Urban Dictionary

update: Urban Dictionary

Tells you all you need to know to understand the current "lingo" of the streets (and tv shows) of America.

Pretty Awesome, dude! ;)

The Possy Is Complete! :-D

Now the gang has all been summoned to this forum! :-D
The "Amici" are all online! :-D

Welcome Nurka! ;)) (nice screenname, btw ;)))

Balkan drinkers

Hello to everyone! I'm finally online and will start contributing! :-) Miss ya all!! And here goes my first post: How we drink on the Balkans..... :-)



If I stay on the same job, I'll definately hae to get one like this!

Check your eyesight for free ;-)

Find the C, it's a good exercise for the eyes.


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO





Now that you have found the C, find the 6.


9999999999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999
9999699999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999




Now the 6 is found, find the N. This is a hard one.



MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM


This is no joke, if you passed the test, you may cancel the visit to the optometrist ;)

















See the results below:






















OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

9999999999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999
9999699999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
9999999999999999999999999999999999 999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999



MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMM

By magic

Find the diferences between Harry Potter and Ana Jorge (the new Minister of Health). Maybe now we will have some magical touch...

Portuguese Jungle

We already have the tropical climate... too hot and rainy.. and now we are starting to have wild animals walking around... What comes next?


Police sealed off an area north of Lisbon today after two tigers escaped from a circus lorry.

Circus owner Miguel Chen blamed the incident on sabotage, saying that somebody had deliberately opened their trailer.

The lorry towing their trailer broke down late on Tuesday and was towed away for repairs.

The trailer was parked at the side of the road and guarded by a circus employee, but while he went off to fetch water for the animals the cage was opened.
There were 6 tigers in the cage.

Two animals escaped at around 6.30 am but circus handlers quickly managed to capture one of them.

The other, a tigress, that has been slightly injured, jumping a fence, was been cornered in an enclosure.

She was caught with the help of two tranquillizer shots, borrowed to the Lisbon zoo.

Into The Night

Like a gift from the heavens,
it was easy to tell,
It was love from above,
that could save me from hell,
She had fire in her soul it was easy to see,
how the devil himself could be pulled out of me,
There were drums in the air as she started to dance,
Every soul in the room keeping time with there hands,
And we sang…

(Chorus)
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And the voices rang like the angels sing,
And singing…
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And we danced on into the night,
Ay oh ay oh,Ay oh ay oh,
And we danced on into the night,

Like a piece to the puzzle that falls into place,
You could tell how we felt from the look on our faces,
we was spinning in circles with the moon in our eyes,
No room left to move in between you and I,
We forgot where we were and we lost track of time,
And we sang to the wind as we danced through the night,
And we sang…

(Chorus)
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And the voices rang like the angels sing,
And singing…Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And we danced on into the night,
Ay oh ay oh,Ay oh ay oh,
And we danced on into the night,
Ay oh ay oh,Ay oh ay oh,
And we danced on into the night,

Like a gift from the heavens,
it was easy to tell,
It was love from above, that could save me from hell,
She had fire in her soul it was easy to see,
how the devil himself could be pulled out of me,
There were drums in the air as she started to dance,
Every soul in the room keeping time with there hands,
And we sang…

(Chorus)
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And the voices rang like the angels sing,
And singing…
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
And we danced on into the night,
Ay oh ay oh,Ay oh ay oh,
And we danced on into the night,
(And the voices rang like the angels sing),
Ay oh ay oh,Ay oh ay oh,
And we danced on into the night,
Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
(Ay oh ay oh),Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
(Ay oh ay oh),
Singing ay oh ay oh ay oh ay,
(Ay oh ay oh),
And we danced on into the night…

Great advice

Michael gives great advice about clothes: Ignore the tag, try it on. Buying the size 8 because you always have is not cute if you end up looking like a sausage, with clothes that pull tight across "problem" areas, so tacky. Nothing makes a woman look fatter than clothes that are too tight just as nothing makes a woman look more old and desperate than clothes that are too young.
We should would rather have just a couple of outfits that fit well than a whole closet of clothes that make us look like 'dodos'.

Micheal Kors - Don't label yourself

Project runway

I'm a Project Runway fan, and today i was searching about it in the internet... and i found out who is the winner of season 2... and i don't agree... :(

Today Hollywood visited us

Now I'm curious... I bet it was George Cloney, or maybe Sean Conery or Hugh Laurie ;)

The longest...

