  I dropped it to become a minister of religion… a religion that I am not completely sure I completely subscribe to anymore.

Does that prove my self sabotage theory???

And of course re-lifting myself as a photographer is proving harder than last time… all a question of opportunities and well… luck I guess. The perfect circumstances that had presented themselves favourable to me at that time are not so favourable this time around and the contacts I had then seem to have all but disappeared from the face of the earth!

Yeah… and there is the family business factor too… One that I can’t JUST walk away from. That would be admitting defeat   and that is just something I don’t know if I can do again if I am to EVER have some cred with myself again.

I am SO complicated…

Life is what we make out of it alright… It is all about the decisions we make and the ways we take.

I am nearly 30 years old and having to start all over again…

That’s NOT what I had imagined my life would be when I was younger…

But a men has got to do what a men has got to do!!!

How about you?? Have you ever considered what would have happened if you had taken a different approach to one of these infamous opportunities that present themselves to us? What would YOU have done differently???#

Zya!