The world's longest documented hair belongs to Xie Qiuping (China) at 5.627 m when measured on May 8, 2004. She has been growing her hair since 1973 from the age of 13.

(I'm not able to grow mine to reach my waist...)

Where is he from?

Born
c. 1451

Died
May 20, 1506 outside Valladolid, Spain

Occupation
Maritime explorer for the Crown of Castile

Religious stance
Christianity

Christopher Columbus was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer and one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas after the Vikings.

Though not the first to reach the Americas from Europe, Columbus' voyages led to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World.

Columbus' voyages across the Atlantic Ocean began a European effort at exploration and colonization of the Western Hemisphere.

While history places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, he did not actually reach the American mainland until his third voyage in 1498.

Instead, he made landfall on an island in the Bahamas Archipelago that he named San Salvador while trying to find a sea route to India, hence the indigenous inhabitants being called "Indians".

The exact place and date of birth of Christopher Colombus have been the source of some speculation although most historians believe that he was Genoese. There are several competing theories regarding his national origin. Genoese theory, Portuguese theory, Catalan theory, and Other theories (from Basque, Corsica, Greece, Norway or Denmark)

Find the diferences

The new Turkish Lira (since 1st jan 05) is identical to the 2 euros coin.

1 NEW TURKISH LIRA = 0,57 EUROS (today exchange rate)

Be carefull you can be deceived

The secret

Money
Money is magnetic energy. You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings.

Relationships
You can completely transform any relationship, no matter what it's like right now.
Every single relationship you have is a reflection of how you feel inside about you. You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings. Every relationship you have and every interaction with every person, is a reflection of your own thoughts and feelings in that very moment.

Health
You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings.


(it seams to easy to be true)

My first and last post about smoking

In life you have to be smart, live by the rules but enjoy life. I'm really happy with the new law. I'm really happy to go to a restaurant and be able to see the walls and not only a cloud of smoke.
But if i was a smoker i would find alternatives like these SNUS

Swedish Snus is a moist to semi-moist, ground, oral tobacco product which is used behind the upper lip. It is a ground tobacco product dating from the late 1700s

Christopher Colombus' second journey to America brought the tobacco to Europe where it finally reached Sweden in 1638. The combination of large snuff consumption and strict state regulations have developed a unique Swedish snuff with a high quality found nowhere else in the world. (This man gets involved in lots of issues. Who says life in the old days was boring ;))

Livraria Lello

Livraria LelloOver 100 years old, the Livraria Lello & Irmão was recently selected by The Guardian as one of the 10 most beautiful bookshops in the word.Guardian’s journalist Sean Dodson refers to the centennial bookshop as divine and honours it with a third place on his shortlist, being the first one deliberately built from scratch for that purpose.

Designed by Portuguese engineer Xavier Esteves, it was inaugurated in 1906 and is regarded as one of the finest examples of late Neo-Gothic architecture in the city of Porto. Its rich interior decoration is also deeply influenced by Art-Nouveau, with intricate organic forms and a startling central staircase of circular design. Restored in 1995, the bookshop remains as one of the city’s most vibrant cultural centres.

It is amazing and it looks just like it is out form an Harry Potter movie, like Hogwarts.

Eu tiro o meu chapeu aos programadores do site do IKEA

(only in portuguese :( )

Tiro o meu chapéu pq são brutais, genais, alias com um pouco de Gato Fedorento a mistura ;)

"A Ikea criou uma assistente virtual feminina para ajudar os seus clientes na navegação da página. Ao entrares em http://www.ikea.com/pt/pt podes ver que no canto superior direito tens uma opção "Perguntar à Ana". Se lá clikares vais abrir uma janela e aparece a Ana. Podes perguntar o que quiseres, pergunta por Sofás, flores e ela responde...

"Agora vem a parte melhor:
Experimenta estas perguntas e vê que que ela responde:
1 - Gosto de ti!
2 - Mostra-me os peitos!
3 - Que olhos tão giros!
4 - Feia!
5 - Amo-te!
6 - Queres fazer sexo?
7 - Vamos pinar? (a melhor!)
8 - Gostas de mim?
9 - Tens namorado?
10 - Onde vives?
11 - Posso convidar-te para jantar?
..."

I'm starting to arrange things to go to:

I'm the happy owner of tickets for

Espresso anywhere...

The best non-electronic gadget in years!


Here


And don't miss this ad ;-)

Dakar Champion 2008

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15. It is one of four United States federal holidays to commemorate an individual person.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

"Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

1500!

We've reached the 1500 Visits!

Thanks for watching ;-)

The true 2-in-1 Mobile!

UPDATE: I've been contacted on my other blog by the company that represents the mobile in Portugal! :)

The TMP-1012S is the new mobile from the Spanish company Tynman
Technologies: http://www.tynmantech.com/es/#productos/16/37

According to the Portuguese Agencia Lusa, the mobile carries 2 SIM
cards even from outside Spain, costs a mere 349€ and solves the problem
of having to carry around the "work phone" and the "personal phone".
It's on sale since December in Spain.

Tactile screen, MP3 and MP4 player, 1.3 Mpixel camera,all the trinckets
of a regular mobile and it's small!

I want one of those ;-)

Disguise!

Although there are several different ‘types’ of architect who will wear a gamut of styles, many of them do find themselves at some time or other in their career dressed in black! This outfit comprises a black polo neck with a black designer suit with ‘nehru’ style collar formed from exquisite materials. The glasses are included as a reference to Le Corbusier who remains a design icon for many.

Source: The Toy Factory

If you don't have 35 euros you can try the cheaper version...

Usually I wear the more expensive version ( the cost of a 6 years degree and a 3 years masters)

Always the biggest one!!

Amorim with Auchan will invest 200 million euros in a Mega Shopping Center in Amadora. The new shopping Center is Dolce Vita Tejo it will have 122 000 m2 shoping area and 423 000m2 of construction area, with a Leroy Merlin - 12.000 m2, a Auchan supermarket - 23.000 m2 and 9000 parking spaces. It will open in the end of 2008 and it's going to be the biggest Shopping Center in the Iberian Peninsula.

The other novelty is that it will have the first KIDZANIA of europe.

Kidzania is the brainchild of Mexican entrepreneur Xavier Lopez Ancona, CEO of La Ciudad de los Ninos. The first Kidzania opened in 1999 in the Santa Fe Shopping Mall in Mexico City.

KIDZANIA as gained the Prize for better thematic park of the world. With 6500 m2, is an entertainment and education center for kids - the first to offer kid activities based upon the oldest game of all: the role play. This center combines real environments with activities that allow kids to play to be grown ups. In a city scaled down to kid size where the most common establishments you would find in a city are recreated.

In this establishments kids paly to be adults, they perform more than 75 different real life jobs and roles, the city as its own economy and currency: the KidZo. Once they are in, kids have five hours to try as many occupations as they like. Security is of paramount importance at Kidzania. All children wear a gps bracelet. Parents are not allowed to enter the city or accompany their offspring, but they can take pictures from outside the huge glass house.

Top 10 Things

I Hope To Not See in 2008

And what is it about?

LECHANELAS

This crazy spanish people ;)

Le chanelas!!! How dare you?????

(click to enlarge)

I would like to thank all the potatos that made this year possible

2008 International year of the potato

15th January - Dr. Martin Luther King Day

"Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was one of
the main leaders of the American civil rights movement. A Baptist
minister by training, King became a civil rights activist early in his
career, leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to found the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His efforts led to the 1963
March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech,
raising public consciousness of the civil rights movement and
establishing King as one of the greatest orators in American history. In
1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through
civil disobedience and other non-violent means.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was
posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President
Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a
national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was
posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal."(thanks to Wikipedia)

"I Have a Dream": http://youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

Now with subtitles

"Doing a quick run through some of my Lisboa pix, I came up with the following color palette for that city. Included are terracotta rooftops, shades of stone from important monuments, the Tejo River, lots of blues from tilework panels & the retro brownish-red of my favorite cherry liqueur, ginjinha.Given that earth tones in general are some of my favorite colors, no wonder I like Lisboa so much. I wonder how the Buenos Aires palette compares…" Wrighton, 2008

Revealing Urban Colors

Revealing Urban Colors is a small essay by Todd Falkowsky that explores the idea that cities have color schemes. Writer/photographer Robert Wright took the idea a little further and conceived his own color palette for the city of Lisboa.

Undecover Posting

There is no Sun out today, I feel like my energy source has left. The
heat inside the office contrasts with the cold outside and highlights
the fact that I can never dress the right way - either for too hot or
too cold.

The "festivities binging" has finally settled in about 2kgs more and I
feel stuffed like the turkey we had for Christmas.

All this is numbing my brain.

But as we know the Lenny Kravitz song is just a wish, I found a way set
an escape for my brain: Undercover posting ;-)

It seems i'm writing an email, but I'm posting by email, eheheh
Ain't this cool? ;-)

THE SOUP

Food historians tell us the history of soup is probably as old as the history of cooking. The act of combining various ingredients in a large pot to create a nutritious, filling, easily digested, simple to make/serve food was inevitable. This made it the perfect choice for both sedentary and travelling cultures, rich and poor, healthy people and invalids. Soup (and stews, pottages, porridges, gruels, etc.) evolved according to local ingredients and tastes. New England chowder, Spanish gazpacho, Russian borscht, Italian minestrone, French onion, Chinese won ton and Campbell's tomato...are all variations on the same theme.
Soups were easily digested and were prescribed for invalids since ancient times. The modern restaurant industry is said to be based on soup. Restoratifs (wheron the word "restaurant" comes) were the first items served in public restaurants in 18th century Paris. Broth [Pot-au-feu], bouillion, and consomme entered here. Classic French cuisine generated many of the soups we know today.
Advancements in science enabled soups to take many forms...portable, canned, dehydrated, microwave-ready. "Pocket soup" was carried by colonial travellers, as it could easily be reconstituted with a little hot water. Canned and dehydrated soups were available in the 19th century. These supplied the military, covered wagon trains, cowboy chuck wagons, and the home pantry. Advances in science also permitted the adjustment of nutrients to fit specific dietary needs (low salt, high fiber, etc.).


"The etymological idea underlying the word soup is that of soaking. It goes back to an unrecorded post-classical Latin verb suppare soak', which was borrowed from the same prehistoric German root (sup-) as produced in English sup and supper. From it was derived the noun suppa, which passed into Old French as soupe. This meant both piece of bread soaked in liquid' and, by extension, broth poured onto bread.' It was the latter strand of the meaning that entered English in the seventeenth century. Until the arrival of the term soup, such food had been termed broth or pottage. It was customarily served with the meat or vegetable dishes with which it had been made, and (as the dreivation of soup suggest) was poured over sops of bread or toast (the ancestors of modern croutons). But coincident with the introduction of the world soup, it began to be fashionable to serve the liquid broth on its own, and in the early eighteenth century it was assuming its present-day role as a first course."
An A-Z of Food and Drink, John Ayto [Oxford University Press:Oxford] 2002 (p. 316)

THE WORLD OF BEZELS

A watch bezel is the ring that surrounds the face of the watch and holds the crystal in place.
The bezel can be used for decorative or functional purposes.
When it comes to ladies watches, it is fairly common to see diamonds, rubies, sapphires, or emeralds on the bezels of these watches.
There are even a lot of watch manufacturers that produce mens watches with bezels that have diamonds on them.
Most of the time bezels are more functional then fashion.

Time Measurement
Watches have a either a uni-direction or bi-directional rotation bezel. The bezel itself is numbered 0-60 minutes with an arrow marker at 0, some count down and some count up. If it is a count down bezel and you are going scuba diving and you have a total of 25 minutes of air in your tank, it’s pretty important that you know when you should start swimming to the surface. Lets say that it is 10:15am. To measure time with your bezel, simply turn the bezel so the 25 minute marker lines up with the minute hand on the watch dial. When the minute hand reaches zero on the bezel, your time is up. Or you may turn the bezel so that the zero marker is pointing to 10:40 (25 minutes later). Either way this is the same setting. If it is a count up bezel, rotate the bezel so the zero marker lines up with the minute hand and count off the minutes as time passes. When the minute hand reached 25 minutes on the bezel, your time is up.

Speed Measurement
On other watches onal you can use the bezel to help you compute speed based on travel time. To do so, start the chronograph function of the watch at a mile indicator. At the next mile indicator, the point on the scale that is adjacent to the second hand is your MPH speed. It is not limited to just MPH. If the distance traveled is 1 Kilometer, then it determines Kilometers per hour. The tachymeter simply projects units traveled per hour. May it be miles, kilometers, or even football fields. I hope this quick explanation has given you a better understanding of functional bezels. Once you get used to using these functions, they become second nature, so if you have a functional bezel, go play with it. I am sure once you get used to using it, you will use much more often.

After all this years

After all this years wearing a watch today

i found out what is the watch Bezel for...

only in portuguese again

Queria agradecer a todos que me enviaram os mesmos e-mails rotos de correntes de amizade e tal, vezes sem conta, durante o todo o ano pois, graças a eles: (I would like to say thanks to everyone that send me emails last year. Thanks to you: )


1- Li 170 vezes que a minha conta MSN iria fechar; (I've read 1000 times that my MSN acount was going to close)

2 - Acumulei cerca de 3000 anos de azar e morri 67 vezes por não ter reenviado certos mails; (I have 3000 years of bad luck and i died 67 times because i didn't foward some emails)

3- Agora, quando saio à rua, tenho medo de ser raptado por alguém; ( now when i go out i'm scared of being kidnaped)

4- Enviei dinheiro para uma menina doente umas 7.000 vezes (é engraçado: o tempo passa, mas a míuda continua sempre com a mesma idade); ( i sent money for a sick little girl 7000 times but she is still the same age)

5- O suposto Nokia que ia ganhar, afinal nunca chegou; (the Nokia phone i should have win never arrived)

6- Assinei várias petições e, nem sei ao certo quantos tipos de animais selvagens, em vias de extinção, salvei! ( i sign several petitions and i saved several almost extinguished animals)

7- Já sei, vezes sem conta, o que hei-de fazer para ser feliz; ( i already know what i need to be happy)

8- Já conheço todas as histórias de coragem e abnegação do planeta; ( i've read all heroic and brave personal storys of the planet)

9- Li pelo menos 25 vezes as citações do DALAI LAMA. Em conclusão acumulei 4690 anos de felicidade; ( i've read 25 times Dalai Lama quotations and now i have 4690 years of hapiness)

10- Não esqueçamos o vírus que nem a Microsoft, Macaffee, Norton Symantec eram incapazes de detectar. Ainda hoje estou à espera desse famoso mail contaminado! (don't forget about the indetectable virus that none antivurus will detect, i'm still waiting for it)


IMPORTANTE: se não enviar este texto por e-mail a, pelo menos, 8500 pessoas e em menos de 10 segundos, um dinossauro, vindo do espaço, irá comê-lo amanhã, às 17h38! (IMPORTANT! if you don't foward, by email, this message at least to 8500 people, in less than 10 seconds, a Dinosaur, from space, will eat you tomorrow, at 17h38!)

I want to fly away

Boat

Yesterday I ate a boat!

And it was a tastefull one ;)

It's a Sin

No, not the Pet Shop Boys song;
This:



Chocolate AND Champagne...
Only the strawberries are missing ;-)

The Doubt...

What will Michael Bublé sing once he runs out of covers?

Fight AIDS

The percentage of people infected by AIDS is increasing dramatically in "developed countries". It seems the information is never enough. Don't ignore it.
Here's something to help you remember. Spread the Word!

http://www.lepoison.com/sidaction/

I made this tshirt on my BIMBY

This year race

Europe

Who remembers this?

You probably don't remember the song "You are my High" by Demon, but I bet you remember the video...

Happy 199th Birthday

One day a small, four-year-old boy be took himself into the father’s workroom to play there. He often saw his father making shoes and decided to try it as well. He took the awl and a pointed tool and tried to make a whole in the leather just as his father did it. But the awl glided down and pricked his eye. The injury was so serious, that the boy couldn’t see anything with that eye anymore. On top of it the other eye was infected, too and the child absolutely lost its sight. This happened not far from Paris in 1813. The name of the boy was Louis Braille.
When he was 6 years old he started to attend the village-school together with other pupils, who could see normally. After two years it was obvious, that without the possibility of reading and writing he won’t learn anything more and that without the education he will end up as a beggar. . .
But he was lucky: When he was ten, he was sent to the school for blinds in Paris, one of the first in the world. The conditions at school were very tough, the building was moist and unhealthy and the discipline hard. The pupils were taught some working skills and once a week they went for a walk in the park. But they also learn how to read. The letter, which they were reading, were jutting our of the surface of the page and so it was possible to ”read” them with touch. Such reading was very difficult because to recognise separate letters was not easy. The letter were printed by pressing the stencil, made from cuprous wire, into the paper. This way the jutted shape of the appropriate letter arose on the other side. Because this cumbersome method demanded the wire-stencils of the letters and the press it didn’t allow the communication among the blinds.
In 1821 the captain of the French artillery Charles Barbier visited the school. He brought with him his invention called the ”night writing”. This writing was originally designed for soldiers. This should allow them to pass over the information without switching on the light. It consisted of 12 bulging points, combined in different way. But the system was too complicated for the soldiers and the army refused it.
The young Louis Braille fast realised, how helpful could such a system of bulging points be. During next few months he had been experimenting with different systems until he found one that operated with only 6 points. He had been innovating his system for several years and he also developed special codes for mathematics and the notation. In 1827 the first book was published in his Braille. However this new system didn’t find its position immediately. Some conservative teachers didn’t trust on that or even showed the aversion.
In the end Louis Braille became a teacher in that school, where he used to be the pupil. He was respected admired by his pupils. But he didn’t live to see the expansion of his system. He died of tuberculoses in 1852, at the age of 43. The Braille’s system was accepted first in 1854 and since then it has been used by the blind all over the France. In the end of 70´s in the 19th century the Braille gets over the German lingual area to the Czech countries. After several years of hesitation connected with numerous disputations the Braille definitely won. But also the blinds indispensably assisted in it, because from the entire beginning they assumed the Braille with demonstrative interest and joy and they learned it among themselves.

Scones

Scones (from the Gaelic word "sgoon" and rhymed with "gone" not "bones") are a favourite in Scotland (and elsewhere).

Recipe:
2 1/2 cups (350 grams) all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon (12 grams) baking powder
1/2 teaspoon (2.5 grams) salt
1 tablespoon (14 grams) granulated white sugar
1/2 cup (113 grams) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
3/4 cup (180 ml) milk
1 large egg, lightly beaten
Topping:
1 large egg, lightly beaten with 1 tablespoon milk

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large mixing bowl, sift or whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs (use pastry blender, two knives, or fingertips). Add the milk and slightly beaten egg and stir until just combined. (The texture should be sticky, moist and lumpy.)
Place mixture on a lightly floured surface and knead the dough gently until it comes together and is a smooth dough.
Roll out dough to 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) thickness. Cut out biscuits with a lightly floured round cookie cutter. Place on prepared baking sheet and brush the tops with the beaten egg and milk mixture and bake for about 10 - 15 minutes or until the tops are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center of the biscuit comes out clean. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack. Serve warm with butter.
Makes about 12 3-inch (7.5 cm) biscuits.

Now i'm ready

Is yours ready?

3 days to go

Children think of the Three Wise Man as the gift bearers. Tradition has it that they arrive on January 6th, the date the Wise Men gave gifts to Jesus.
Shoes are filled with straw or barley for the tired camels that must carry their riders through the busy night. By morning the camel food is gone and in place of the straw or barley are presents. Shoes also may be placed on balconies on the night of the 6th January in the hope that the Wise Men will fill them with gifts.

Happy new year

Again and again

Raclette is a wonderful cheese from Switzerland that is melted in trays in a special tabletop grill. The melted cheese is then used for dipping tasty morsels such as vegetables, potatoes, seafood or anything else that suits your imagination. For this fun variation on a fondue party, you will need a special raclette grill that has a melting tray for each of your guests.

Apart from the magnificent Swiss Alps themselves, Switzerland's greatest natural resource is the cow.
Farmers living in in the Alpine regions take full advantage of the moist alpine pastures with its pure and clean air and move their livestock up the mountains to graze during the summer season.
Their prime breed of cattle enjoy grazing on the succulent grasses and in turn provide the country with the rich milk supply that produces high quality cheese.
The variety of naturally growing grasses in the upper altitudes contain a higher protein and fat content and are highly nutritious.
It is also no wonder why that smooth creamy Swiss chocolate has become so famous.
Raclette cheese is made on both the Swiss and French sides of the Alps but the cheese bearing the name Valais Raclette is the most famous .The Valais Raclette (namely cheese made in the Valleys of Bagnes, Goms, Les Haudères and Orsières) is made according to ancestral methods. There is no denying that the unique climate and alpine meadows in the area have an effect on the quality of the milk produced there. A semi-hard cheese made from unpasturised cow's milk Valais Ralette cheese has a distinctive aromatic flavour, brushed brown/orange coloured rind, light-yellow coloured body, fragrant creamy texture, with scattered holes and has an ideal fat and moisture ratio that prevents the cheese from separating when melted.

How to get rid of a pain in the ass on a plane

If sitting next to you on plane there is one of those annying people, just follow the following instructions
1. Silently and calmly, open your laptop
2. Start the system
3. Make sure the idiot is staring at your screen
4. Close your eyes and lean your head back as if looking at the sky, saying some arab soundnig gibberish.
5. Then, clixk the link:

http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

Now you just need to call the steward and ask to collect tehe idiot with an heart attack.

100% garanteed success, so far.

Have a nice trip! ;)

First Picture of 2008! :-)

2008:

Põe um pouco mais de ti em tudo o que fazes